This volume was published in 1917.
From the book\'s Introduction:
Nature stories, legends, and poems appeal to the young reader\'s interest in various ways. Some of them suggest or reveal certain facts which stimulate a spirit of investigation and attract the child\'s attention to the beauty and mystery of the world. Others serve an excellent purpose by quickening his sense of
humour.
Seedtime and harvest have always been seasons of absorbing interest and have furnished the story- teller with rieh : themes. The seletions in \"The Emerald Stoiy Book\" emphasize the hope and premise of the spring; the stories, legends, and poems in this volume, \"The Topaz \'Story Book,\" express the joy and
blessing which attend the harvest-time when the fields are rich in golden grain and the orchard boughs bend low with mellow fruit.
\"The year\'s work is done. She walks in gorgeous apparel, looking upon her long labour and her serene eye saith, \'It is good.\'
Chapters:
AUTUMN STORIES AND LEGENDS:
- Nipon and the King of the Northland (Algonquin Legend)
- Prince Autumn (Translated from the Danish)
- The Scarf of the Lady (adapted) (Translated from the French)
- The Sickle Moon (Tyrolean Harvest Legend)
- Winter\'s Herald
- Jack Frost (poem)
- The Pumpkin Giant
- Lady White and Lady Yellow (Japanese Legend)
- The Story of the Opal
- The King\'s Candles (German legend)
- A Legend of the Golden-Rod
- Golden-Rod and Purple Aster (adapted)
- Pimpernel, the Shepherd\'s Clock (poem)
- A Legend of the Gentian (Hungarian)
- Queen Aster
- The Weeds
- Autumn Fires (poem) Robert Louis Stevenson
AMONG THE TREES:
- To An Autumn Leaf (poem)
- Why the Autumn Leaves Are Red (Indian legend)
- The Anxious Leaf
- How the Chestnut Burrs Became
- The Merry Wind (poem)
- Autumn Among the Birds
- The Kind Old Oak
- The Tree (poem)
- Coming and Going
- A Legend of the Willow Tree (Japanese)
- Autumn Fashions (poem)
- Pomona\'s Best Gift (Old English Song)
- Pomona (Greek myth)
- In the Orchard (poem)
- Johnny Appleseed
- Red Apple (poem)
- The Three Golden Apples
- October: Orchard of the Year
WOODLAND ANIMALS:
- The Pretending Woodchuck
- Mrs. Bunny\'s Dinner Party
- The Nutcrackers of Nutcracker Lodge (adapted)
- Bushy\'s Bravery
- Nut Gatherers (poem)
HARVEST FIELDS:
- When the Frost is\' on the Pumpkin
- Origin of Indian Corn (Indian legend)
- Song of Hiawatha
- O-na-tah, the Spirit of the Corn Fields
- The Discontented Pumpkin
- Bob White (poem )
- The Little Pumpkin
- Autumn (poem)
CHEERFUL CHIRPERS:
- The News (poem)
- How There Came To Be a Katy-did
- ld Dame Cricket (poem)
- Miss Katy-did and Miss Cricket ( adapted )
- The Cricket (poem)
ALL HALLOWE\'EN:
- Shadow March (poem)
- Twinkling Feet\'s Hallowe\'en (adapted from a Cornwall legend)
- Jack-o\'-Lantern (poem)
- The Elfin Knight (old ballad retold)
- The Courteous Prince (Scotch legend)
- Jack-o\'-Lantern Song
A HARVEST OF THANKSGIVING STORIES:
- The Queer Little Baker Man
- A Turkey for the Stuffing
- Pumpkin Pie (poem)
- Mrs. November\'s Party
- The Debut of Dan\'l Webster
- The Green Corn Dance
- Thanksgiving (poem)
- The Two Alms, or The Thanksgiving Day Gift (Translated and adapted from the French)
- Thanksgiving Psalm Bible
- The Crown of the Year (poem)
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