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    The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
    The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
    The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
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    The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

    By R. M. Ballantyne

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    A charming and delightful children story that shows the other side of R.M. Ballantyne. He truly did have a wonderful and enthralling imagination for all types of stories. This tale is almost like a Beatrix Potter type of work. Ballantyne illustrated this as well. He drew and painted quite well. (Goodreads)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOtbebookpublishing
    Release dateMay 9, 2019
    ISBN9783965372610
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      The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast - R. M. Ballantyne

      R.M. Ballantyne

      The Butterfly's Ball

      Chapter One.

      The Butterfly’s Ball And The Grasshopper’s Feast.

      Come, take up your hats, and away let us haste

      To the Butterfly’s ball and the Grasshopper’s feast;

      For the trumpeter Gadfly has summoned his crew,

      And the revels are now only waiting for you.

      On the smooth-shaven grass by the side of the wood,

      Beneath a broad oak that for ages has stood,

      See the children of earth, and the tenants of air,

      For an evening’s amusement together repair.

      And there came the Beetle, so blind, and so black,

      Who carried the Emmet, his friend, on his back;

      And there came the Gnat, and the Dragonfly too,

      And all their relations, green, orange, and blue.

      And there came the Moth, with her plumage of down,

      And the Hornet, with jacket of yellow and brown,

      Who with him the Wasp, his companion, did bring—

      They promised that evening to lay by their sting.

      Then the sly little Dormouse peeped out of his hole,

      And led to the feast his blind cousin the Mole;

      And the Snail, with

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