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The Turquoise Story Book

The Turquoise Story Book

by Ada M. Skinner

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Compiler
Skinner, Eleanor L. (Eleanor Louise), 1872-
Title
The Turquoise Story Book: Stories and Legends of Summer and Nature
Credits
Produced by David Edwards, readbueno and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject
Summer -- Juvenile literature
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 53033
Release Date
September 12, 2016
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE TURQUOISE STORY BOOK
  2. 2.INTRODUCTION — ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.SUMMER STORIES AND LEGENDS
  5. 5.SUMMER
  6. 6.HOW SUMMER CONQUERED WINTER (IROQUOIS LEGEND)
  7. 7.A LEGEND OF THE FLOWERS (AUSTRALIAN)
  8. 8.JUNE
  9. 9.THE SUN-GODDESS Frank Rinder
  10. 10.THE SUMMER MAKER ( Ojibway Legend )
  11. 11.SUMMER
  12. 12.IN THE KITCHEN-GARDEN Mrs. Alfred Gatty
  13. 13.GLAD DAY
  14. 14.THE SUMMER PRINCESS Mrs. Molesworth
  15. 15.MIDSUMMER
  16. 16.SUMMER SKIES
  17. 17.HOW THE SUN WAS CAUGHT AND FREED
  18. 18.A DAY OF SUNSHINE
  19. 19.PHAETON'S DRIVE IN THE SUN-CHARIOT
  20. 20.SONG
  21. 21.SUMMER SUN
  22. 22.THE CLOUD Robert Reineck
  23. 23.UNDINE Edward Abbott Parry
  24. 24.LEGEND OF THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS (WYANDOTTE)
  25. 25.THE PRINCESS MOONBEAM [1] Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
  26. 26.THE MOON
  27. 27.THE SPACIOUS FIRMAMENT ON HIGH
  28. 28.GREEN FIELDS AND MEADOWS GAY
  29. 29.NATURE'S SONG
  30. 30.THE GIFT OF FLAX (NORSE LEGEND)
  31. 31.THE STORY OF THE DEWDROP Lucile Corbett
  32. 32.THE DEW MOTHER
  33. 33.ORIGIN OF THE DANDELION (INDIAN LEGEND)
  34. 34.PRINCE BUTTERFLY AND CLOVER
  35. 35.A SONG OF CLOVER
  36. 36.TITHONUS: A LEGEND OF THE GRASSHOPPER Lillian S. Hyde
  37. 37.THE GRASSHOPPER
  38. 38.THE GOLDEN GRASSHOPPER Charles Lamb
  39. 39.A BLADE OF GRASS John Ruskin
  40. 40.PRINCESS FIRE-FLY (JAPANESE LEGEND)
  41. 41.JULY
  42. 42.CUFF AND THE WOODCHUCK John Burroughs
  43. 43.WHY THE LADY-BUG IS SAID TO BE BELOVED OF GOD Translated from the French by M. L. Cook
  44. 44.SUMMER SPINNERS
  45. 45.THE STORY OF ARACHNE (GREEK MYTH)
  46. 46.HOW THE SPIDER MAKES ITS WEB [2] C. William Beebe
  47. 47.THE FAIRY SPINNER (SOUTHERN TALE)
  48. 48.MOTHER SPIDER Frances Gillespy Wickes
  49. 49.IN BROOKS AND PONDS
  50. 50.THE BROOK
  51. 51.LEGEND OF THE WATER-LILY
  52. 52.THE TALE OF TWO TAILS Mary H. Wilson
  53. 53.ORIGIN OF BULLFROGS
  54. 54.WOODLAND WATERS
  55. 55.THE GRUBBIEST GRUB J. Bevan
  56. 56.THE DRAGON-FLY
  57. 57.ON THE WING
  58. 58.HOW WOODPECKER CHANGED HIS COLOURS (MICMAC LEGEND)
  59. 59.A RETORT FROM THE CATBIRD
  60. 60.WOODPECKER LIFE Margaret Coulson Walker
  61. 61.KINGFISHER'S NECKLACE AND RUFFLE
  62. 62.OWL WISDOM Frances Wright
  63. 63.BIRDS' NESTS Ernest Ingersoll
  64. 64.HATTO THE HERMIT: THE LEGEND OF A BIRD'S NEST Selma Lagerlöf
  65. 65.UNDER GREENWOOD TREES
  66. 66.SONG
  67. 67.THE PLUCKY PRINCE
  68. 68.THE OAK
  69. 69.SUMMER SNOW Mrs. Humphrey Ward
  70. 70.THE BOY WHO HATED TREES Alice L. Beckwith
  71. 71.THE FRIENDLY SUMMER TREES Frank A. Waugh
  72. 72.FOREST DAY Selma Lagerlöf
  73. 73.WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE
  74. 74.IN AN OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN
  75. 75.HOW THE ROSE BECAME QUEEN Albert Bigelow Paine
  76. 76.MORNING GLORIES
  77. 77.WHY ROSES HAVE THORNS (ALGONQUIN LEGEND)
  78. 78.SWEET PEAS
  79. 79.A LEGEND OF THE PRIMROSE
  80. 80.EVENING PRIMROSES
  81. 81.LEGEND OF THE LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY Albert Bigelow Paine
  82. 82.KATRINA'S SUN-DIAL
  83. 83.THE THREE LITTLE BUTTERFLIES
  84. 84.THE PINKS
  85. 85.THE FLOWER'S THANKS Lyman Abbott
  86. 86.PANSIES
  87. 87.THE LITTLE HEARTSEASE
  88. 88.LEGEND OF THE RED GERANIUM
  89. 89.ENCHANTED TULIPS
  90. 90.IRIS
  91. 91.THE YELLOW-BIRD [3]
  92. 92.ORIGIN OF THE SUNFLOWER (GREEK MYTH)
  93. 93.THE BLUEBELL
  94. 94.THE DEW MOTHER'S GIFT TO THE ROSE
  95. 95.A YELLOW PANSY
  96. 96.MIGNONETTE
  97. 97.FLOWERS
  98. 98.ON A MIDSUMMER DAY
  99. 99.THE FRIENDLY COWSLIP BELLS
  100. 100.FAIRY DAWN
  101. 101.ROBIN GOODFELLOW Ernest Rhys
  102. 102.A QUARREL IN FAIRYLAND ( Arranged from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" ) — SCENE I — SCENE II — SCENE III
  103. 103.IN THE COOL OF THE EVENING
  104. 104.FOOTNOTES:
  105. 105.Transcriber's Note

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