"You may love me now," said the butterfly, "but when you said I was a poor

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fellow, I was not so beautiful."

"How can this be?" said the bird.

"I will tell you.

I took a long nap.

I

was asleep when the days were cold.

One bright day in the spring, I woke. I found I could fly. I did not have on my old coat. I had on this new,

beautiful coat.

Will you come to the flower-garden with

me?

I will be your friend.

But you must be

Do not

kind to every one you see.

do by them as you did by me."

VOCABULARY OF FIRST READER.

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