
The Story of Opal
by Opal Stanley Whiteley
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About this eBook
- Author
- Whiteley, Opal Stanley
- Title
- The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart
- Credits
- Produced by Marie Bartolo from page images made available by the Internet Archive: American Libraries
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Oregon -- Social life and customs
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 43818
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43818
- Release Date
- September 26, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Story of Opal The Journal of An Understanding Heart
- 2.PREFACE — I — II — III — IV
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.CHARACTERS IN THE NARRATIVE
- 6.INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
- 7.CHAPTER I How Opal Goes along the Road beyond the Singing Creek, and of all she Sees in her New Home.
- 8.CHAPTER II How Lars Porsena of Clusium Got Opal into Trouble, and how Michael Angelo Sanzio Raphael and Sadie McKibben Gave her Great Comfort.
- 9.CHAPTER III Of the Queer Feels that Came out of a Bottle of Castoria, and of the Happiness of Larry and Jean.
- 10.CHAPTER IV How Peter Paul Rubens Goes to School.
- 11.CHAPTER V How Opal Comforted Aphrodite, and how the Fairies Comforted Opal when there Was Much Sadness at School.
- 12.CHAPTER VI Opal Gives Wisdom to the Potatoes, Cleanliness to the Family Clothes, and a Delicate Dinner to Thomas Chatterton Jupiter Zeus.
- 13.CHAPTER VII The Adventure of the Tramper; and what Happens on Long and on Short Days.
- 14.CHAPTER VIII How Opal Takes a Walk in the Forest of Chantilly; she Visits Elsie and her Baby Boy, and Explains Many Things to the Girl that Has no Seeing.
- 15.CHAPTER IX Of an Exploring Trip with Brave Horatius; and how Opal Kept Sadness away from her Animal Friends.
- 16.CHAPTER X How Brave Horatius is Lost and Found again, but Peter Paul Rubens is Lost Forever.
- 17.CHAPTER XI How Opal Took the Miller’s Brand out of the Flour-Sack, and Got Many Sore Feels thereby; and how Sparks Come on Cold Nights; and how William Shakespeare Has Likings for Poems.
- 18.CHAPTER XII Of Elsie’s Brand-New Baby, and all the Things that Go with it; and the Goodly Wisdom of the Angels who Bring Folks Babies that Are like them.
- 19.CHAPTER XIII How Felix Mendelssohn and Lucian Horace Ovid Virgil Go for a Ride; William Shakespeare Suffers One Whipping and Opal Another.
- 20.CHAPTER XIV How Opal Feels Satisfaction Feels, and Takes a Ride on William Shakespeare; and all that Came of it.
- 21.CHAPTER XV Of Jenny Strong’s Visit, its Gladness and its Sadness.
- 22.CHAPTER XVI Of the Woods on a Lonesome Day, and the Friendliness of the Wood-Folks on December Days when you Put your Ears Close and Listen.
- 23.CHAPTER XVII Of Works to be Done; and how it Was that a Glad Light Came into the Eyes of the Man who Wears Gray Neckties and Is Kind to Mice.
- 24.CHAPTER XVIII How Opal Pays One Visit to Elsie and Another to Dear Love, and Learns how to Mend her Clothes in a Quick Way.
- 25.CHAPTER XIX Of the Camp by the Mill by the Far Woods; of the Spanking that Came from the New Way of Mending Clothes; and of the Long Sleep of William Shakespeare.
- 26.CHAPTER XX Of the Little Song-Notes that Dance about Babies; and of the Solemn Christening of Solomon Grundy.
- 27.CHAPTER XXI How Opal Names Names of the Lambs of Aidan of Iona, and Seeks for the Soul of Peter Paul Rubens.
- 28.CHAPTER XXII How Solomon Grundy Falls Sick and Grows Well again; and Minerva’s Chickens are Christened; and the Pensée Girl, with the Far-Away Look in her Eyes, Finds Thirty-and-Three Bunches of Flowers.
- 29.CHAPTER XXIII How Opal and Brave Horatius Go on Explores and Visit the Hospital.—How the Mamma Dyes Clothes and Opal Dyes Clementine.
- 30.CHAPTER XXIV How the Mamma’s Wish Came True, and how Opal was Spanked for it; and of the Likes which Aphrodite Had for a Clean Place to Live in.
- 31.CHAPTER XXV Of Many Washings and a Walk.
- 32.CHAPTER XXVI Why it Was that the Girl who Has no Seeing Was not at Home when Opal Called.
- 33.CHAPTER XXVII Of a Cathedral Service in the Pig-Pen.—How the World Looks from a Man’s Shoulder.
- 34.CHAPTER XXVIII How Opal Piped with Reeds, and what a Good Time Dear Love Gave Thomas Chatterton Jupiter Zeus.
- 35.CHAPTER XXIX How Opal Feels the Heat of the Sun, and Decorates a Goodly Number of the White Poker-Chips of the Chore Boy.
- 36.CHAPTER XXX How Opal and the Little Birds from the Great Tree Have a Happy Time at the House of Dear Love.
- 37.CHAPTER XXXI How Lola Wears her White Silk Dress at Last.
- 38.CHAPTER XXXII Of the Ways that Fairies Write, and the Proper Way to Drink in the Song of the Wood.
- 39.CHAPTER XXXIII Of the Death of Lars Porsena of Clusium, and of the Comfort that Sadie McKibben can Give.
- 40.CHAPTER XXXIV Of the Fall of the Great Tree, and the Funeral of Aristotle.
- 41.CHAPTER XXXV How the Man of the Long Step that Whistles Most of the Time Takes an Interesting Walk.
- 42.CHAPTER XXXVI Of Taking-Egg Day, and the Remarkable Things that Befell thereon.
- 43.CHAPTER XXXVII Of the Strange Adventure in the Woods on the Going-Away Day of Saint Louis.
- 44.CHAPTER XXXVIII How Opal Makes Prepares to Move. How she Collects All the Necessary Things, Bids Good-bye to Dear Love, and Learns that her Prayer has been Answered.
- 45.POSTSCRIPT
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