Chrysal Or A Story with an End Author:Frances Freeling Broderip Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. " Nature shall thrill with new delight, And Time's relumined river run, Warm as young blood, and dazzling bright, As if its source were in ... more »the Sun." Thomas Hood. HE next time Chrysal was summoned, was rather a dull morning. The clouds looked much inclined to open their folds and send the little rain drops down on the earth. The dew had fallen more heavily than usual, so that the cup of the con- volvolus was fairly overbrimming, while bright sparkles like finely cut diamonds lay glittering on every bud and leaf. The great hairy dock leaves had caught a large share, and now glistened in the morning rays as if they were madetextit{of frosted silver. Numberless beautiful creatures were sporting about and enjoying the freshness of the sweet morning air. The bees were as hard at work in every blossom as if the sun were shining as usual. When little Chrysal had drunk her acorn-cup of water and resumed her fairy proportions, she went merrily on her way till she was accosted by a foxglove, whose bells held a complete party of busy humming workers all at once, and the buzz and the hum around almost deafened Chrysal's little ears as she passed by. " Good morning, my dear," shouted the Foxglove, nodding at her, " you see I am very busy now, all my lodgings are taken at once." And so indeed they were, for out of every crimson trumpet flower, peeped the furry gold and brown body of a bee. But they were all too busy to come and chat with Chrysal, and so she passed on. Presently she came to a tall thistle, whose blooming purple head towered up almost out of her sight; and among the stout branching boughs of it she perceived the web of a Spider. She had been accustomed to see such often enough when she was of her own size, and they had always seemed as if made of ...« less