Then by and by the little cloud with all its duty done, Was caught up by a rainbow and allowed a little fun. aching flitting dreadful ought buried strength precious lightning cuddled lilies burning pansies allowed growled pitied 66 9. THE HAIL-STONE'S VISIT. Tap! Tap! Tap! Why don't you let me come into your warm room?" said a little hail-stone as it struck the window pane. I have been travelling and am very cold." "Where did you come from?" I asked. "From Cloudland, of course; that was my home. "I was part of a beautiful, fleecy cloud until a chilling wind blew upon it. He did not hurt the cloud much at first, for he only blew hard enough to change it into water-drops; then he said, 'Let us run a race and see which can reach the earth first.' He got a little ahead of us at the start, and when we rain-drops caught up with him he blew a chilling breath which froze us into these ice-drops. "Oh, I am so cold!" cried the poor little hail-stone as it melted away. struck travelling cloudland blew race 10. SNOW. What happens if the freezing wind meets the clouds before the water-dust changes to drops of water? Oh, I think the water-dust becomes icedust, or flakes of snow! Like the drops of water, the snow-flakes are too heavy to stay in the sky, so they fall to the ground in a shower of snow. If during the snow shower the flakes pass through a warm wind, the flakes will melt somewhat and come down in the form of sleet. Have you ever examined a snow-flake? - Tell what you see in a snow-flake. "If you would come in summer, How charming it would seem "And when we all grew weary With summer's heat and glow, "So, little, little snow-flakes, The water which the sunbeams send into the air comes back to the earth again. It comes in the form of dew, mist, rain, hail, snow, and sleet. What makes the moisture in the air? What do the sunbeams do? BEAUTIFUL FLAKES OF SNOW. "O beautiful flakes of snow, "Dear children," the little flakes said, "We have our work to do; By covering the roots and plants Describe this picture. Tell the story of a raindrop; a hail-stone; a snow-flake; a dew-drop. 11. THE SNOW-FLAKE'S STORY. Before I became a snow-flake I was a part of a cloud. One day as we clouds were chasing one another about in the sky, a freezing wind caught us and changed us into ice-dust which looks like tiny crystals. These crystals were much smaller than the crystals you have seen in alum, salt or rock candy. After we were changed we fell to the earth as beautiful, feathery flakes of snow. ** Here are some of our pictures which we had taken soon after we reached the earth. We cannot stay long for soon the sun or a gentle rain will come and change us into water again. Many of us will evaporate and go back |