| INTRODUCTION |
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| SUMMER STORIES AND LEGENDS |
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| Summer (selection) | Madison Cawein | [2] |
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| How Summer Conquered Winter (Iroquois Legend) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [3] |
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| A Legend of the Flowers (Australian) | Katherine Langlot Parker | [8] |
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| June (selection) | James Russell Lowell | [14] |
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| The Sun-Goddess (Japanese Legend) | Frank Rinder | [15] |
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| The Summer Maker (Ojibway Legend) Retold from Schoolcraft | Eleanor L. Skinner | [20] |
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| Summer (selection) | Edmund Spenser | [27] |
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| In the Kitchen-Garden (abridged) | Mrs. Alfred Gatty | [28] |
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| Glad Day (poem) | W. Graham Robertson | [42] |
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| The Summer Princess | Mrs. Molesworth | [44] |
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| Midsummer (poem) | John Townsend Trowbridge | [74] |
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| SUMMER SKIES |
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| Selection | Rabindranath Tagore | [76] |
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| Day (poem) | Robert Browning | [76] |
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| How the Sun Was Caught and Freed (Indian Legend) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [77] |
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| A Day of Sunshine (poem) | Henry W. Longfellow | [83] |
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| Phaeton's Drive in the Sun-Chariot | Eleanor L. Skinner | [84] |
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| Song | William Shakespeare | [90] |
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| Summer Sun (poem) | Robert Louis Stevenson | [91] |
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| The Cloud (translated from the German by Eleanor L. Skinner) | Robert Reineck | [92] |
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| Undine | Edward Abbott Parry | [95] |
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| Legend of the Sun, Moon and Stars (Retold) | Ada M. Skinner | [116] |
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| The Princess Moonbeam (Japanese Legend) | Mary F. Nixon-Roulet | [120] |
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| The Moon (selection) | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [124] |
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| The Spacious Firmament on High (poem) | Joseph Addison | [125] |
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| GREEN FIELDS AND MEADOWS GAY |
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| Nature's Song (selection) | Madison Cawein | [128] |
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| The Gift of Flax (Norse Legend) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [129] |
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| The Story of the Dewdrop | Lucille Corbett | [136] |
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| The Dew Mother (poem) | May Byron | [140] |
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| Origin of the Dandelion (Indian Legend Retold) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [141] |
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| Prince Butterfly and Clover (Retold from the poem by Louisa M. Alcott) | Ada M. Skinner | [146] |
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| A Song of Clover | Saxe Holm | [152] |
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| Tithonus: A Legend of the Grasshopper | Lillian S. Hyde | [153] |
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| The Grasshopper (poem) | Edith M. Thomas | [155] |
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| The Golden Grasshopper | Charles Lamb | [156] |
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| A Blade of Grass | John Ruskin | [159] |
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| Selection | Charles Dalmon | [162] |
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| Princess Fire-Fly (Japanese Legend, adapted) | Frank Rinder | [163] |
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| July (selection) | Susan Hartley Swett | [168] |
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| Cuff and the Woodchuck | John Burroughs | [169] |
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| Why the Lady-Bug Is Said to Be Beloved of God—Translated from the French by | M. L. Cook | [173] |
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| SUMMER SPINNERS |
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| Selection | Madison Cawein | [182] |
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| The Story of Arachne | Eleanor L. Skinner | [183] |
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| How the Spider Makes Its Web | C. William Beebe | [188] |
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| The Fairy Spinner (Southern Tale Retold) | Ada M. Skinner | [192] |
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| Mother Spider | Frances Gillespy Wickes | [195] |
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| IN BROOKS AND PONDS |
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| The Brook | Alfred Tennyson | [200] |
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| Legend of the Water-Lily | Eleanor L. Skinner | [201] |
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| The Tale of Two Tails | Mary H. Wilson | [205] |
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| Origin of Bullfrogs (Algonquin Legend) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [212] |
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| Woodland Waters (poem) | Madison Cawein | [221] |
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| The Grubbiest Grub | J. Bevan | [222] |
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| The Dragon-Fly (poem) | Alfred Tennyson | [231] |
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| ON THE WING |
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| Selection | John Masefield | [234] |
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| Selection | William Blake | [234] |
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| How Woodpecker Changed His Colours (Micmac Legend) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [235] |
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| A Retort from the Catbird (poem) | Abbie Farwell Brown | [238] |
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| Woodpecker Life | Margaret Coulson Walker | [239] |
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| Kingfisher's Necklace and Ruffle | Eleanor L. Skinner | [252] |
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| Owl Wisdom | Frances Wright | [256] |
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| Birds' Nests | Ernest Ingersoll | [261] |
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| Hatto The Hermit: The Legend of a Bird's Nest | Selma Lagerlöf | [267] |
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| UNDER GREENWOOD TREES |
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| Song | William Shakespeare | [282] |
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| The Plucky Prince (Adapted from the poem by May Byron) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [283] |
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| The Oak (poem) | H. F. Chorley | [289] |
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| Summer Snow | Mrs. Humphrey Ward | [290] |
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| The Boy Who Hated Trees | Alice L. Beckwith | [293] |
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| The Friendly Summer Trees | Frank A. Waugh | [301] |
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| Forest Day | Selma Lagerlöf | [309] |
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| Woodman, Spare That Tree (poem) | George P. Morris | [314] |
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| IN AN OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN |
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| Selection | William Brightly Rands | [320] |
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| Selection | Eugene Field | [320] |
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| How the Rose Became Queen | Albert Bigelow Paine | [321] |
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| Morning-Glories (poem) | Madison Cawein | [327] |
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| Why Roses Have Thorns (Algonquin Legend Retold) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [329] |
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| Sweet Peas (poem) | John Keats | [334] |
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| Legend of the Primrose | Ada M. Skinner | [335] |
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| Evening Primroses (poem) | Helen Gray Cone | [340] |
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| Legend of the Lily-of-the-Valley | Albert Bigelow Paine | [341] |
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| Katrina's Sun-Dial | Henry Van Dyke | [341] |
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| The Three Little Butterflies (Translated from Curtmann) | Ada M. Skinner | [342] |
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| The Pinks (poem) | Robert Bridges | [344] |
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| The Flower's Thanks | Lyman Abbott | [345] |
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| Pansies (poem) | James Whitcomb Riley | [347] |
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| The Little Heartsease | | [348] |
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| Legend of the Red Geranium (Mohammedan) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [351] |
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| Enchanted Tulips (poem) | Maud Keary | [352] |
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| Iris | Ada M. Skinner | [353] |
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| The Yellow-Bird (poem) | James Whitcomb Riley | [355] |
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| Origin of the Sunflower | Eleanor L. Skinner | [356] |
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| The Bluebell (poem) | Anonymous | [359] |
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| The Dew Mother's Gift to the Rose Eleanor | L. Skinner | [360] |
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| A Yellow Pansy (poem) | Helen Gray Cone | [362] |
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| Mignonette | Ada M. Skinner | [363] |
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| Flowers (selection) | Edward Bliss Reed | [369] |
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| ON A MIDSUMMER DAY |
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| Selection | Alfred Noyes | [372] |
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| The Friendly Cowslip Bells (English Legend) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [373] |
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| Fairy Dawn (selection) | Joseph Rodman Drake | [377] |
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| Robin Goodfellow | Ernest Rhys | [378] |
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| A Quarrel in Fairyland (Arranged from a Midsummer Night's Dream) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [388] |
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| In the Cool of the Evening (poem) | Alfred Noyes | [406] |