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The Turquoise Story Book

by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2Summer Stories and Legends
  3. 3How Summer Conquered Winter (Iroquois Legend)
  4. 4A Legend of the Flowers (Australian)
  5. 5June
  6. 6The Sun-Goddess — Frank Rinder
  7. 7The Summer Maker — (Ojibway Legend)
  8. 8Summer
  9. 9In the Kitchen-Garden — Mrs. Alfred Gatty
  10. 10Glad Day
  11. 11The Summer Princess — Mrs. Molesworth
  12. 12Midsummer
  13. 13Summer Skies
  14. 14How the Sun Was Caught and Freed
  15. 15A Day of Sunshine
  16. 16Phaeton’s Drive in the Sun-Chariot
  17. 17Song
  18. 18Summer Sun
  19. 19The Cloud — Robert Reineck
  20. 20Undine — Edward Abbott Parry
  21. 21Legend of the Sun, Moon, and Stars (Wyandotte)
  22. 22The Princess Moonbeam — Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
  23. 23The Moon
  24. 24The Spacious Firmament on High
  25. 25Green Fields and Meadows Gay
  26. 26The Gift of Flax (Norse Legend)
  27. 27The Story of the Dewdrop — Lucile Corbett
  28. 28The Dew Mother
  29. 29Origin of the Dandelion (Indian Legend)
  30. 30Prince Butterfly and Clover
  31. 31A Song of Clover
  32. 32Tithonus: A Legend of the Grasshopper — Lillian S. Hyde
  33. 33The Grasshopper
  34. 34The Golden Grasshopper — Charles Lamb
  35. 35A Blade of Grass — John Ruskin
  36. 36Princess Fire-Fly (Japanese Legend)
  37. 37July
  38. 38Cuff and the Woodchuck — John Burroughs
  39. 39Why the Lady-Bug Is Said to Be — Beloved of God — Translated From t…
  40. 40Summer Spinners — The Story of Arachne (Greek Myth)
  41. 41How the Spider Makes Its Web — C. William Beebe
  42. 42The Fairy Spinner (Southern Tale)
  43. 43Mother Spider — Frances Gillespy Wickes
  44. 44In Brooks and Ponds
  45. 45Legend of the Water-Lily
  46. 46The Tale of Two Tails — Mary H. Wilson
  47. 47Origin of Bullfrogs
  48. 48Woodland Waters
  49. 49The Grubbiest Grub — J. Bevan
  50. 50The Dragon-Fly
  51. 51On the Wing
  52. 52How Woodpecker Changed His Colours (Micmac Legend)
  53. 53A Retort From the Catbird
  54. 54Woodpecker Life — Margaret Coulson Walker
  55. 55Kingfisher’s Necklace and Ruffle
  56. 56Owl Wisdom — Frances Wright
  57. 57Birds’ Nests — Ernest Ingersoll
  58. 58Hatto the Hermit: The Legend of a Bird’s Nest — Selma Lagerlöf
  59. 59Under Greenwood Trees
  60. 60The Plucky Prince
  61. 61The Oak
  62. 62Summer Snow — Mrs. Humphrey Ward
  63. 63The Boy Who Hated Trees — Alice L. Beckwith
  64. 64The Friendly Summer Trees — Frank A. Waugh
  65. 65Forest Day — Selma Lagerlöf
  66. 66Woodman, Spare That Tree
  67. 67In an Old-Fashioned Garden
  68. 68How the Rose Became Queen — Albert Bigelow Paine
  69. 69Morning Glories
  70. 70Why Roses Have Thorns (Algonquin Legend)
  71. 71Sweet Peas
  72. 72A Legend of the Primrose
  73. 73Evening Primroses
  74. 74Legend of the Lily-of-the-Valley — Albert Bigelow Paine
  75. 75Katrina’s Sun-Dial — The Three Little Butterflies
  76. 76The Pinks
  77. 77The Flower’s Thanks — Lyman Abbott
  78. 78Pansies
  79. 79The Little Heartsease
  80. 80Legend of the Red Geranium
  81. 81Enchanted Tulips
  82. 82Iris
  83. 83The Yellow-Bird
  84. 84Origin of the Sunflower (Greek Myth)
  85. 85The Bluebell
  86. 86The Dew Mother’s Gift to the Rose
  87. 87A Yellow Pansy
  88. 88Mignonette
  89. 89Flowers
  90. 90On a Midsummer Day
  91. 91The Friendly Cowslip Bells
  92. 92Fairy Dawn
  93. 93Robin Goodfellow — Ernest Rhys
  94. 94Scene I
  95. 95Scene II
  96. 96Scene III
  97. 97In the Cool of the Evening

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