The Topaz Story Book, Stories and Legends of Autumn, Hallowe'en, and Thanksgiving

This is a charming collection of stories, legends, and poems about autumn harvest, Halloween, and Thanksgiving translated from the Danish, French, German, and others. There are animal stories and poems by some very famous authors and poets. All in all, this is a wonderful book for young people, and older people as well. "When the Frost is on the Pumpkin ..."


By : Ada M. Skinner (1878 - ) and Eleanor L. Skinner (1872 - )

01 - Each in His Own Tongue



02 - Nipon and King of the Northland



03 - Prince Autumn



04 - Scarf of the Lady



05 - Sickle Moon



06 - Winter's Herald



07 - Jack Frost



08 - Pumpkin Giant



09 - Lady White and Lady Yellow



10 - The Shet-Up Posy



11 - The Gay Little King



12 - The Story of Opal



13 - Selection



14 - Lost: The Summer



15 - By the Wayside



16 - The King's Candles



17 - Legend of the Golden Rod



18 - Golden-Rod



19 - The Little Weed



20 - Golden Rod and Purple Aster



21 - Wild Asters



22 - Silver-rod



23 - Pimpernel, The Shepherd's Clock



24 - Legend of the Gentian



25 - Queen Aster



26 - The Weeds



27 - Autumn Fires



28 - To an Autumn Leaf



29 - Why Autumn Leaves are Red



30 - The Anxious Leaf



31 - How the Chestnut Burrs Became



32 - The Merry Wind



33 - Autumn Among the Birds



34 - The Kind Old Oak



35 - The Tree



36 - Coming and Going



37 - Legend of the Willow Tree



38 - Autumn Fashions



39 - Pomona's Best Gift



40 - Pomona



41 - In the Orchard



42 - Johnny Appleseed



43 - Red Apple



44 - The Three Golden Apples



45 - October: Orchard of the Year



46 - November



47 - Woodland Animals



48 - The Pretending Woodchuck



49 - Mrs. Bunny's Dinner Party



50 - The Nutcrackers of Nutcracker Lodge



51 - Bushy's Bravery



52 - Nut Gatherers



53 - When the Frost is On the Pumpkin



54 - Origin of the Indian Corn



55 - Song of Hiawatha



56 - O-Na-Tah



57 - Mondamin



58 - The Discontented Pumpkin



59 - Bob White



60 - The Little Pumpkin



61 - Autumn



62 - The News



63 - How There Came To Be a Katy-did



64 - Old Dame Cricket



65 - Miss Katy-did and Miss Cricket



66 - The Cricket



67 - Shadow March



68 - Twinkling Feet's Hallowe'en



69 - Jack-o'-Lantern



70 - The Elfin Knight



71 - The Courteous Prince



72 - Jack-o'-Lantern Song



73 - Selection



74 - The Queer Little Baker Man



75 - A Turkey for the Stuffing



76 - Pumpkin Pie



77 - Mrs. November's Party



78 - The Debut of Dan'l Webster



79 - The Green Corn Dance



80 - Thanksgiving



81 - The Two Alms, or The Thanksgiving Day Gift



82 - Thanksgiving Psalm



83 - The Crown of the Year


Nature stories, legends, and poems appeal to the young reader’s interest in various ways. Some of them suggest or reveal certain facts which stimulate a spirit of investigation and attract the child’s attention to the beauty and mystery of the world. Others serve an excellent purpose by quickening his sense of humour.

Seedtime and harvest have always been seasons of absorbing interest and have furnished the story-teller with rich themes. The selections in “The Emerald Story Book” emphasize the hope and premise of the spring; the stories, legends, and poems in this volume, “The Topaz Story Book,” express the joy and blessing which attend the harvest-time when the fields are rich in golden grain and the orchard boughs bend low with mellow fruit. “The year’s work is done. She walks in gorgeous apparel, looking upon her long labour and her serene eye saith, ‘It is good.’”

The editors’ thanks are due to the following authors and publishers for the use of valuable material in this book:

To Dr. Carl S. Patton of the First Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio, for permission to include his story, “The Pretending Woodchuck”; to Frances Jenkins Olcott for “The Green Corn Dance,” retold from “The Journal of American Folk-Lore,” published by Houghton, Mifflin Company; to Ernest Thompson Seton and the Century Company for “How the Chestnut Burrs Became”; to Dr. J. Dynelly Prince for permission to retell the legend of “Nipon” from “Kuloskap the Master”; to Thomas Nelson and Sons for “Weeds,” by Carl Ewald; to William Herbert Carruth for the selection from “Each In His Own Tongue”; to Josephine K. Dodge for two poems by Mary Mapes Dodge; to A. Flanagan Company for “Golden-rod and Purple Aster,” from “Nature Myths and Stories,” by Flora J. Cooke; to J. B. Lippincott Company for “The Willow and the Bamboo,” from “Myths and Legends of the Flowers and Trees,” by Chas. M. Skinner; to Bobbs, Merrill Company for the selection by James Whitcomb Riley; to Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard Company for “The Pumpkin Giant,” from “The Pot of Gold,” by Mary Wilkins Freeman; to Raymond Macdonald Alden for “Lost: The Summer”; to the Youth’s Companion for “A Turkey for the Stuffing,” by Katherine Grace Hulbert, and “The News,” by Persis Gardiner; to John S. P. Alcott for “Queen Aster,” by Louisa M. Alcott; to G. P. Putnam’s Sons for two poems from “Red Apples and Silver Bells,” by Hamish Henry; to Francis Curtis and St. Nicholas for “The Debut of Daniel Webster,” by Isabel Gordon Curtis; to Emma F. Bush and Mothers’ Magazine for “The Little Pumpkin”; to Phila Butler Bowman and Mothers’ Magazine for “The Queer Little Baker Man”; to the Independent for “The Crown of the Year,” by Celia Thaxter; to Ginn and Company for “Winter’s Herald,” from Andrew’s “The Story of My Four Friends”; to Frederick A. Stokes Company for “Lady White and Lady Yellow,” from “Myths and Legends of Japan”; to the State Museum, Albany, New York, for permission to reprint the legend “O-na-tah, Spirit of the Corn,” published in the Museum Bulletin; to Houghton, Mifflin Company for “The Sickle Moon,” by Abbie Farwell Brown; “Autumn Among the Birds” and “Autumn Fashions” by Edith M. Thomas, “The Nutcrackers of Nutcracker Lodge” by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and “The Three Golden Apples” by Nathaniel Hawthorne; and to Duffield and Company for “The Story of the Opal” by Ann de Morgan.

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