How Opal Goes along the Road beyond the Singing Creek, and of all she Sees in her New Home 5

How Lars Porsena of Clusium Got Opal into Trouble, and how Michael Angelo Sanzio Raphael and Sadie McKibben Gave her Great Comfort 9

Of the Queer Feels that Came out of a Bottle of Castoria, and of the Happiness of Larry and Jean 14

How Peter Paul Rubens Goes to School 21

How Opal Comforted Aphrodite, and how the Fairies Comforted Opal when there Was Much Sadness at School 25

Opal Gives Wisdom to the Potatoes, Cleanliness to the Family Clothes, and a Delicate Dinner to Thomas Chatterton Jupiter Zeus 35

The Adventure of the Tramper; and what Happens on Long and on Short Days 47

How Opal Takes a Walk in the Forest of Chantilly; she Visits Elsie and her Baby Boy, and Explains Many Things to the Girl that Has no Seeing 55

How Brave Horatius is Lost and Found again, but Peter Paul Rubens is Lost Forever 75

How Opal Took the Miller’s Brand out of the Flour-Sack, and Got Many Sore Feels thereby; and how Sparks Come on Cold Nights; and how William Shakespeare Has Likings for Poems 81

Of Elsie’s Brand-New Baby, and all the Things that Go with it; and the Goodly Wisdom of the Angels, who Bring Folks Babies that Are like them 91

How Felix Mendelssohn and Lucian Horace Ovid Virgil Go for a Ride; William Shakespeare Suffers One Whipping and Opal Another 100

How Opal Feels Satisfaction Feels, and Takes a Ride on William Shakespeare; and all that Came of it 104

Of Jenny Strong’s Visit, its Gladness and its Sadness 114

Of the Woods on a Lonesome Day, and the Friendliness of the Wood-Folks on December Days when you Put your Ears Close and Listen 122

Of Works to be Done; and how it Was that a Glad Light Came into the Eyes of the Man who Wears Gray Neckties and Is Kind to Mice 127

Of the Camp by the Mill by the Far Woods; of the Spanking that Came from the New Way of Mending Clothes; and of the Long Sleep of William Shakespeare 138

Of the Little Song-Notes that Dance about Babies; and of the Solemn Christening of Solomon Grundy 146

How Opal Names Names of the Lambs of Aidan of Iona, and Seeks for the Soul of Peter Paul Rubens 158

How Solomon Grundy Falls Sick and Grows Well again; and Minerva’s Chickens are Christened; and the PensÉe Girl, with the Far-Away Look in her Eyes, Finds Thirty-and-Three Bunches of Flowers 165

How Opal and Brave Horatius Go on Explores and Visit the Hospital.—How the Mamma Dyes Clothes and Opal Dyes Clementine 177

How the Mamma’s Wish Came True, and how Opal was Spanked for it; and of the Likes which Aphrodite Had for a Clean Place to Live in 185

Of Many Washings and a Walk 193

Of a Cathedral Service in the Pig-Pen.—How the World Looks from a Man’s Shoulder 204

How Opal Piped with Reeds, and what a Good Time Dear Love Gave Thomas Chatterton Jupiter Zeus 212

How Opal Feels the Heat of the Sun, and Decorates a Goodly Number of the White Poker-Chips of the Chore Boy 218

How Opal and the Little Birds from the Great Tree Have a Happy Time at the House of Dear Love 226

How Lola Wears her White Silk Dress at Last 231

Of the Ways that Fairies Write, and the Proper Way to Drink in the Song of the Wood 234

Of the Death of Lars Porsena of Clusium, and of the Comfort that Sadie McKibben can Give 242

Of the Fall of the Great Tree, and the Funeral of Aristotle 249

How the Man of the Long Step that Whistles Most of the Time Takes an Interesting Walk 253

Of the Strange Adventure in the Woods on the Going-Away Day of SaintLouis 270

How Opal Makes Prepares to Move. How she Collects all the Necessary Things, Bids Good-bye to Dear Love, and Learns that her Prayer has been Answered 275