CONTENTS
Ada M. Skinner
INTRODUCTION
WINTER STORIES AND LEGENDS
PAGE
Winter (selection)
James Russell Lowell
2
The Ice King (Indian legend)
Eleanor L. Skinner
3
A Song of the Snow (poem)
Madison Cawein
9
King Frost and King Winter (adapted)
Margaret T. Canby
11
The Snowstorm (poem)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
18
The First Winter (Iroquois legend)
W. W. Canfield
20
Snow Song (poem)
Frank Dempster Sherman
24
The Snow Maiden (Russian legend. Translated from the French)
Eleanor L. Skinner
25
The Frost King (poem)
Mary Mapes Dodge
30
King Winter’s Harvest
Selected
32
Old King Winter (poem)
Anna E. Skinner
36
Sheltering Wings
Harriet Louise Jerome
37
Snowflakes (selection)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
41
The Snow-Image
Nathaniel Hawthorne
42
WINTER WOODS
The First Snow-Fall
James Russell Lowell
62
The Voice of the Pine Trees (Japanese legend)
Frank Hadland Davis
63
The Pine Tree Maiden (Indian legend)
Ada M. Skinner
68
The Holly
Janet Harvey Kelman
73
The Fable of the Three Elms (poem)
Margaret E. Sangster, Jr.
79
The Pine and the Willow
Mine Morishima
82
Why the Wild Rabbits Are White in Winter (Algonquin legend retold)
Eleanor L. Skinner
86
The Yew
Janet Harvey Kelman
93
How the Pine Tree Did Some Good
Samuel W. Duffield
95
A Wonderful Weaver (poem)
George Cooper
105
The Pine and the Flax
Albrekt Segerstedt
107
The Fir Tree (poem)
Edith M. Thomas
110
Why Bruin Has a Stumpy Tail (Norwegian legend)
Eleanor L. Skinner
111
Pines and Firs
Mrs. Dyson
116
Who Loves the Trees Best? (poem)
Selected
131
CHRISTMAS EVERYWHERE
A Christmas Song
Phillips Brooks
134
The Shepherd Maiden’s Gift (Eastern legend)
Eleanor L. Skinner
135
Christmas Gifts
Laura E. Richards
141
Silver Bells (poem)
Hamish Hendry
146
The Animals’ Christmas Tree
John P. Peters
147
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