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| SPRING STORIES AND LEGENDS | |
| April | 2 |
| Robert Browning | |
| The Spring-Maiden and the Frost Giants (Norse Legend) | 3 |
| Eleanor L. Skinner | |
| How the Bluebird Was Chosen Herald | 14 |
| Jay T. Stocking | |
| The Springtime | 32 |
| Eugene Field | |
| The Selfish Giant | 41 |
| Oscar Wilde | |
| The Promised Plant | 50 |
| Andrea Hofer Proudfoot | |
| Brier Rose | 54 |
| Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith | |
| Picciola (Adapted) | 61 |
| St. Saintine | |
| St. Francis, the Little Bedesman of Christ | 67 |
| William Canton | |
| Proserpina and King Pluto (Greek Myth) | 71 |
| Eleanor L. Skinner | |
| The Wonder—A Parable (From “Parables”) | 82 |
| Friedrich Adolph Krummacher | |
| NATURE STORIES AND LEGENDS | |
| Green Things Growing (Poem) | 86 |
| Dinah Mulock Craik | |
| The Story of a Little Grain of Wheat | 87 |
| May Byron | |
| The Little Acorn | 100 |
| Lucy Wheelock | |
| The Story of Two Little Seeds | 104 |
| George MacDonald | |
| How the Flowers Came (Selected) | 107 |
| Jay T. Stocking | |
| The Legend of Trailing Arbutus (Indian Legend) | 115 |
| Eleanor L. Skinner | |
| The Fairy Flower (Adapted from “Norwood”) | 120 |
| Henry Ward Beecher | |
| The Snowdrop | 127 |
| Hans Christian Andersen | |
| What the Dandelion Told | 131 |
| Clara Maetzel | |
| Verse | 137 |
| James Russell Lowell | |
| A Great Family | 138 |
| Agnes McClelland Daulton | |
| The Birth of the Violet (Legend) | 142 |
| Ada M. Skinner | |
| A Lyric of Joy (Poem) | 148 |
| Bliss Carman | |
| AMONG THE TREE-TOPS | |
| Robin’s Carol (From “Angler’s Reveille”) | 150 |
| Henry van Dyke | |
| How the Birds Came (Indian Legend) | 151 |
| Ada M. Skinner | |
| How the Birds Learned to Build Nests | 154 |
| James Baldwin | |
| Out of the Nest | 158 |
| Maud Lindsay | |
| The Story of Blue-Wings | 164 |
| Mary Stewart | |
| An Eastern Legend (Poem) | 170 |
| Grace Duffield Goodwin | |
| The House Wren | 171 |
| Neltje Blanchan | |
| The Little Brown Wren | 173 |
| Clinton Scollard | |
| The Children of Wind and The Clan of Peace (A Christ-Legend) (Adapted) | 176 |
| Fiona MacLeod | |
| IN MEADOW AND POND | |
| A Spring Lilt (Poem) | 182 |
| Unknown | |
| How Butterflies Came | 183 |
| Hans Christian Andersen | |
| White Butterflies (Poem) | 184 |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | |
| The Butterfly | 185 |
| Mrs. Alfred Gatty | |
| The Wind, a Helper | 196 |
| Mary Stewart | |
| The Springing Tree: Willows | 203 |
| Mrs. Dyson | |
| Pussy Willow | 210 |
| Kate Louise Brown | |
| The Dragon Fly | 212 |
| Mrs. Alfred Gatty | |
| The Cicada’s Story (Selected) | 220 |
| Agnes McClelland Daulton | |
| Edith and the Bees | 226 |
| Helen Keller | |
| The Little Tadpoles (From Stories in “Prose and Verse”) | 230 |
| Katharine Pyle | |
| Mister Hop-Toad (Poem) | 237 |
| James Whitcomb Riley | |
| Buz and Hum | 238 |
| Maurice Noël | |
| The Story Without an End. 1. In the Green Meadow. 2. The Story of a Drop of Water | 246 |
| Translated by Sarah Austin from the German of A. Carove | |
| Legend of the Forget-Me-Not | 253 |
| Ada M. Skinner | |
| Four-Leaf Clover (Poem) | 256 |
| Ella Higginson | |
| Jolly Little Tars | 257 |
| Agnes McClelland Daulton | |
| Mr. Maple and Mr. Pine | 275 |
| Warren Judson Brier | |
| A GARDEN OF EASTER STORIES | |
| Old English Verse | 286 |
| The Easter Rabbit (German Legend) | 287 |
| Eleanor L. Skinner | |
| The Boy Who Discovered the Spring | 295 |
| Raymond MacDonald Alden | |
| Sheep and Lambs (Poem) | 308 |
| Katharine Tynan | |
| Robin Redbreast—A Christ-Legend (Adapted) (From Christ-Legends) | 309 |
| Selma Lagerlöf | |
| The Maple Seed | 318 |
| From The Atlantic Monthly | |
| Why the Ivy Is Always Green | 322 |
| Madge Bingham | |
| Jonquils (Poem) | 329 |
| Margaret Deland | |
| When Thou Comest Into Thy Kingdom | 330 |
| Mary Stewart | |
| The Legend of the Easter Lily | 345 |
| Ada M. Skinner | |
| Song | 346 |
| Henry Neville Maughan | |
| In the Garden: An Easter Prelude | 347 |
| W. M. L. Jay | |
| “Spirit” and “Life” | 352 |
| Margaret Emma Ditto | |
| A Child’s Easter (Poem) | 359 |
| Annie Trumbull Slosson | |
| The Spirit of Easter | 363 |
| Helen Keller | |
| There Are No Dead | 365 |
| Maurice Maeterlinck, adapted from “The Bluebird” by Madame Maeterlinck. | |
| Little Boy Blue (Poem) | 370 |
| Alfred Noyes | |