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 THE CATERPILLAR CAUGHT IN THE RAIN

The other day a caterpillar was out walking on a leaf, when it began to rain. He had no umbrella, but that did not bother him. He crawled under the leaf, and waited for the shower to be over.

When the raindrops stopped pattering over his head, he stuck out his head to see whether the sky had cleared. It had. A beautiful rainbow was just fading out of the sky.

Up the caterpillar climbed, dry and comfortable, and went on with his walk.

THE SONG THE COCKLE-SHELL SINGS

One day Anna Lucy held a cockle-shell to her ear. She listened and then began to smile.

"Do you hear anything?" asked her little brother Frank.

"Yes," answered Anna Lucy, "you may hear it too." She held the shell to Frank's ear. Frank listened, then he began to smile. "What is it?" he whispered.

"It is the song of the sea," said Anna Lucy; "the shell sings it in her heart."