CONTENTS

[PHILEMON AND BAUCIS], Flora J. Cooke

[THE POPLAR TREE], Flora J. Cooke

[WHO LOVES THE TREES BEST?], Alice May Douglas

[LEAVES IN AUTUMN]

[A STORY OF BIRD LIFE], Henry Ward Beecher

[BOB WHITE], George Cooper

[HOW MARY GOT A NEW DRESS]

[THE PLAID DRESS]

[THE GODDESS OF THE SILKWORM]

[THE FLAX], Hans Christian Andersen

[THE WONDERFUL WORLD], William Brighty Rands

[THE HILLMAN AND THE HOUSEWIFE], Juliana H. Ewing

[THE ELF AND THE DORMOUSE], Oliver Herford

[THE BELL OF ATRI], Italian Tale

[A DUMB WITNESS], Arabian Tale

[GIVING THANKS]

[THE HARE AND THE HEDGEHOG], Grimm

[EPAMINONDAS], Southern Tale

[HOW BROTHER RABBIT FOOLED THE WHALE AND THE ELEPHANT], Southern Folk Tale

[A CHRISTMAS WISH], Eugene Field

[THE CHRISTMAS BELLS], Old Tale Retold

[GOD BLESS THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE], Old English Rime

[SQUEAKY AND THE SCARE BOX], Georgene Faulkner

[THE GLAD NEW YEAR], Mary Mapes Dodge

[MAKING THE BEST OF IT], Frances M. Fox

[THE ANIMALS AND THE MIRROR], F.A. Walker

[THE BARBER OF BAGDAD], Eastern Tale

[WINTER NIGHTS], Mary F. Butts

[LITTLE HOPE'S DOLL], Margaret Pumphrey

[NAHUM PRINCE]

[THE LITTLE COOK'S REWARD], Mrs. L.A. McCorkle

[ROCK-A-BY, HUSH-A-BY, LITTLE PAPOOSE], Charles Myall

[THE TAR WOLF], The Indian Tar-Baby Story

[THE RABBIT AND THE WOLF], Southern Indian Tale

[BLOCK CITY], Robert Louis Stevenson

[A GOOD PLAY], Robert Louis Stevenson

[THE MONKEY'S FIDDLE], African Tale

[THE THREE TASKS], Grimm

[THE WORLD'S MUSIC], Gabriel Setoun

[THE SLEEPING BEAUTY], Grimm

[THE UGLY DUCKLING], Hans Christian Andersen

[THE WHITE BLACKBIRD], Adapted from Alfred de Musset

[THE BROWN THRUSH], Lucy Larcom

[THE KING AND THE GOOSEHERD], Old Tale

[DONAL AND CONAL], Irish Tale

[WHO TOLD THE NEWS?]

[THE BIRDS OF KILLINGWORTH], Adapted from Longfellow

[THE TRAILING ARBUTUS], Indian Legend

[HIDDEN TREASURE], Grimm

[THE LITTLE BROWN BROTHER], Emily Nesbit

[HOW THE FLOWERS GROW], Gabriel Setoun

[WISE MEN OF GOTHAM], Old English Story

[THE MILLER'S GUEST], English Ballad (adapted)

[SADDLE TO RAGS], English Ballad (adapted)

[THE ROCK-A-BY LADY], Eugene Field

[THE SAND MAN], Margaret Vandergrift

[A DICTIONARY]

[SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS]

Oh, for a nook and a story-book,

With tales both new and old;

For a jolly good book whereon to look

Is better to me than gold.

—OLD ENGLISH SONG.

[PHILEMON AND BAUCIS]