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GOOD STORIES
FOR GREAT HOLIDAYS
ARRANGED FOR
STORY-TELLING AND READING ALOUD
AND FOR
THE CHILDREN'S OWN READING
BY
FRANCES JENKINS OLCOTT
TO THE STORY-TELLER
CONTENTS
THE FAIRY'S NEW YEAR GIFT: Emilie Poulsson, In the Child's World
THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL: Hans Christian Andersen, Stories and Tales
WHY LINCOLN WAS CALLED ``HONEST ABE'': Noah Brooks, Abraham Lincoln
SAINT VALENTINE
THE LARK AND ITS YOUNG ONES: P. V. Ramuswami Raju, Indian Fables
COLUMBUS AND THE EGG: James Baldwin, Thirty More Famous Stories Retold
THE MASTER OF THE HARVEST: Mrs. Alfred Gatty, Parables from Nature
THE PUMPKIN PIRATES, A TALE FROM LUCIAN: Alfred J. Church, The Greek Gulliver
THE STRANGER CHILD, A LEGEND: Count Franz Pocci, Fur Frohliche Kinder
ARBOR DAY
THE LITTLE TREE THAT LONGED FOR OTHER LEAVES: Friedrieh Ruckert
THE DRYAD OF THE OLD OAK: James Russell Lowell, Rhoecus (a poem)
THE KING OF THE BIRDS: The Brothers Grimm, German Household Tales
THE DOVE WHO SPOKE TRUTH: Abbie Farwell Brown, The Curious Book of Birds
THE BUSY BLUE JAY: Olive Thorne Miller, True Bird Stories
A SLAV LEGEND
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY
(FEBRUARY 12)
BY CHARLES W. MOORES
BY NOAH BROOKS
A STRANGER AT FIVE-POINTS
(ADAPTED)
BY CHARLES W. MOORES
BY CHARLES W. MOORES
`` `I am Abraham Lincoln.'
BY Z. A. MUDGE (ADAPTED)
(ADAPTED)
``No,'' he replied.
(FEBRUARY 14)
SAINT VALENTINE
A PRISONER'S VALENTINE
AS TOLD BY HERSELF
(ADAPTED)
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY
(FEBRUARY 22)
BY M. L. WEEMS (ADAPTED)
GEORGE WASHINGTON
BY HORACE E. SCUDDER
WASHINGTON'S MODESTY
WASHINGTON AT YORKTOWN
(MARCH OR APRIL)
A LESSON OF FAITH
BY CHARLES DICKENS
And the man, who had been the child, saw his
daughter, newly lost to him, a celestial creature
among those three, and he said: ``My daughter's
head is on my sister's bosom, and her arm is
around my mother's neck, and at her feet there
is the baby of old time, and I can bear the parting
from her, God be praised!''
MAY DAY
(MAY 1)
[1] From For the Children's Hour, by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey and
Clara M. Lewis. Copyright by the Milton Bradley Company.
THE WATER-DROP
AN OJIBBEWAY LEGEND
ENGLISH FOLK-TALE
THE ELVES
AN IROQUOIS LEGEND
BY OVID (ADAPTED)
There was once a Nymph named Clytie, who
gazed ever at Apollo as he drove his sun-chariot
through the heavens. She watched him as he
rose in the east attended by the rosy-fingered
Dawn and the dancing Hours. She gazed as he
ascended the heavens, urging his steeds still
higher in the fierce heat of the noonday. She
looked with wonder as at evening he guided his
steeds downward to their many-colored pastures
under the western sky, where they fed all night on
ambrosia.
HYACINTHUS
BY OVID (ADAPTED)
BY OVID (ADAPTED)
MOTHERS' DAY
A HINDU FABLE
CORNELIA'S JEWELS
BY JAMES BALDWIN[3]
(ADAPTED)
MEMORIAL DAY
(APRIL OR MAY)
FLAG DAY
(JUNE 14)
A FLAG INCIDENT
BY M. M. THOMAS (ADAPTED)
BY Z. A. MUDGE (ADAPTED)
BY E. D. TOWNSEND (ADAPTED)
INDEPENDENCE DAY
(JULY 4)
THE DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE
BY WASHINGTON IRVING
BY H. A. GUERBER[4]
A GUNPOWDER STORY
LABOR DAY
THE SMITHY
A HINDU FABLE
THE NAIL
BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM (TRANSLATED)[7]
BY HORACE E. SCUDDER
A JAPANESE LEGEND
FROM THE RIVERSIDE THIRD READER (ADAPTED)
ARACHNE
A GERMAN FOLE-TALE
(ADAPTED)
BY XENOPHON (ADAPTED)
BY HUGH MILLER
BY CLEVELAND MOFFETT
COLUMBUS DAY
(OCTOBER 12)
COLUMBUS AT LA RABIDA
THE MUTINY
BY A. DE LAMARTINE (ADAPTED)
HALLOWEEN
(OCTOBER 31)
SHIPPEITARO
A JAPANESE FOLK-TALE:
But they did not find it. They walked the whole
night and all the next day, too, from morning
till evening, but they did not get out of the forest;
they were very hungry, for they had nothing to
eat but two or three berries which grew on the
ground. And as they were so tired that their legs
would carry them no longer, they lay down under
a tree and fell asleep.
Ah, how sad was the poor little sister when she
had to fetch the water, and how her tears did flow
down over her cheeks!
The good little duck did so, and when they were
once safely across and had walked for a short time,
they knew where they were, and at last they saw
from afar their father's house.
AN ENGLISH FOLK-TALE
BY ERNEST RHYS
AN ENGLISH FOLK-TALE
BY JOSEPH JACOBS
And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she
wished for company.
And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she
wished for company.
And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she
wished for company.
And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she
wished for company.
And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she
wished for company.
And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she
wished for company.
And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she
wished for company.
And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she
wished for company.
And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she
wished for company.
. . . . . . . . .
``I thirst!''
Instantly the Goblin appeared and presented
the horn.
THANKSGIVING DAY
AN OJIBBEWAY LEGEND
But the bad boy only laughed and said: ``You 'll
bite off my head, will you! Go away from here
just as fast as you can, or you shall feel these nut-
shells,'' and he shook his fist at the little man.
AN IROQUOIS LEGEND
And the little birds of the air heard her cry, and
winging their way upward they carried her vow
and gave it to the sun as he wandered through the
blue heavens.
BY OVID (ADAPTED)
CHRISTMAS DAY
(DECEMBER 25)
LITTLE PICCOLA
But one year her mother was ill and could not
earn any money. Piccola worked hard all the day
long, and sold the stockings which she knit, even
when her own little bare feet were blue with the
cold.
A LEGEND
``Blessed Child,
Thee we greet,
With sound of harp
And singing sweet.
``Sleep in peace,
Child so bright,
We have watched thee
All the night.
A GOLDEN LEGEND
AN OLD LEGEND
II
III
IV
IN THE ATTIC
A GERMAN FOLK-TALE
A LEGEND
A SCANDINAVIAN LEGEND
BY JOHN OF HILDESHEIM-MODERNIZED BY
H. S. MORRIS (ADAPTED)
THE STAR
THE CHILD
ARBOR DAY
BY FLORENCE HOLBROOK
OLD LEGEND
(TRANSLATED)
``Rhoecus!''
``Rhoecus!''
``Rhoecus!''
DAPHNE
BY OVID (ADAPTED)
BIRD DAY
AN OJIBBEWAY LEGEND
THE QUAILS
A LEGEND OF THE JATAKA
BY JOSEPH JACOBS
All the birds of the air came to the magpie and
asked her to teach them how to build nests. For
the magpie is the cleverest bird of all at building
nests. So she put all the birds round her and
began to show them how to do it. First of all she
took some mud and made a sort of round cake
with it.
``I can close one eye and watch with the other,''
he thought. So he closed one eye and stared
steadfastly with the other; but before he knew it
he forgot to keep that one open, and both eyes
were fast asleep.
II
BY JOHN BURROUGHS
But the birds had not every one bolted, for here
sat two of the colony among the broken rocks.
These two had not been frightened off. That both
of them were greatly alarmed, any one could see
from their open beaks, their rolling eyes, their
tense bodies on tiptoe for flight. Yet here they
sat, their wings out like props, or more like gripping
hands, as if they were trying to hold themselves
down to the rocks against their wild desire
to fly.
THE END
REFERENCE LISTS
FOR STORY-TELLING AND COLLATERAL
READING
REFERENCE LISTS
FOR STORY-TELLING AND COLLATERAL
READING
(The grades assigned are merely suggestive, as some of the stories
may be used in higher or lower grades than here indicated.)
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY
Lincoln's Own Stories, page 78, Lincoln and the Unjust Client,
in Moores, Abraham Lincoln, page 46; Lincoln's Kindness to
a Disabled Soldier, in Gallaher, Best Lincoln Stories; The
Clary's Grove Boys, in Noah Brooks, Abraham Lincoln page
51; The Snow Boys, in Noah Brooks, Abraham Lincoln page
122.
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY
MAY DAY
LABOR DAY
COLUMBUS DAY
HALLOWEEN
THANKSGIVING DAY
CHRISTMAS DAY
For grades 1-4.
BIRD DAY