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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.