PREFACE I
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHARACTERS IN THE NARRATIVE
INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
CHAPTER I How Opal Goes along the Road beyond the Singing Creek, and of all she Sees in her New Home.
CHAPTER II How Lars Porsena of Clusium Got Opal into Trouble,
CHAPTER III Of the Queer Feels that Came out of a Bottle of
CHAPTER IV How Peter Paul Rubens Goes to School.
CHAPTER V How Opal Comforted Aphrodite, and how the Fairies
CHAPTER VI Opal Gives Wisdom to the Potatoes, Cleanliness to
CHAPTER VII The Adventure of the Tramper; and what Happens on Long and on Short Days.
CHAPTER VIII How Opal Takes a Walk in the Forest of Chantilly;
CHAPTER IX Of an Exploring Trip with Brave Horatius; and how
CHAPTER X How Brave Horatius is Lost and Found again, but Peter Paul Rubens is Lost Forever.
CHAPTER XI How Opal Took the Miller's Brand out of the
CHAPTER XII Of Elsie's Brand-New Baby, and all the Things that
CHAPTER XIII How Felix Mendelssohn and Lucian Horace Ovid
CHAPTER XIV How Opal Feels Satisfaction Feels, and Takes a Ride
CHAPTER XV Of Jenny Strong's Visit, its Gladness and its Sadness.
CHAPTER XVI Of the Woods on a Lonesome Day, and the
CHAPTER XVII Of Works to be Done; and how it Was that a Glad
CHAPTER XVIII How Opal Pays One Visit to Elsie and Another to
CHAPTER XIX Of the Camp by the Mill by the Far Woods; of the
CHAPTER XX Of the Little Song-Notes that Dance about Babies;
CHAPTER XXI How Opal Names Names of the Lambs of Aidan of Iona,
CHAPTER XXII How Solomon Grundy Falls Sick and Grows Well
CHAPTER XXIII How Opal and Brave Horatius Go on Explores and
CHAPTER XXIV How the Mamma's Wish Came True, and how Opal was
CHAPTER XXV Of Many Washings and a Walk.
CHAPTER XXVI Why it Was that the Girl who Has no Seeing Was not at Home when Opal Called.
CHAPTER XXVII Of a Cathedral Service in the Pig-Pen. How the World Looks from a Man's Shoulder.
CHAPTER XXVIII How Opal Piped with Reeds, and what a Good Time
CHAPTER XXIX How Opal Feels the Heat of the Sun, and Decorates
CHAPTER XXX How Opal and the Little Birds from the Great Tree
CHAPTER XXXI How Lola Wears her White Silk Dress at Last.
CHAPTER XXXII Of the Ways that Fairies Write, and the Proper Way to Drink in the Song of the Wood.
CHAPTER XXXIII Of the Death of Lars Porsena of Clusium, and of the Comfort that Sadie McKibben can Give.
CHAPTER XXXIV Of the Fall of the Great Tree, and the Funeral of Aristotle.
CHAPTER XXXV How the Man of the Long Step that Whistles Most of the Time Takes an Interesting Walk.
CHAPTER XXXVI Of Taking-Egg Day, and the Remarkable Things that Befell thereon.
CHAPTER XXXVII Of the Strange Adventure in the Woods on the Going-Away Day of Saint Louis.
CHAPTER XXXVIII How Opal Makes Prepares to Move. How she
POSTSCRIPT
The Story of Opal The Journal of An Understanding Heart
Photograph by Bachrach OPAL WHITELEY RECONSTRUCTING HER DIARY
By Opal Whiteley
With Illustrations
The Atlantic Monthly Press Boston
Copyright, 1920, by The Atlantic Monthly Company Copyright, 1920, by the Atlantic Monthly Press All rights reserved
