CONTENTS - The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart - 7

[Characters in the Narrative] [xxi]
[Introduction by the Author] 1
[Chapter I]
How Opal Goes along the Road beyond the Singing Creek, and of all she Sees in her New Home 5
[Chapter II]
How Lars Porsena of Clusium Got Opal into Trouble, and how Michael Angelo Sanzio Raphael and Sadie McKibben Gave her Great Comfort 9
[Chapter III]
Of the Queer Feels that Came out of a Bottle of Castoria, and of the Happiness of Larry and Jean 14
[Chapter IV]
How Peter Paul Rubens Goes to School 21
[Chapter V]
How Opal Comforted Aphrodite, and how the Fairies Comforted Opal when there Was Much Sadness at School 25
[Chapter VI]
Opal Gives Wisdom to the Potatoes, Cleanliness to the Family Clothes, and a Delicate Dinner to Thomas Chatterton Jupiter Zeus 35
[Chapter VII]
The Adventure of the Tramper; and what Happens on Long and on Short Days 47
[Chapter VIII]
How Opal Takes a Walk in the Forest of Chantilly; she Visits Elsie and her Baby Boy, and Explains Many Things to the Girl that Has no Seeing 55
[Chapter IX]
Of an Exploring Trip with Brave Horatius; and how Opal Kept Sadness away from her Animal Friends 69
[Chapter X]
How Brave Horatius is Lost and Found again, but Peter Paul Rubens is Lost Forever 75
[Chapter XI]
How Opal Took the Miller’s Brand out of the Flour-Sack, and Got Many Sore Feels thereby; and how Sparks Come on Cold Nights; and how William Shakespeare Has Likings for Poems 81
[Chapter XII]
Of Elsie’s Brand-New Baby, and all the Things that Go with it; and the Goodly Wisdom of the Angels, who Bring Folks Babies that Are like them 91
[Chapter XIII]
How Felix Mendelssohn and Lucian Horace Ovid Virgil Go for a Ride; William Shakespeare Suffers One Whipping and Opal Another 100
[Chapter XIV]
How Opal Feels Satisfaction Feels, and Takes a Ride on William Shakespeare; and all that Came of it 104
[Chapter XV]
Of Jenny Strong’s Visit, its Gladness and its Sadness 114
[Chapter XVI]
Of the Woods on a Lonesome Day, and the Friendliness of the Wood-Folks on December Days when you Put your Ears Close and Listen 122
[Chapter XVII]
Of Works to be Done; and how it Was that a Glad Light Came into the Eyes of the Man who Wears Gray Neckties and Is Kind to Mice 127
[Chapter XVIII]
How Opal Pays One Visit to Elsie and Another to Dear Love, and Learns how to Mend her Clothes in a Quick Way 131
[Chapter XIX]
Of the Camp by the Mill by the Far Woods; of the Spanking that Came from the New Way of Mending Clothes; and of the Long Sleep of William Shakespeare 138
[Chapter XX]
Of the Little Song-Notes that Dance about Babies; and of the Solemn Christening of Solomon Grundy 146
[Chapter XXI]
How Opal Names Names of the Lambs of Aidan of Iona, and Seeks for the Soul of Peter Paul Rubens 158
[Chapter XXII]
How Solomon Grundy Falls Sick and Grows Well again; and Minerva’s Chickens are Christened; and the Pensée Girl, with the Far-Away Look in her Eyes, Finds Thirty-and-Three Bunches of Flowers 165
[Chapter XXIII]
How Opal and Brave Horatius Go on Explores and Visit the Hospital.—How the Mamma Dyes Clothes and Opal Dyes Clementine 177
[Chapter XXIV]
How the Mamma’s Wish Came True, and how Opal was Spanked for it; and of the Likes which Aphrodite Had for a Clean Place to Live in 185
[Chapter XXV]
Of Many Washings and a Walk 193
[Chapter XXVI]
Why it Was that the Girl who Has no Seeing Was not at Home when Opal Called 197
[Chapter XXVII]
Of a Cathedral Service in the Pig-Pen.—How the World Looks from a Man’s Shoulder 204
[Chapter XXVIII]
How Opal Piped with Reeds, and what a Good Time Dear Love Gave Thomas Chatterton Jupiter Zeus 212
[Chapter XXIX]
How Opal Feels the Heat of the Sun, and Decorates a Goodly Number of the White Poker-Chips of the Chore Boy 218
[Chapter XXX]
How Opal and the Little Birds from the Great Tree Have a Happy Time at the House of Dear Love 226
[Chapter XXXI]
How Lola Wears her White Silk Dress at Last 231
[Chapter XXXII]
Of the Ways that Fairies Write, and the Proper Way to Drink in the Song of the Wood 234
[Chapter XXXIII]
Of the Death of Lars Porsena of Clusium, and of the Comfort that Sadie McKibben can Give 242
[Chapter XXXIV]
Of the Fall of the Great Tree, and the Funeral of Aristotle 249
[Chapter XXXV]
How the Man of the Long Step that Whistles Most of the Time Takes an Interesting Walk 253
[Chapter XXXVI]
Of Taking-Egg Day, and the Remarkable Things that Befell thereon 259
[Chapter XXXVII]
Of the Strange Adventure in the Woods on the Going-Away Day of Saint Louis 270
[Chapter XXXVIII]
How Opal Makes Prepares to Move. How she Collects all the Necessary Things, Bids Good-bye to Dear Love, and Learns that her Prayer has been Answered 275
[Postscript] 284