man. Whenever fresh meat was scarce, and none could be found for him by
foraging parties, he would take things into his own claws, as it were,
and go out on a foraging expedition himself. On some such occasions he
would be gone two or three days at a time, during which nothing whatever
was seen of him; but he would invariably return, and seldom would come
back without a young lamb or a chicken in his talons. His long absences
occasioned his regiment not the slightest concern, for the men knew
that, though he might fly many miles away in quest of food, he would be
quite sure to find them again.
In what way he distinguished the two hostile armies so accurately that
he was never once known to mistake the gray for the blue, no one can
tell. But so it was, that he was never known to alight save in his own
camp, and amongst his own men.
At Jackson, Mississippi, during the hottest part of the battle before
that city, “Old Abe” soared up into the air, and remained there from
early morning until the fight closed at night, no doubt greatly enjoying
his bird's-eye view of the battle. He did the same at Mission Ridge. He
was, I believe, struck by Confederate bullets two or three times, but
his feathers were so thick that his body was not much hurt. The shield
on which he was carried, however, showed so many marks of Confederate
balls that it looked on top as if a groove plane had been run over it.
At the Centennial celebration held in Philadelphia, in 1876, “Old Abe”
occupied a prominent place on his perch on the west side of the nave
in the Agricultural Building. He was evidently growing old, and was the
observed of all observers. Thousands of visitors, from all sections of
the country, paid their respects to the grand old bird, who, apparently
conscious of the honors conferred upon him, overlooked the sale of
his biography and photographs going on beneath his perch with entire
satisfaction.
As was but just and right, the soldier who had carried him during the
war continued to have charge of him after the war was over, until the
day of his death, which occurred at the capital of Wisconsin, in 1881.
THE MOTHER MURRE
BY DALLAS LORE SHARP
One of the most striking cases of mother-love which has ever come under
my observation, I saw in the summer of 1912 on the bird rookeries of the
Three-Arch Rocks Reservation off the coast of Oregon.
We were making our slow way toward the top of the outer rock. Through
rookery after rookery of birds, we climbed until we reached the edge of
the summit. Scrambling over this edge, we found ourselves in the midst
of a great colony of nesting murres--hundreds of them--covering this
steep rocky part of the top.
As our heads appeared above the rim, many of the colony took wing and
whirred over us out to sea, but most of them sat close, each bird upon
its egg or over its chick, loath to leave, and so expose to us the
hidden treasure.
The top of the rock was somewhat cone-shaped, and in order to reach the
peak and the colonies on the west side we had to make our way through
this rookery of the murres. The first step among them, and the whole
colony was gone, with a rush of wings and feet that sent several of the
top-shaped eggs rolling, and several of the young birds toppling over
the cliff to the pounding waves and ledges far below.
We stopped, but the colony, almost to a bird, had bolted, leaving scores
of eggs, and scores of downy young squealing and running together for
shelter, like so many beetles under a lifted board.
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.
And so they were, in truth, for under their extended wings I saw little
black feet moving. Those two mother murres were not going to forsake
their babies! No, not even for these approaching monsters, such as they
had never before seen, clambering over their rocks.
What was different about these two? They had their young ones to
protect. Yes, but so had every bird in the great colony its young one,
or its egg, to protect, yet all the others had gone. Did these two
have more mother-love than the others? And hence, more courage, more
intelligence?
We took another step toward them, and one of the two birds sprang into
the air, knocking her baby over and over with the stroke of her wing,
and coming within an inch of hurling it across the rim to be battered
on the ledges below. The other bird raised her wings to follow, then
clapped them back over her baby. Fear is the most contagious thing in
the world; and that flap of fear by the other bird thrilled her, too,
but as she had withstood the stampede of the colony, so she caught
herself again and held on.
She was now alone on the bare top of the rock, with ten thousand
circling birds screaming to her in the air above, and with two men
creeping up to her with a big black camera that clicked ominously. She
let the multitude scream, and with threatening beak watched the two men
come on. A motherless baby, spying her, ran down the rock squealing
for his life. She spread a wing, put her bill behind him and shoved him
quickly in out of sight with her own baby. The man with the camera saw
the act, for I heard his machine click, and I heard him say something
under his breath that you would hardly expect a mere man and a
game-warden to say. But most men have a good deal of the mother in them;
and the old bird had acted with such decision, such courage, such swift,
compelling instinct, that any man, short of the wildest savage, would
have felt his heart quicken at the sight.
“Just how compelling might that mother-instinct be?” I wondered. “Just
how much would that mother-love stand?” I had dropped to my knees, and
on all fours had crept up within about three feet of the bird. She still
had chance for flight. Would she allow me to crawl any nearer? Slowly,
very slowly, I stretched forward on my hands, like a measuring-worm,
until my body lay flat on the rocks, and my fingers were within three
INCHES of her. But her wings were twitching, a wild light danced in her
eyes, and her head turned toward the sea.
For a whole minute I did not stir. I was watching--and the wings again
began to tighten about the babies, the wild light in the eyes died down,
the long, sharp beak turned once more toward me.
Then slowly, very slowly, I raised my hand, touched her feathers with
the tip of one finger--with two fingers--with my whole hand, while the
loud camera click-clacked, click-clacked hardly four feet away!
It was a thrilling moment. I was not killing anything. I had no
long-range rifle in my hands, coming up against the wind toward an
unsuspecting creature hundreds of yards away. This was no wounded
leopard charging me; no mother-bear defending with her giant might a
captured cub. It was only a mother-bird, the size of a wild duck,
with swift wings at her command, hiding under those wings her own and
another's young, and her own boundless fear!
For the second time in my life I had taken captive with my bare hands a
free wild bird. No, I had not taken her captive. She had made herself a
captive; she had taken herself in the strong net of her mother-love.
And now her terror seemed quite gone. At the first touch of my hand I
think she felt the love restraining it, and without fear or fret she let
me reach under her and pull out the babies. But she reached after them
with her bill to tuck them back out of sight, and when I did not let
them go, she sidled toward me, quacking softly, a language that I
perfectly understood, and was quick to respond to. I gave them back,
fuzzy and black and white. She got them under her, stood up over them,
pushed her wings down hard around them, her stout tail down hard behind
them, and together with them pushed in an abandoned egg that was
close at hand. Her own baby, some one else's baby, and some one else's
forsaken egg! She could cover no more; she had not feathers enough. But
she had heart enough; and into her mother's heart she had already tucked
every motherless egg and nestling of the thousands of frightened birds,
screaming and wheeling in the air high over her head.
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.)
NEW YEAR'S DAY
For grades 1-4.
An All-the-Year-Round Story, in Poulsson, In the Child's World; Peter
the Stone-Cutter, in Macdonell, Italian Fairy Book; The Forest Full of
Friends, in Alden, Why the Chimes Rang.
For grades 5-8.
A Chinese New Year's in California, in Our Holidays Retold from St.
Nicholas; A New Year's Talk, in Stevenson, Days and Deeds (prose); Story
of the Year, in Andersen, Stories and Tales; The Animals' New Year's
Eve, in Lagerlof, Further Adventures of Nils.
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY
For grades 1-4.
A Westfield Incident, in Moores, Abraham Lincoln, page 87; Lincoln and
the Little Horse, in Werner's Readings, no. 46; Lincoln and the Pig,
in Gross, Lincoln's Own Stories; Lincoln and the Small Dog, in Moores,
Abraham Lincoln, page 25.
For grades 5-6.
A Backwoods Boyhood, in Moores, Abraham Lincoln; Choosing Abe Lincoln
Captain, in Schauffler, Lincoln's Birthday; Following the Surveyor's
Chain, in Baldwin, Abraham Lincoln; His Good Memory of Names, in
Gallaher, Best Lincoln Stories; Lincoln and the Doorkeeper, in Gross,
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.
For grades 7-8.
Counsel Assigned, Andrews; He Knew lincoln, Tarbell; Lincoln and the
Sleeping Sentinel, Chittenden; Lincoln Remembered Him, in Gallaher, Best
Lincoln Stories; Lincoln's Springfield Farewell, in Moores, Abraham
lincoln, page 82; Perfect Tribute, Andrews.
SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY
For grades 1-4.
A Sunday Valentine, in White, When Molly was Six; Beauty and the Beast,
in Lang, Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, in Lang,
Blue Fairy Book; The Fair One With Golden Locks, in Scudder, Children's
Book; The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, in Scudder, Children's Book; The
Valentine (poem), in Brown, Fresh Posies.
For grades 5-6.
Gracieuse and Percinet, in D'Aulnoy, Fairy Tales; Jorinda and Joringel,
in Grimm, German Household Tales; The Day-Dream, Tennyson (poem),
in Story-Telling Poems; The Singing, Soaring Lark, in Grimm, German
Household Tales William and the Werewolf, in Darton, Wonder Book of Old
Romance.
For grades 7-8.
As You Like It, Shakespeare; Brunhild, in Baldwin, Story of Siegfried;
Floris and Blanchefleur, in Darton, Wonder Book of Old Romance; Palamon
and Arcita, in Darton, Tales of the Canterbury Pilgrims; The Fair Maid
of Perth, Scott, chapters 2-6; The Singing Leaves, Lowell (poem); The
Tempest, Shakespeare.
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY
For grades 1-4.
Little George Washington, and Great George Washington, in Wiggin and
Smith, Story Hour; The Virginia Boy, in Wilson, Nature Study, Second
Reader.
For grades 54.
A Christmas Surprise, in Tappan, American Hero Stories Dolly Madison,
in Tappan, American Hero Stories; Going to Sea, in Scudder, George
Washington, page 33; How George Washington was Made Commander-in-Chief,
in Tomlinson, War for Independence; The Home of Washington, and The
Appearance of the Enemy, in Madison, Peggy Owen at Yorktown; Young
Washington in the Woods, in Eggleston, Strange Stories from History.
For grades 7-8.
Anecdotes and Stories, in Schauffler, Washington's Birthday; He Resigns
his Commission, in Lodge, George Washington, vol. I, page 338; The
British at Mount Vernon, in Lodge, George Washington, vol. I, page 295;
The Young Surveyor, in Scudder, George Washington; Washington Offered
the Supreme Power, in Lodge, George Washington, vol. I, page 328;
Washington's Farewell to His Officers, in Lodge, George Washington, vol.
I, page 387.
RESURRECTION DAY (EASTER)
For grades 1-4.
Easter Eggs, von Schmid; The Boy Who Discovered the Spring, in Alden,
Why the Chimes Rang; Herr Oster Hase, in Bailey and Lewis, For
the Children's Hour; The Legend of Easter Eggs, O'Brien (poem), in
Story-Telling Poems; The Rabbit's Ransom, Vawter; The White Hare, in
Stevenson, Days and Deeds (prose).
For grades 5-8.
Easter, Gilder (poem); The General's Easter Box, in Our Holidays
Retold from St. Nicholas; The Trinity Flower, Ewing; What Easter is, in
Stevenson, Days and Deeds (prose).
MAY DAY
For grades 1-4.
A Story of the Springtime, in Kupfer, Legends of Greeee and Rome; How
the Water Lily Came, in Judd, Wigwam Stories; The Brook in the King's
Garden, in Alden, Why the Chimes Rang; The Legend of the Dandelion, in
Bailey and Lewis, For the Children's Hour; The Lilac Bush, in Riverside
Fourth Reader; The Maple Leaf and the Violet, in Wiggin and Smith, Story
Flour; The Story of the Anemone in Coe, First Book of Stories for the
Story-Teller; The Story of the First Butterflies, in Holbrook, Book of
Nature Myths; The Story of the First Snowdrops, in Holbrook, Book of
Nature Myths; The Story of the Rainbow, in Coe, First Book of Stories
for the Story-Teller; Two Little Seeds, in MacDonald, David Elginbrod,
chapter, “The Cave in the Straw;” Why the Morning-Glory Climbs, in
Bryant, How to Tell Stories to Children.
For grades 5-6.
Ladders to Heaven, Ewing; The Daisy, in Andersen, Wonder Stories; Five
out of One Shell, in Andersen, Stories and Tales; The Pomegranate Seeds,
in Hawthorne, Tanglewood Tales.
For grades 7-8.
The May-Pole at Merry Mount, in Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales; The Opening
of the Eyes of Jasper, in Dyer The Richer Life; The Prisoner and the
Flower, in Stevenson, Days and Deeds (prose).
MOTHERS' DAY
For grades 1-4.
Hans and the Wonderful Flower, in Bailey and Lewis For the Children's
Hour; The Closing Door, in Lindsay Mother Stories; The Laughter of a
Samurai, in Nixon-Roulet, Japanese Folk-Stories; The Fairy Who Came to
our House, in Bailey and Lewis, For the Children's Hour; The Little
Traveler, in Lindsay, Mother Stories; Thorwald and the Star-Children, in
Boyesen, Modern Vikings.
For grades 5-6.
Lincoln's Letter to a Mother, in Moores, Abraham Lincoln, page 105;
My Angel Mother, in Baldwin, Abraham Lincoln; Napoleon and the English
Sailor Boy, Campbell (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; The Song of the Old
Mother, Yeats (poem), in Riverside Eighth Reader; Valentine and Ursine
(poem), in Lanier, Boy's Perey.
For grades 7-8.
A Patriot Mother, in Tomlinson, War for Independence; Lincoln's Letter,
in Gross, Lincoln's Own Stories; President for One Hour, in St. Nicholas
Christmas Book; The Conqueror's Grave, Bryant (poem); The Gracci, in
Morris, Historical Tales (Roman); The Knight's Toast attributed to Scott
(poem), in Story-Telling Poems; Young Manhood, in Noah Brooks, Abraham
Lincoln.
MEMORIAL AND FLAG DAYS
For grades 3-6.
A Boy Who Won the Cross, in Hart and Stevens, Romance of the Civil War;
A Story of the Flag, in Our Holidays Retold from St. Nicholas; Betsy's
Battle Flag, Irving (poem), in Stevenson, Poems of American History;
Noteworthy Flag Incidents, in Smith, Our Nation's Flag; The Legs of
Duncan Ketcham, in Price, Lads and Lassies of Other Days; The Origin of
Memorial Day, in Stevenson, Days and Deeds (prose); The Planting of the
Colors, in Thomas, Captain Phil, page 227.
For grades 7-8.
Kearny at Seven Pines, Stedman (poem); Quivira, Guiterman (poem), in
Story-Telling Poems; Reading the List, in Sehauffler, Memorial Day;
Remember the Alamo, in Lodge and Roosevelt, Hero Tales, Reuben James,
Roche, (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; The Defense of the Alamo, Miller
(poem), in Stevenson, Poems of American History; The Fire Rekindled, in
Schauffler, Memorial Day; The Flag-Bearer, in Lodge and Roosevelt, Hero
Tales; The March of the First Brigade, in Riverside Eighth Reader.
INDEPENDENCE DAY
For grades S-6.
A Winter at Valley Forge, in Tappan, American Hero Stories; Cornwallis's
Buckles, in Revolutionary Stories Retold from St. Nicholas; Ethan Allen,
in Johonnot, Stories of Heroic Deeds; Fourth of July Among the Indians,
in Indian Stories Retold from St. Nicholas; How “Mad Anthony” Took Stony
Point, in Tappan, American Hero Stories; How the “Swamp Fox” Made the
British Miserable, in Tappan, American Hero Stories; John Paul Jones,
in Tappan, American Hero Stories; Laetitia and the Redcoats, in
Revolutionary Stories Retold from St. Nicholas; Molly Pitcher, in
Revolutionary Stories Retold from St. Nicholas; Paul Revere's Ride
Longfellow (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; Prescott and the Yankee Boy,
in Johonnot, Stories of Heroic Deeds; Rodney's Ride, Brooks (poem), in
Story-Telling Poems; The Boston Massacre, in Hawthorne, Grandfather's
Chair; The Bulb of the Crimson Tulip, in Revolutionary Stories Retold
from St Nicholas; The First Day of the Revolution, in Tappan; American
Hero Stories.
For grades 7-8.
A Woman's Heroism, in Tomlinson, War for Independence; Grandmother's
Story of Bunker-Hill Battle, Holmes (poem); How the Major Joined
Marion's Men, in Tomlinson, War for Independence; Molly Pitcher,
Sherwood (poem), in Stevenson, Poems of American History; Patrick Henry,
in Morris Historical Tales, American, Second Series; Song of Marion's
Men, Bryant (poem); That Bunker Hill Powder, in Revolutionary Stories
Retold from St. Nicholas; The Mantle of St. John de Matha, Whittier
(poem); The Tory's Farewell, in Hawthorne, Grandfather's Chair.
LABOR DAY
For grades 1-4.
Dust Under the Rug, in Lindsay, Mother Stories, Giant Energy and
Fairy Skill, in Lindsay, Mother Stories; How Flax was Given to Men, in
Holbrook, Book of Nature Myths; My Friend the Housekeeper, in Riverside
Fourth Reader,
Peasant Truth, in Riverside Third Reader; Prometheus, the Giver of Fire
in Coe, First Book of Stories for the Story-Teller; Six Soldiers of
Fortune, in Grimm, German Household Tales; The Country Maid and her
Milk-Pail, in Scudder, Book of Fables and Folk-Stories; The Flax, in
Andersen, Wonder Stories; The Hammer and the Anvil, in Ramaswami Raju,
Indian Fables; The Honest Woodman, in Poulsson, In the Child's World;
The Little Gray Pony, in Lindsay, Mother Stories; The Little House in
the Wood, in Grimm, German Household Tales; The Old Man Who Lived in
a Wood (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; The Pixy Flower, in Rhys,
Fairy-Gold; The Spandies, in Gilchrist, Helen and the Uninvited Guests,
page 15; The Three Trades, in Grimm, German Household Tales; The Toy
of the Giant's Child, von Chamisso (poem), in Story-Telling Poems;
Vegetable Lambs, in Curtis, Story of Cotton; Vulcan the Mighty Smith, in
Poulsson, In the Child's World.
For grades 5-6. A Handful of Clay, in Riverside Sixth Reader; How they
Built the Ship Argo in Iolcos, in Kingsley, Greek Heroes; Icarus and
DEedalus, in Peabody, Old Greek Folk-Stones; Master of All Masters, in
Jacobs, English Fairy Tales; The Dwarf's Gifts, in Brown, In the Days
of Giants; The Forging of Balmung, in Baldwin, Hero Tales; The
Giant Builder, in Brown, In the Days of Giants; The God of Fire, in
Francillon, Gods and Heroes; The Wicked Hornet, in Baldwin, The Sampo;
The Wish-Ring, in Fairy Stories Retold from St. Nicholas; The Wounds of
Labor, in d'Amicis, Heart (Cuore); Weland's Sword, in Kipling, Puck of
Pook's Hill.
For grades 74. Careers of Danger and Daring, Moffett; David Maydole,
Hammer-Maker, in Riverside Seventh Reader; Jack Farley's Flying Switch,
in Warman, Short Rails; Histories of Two Boys, in Riverside Seventh
Reader; History of Labor Day, in Stevenson, Days and Deeds (prose); The
Arms of Aeneas, in Church, Stories from Virgil; The Blacksmith Boy and
the Battle, in Marden, Winning Out; The Duke's Armorer, in Stories of
Chivalry Retold from St. Nicholas; The Scullion Boy's Opportunity, in
Marden, Winning Out; The Vision of Anton the Clockmaker, in Dyer, The
Richer Life, Tubal Cain, Mackay (poem), in Story-Telling Poems.
COLUMBUS DAY
For grades 4-8.
Columbus, Miller (poem), in Riverside Seventh Reader; Columbus at the
Convent, Trowbridge (poem), in Stevenson, Poems of American History;
Guanahani, in Maores, Christopher Columbus; How Diego Mendez Got Food
for Columbus in Higginson, American Explorers; How Diego Mendez Saved
Columbus, in Higginson, American Explorers; In Search of the Grand
Khan, in Moores, Christopher Columbus; The Garden of Eden, in Moores,
Christopher Columbus.
HALLOWEEN
For grades 1-4.
The Smith and the Fairies, in Grierson, Children's Book of Celtic
Stories; The Witch, in Lang, Yellow Fairy Book; The Witch That was a
Hare, in Rhys, English Fairy Book; Tom-Tit Tot (Rumpelstiltskin), in
Jacobs, English Fairy Tales.
For grades 5-6.
Mr. Fox, in Jacobs, English Fairy Tales; The Godfather, in Grimm, German
Household Tales; The Golden Arm, in Jacobs, Enylish Fairy Tales; The
Robber Bridegroom, in Grimm, German Household Tales; The Story of a Cat,
Bedoliere; The Youth Who Could not Shiver or Shake, in Grimm, German
Household Tales.
For grades 7-8.
Alice Brand, in Scott, Lady of the Lake (poem); All-Hallow-Eve Myths,
in Our Holidays Retold from St. Nicholas; Black Andie's Tale of
Tod Lapraik, in Stevenson, David Balfour; History of Hallowe'en, in
Stevenson, Days and Deeds (prose); Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Rip
Van Winkle Irving; Macbeth, Shakespeare; The Bottle Imp, in Stevenson,
Island Nights' Entertainments; The Devil and Tom Walker, Irving; The
Fire-King, Scott (poem); The Speaking Rat, in Dickens, Uncommercial
Traveller, chapter 15.
THANKSGIVING DAY
For grades 1-4
A Thanksgiving Dinner, in White, When Molly was Six; The Chestnut Boys,
in Poulsson, In the Child's World; The First Thanksgiving Day, in
Wiggin and Smith, Story Hour; The Marriage of Mondahmin, in Judd, Wigwam
Stories; The Turkey's Nest, in Lindsay, More Mother Stories; The Visit,
in Lindsay, More Mother Stories; Turkeys Turning the Tables, in Howells,
Christmas Every Day.
For grades 5-6.
A Dinner That Ran Away, in Miller, Kristy's Surprise Party; A Mystery
in the Kitchen, in Miller, Kristy's Surprise Party; Ann Mary, Her Two
Thanksgivings, in Wilkins, Young Lueretia; An Old-Time Thanksgiving, in
Indian Stories Retold from St. Nicholas; The Coming of Thanksgiving, and
The Season of Pumpkin Pies, in Warner, Being a Boy; The Magic Apples,
in Brown, In the Days of Giants; St. Francis's Sermon to the Birds,
Longfellow (poem), in Story-Telling Poems.
For grades 7-8.
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Alcott; The First Thanksgiving Day,
Preston (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; The Night Before Thanksgiving,
in Jewett, The Queen's Twin; The Peace Message (poem), in Stevenson,
Poems of American History; The Turkey Drive, in Sharp, Winter.
CHRISTMAS DAY
For grades 1-4.
A Christmas Tree Reversed, in Brown, Little Miss Phoebe Gay; Babouseka,
Thomas (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; Christmas Every Day, Howells;
Fulfilled, in Bryant, How to Tell Stories to Children; His Christmas
Turkey, in Vawter, The Rabbi's Ransom; In the Great Walled Country, in
Alden, Why the Chimes Rang; Little Girl's Christmas, in Dickinson and
Skinner, Children's Book of Christmas Stories; Santa Claus and the
Mouse, Poulsson (poem), in St. Nicholas Christmas Book; The Christmas
Cake, in Lindsay, More Mother Stories; The Christmas Tree, in Austin,
Basket Woman; The First New England Christmas, in Stone and Fickett,
Every-Day Life in the Colonies; The Golden Cobwebs, in Bryant, How
to Tell Stories to Children; The Moon of Yule, in Davis, The Moons of
Balbanea; The Rileys' Christmas, in White, When Molly was Six; The Story
of Gretchen in Lindsay, Mother Stories; The Three Kings of Cologne,
Field (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; The Turkey Doll, Gates; The
Voyage of the Wee Red Cap, in Dickinson and Skinner, Children's Book
of Christmas Stories; Toinette and the Elves, in Dickinson and Skinner,
Children's Book of Christmas Stones; 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,
Moore (poem); Why the Chimes Rang, Alden.
For grades 5-6.