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58 over and over, sometimes ringingly, sometimes in a murmur.

Buttercups are smiling

To see the butterflies

Feathering so softly,

Rainbowing the skies....

The wind is snowing butterflies,

Fairy golden showers;

Misty the air with dancing wings;

The sun is raining flowers.

She told the deer that she felt like a butterfly, and that the wind was snowing her when she danced. And then she gave them handfuls of lush grass.

At the end of that first winter Mrs. Eigleen began to feel ill. No one knew what was the matter with her. She spent the spring in continual weeping and hysterics. Towards the summer she began to feel seriously ill. They had had several different doctors in to see her, but none of them could find out exactly what the matter was, for she refused to tell anyone anything, even though she said she