Outdoor Secrets by  Margaret P. Boyle
Table of Contents
How the Apple-Blossom Came Back
The Century Plant's Wish
The Uninvited Guest
What the Golden-Rod Did
The Horse Chestnut's Name
A Tree's Useless Life
A Rainy Day Sermon
The Selfish Salvia
Who Knocked?
A Disobedient Tree
The Bumblebee's Mistake
A Brave Plant
The Sad End of a Little Fly
The Sower
The Baby Plants' Bed Coverings
A Family Quarrel
Two True Stories about Robins
The Idle Chipmunk
The Troubled Apple-Tree

Front Matter



[Illustration]

Who Knocked?

And Nature, the old nurse, took

The child upon her knee,

Saying, "Here is a story book

Thy Father has written thee."

—H.W. Longfellow

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