Woodland Tales

About this eBook

Author

Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net Music transcribed by Linda Cantoni

Language

English

LoC Class

QH: Science: Natural history

Subject

Natural history -- Juvenile literature

Category

Text

eBook-No.

23667

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23667

Release Date

November 30, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.WOODLAND TALES — BY
2. 2.ERNEST THOMPSON SETON
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.INTRODUCTION
6. 6.THINGS TO SEE IN SPRINGTIME
7. 7.Things to See in Springtime — TALE 1 Blue-eyes, the Snow Child, or The Story of Hepatica — TALE 2 The Story of the White Dawnsinger or How the Bloodroot Came — TALE 3 The Prairie-girl with Yellow Hair — TALE 4 The Cat's-eye Toad, a Child of Maka Ina — TALE 5 How the Bluebird Came — TALE 6 Robin, the Bird that Loves to Make Clay Pots — FOOTNOTE: — TALE 7 Brook Brownie, or How the Song Sparrow Got His Streaks — TALE 8 Diablo and the Dogwood — TALE 9 The Woolly-bear — TALE 10 How the Violets Came — TALE 11 Cocoons — TALE 12 Butterflies and Moths — TALE 13 The Mourning-cloak Butterfly, or the Camberwell Beauty — TALE 14 The Wandering Monarch — TALE 15 The Bells of the Solomon Seal — TALE 16 The Silver Bells of the False Solomon Seal
8. 8.THINGS TO SEE IN SUMMERTIME
9. 9.Things to See in Summertime — TALE 17 How the Mouse-bird Made Fun of the Brownie — TALE 18 The Pot-herb that Sailed with the Pilgrims — TALE 19 How the Red Clover Got the White Mark on Its Leaves — TALE 20 The Shamrock and Her Three Sisters — TALE 21 The Indian Basket-maker — TALE 22 Crinkleroot; or Who Hid the Salad? — TALE 23 The Mecha-meck — TALE 24 Dutchman's Breeches — TALE 25 The Seven Sour Sisters — TALE 26 Self-heal or Blue-curls in the Grass — TALE 27 The Four Butterflies You See Every Summer — TALE 28 The Beautiful Poison Caterpillar — TALE 29 The Great Splendid Silk-Moth or Samia Cecropia — TALE 30 The Green Fairy with the Long Train — TALE 31 The Wicked Hoptoad and the Little Yellow Dragon — TALE 32 The Fairy Bird or the Humming-bird Moth — TALE 33 Ribgrass or Whiteman's-Foot — FOOTNOTE: — TALE 34 Jack-in-the-Pulpit — TALE 35 How the Indian Pipe Came — TALE 36 The Cucumber Under the Brownie's Umbrella — TALE 37 The Hickory Horn-devil
10. 10.THINGS TO SEE IN AUTUMNTIME
11. 11.Things to See in Autumntime — TALE 38 The Purple and Gold of Autumn — TALE 39 Why the Chicadee Goes Crazy Twice a Year — TALE 40 The Story of the Quaking Aspen or Poplar — TALE 41 The Witch-hazel — TALE 42 How the Shad Came and How the Chestnut Got Its Burrs — TALE 43 How the Littlest Owl Came — TALE 44 The Wood-witch and the Bog-nuts — TALE 45 The Mud-dauber Wasp — TALE 46 The Cicada and the Katydid — TALE 47 The Digger Wasp that Killed the Cicada — TALE 48 How the Indian Summer Came
12. 12.THINGS TO SEE IN WINTERTIME
13. 13.Things to See in Wintertime — TALE 49 The North Star, or the Home Star — TALE 50 The Pappoose on the Squaw's Back — TALE 51 Orion the Hunter, and His Fight With the Bull — TALE 52 The Pleiades, that Orion Fired at the Bull — TALE 53 The Twin Stars — TALE 54 Stoutheart and His Black Cravat — TALE 55 Tracks, and the Stories They Tell — TALE 56 A Rabbit's Story of His Life, Written by Himself — TALE 57 The Singing Hawk — TALE 58 The Fingerboard Goldenrod — TALE 59 Woodchuck Day, February Second Sixth Secret of the Woods
14. 14.THINGS TO KNOW
15. 15.Things to Know — TALE 60 How the Pine Tree Tells Its Own Story — FOOTNOTE: — TALE 61 Blazes — TALE 62 Totems [D] — FOOTNOTE: — TALE 63 Symbols — TALE 64 Sign Language — TALE 65 The Language of Hens — TALE 66 Why the Squirrel Wears a Bushy Tail — TALE 67 Why a Dog Wags His Tail — TALE 68 Why the Dog Turns Around Three Times Before Lying Down — TALE 69 The Deathcup of Diablo — TALE 70 Poison Ivy or the Three-Fingered Demon of the Woods — TALE 71 The Medicine in the Sky — TALE 72 The Angel of the Night
16. 16.THINGS TO DO
17. 17.Things to Do — TALE 73 Bird-nesting in Winter — TALE 74 The Ox-eye Daisy or Marguerite — TALE 75 A Monkey-hunt — TALE 76 The Horsetail and the Jungle — TALE 77 The Woods in Winter — TALE 78 The Fish and the Pond — TALE 79 Smoke Prints of Leaves — TALE 80 Bird-boxes — TALE 81 A Hunter's Lamp — TALE 82 The Coon Hunt — TALE 83 The Indian Pot — TALE 84 Snowflakes, the Sixfold Gems of Snowroba — Are You Alive? — TALE 85 Farsight — TALE 86 Quicksight — TALE 87 Hearing — TALE 88 Feeling — TALE 89 Quickness — TALE 90 Guessing Length — TALE 91 Aim or Limb-control — TALE 92 A Treasure Hunt — TALE 93 Moving Pictures — TALE 94 A Natural Autograph Album — TALE 95 The Crooked Stick — TALE 96 The Animal Dance of Nana-bo-jou — TALE 97 The Caribou Dance — TALE 98 The Council Robe
18. 18.THINGS TO REMEMBER
19. 19.Things to Remember — TALE 99 How the Wren Became King of the Birds — TALE 100 The Snowstorm — TALE 101 The Fairy Lamps — TALE 102 The Sweetest Sad Song in the Woods — TALE 103 Springtime, or the Wedding of Maka Ina and El Sol — TALE 104 Running the Council — TALE 105 The Sandpainting of the Fire — TALE 106 The Woodcraft Kalendar — TALE 107 Climbing the Mountain
20. 20.Books by Ernest Thompson Seton — BY MRS. ERNEST THOMPSON SETON (Published by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.) — Transcriber's Notes:

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