by Grace McGowan Cooke, and appearing in Sonny Bunny Rabbit and
His Friends. Lucy Wheelock for The Little Acorn. Julia Darrow
Cowles for The Plowman Who Found Content from The Art of Story
Telling. The D. C. Heath Company for The Story of the Laurel by
Grace H. Kupfer. Ginn and Company for The Story of the First
Thanksgiving, and Doll-in-the-Grass. Doubleday, Page and Company
for The Animals' New Year's Eve and Nils and the Bear from the
Further Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerloöf. The Youth's
Companion for Chip's Thanksgiving, The Rescue of Old Glory, The
Tinker's Willow, The Three Brothers, and Molly's Easter Hen. The
Thomas Y. Crowell Company for The Bird, and The Gray Hare from
The Long Exile by Count Lyof N. Tolstoi. The American Book
Company for The Three Little Butterfly Brothers. Little, Brown and
Company for How Peter Rabbit Got His White Patch. The Pilgrim
Press for How the Flowers Came by Jay T. Stocking, appearing as
Queeny Queen and The Flowers, in The City That Never Was Reached.
The Giant's Plaything is used by special permission of the publishers of
the Book of Knowledge. The selections by Nathaniel Hawthorne and
Alice Brown are used by permission of and by special arrangement
with the Houghton Mifflin Company. The Milton Bradley Company
controls the copyrights of The Giant Energy and Fairy Skill, and The
Birthday by Maud Lindsay, and my story, The Log Cabin Boy.
CAROLYN SHERWIN BAILEY.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE HOME.
The Treasure in the House The Old House Adapted from Hans
Christian Andersen The Little Boy Who Wanted a Castle
THE CHILDREN.
The Playmates The Star Child Adapted from Oscar Wilde Ole Luk-Oie
Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen
THE FAMILY.
What Father Does Is Always Right Adapted from Hans Christian
Andersen The Elder Tree Mother Adapted from Hans Christian
Andersen The Happy Family Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen
CLOTHING.
The Wonder Shoes The Emperor's New Clothes Adapted from Hans
Christian Andersen How Primrose Went to the Party
FOOD.
The Prince Who Wasn't Hungry The Field The Magic Saucepan
Adapted from Juliana Horatio Ewing
TOYS.
The Top That Could Sing The Money Pig Adapted from Hans
Christian Andersen The Giant's Plaything
TRADE LIFE.
The Holiday Nils and the Bear Selma Lagerloöf The Giant Energy and
the Fairy Skill. Maud Lindsay
THE FARMER.
The Farm House Adapted from Charles and Mary Lamb The Plowman
Who Found Content Julia Darrow Cowles The Farmer and the Troll
Adapted from a Folk Tale
SCHOOL.
A Puritan School-Day The Last Class Translated from the French of
Alphonse Daudet Timothy's Shoes Adapted from Juliana Horatio
Ewing
FALL.
The Three Apples The Horn of Plenty Adapted from Ovid The Goose
Who Tried to Keep the Summer
THANKSGIVING.
Chip's Thanksgiving Annie Hamilton Donnell The First Thanksgiving
Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball The King's Thanksgiving
WINTER.
The Gray Hare Count Lyof N. Tolstoi The Snow Image Adapted from
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Fire That Would Not Burn
CHRISTMAS.
The Child Who Saw Santa Claus The Christmas Garden The Christmas
Tree in the Barn
PATRIOTISM.
The Rescue of Old Glory Mrs. J. W. Wheeler The Log Cabin Boy Their
Flag
SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY.
The Valentine Box The Prince's Valentine Why the Dove is on our
Valentines Adapted from an Indian Folk Tale
EASTER.
Molly's Easter Hen Annie Willis McCullough The Song of the Spring
The Easter Story
BIRDS.
The Bird Count Lyof N. Tolstoi The Nightingale Adapted from Hans
Christian Andersen How the Wren Became King Adapted from a Manx
Folk Tale
SUMMER.
The Little Red Princess How the Flowers Came Jay T. Stocking The
Three Little Butterfly Brothers Adapted from a German Folk Tale
ANIMALS.
Why Peter Rabbit Wears a White Patch Thornton Burgess The
Animals' New Year's Eve Selma Lagerloöf The Country Cat Grace
McGowen Cooke
FAIRIES.
The Three Brothers Patten Beard The Cry Fairy Alice Brown
Doll-in-the-Grass Adapted by Marian F. Lansing
FABLES.
The Ploughman and His Sons La Fontaine The Bag of Dust The Camel
and the Pig Indian
MYTHS.
How the Moon Was Kind to Her Mother Indian The Rabbit Who Was
Grateful Indian Why the Bees Gather Honey Indian
BIRTHDAYS.
The Birthday Present Maud Lindsay The Birthday of the Infanta
Adapted from Oscar Wilde The Prickly Bush
ARBOR DAY.
The Tinker's Willow Edward W. Frentz The Story of the Laurel Grace
Kupfer The Little Acorn Lucy Wheelock
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THE HOME
THE TREASURE IN THE HOUSE
Once upon a time there was a little Princess, and when she was ten
years old they gave her a wonderful birthday party. There were
musicians, and roses in all the rooms, and strawberry ice cream, and
cakes with pink icing. Every one brought gifts.
The King, her father, gave the Princess a white
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