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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 Lagerlo?f. 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 Lagerlo?f 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 Lagerlo?f 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 pony with a long tail, and a blue and silver harness. The Queen, her mother, gave the Princess a little gold tea set for her dolls. There were other beautiful gifts; a ring with a sparkling stone set in it, and a dozen or so new silk dresses, and a nightingale in a gold cage; but every one waited to see what the gift of the Princess' fairy-godmother would be.
She was late coming to the party. One never knew just how she would come, on wings, or on