TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS.
Do you know that there are cities on your path to school, and under the trees in your garden? Do you know that homes with many rooms in them hang in the branches above your head? Do you know that what you call “little bugs” hunt and fish, make paper, saw wood, are masons and weavers, and feed and guard and teach their little ones, much as your papa and mamma take care of you? This sounds like a fairy story, but it is a true fairy story.
In this book you will read of some of these wonders. And when you have read this book well, you shall have one or two more.
These books will not try to tell you all that there is to tell of these things. They are only to wake up your minds, so that you will think and study and notice these things for yourselves.
Your eyes will be worth many times as much to you as they now are, when you learn to observe with care and to think about what you see.
J. M. N. W.