The Story of the Rainbow. BE

 

“Tt must have been very lonely, out by
itself in the world,” said Stephen.

“Noah and his family and the other crea-
tures soon came out afterwards. For when
Noah saw that his bird did not come back,
he lifted the covering from off the ark and
looked out, and there was the land again, all
fresh and green, and the great waves of water
had rolled back to the sea. And the Lord
God spoke to Noah again, and said to him,
“Go forth of the ark, thou and thy wife, and
thy sons’ wives with thee. Bring forth with
thee every living thing that is with thee of all
flesh, both of fowl and of cattle, and of every
creeping thing that creepeth on the earth.’

“So Noah did as he was told, and he came
out of the ark with his family and all his
creatures, and so the world had a new be-
ginning. Then the Lord God promised that
there should never be another great flood
to kill all living things. ‘While the earth
remaineth, the Lord said, ‘seed-time and
harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and
winter shall not cease.’ And the Lord blessed
Noah and his sons, and said that all the world
and all the creatures in it should be given
them. They might kill the animals they
needed for their food; but if any man shed