[Gutenberg 64307] • The Emerald Story Book / Stories and legends of spring, nature and Easter by Unknown -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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INTRODUCTION CONTENTS THE EMERALD STORY BOOK

SPRING STORIES AND LEGENDS

APRIL THE SPRING-MAIDEN AND THE FROST GIANTS HOW THE BLUEBIRD WAS CHOSEN HERALD[1] THE SPRINGTIME[2] THE SELFISH GIANT THE PROMISED PLANT BRIER ROSE PICCIOLA ST. FRANCIS, THE LITTLE BEDESMAN OF CHRIST[3] PROSERPINA AND KING PLUTO THE WONDER—A PARABLE

NATURE STORIES AND LEGENDS

GREEN THINGS GROWING THE STORY OF A LITTLE GRAIN OF WHEAT[4] THE LITTLE ACORN THE STORY OF TWO LITTLE SEEDS HOW THE FLOWERS CAME[5] THE LEGEND OF TRAILING ARBUTUS THE FAIRY FLOWER[6] THE SNOWDROP WHAT THE DANDELION TOLD A GREAT FAMILY THE BIRTH OF THE VIOLET A LYRIC OF JOY

AMONG THE TREE-TOPS

ROBIN’S CAROL[7] HOW THE BIRDS CAME HOW THE BIRDS LEARNED TO BUILD NESTS[8] OUT OF THE NEST.[9] THE STORY OF BLUE-WINGS AN EASTERN LEGEND THE HOUSE WREN THE CHILDREN OF WIND AND THE CLAN OF PEACE A CHRIST LEGEND

IN MEADOW AND POND

A SPRING LILT HOW BUTTERFLIES CAME WHITE BUTTERFLIES THE BUTTERFLY THE WIND, A HELPER THE SPRINGING TREE: WILLOWS PUSSY WILLOW THE DRAGON FLY THE CICADA’S STORY[11] EDITH AND THE BEES THE LITTLE TADPOLE[12] MISTER HOP-TOAD BUZ AND HUM THE STORY WITHOUT AN END

IN THE GREEN MEADOW THE STORY OF A DROP OF WATER

LEGEND OF THE FORGET-ME-NOT FOUR-LEAF CLOVER[13] JOLLY LITTLE TARS MR. MAPLE AND MR. PINE

A GARDEN OF EASTER STORIES

THE EASTER RABBIT THE BOY WHO DISCOVERED THE SPRING[15] SHEEP AND LAMBS ROBIN REDBREAST—A CHRIST LEGEND[16] THE MAPLE SEED WHY THE IVY IS ALWAYS GREEN[17] JONQUILS WHEN THOU COMEST INTO THY KINGDOM THE LEGEND OF THE EASTER LILY SONG IN THE GARDEN AN EASTER PRELUDE

Part I Part II

“SPIRIT” AND “LIFE”[18] A CHILD’S EASTER THE SPIRIT OF EASTER THERE ARE NO DEAD LITTLE BOY BLUE

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