THE TURQUOISE STORY BOOK

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

SUMMER STORIES AND LEGENDS

SUMMER

HOW SUMMER CONQUERED WINTER (IROQUOIS LEGEND)

A LEGEND OF THE FLOWERS (AUSTRALIAN)

JUNE

THE SUN-GODDESS Frank Rinder

THE SUMMER MAKER (Ojibway Legend)

SUMMER

IN THE KITCHEN-GARDEN Mrs. Alfred Gatty

GLAD DAY

THE SUMMER PRINCESS Mrs. Molesworth

MIDSUMMER

SUMMER SKIES

HOW THE SUN WAS CAUGHT AND FREED

A DAY OF SUNSHINE

PHAETON'S DRIVE IN THE SUN-CHARIOT

SONG

SUMMER SUN

THE CLOUD Robert Reineck

UNDINE Edward Abbott Parry

LEGEND OF THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS (WYANDOTTE)

THE PRINCESS MOONBEAM[1] Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

THE MOON

THE SPACIOUS FIRMAMENT ON HIGH

GREEN FIELDS AND MEADOWS GAY

NATURE'S SONG

THE GIFT OF FLAX (NORSE LEGEND)

THE STORY OF THE DEWDROP Lucile Corbett

THE DEW MOTHER

ORIGIN OF THE DANDELION (INDIAN LEGEND)

PRINCE BUTTERFLY AND CLOVER

A SONG OF CLOVER

TITHONUS: A LEGEND OF THE GRASSHOPPER Lillian S. Hyde

THE GRASSHOPPER

THE GOLDEN GRASSHOPPER Charles Lamb

A BLADE OF GRASS John Ruskin

PRINCESS FIRE-FLY (JAPANESE LEGEND)

JULY

CUFF AND THE WOODCHUCK John Burroughs

WHY THE LADY-BUG IS SAID TO BE BELOVED OF GOD Translated from the French by M. L. Cook

SUMMER SPINNERS

THE STORY OF ARACHNE (GREEK MYTH)

HOW THE SPIDER MAKES ITS WEB[2] C. William Beebe

THE FAIRY SPINNER (SOUTHERN TALE)

MOTHER SPIDER Frances Gillespy Wickes

IN BROOKS AND PONDS

THE BROOK

LEGEND OF THE WATER-LILY

THE TALE OF TWO TAILS Mary H. Wilson

ORIGIN OF BULLFROGS

WOODLAND WATERS

THE GRUBBIEST GRUB J. Bevan

THE DRAGON-FLY

ON THE WING

HOW WOODPECKER CHANGED HIS COLOURS (MICMAC LEGEND)

A RETORT FROM THE CATBIRD

WOODPECKER LIFE Margaret Coulson Walker

KINGFISHER'S NECKLACE AND RUFFLE

OWL WISDOM Frances Wright

BIRDS' NESTS Ernest Ingersoll

HATTO THE HERMIT: THE LEGEND OF A BIRD'S NEST Selma Lagerlöf

UNDER GREENWOOD TREES

SONG

THE PLUCKY PRINCE

THE OAK

SUMMER SNOW Mrs. Humphrey Ward

THE BOY WHO HATED TREES Alice L. Beckwith

THE FRIENDLY SUMMER TREES Frank A. Waugh

FOREST DAY Selma Lagerlöf

WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE

IN AN OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN

HOW THE ROSE BECAME QUEEN Albert Bigelow Paine

MORNING GLORIES

WHY ROSES HAVE THORNS (ALGONQUIN LEGEND)

SWEET PEAS

A LEGEND OF THE PRIMROSE

EVENING PRIMROSES

LEGEND OF THE LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY Albert Bigelow Paine

KATRINA'S SUN-DIAL

THE THREE LITTLE BUTTERFLIES

THE PINKS

THE FLOWER'S THANKS Lyman Abbott

PANSIES

THE LITTLE HEARTSEASE

LEGEND OF THE RED GERANIUM

ENCHANTED TULIPS

IRIS

THE YELLOW-BIRD[3]

ORIGIN OF THE SUNFLOWER (GREEK MYTH)

THE BLUEBELL

THE DEW MOTHER'S GIFT TO THE ROSE

A YELLOW PANSY

MIGNONETTE

FLOWERS

ON A MIDSUMMER DAY

THE FRIENDLY COWSLIP BELLS

FAIRY DAWN

ROBIN GOODFELLOW Ernest Rhys

A QUARREL IN FAIRYLAND (Arranged from "A Midsummer Night's Dream")

IN THE COOL OF THE EVENING

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