Good Stories for Great Holidays. Frances Jenkins Olcott

THE COLONEL OF THE ZOUAVES

       BY NOAH BROOKS (ADAPTED)

       GENERAL SCOTT AND THE STARS AND STRIPES

       BY E. D. TOWNSEND (ADAPTED)

       INDEPENDENCE DAY

       (JULY 4)

       THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

       BY WASHINGTON IRVING

       THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

       BY H. A. GUERBER 4

       THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY

       BY JOHN ANDREWS (ADAPTED) 5

       A GUNPOWDER STORY

       BY JOHN ESTEN COOKE (ADAPTED)

       THE CAPTURE OF FORT TICONDEROGA

       BY WASHINGTON IRVING (ADAPTED)

       WASHINGTON AND THE COWARDS

       BY WASHINGTON IRVING (ADAPTED)

       LABOR DAY

       (FIRST MONDAY IN SEPTEMBER)

       THE SMITHY

       A HINDU FABLE

       THE NAIL

       BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM (TRANSLATED) 7

       THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER

       BY HORACE E. SCUDDER

       THE HILLMAN AND THE HOUSEWIFE

       BY JULIANA HORATIA EWING (ADAPTED)

       HOFUS THE STONE-CUTTER

       A JAPANESE LEGEND

       ARACHNE

       BY JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY

       THE METAL KING

       A GERMAN FOLE-TALE

       THE CHOICE OF HERCULES

       BY XENOPHON (ADAPTED)

       THE SPEAKING STATUE

       FROM GESTA ROMANORUM (ADAPTED)

       THE CHAMPION STONE-CUTTER

       BY HUGH MILLER

       BILL BROWN'S TEST

       BY CLEVELAND MOFFETT

       COLUMBUS DAY

       (OCTOBER 12)

       COLUMBUS AND THE EGG

       BY JAMES BALDWIN (ADAPTED) 8

       COLUMBUS AT LA RABIDA

       BY WASHINGTON IRVING (ADAPTED)

       THE MUTINY

       BY A. DE LAMARTINE (ADAPTED)

       THE FIRST LANDING OF COLUMBUS IN THE NEW WORLD

       BY WASHINGTON IRVING (ADAPTED)

       HALLOWEEN

       (OCTOBER 31)

       SHIPPEITARO

       A JAPANESE FOLK-TALE

       HANSEL AND GRETHEL

       BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM (ADAPTED)

       BURG HILL'S ON FIRE