Book/Printed Material The apple-tree sprite,
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Image 2 of The apple-tree sprite, Copyright N? COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT.- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 8 of The apple-tree sprite, By Miss Morley The Apple-Tree Sprite. 12mo. $1.10 A Song of Life. 12mo 1.10 Life and Love. 12mo 1.10 The Bee People. 12mo 1.10 Little Mitchell. 12mo 1.10 The Renewal of Life....- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 9 of The apple-tree sprite, THE Apple-tree Sprite BY MARGARET WARNER MORLEY Author of “A SONG OF LIFE,” “WILL O’ THE WASPS,” THE BEE PEOPLE,” ETC. ILLUSTRATED CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG CO. 1915- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 10 of The apple-tree sprite, Copyright A. C. McClurg Co. 1915 Published October, 1 9 1 5 9- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 11 of The apple-tree sprite, CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE APPLE TREE i II. NOW COMES THE SPRITE 4 III. A SHOWER OF PETALS 8 IV. AWAY GO SOME OF THE YOUNG APPLES 12 V. WHEN THE...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 12 of The apple-tree sprite, 6 Contents CHAPTER PAGE XXIX. FUN AND FACT 139 XXX. AUTUMN LEAVES 143 XXXI. PLANNING AN APPLE THANKSGIVING PARTY 147 XXXII. THE INVITATIONS lSS XXXIII. ALL IS READY 1 59 XXXIV. THE...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 13 of The apple-tree sprite, THE APPLE TREE lr C HRISTOBEL went to sleep in the apple tree. She climbed into the low crotch, made herself comfortable, and went to sleep. The tree was covered with pink...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 14 of The apple-tree sprite, 2 The Apple-Tree Sprite A mother robin sat on her eggs in the tree top, only the tip of her bill showing over the rim of the nest. The father bird stopped...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 15 of The apple-tree sprite, 3 The Apple Tree ment, flirted his wings and buzzed on about his business. A yellow-girdled bumble bee fumbled about in a flower cup close to her ear, loading his baskets with...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 16 of The apple-tree sprite, A LL at once Christobel came wide awake. At least that is the way it seemed to her when she thought about it afterwards. “Dear me,” she said, “I wish I had...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 17 of The apple-tree sprite, Now Comes the Sprite 5 little old woman with cheeks as red as a rose, and a smile as pleasant as a May day. She had a silky-white shawl over her shoul-...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 18 of The apple-tree sprite, 6 The Apple-Tree Sprite I am the Sprite of this one. Would you like to see me finish an apple “Oh, yes, that I would, said Christobel eagerly; then added, “but perhaps...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 19 of The apple-tree sprite, 7 Now Comes the Sprite Christobel could not help joining in, and laughed and laughed too, until she thought she would roll out of the tree. “Dear me,” said the little old...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 20 of The apple-tree sprite, Ill A SHOWER OF PETALS “MOW watch!” and the Apple-Tree IN Sprite flashed like light among the flowers, now here, now there. It seemed to Christobel that she was everywhere at once....- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 21 of The apple-tree sprite, 9 A Shower of Petals “You may think it a small matter to take off the petals from more than a hun- dred big trees,” said the Sprite with a merry laugh...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 22 of The apple-tree sprite, IO The Apple-Tree Sprite are only the clothing after all. They are the pretty baby clothes of the little green apples. Now I must be off again,” and Christobel saw the little...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 23 of The apple-tree sprite, A Shower of Petals II fallen. She pinched it just where it was fastened to the flower. Christobel noticed that her fingers were as slender as the feel- ers of a May...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 24 of The apple-tree sprite, AWAY GO SOME OF THE YOUNG APPLES OW what? asked ing at a cluster of tiny green apples left bare by the flying away of the petals. “If those were real babies...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 25 of The apple-tree sprite, Away Go the Young Apples 13 Those other apples must all fall off like the petals. I will attend to that in a minute,” said the little old woman, as she saw...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 26 of The apple-tree sprite, 14 The Apple-Tree Sprite The Sprite looked at her, then said gen- tly: “You don’t understand, child. They turn back into what they came from.- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 27 of The apple-tree sprite, what else to say. “I should think so,” and the little old woman laughed again, and her laughter now sounded like a chime of little silver bells, and Christobel noticed how she...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 28 of The apple-tree sprite, 16 The Apple-Tree Sprite where she touched them withered away until they no longer clung fast to the branch but one by one fell lightly to the ground. Christobel thought the little...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 29 of The apple-tree sprite, Away Go the Young Apples 17 Christobel clapped her hands. “The poorest of the little green apples fall off! Now that is why we always see the ground under the apple tree...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 30 of The apple-tree sprite, 1 8 The Apple-Tree Sprite apples. But all of a sudden she discovered that the fairy had gone and that her mother really was calling, although she had not heard her before.- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 31 of The apple-tree sprite, V WHEN THE FAIRY COMES AGAIN “\V7HY, Christobel, where have you VV been? asked mother, a little impa- tiently. I have been calling and calling.” “I didn t hear only the last...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 32 of The apple-tree sprite, were not looking, she climbed into the apple tree again, but could not see the fairy anywhere. She tried for several days, but as she saw nothing, she finally gave it up,...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 33 of The apple-tree sprite, 21 When the Fairy Comes Again Christobel, looking, saw indeed a strange thing. The little apple the Sprite was caressing seemed to have become transpar- ent like glass. She could see inside...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 34 of The apple-tree sprite, 22 The Apple-Tree Sprite caressed the young apple yet more lov- ingly, and it grew larger and larger, and Christobel saw little white seeds inside the core. “Oh, see!” she cried; “the...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 35 of The apple-tree sprite, When the Fairy Comes Again 23 better to give them a name of their own, you know,” and the Sprite went on weav- ing away at the magic apple. “What am I...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 36 of The apple-tree sprite, 24 The Apple-Tree Sprite like early autumn, and such a change was taking place in the apple! I am baking it for you now, My Dear,” said the fairy merrily. “You know...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 37 of The apple-tree sprite, THE CRADLES C HRISTOBEL could still see inside the apple, right through the bright red skin, and she noticed how the fairy’s fingers had woven the core together with tough threads made...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 38 of The apple-tree sprite, 26 The Apple-Tree Sprite the children of the tree. Yes, the little seed babies need a good strong cradle to protect them from being chewed up by cows or boys, or by...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 39 of The apple-tree sprite, Cradles 27 the blossom. The finished apple always bears those reminders of its blossoming days.” I am glad they stay on,” said Christobel, “they finish the apple off so well. Why, an...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner
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Image 40 of The apple-tree sprite, 28 The Apple-Tree Sprite remember that. The tree blossoms and the seeds grow, is the truer way to put it. No, no, the tree does not blossom for the seeds alone; but...- Contributor: Morley, Margaret Warner