COLUMBUS AND THE EGG: James Baldwin, Thirty More Famous Stories Retold COLUMBUS AT LA RABIDA: Washington Irving, Life of Christopher Columbus THE MUTINY: A. de Lamartine, Life of Columbus THE FIRST LANDING OF COLUMBUS IN THE NEW WORLD: Washington Irving, Life of Christopher Columbus HALLOWEEN (October 31) THE OLD WITCH: The Brothers Grimm, German Household Tales SHIPPEITARO: Mary F. Nixon-Roulet, Japanese Folk Stories and Fairy Tales HANSEL AND GRETHEL: The Brothers Grimm, German Household Tales BURG HILL'S ON FIRE: Elizabeth W. Grierson, Children's Book of Celtic Stories THE KING OF THE CATS: Ernest Rhys, Fairy-Gold THE STRANGE VISITOR: Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales THE BENEVOLENT GOBLIN: Gesta Romanorum THE PHANTOM KNIGHT OF THE VANDAL CAMP: Gesta Romanorum THANKSGIVING DAY (Last Thursday in November) THE FIRST HARVEST-HOME IN PLYMOUTH: W. De Loss Lore, Jr., The Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England THE MASTER OF THE HARVEST: Mrs. Alfred Gatty, Parables from Nature SAINT CUTHBERT'S EAGLE: The Venerable Bede, Life and Miracles of Saint Cuthbert THE EARS OF WHEAT: The Brothers Grimm, German Household Tales HOW INDIAN CORN CAME INTO THE WORLD: Henry R. Schoolcraft, The Myth of Hiawatha THE NUTCRACKER DWARF: Count Franz Pocci, Fur Frohliche Kinder THE PUMPKIN PIRATES, A TALE FROM LUCIAN: Alfred J. Church, The Greek Gulliver THE SPIRIT OF THE CORN: Harriet Mazwell Converse, Myths and Legends of the New York State Iroquois THE HORN OF PLENTY: Ovid, Metamorphoses CHRISTMAS DAY (December 25) LITTLE PICCOLA: Celia Thazter, Stories and Poems for Children THE STRANGER CHILD, A LEGEND: Count Franz Pocci, Fur Frohliche Kinder SAINT CHRISTOPHER: William Caxton, Golden Legend THE CHRISTMAS ROSE, AN OLD LEGEND: Lizzie Deas, Flower Favourites THE WOODEN SHOES OF LITTLE WOLFF: Francois Coppee THE PINE TREE: Hans Christian Andersen, Wonder Stories THE CHRISTMAS CUCKOO: Frances Browne, Granny's Wonderful Chair THE CHRISTMAS FAIRY OF STRASBURG, A GERMAN FOLK-TALE: J. Stirling Coyne, Illustrated London News THE THREE PURSES, A LEGEND: William S. Walsh, Story of Santa Klaus THE THUNDER OAK, A SCANDINAVIAN LEGEND: William S. Walsh and Others THE CHRISTMAS THORN OF GLASTONBURY, A LEGEND OF ANCIENT BRITAIN: William of Malmesbury and Others THE THREE KINGS OF COLOGNE, A LEGEND OF THE MIDDLE AGES: John of Hildesheim, Modernized by H. S. Morris ARBOR DAY THE LITTLE TREE THAT LONGED FOR OTHER LEAVES: Friedrieh Ruckert WHY THE EVERGREEN TREES NEVER LOSE THEIR LEAVES: Florence Holbrook, Book of Nature Myths WHY THE ASPEN QUIVERS: Old legend THE WONDER TREE: Friedrich Adolph Krummacher, Parables THE PROUD OAK TREE: Old Fable BAUCIS AND PHILEMON: H. P. Maskell, Francis Storr, Half-a-Hundred Hero Tales THE UNFRUITFUL TREE: Friedrich Adolph Krummacher, Parables THE DRYAD OF THE OLD OAK: James Russell Lowell, Rhoecus (a poem) DAPHNE: OVID, Metamorphoses BIRD DAY