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                   THE
             PEARL STORY BOOK

         _Stories and Legends of
  Winter, Christmas, and New Year's Day_


               COMPILED BY

              ADA M. SKINNER
                   AND
            ELEANOR L. SKINNER

  _Editors of "The Emerald Story Book,"
  "The Topaz Story Book," "The Turquoise
  Story Book," "Children's Plays," Etc._


               [Decoration]


                 NEW YORK
            DUFFIELD & COMPANY
                   1919


            Copyright 1910 by
            DUFFIELD & COMPANY


  [Illustration: {Three shepherds look up at the sky, amazed}
      _Drawn by Maxfield Parrish_]




ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


The editors' thanks are due to the following authors and publishers
for the use of valuable material in this book:

To T. C. and E. C. Jack of Edinburgh for permission to use "Holly" and
the legend of the "Yew" from "Shown to the Children Series"; to
Frederick A. Stokes Company for "The Voice of the Pine Trees," from
"Myths and Legends of Japan"; to the Wessels Company for "The First
Winter" by W. W. Canfield; to Julia Dodge for permission to use two
poems by Mary Mapes Dodge; to the Christian Herald for a poem by
Margaret E. Sangster, Jr.; to Lothrop, Lee and Shepherd for "The Pine
and the Flax" by Albrekt Segerstedt; to the Outlook Company for a
story by Mine Morishima; to the Independent for the poem "Who Loves
the Trees Best?"; to Laura E. Richards for her story "Christmas
Gifts"; to George Putnam and Sons for "Silver Bells" by Hamish Hendry,
and "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde; to the Churchman for a story
by John P. Peters; to Dodd, Mead and Company for the story "Holly"
from the "Story Hour"; and "Prince Winter" from "The Four Seasons" by
Carl Ewald; to George Jacobs for "A Legend of St. Nicholas" from "In
God's Garden" by Amy Steedman; to A. Flanagan Company for "The New
Year's Bell" from "Christ-Child Tales" by Andrea Hofer Proudfoot; to
Jay T. Stocking and the Pilgrims Press for "The Snowball That Didn't
Melt" from "The Golden Goblet"; to the New York State Museum for
permission to use two stories contained in Bulletin 125, by Mrs. H. M.
Converse; to Small, Maynard and Company for "A Song of the Snow," from
"Complete Works of Madison Cawein."

The selections from James Russell Lowell, Edna Dean Proctor, Celia
Thaxter, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith M. Thomas, Margaret Deland, John
Townsend Trowbridge, and Frank Dempster Sherman are used by permission
of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton, Mifflin Company,
authorized publishers of their works.




CONTENTS


    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