Seven O’Clock Stories
“Ninth Night: Another True Fairy Story”
by Robert Gordon Anderson
The three children ask Mother to show them another story. She shows them the Orioles as they return from the south in mid-May to build their nest.
The three children ask Mother to show them another story. She shows them the Orioles as they return from the south in mid-May to build their nest.
Whitefoot becomes sad and uninterested in the things he once loved, but he can’t figure out why.
Mr. Peck passes away.
Mein Herr finishes his song to thanks and compliments of the crowd. Sylvie and Bruno disappear.
Jorindel must rescue his bride to be from the spell of a fairy.
"Tek a cool night, good an’ cleah,"
Barton Park is a very open and elegant home, and Sir John and his wife are never without a good many guests. Mrs. Jennings and Colonel Brandon are introduced and described.
A man dies and requests that the monks feed the birds every day at noontime.
A brief encounter causes a lifetime of remorseful reflection on what might have been.
The travels of a tattered and worn songbook
"When you and I were young, the days"
A final note from Baldwin regarding how he constructed his Story of Siegfried.
The author gives the reader some insight to into the purpose of his book.
Bruno and the narrator discuss the fairy king’s dinner party.
Whitefoot discovers a drumming sound and figures out that he had been so depressed because he was lonely. He eagerly awaits the presence of the other wood mouse.
HAIL, happy day, when, smiling like the morn,
A part of a collection of short stories about three children in the revolutionary times. Marmaduke gets tonsilitis and has to stay in bed. One night he meets a fairy who sings to him and takes him around the world.
A young man and maiden were to be married. However, every night the young man bathed in the small pools in the forest and the Yara sang to him, trying to lure him from his betrothed.
The Nome King begins work on his tunnel while General Guph visits the Whimsies. The Chief Whimsie agrees to help the Nomes conquer the Emerald City.
A traditional poem/song about Christmas.
The speaker describes the state of Florida, a land of beauty, hard work, and promise. It seems a place where the future begins.
An innocent squirrel accused of stealing nuts is forced down a hole in a tree, where he meets a friendly chipmunk.
A poem about the ringing of the bells in a Flemish belfry
Brownie asks Uncle Jerry Beaver about a sign. Jerry makes a mistake as to the meaning of the sign’s phrase. Tommy Fox sets him straight.