The Topaz Story Book
by Ada M. Skinner
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About this eBook
- Compiler
- Skinner, Eleanor L. (Eleanor Louise), 1872-
- Title
- The Topaz Story Book: Stories and Legends of Autumn, Hallowe'en, and Thanksgiving
- Credits
- Produced by David Edwards, Paul Marshall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- Autumn
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 51734
- Release Date
- April 11, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE TOPAZ STORY BOOK
- 2.INTRODUCTION
- 3.AUTUMN STORIES AND LEGENDS — EACH IN HIS OWN TONGUE — NIPON AND THE KING OF THE NORTHLAND — PRINCE AUTUMN — THE SCARF OF THE LADY — THE SICKLE MOON — WINTER’S HERALD — JACK FROST — THE PUMPKIN GIANT — LADY WHITE AND LADY YELLOW — THE SHET-UP POSY — THE GAY LITTLE KING — THE STORY OF THE OPAL — LOST: THE SUMMER — BY THE WAYSIDE — THE KING’S CANDLES — A LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN-ROD — GOLDEN-ROD — THE LITTLE WEED — GOLDEN-ROD AND PURPLE ASTER — WILD ASTERS — SILVER-ROD — PIMPERNEL, THE SHEPHERD’S CLOCK — A LEGEND OF THE GENTIAN — QUEEN ASTER — THE WEEDS — AUTUMN FIRES
- 4.AMONG THE TREES — TO AN AUTUMN LEAF — WHY THE AUTUMN LEAVES ARE RED — THE ANXIOUS LEAF — HOW THE CHESTNUT BURRS BECAME — THE MERRY WIND — AUTUMN AMONG THE BIRDS — THE KIND OLD OAK — THE TREE — COMING AND GOING — A LEGEND OF THE WILLOW TREE — AUTUMN FASHIONS — POMONA’S BEST GIFT — POMONA — IN THE ORCHARD — JOHNNY APPLESEED — RED APPLE — THE THREE GOLDEN APPLES — OCTOBER —ORCHARD OF THE YEAR! — NOVEMBER
- 5.WOODLAND ANIMALS — THE PRETENDING WOODCHUCK — MRS. BUNNY’S DINNER PARTY — THE NUTCRACKERS OF NUTCRACKER LODGE — BUSHY’S BRAVERY — NUT GATHERERS
- 6.IN HARVEST FIELDS — WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUMPKIN’ — ORIGIN OF INDIAN CORN — O-NA-TAH: THE SPIRIT OF THE CORN-FIELDS — MONDAMIN — THE DISCONTENTED PUMPKIN — BOB WHITE — THE LITTLE PUMPKIN — AUTUMN
- 7.CHEERFUL CHIRPERS — THE NEWS — HOW THERE CAME TO BE A KATY-DID — OLD DAME CRICKET — MISS KATY-DID AND MISS CRICKET — THE CRICKET
- 8.ALL HALLOWE’EN — SHADOW MARCH — TWINKLING FEET’S HALLOWE’EN — JACK-O’-LANTERN — THE ELFIN KNIGHT — THE COURTEOUS PRINCE — JACK-O’-LANTERN SONG
- 9.A HARVEST OF THANKSGIVING STORIES — THE QUEER LITTLE BAKER MAN — A TURKEY FOR THE STUFFING — PUMPKIN PIE — MRS. NOVEMBER’S DINNER PARTY [1] — THE DEBUT OF “DAN’L WEBSTER” — THE GREEN CORN DANCE — THANKSGIVING — THE TWO ALMS OR THE THANKSGIVING DAY GIFT — A THANKSGIVING PSALM — THE CROWN OF THE YEAR
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