The Turquoise Story Book
Stories and Legends of Summer and Nature
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THE TURQUOISE STORY BOOK
INTRODUCTION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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")
SCENE I
SCENE II
SCENE III
IN THE COOL OF THE EVENING
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