"The Turquoise Story Book" is the third volume in a series of nature books, each of which emphasizes the interest and beauty characteristic of a particular season. The central theme of this volume is the loveliness of summer and its manifold blessings.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The editors' thanks are due to the following authors and publishers who have permitted the publication of their works in this volume—to Mr. Albert Bigelow Paine for permission to include "How the Rose Became Queen," and "A Legend of the Lily-of-the-Valley," from a "Little Garden Calendar," published by the Henry Altemus Company; to Helen Gray Cone for her two poems, "An Evening Primrose" and "A Yellow Pansy"; to Frances Gillespy Wickes for "Mother Spider"; to Edward Bliss Reed and the Yale University Press for the poem "Flowers," from "Sea Moods"; to Frank A. Waugh and the Woman's Home Companion for "The Friendly Summer Trees"; to Miss M. L. Cook for her translation of "Why the Lady-Bug Is Called Beloved of God"; to Lucille Corbett for "The Story of the Dewdrop"; to George Allen and Unwin Ltd., for permission to retell "The Sun Princess" and "Princess Fire-fly" from "Old World Japan Legends"; to the Outlook Company for "The Tale of Two Tails," and to Ernest Ingersoll and the Outlook Company for "Birds' Nests"; to George H. Doran Company for "The Dew Mother," by May Byron; to the Educational Company for "The Boy Who Hated Trees"; to Town Topics for "Hatto, the Hermit," by Selma Lagerlöf; to Charles Scribner's Sons for the selections from Eugene Field and Henry Van Dyke; to D. C. Heath and Company for "Legend of Tithonus" from "Favorite Greek Myths," by Lillian S. Hyde; to Frederick A. Stokes Company for a selection by Alfred Noyes; to E. P. Dutton and Company for "Robin Goodfellow," from "English Fairy Tales," by Ernest Rhys; to C. H. Barbeau for permission to retell "Legend of the Sun and Moon," from "Memoirs"; to S. E. Cassino Company for "The Grubbiest Grub" from Little Folks Magazine; to J. B. Lippincott Company for permission to retell a legend from Skinner's "Legends of Flowers, Fruits and Trees"; to Small, Maynard and Company for three poems from "Complete Works of Madison Cawein"; to Macmillan and Company Ltd., London, for a poem by Maud Keary; to John P. Morton and Company for "Morning Glories" from "Poet and Nature," by Madison Cawein; to T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. for "The Summer Princess" from "The Enchanted Garden," by Mrs. Molesworth; to the Macmillan Company for "Nature," from "Preludes," by Madison Cawein, a selection from "The Everlasting Mercy," by John Masefield, and "In the Cool of the Evening," from "Poems," by Alfred Noyes, and a selection from "Gitanjali," by Rabindranath Tagore; to Edward Abbott Parry for "Undine" from "The First Book of Krab"; and to Lyman Abbott for "The Flower's Thanks."
The selections from John Burroughs, Edith M. Thomas and John Townsend Trowbridge are used by permission of and by special arrangement with Houghton, Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers of their works.
CONTENTS
| INTRODUCTION | ||
| SUMMER STORIES AND LEGENDS | ||
| PAGE | ||
| Summer (selection) | Madison Cawein | [2] |
| How Summer Conquered Winter (Iroquois Legend) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [3] |
| A Legend of the Flowers (Australian) | Katherine Langlot Parker | [8] |
| June (selection) | James Russell Lowell | [14] |
| The Sun-Goddess (Japanese Legend) | Frank Rinder | [15] |
| The Summer Maker (Ojibway Legend) Retold from Schoolcraft | Eleanor L. Skinner | [20] |
| Summer (selection) | Edmund Spenser | [27] |
| In the Kitchen-Garden (abridged) | Mrs. Alfred Gatty | [28] |
| Glad Day (poem) | W. Graham Robertson | [42] |
| The Summer Princess | Mrs. Molesworth | [44] |
| Midsummer (poem) | John Townsend Trowbridge | [74] |
| SUMMER SKIES | ||
| Selection | Rabindranath Tagore | [76] |
| Day (poem) | Robert Browning | [76] |
| How the Sun Was Caught and Freed (Indian Legend) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [77] |
| A Day of Sunshine (poem) | Henry W. Longfellow | [83] |
| Phaeton's Drive in the Sun-Chariot | Eleanor L. Skinner | [84] |
| Song | William Shakespeare | [90] |
| Summer Sun (poem) | Robert Louis Stevenson | [91] |
| The Cloud (translated from the German by Eleanor L. Skinner) | Robert Reineck | [92] |
| Undine | Edward Abbott Parry | [95] |
| Legend of the Sun, Moon and Stars (Retold) | Ada M. Skinner | [116] |
| The Princess Moonbeam (Japanese Legend) | Mary F. Nixon-Roulet | [120] |
| The Moon (selection) | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [124] |
| The Spacious Firmament on High (poem) | Joseph Addison | [125] |
| GREEN FIELDS AND MEADOWS GAY | ||
| Nature's Song (selection) | Madison Cawein | [128] |
| The Gift of Flax (Norse Legend) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [129] |
| The Story of the Dewdrop | Lucille Corbett | [136] |
| The Dew Mother (poem) | May Byron | [140] |
| Origin of the Dandelion (Indian Legend Retold) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [141] |
| Prince Butterfly and Clover (Retold from the poem by Louisa M. Alcott) | Ada M. Skinner | [146] |
| A Song of Clover | Saxe Holm | [152] |
| Tithonus: A Legend of the Grasshopper | Lillian S. Hyde | [153] |
| The Grasshopper (poem) | Edith M. Thomas | [155] |
| The Golden Grasshopper | Charles Lamb | [156] |
| A Blade of Grass | John Ruskin | [159] |
| Selection | Charles Dalmon | [162] |
| Princess Fire-Fly (Japanese Legend, adapted) | Frank Rinder | [163] |
| July (selection) | Susan Hartley Swett | [168] |
| Cuff and the Woodchuck | John Burroughs | [169] |
| Why the Lady-Bug Is Said to Be Beloved of God—Translated from the French by | M. L. Cook | [173] |
| SUMMER SPINNERS | ||
| Selection | Madison Cawein | [182] |
| The Story of Arachne | Eleanor L. Skinner | [183] |
| How the Spider Makes Its Web | C. William Beebe | [188] |
| The Fairy Spinner (Southern Tale Retold) | Ada M. Skinner | [192] |
| Mother Spider | Frances Gillespy Wickes | [195] |
| IN BROOKS AND PONDS | ||
| The Brook | Alfred Tennyson | [200] |
| Legend of the Water-Lily | Eleanor L. Skinner | [201] |
| The Tale of Two Tails | Mary H. Wilson | [205] |
| Origin of Bullfrogs (Algonquin Legend) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [212] |
| Woodland Waters (poem) | Madison Cawein | [221] |
| The Grubbiest Grub | J. Bevan | [222] |
| The Dragon-Fly (poem) | Alfred Tennyson | [231] |
| ON THE WING | ||
| Selection | John Masefield | [234] |
| Selection | William Blake | [234] |
| How Woodpecker Changed His Colours (Micmac Legend) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [235] |
| A Retort from the Catbird (poem) | Abbie Farwell Brown | [238] |
| Woodpecker Life | Margaret Coulson Walker | [239] |
| Kingfisher's Necklace and Ruffle | Eleanor L. Skinner | [252] |
| Owl Wisdom | Frances Wright | [256] |
| Birds' Nests | Ernest Ingersoll | [261] |
| Hatto The Hermit: The Legend of a Bird's Nest | Selma Lagerlöf | [267] |
| UNDER GREENWOOD TREES | ||
| Song | William Shakespeare | [282] |
| The Plucky Prince (Adapted from the poem by May Byron) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [283] |
| The Oak (poem) | H. F. Chorley | [289] |
| Summer Snow | Mrs. Humphrey Ward | [290] |
| The Boy Who Hated Trees | Alice L. Beckwith | [293] |
| The Friendly Summer Trees | Frank A. Waugh | [301] |
| Forest Day | Selma Lagerlöf | [309] |
| Woodman, Spare That Tree (poem) | George P. Morris | [314] |
| IN AN OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN | ||
| Selection | William Brightly Rands | [320] |
| Selection | Eugene Field | [320] |
| How the Rose Became Queen | Albert Bigelow Paine | [321] |
| Morning-Glories (poem) | Madison Cawein | [327] |
| Why Roses Have Thorns (Algonquin Legend Retold) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [329] |
| Sweet Peas (poem) | John Keats | [334] |
| Legend of the Primrose | Ada M. Skinner | [335] |
| Evening Primroses (poem) | Helen Gray Cone | [340] |
| Legend of the Lily-of-the-Valley | Albert Bigelow Paine | [341] |
| Katrina's Sun-Dial | Henry Van Dyke | [341] |
| The Three Little Butterflies (Translated from Curtmann) | Ada M. Skinner | [342] |
| The Pinks (poem) | Robert Bridges | [344] |
| The Flower's Thanks | Lyman Abbott | [345] |
| Pansies (poem) | James Whitcomb Riley | [347] |
| The Little Heartsease | [348] | |
| Legend of the Red Geranium (Mohammedan) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [351] |
| Enchanted Tulips (poem) | Maud Keary | [352] |
| Iris | Ada M. Skinner | [353] |
| The Yellow-Bird (poem) | James Whitcomb Riley | [355] |
| Origin of the Sunflower | Eleanor L. Skinner | [356] |
| The Bluebell (poem) | Anonymous | [359] |
| The Dew Mother's Gift to the Rose Eleanor | L. Skinner | [360] |
| A Yellow Pansy (poem) | Helen Gray Cone | [362] |
| Mignonette | Ada M. Skinner | [363] |
| Flowers (selection) | Edward Bliss Reed | [369] |
| ON A MIDSUMMER DAY | ||
| Selection | Alfred Noyes | [372] |
| The Friendly Cowslip Bells (English Legend) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [373] |
| Fairy Dawn (selection) | Joseph Rodman Drake | [377] |
| Robin Goodfellow | Ernest Rhys | [378] |
| A Quarrel in Fairyland (Arranged from a Midsummer Night's Dream) | Eleanor L. Skinner | [388] |
| In the Cool of the Evening (poem) | Alfred Noyes | [406] |
SUMMER STORIES AND LEGENDS
SUMMER
Hang out your loveliest star, O Night! O Night!
Your richest rose, O Dawn!