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Opal Stanley Whiteley. The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart
The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart
Table of Contents
PREFACE
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IV
CHARACTERS IN THE NARRATIVE
INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
CHAPTER I. How Opal Goes along the Road beyond the Singing Creek, and of all she Sees in her New Home
CHAPTER II. How Lars Porsena of Clusium Got Opal into Trouble, and how Michael Angelo Sanzio Raphael and Sadie McKibben Gave her Great Comfort
CHAPTER III. Of the Queer Feels that Came out of a Bottle of Castoria, and of the Happiness of Larry and Jean
CHAPTER IV. How Peter Paul Rubens Goes to School
CHAPTER V. How Opal Comforted Aphrodite, and how the Fairies Comforted Opal when there Was Much Sadness at School
CHAPTER VI. Opal Gives Wisdom to the Potatoes, Cleanliness to the Family Clothes, and a Delicate Dinner to Thomas Chatterton Jupiter Zeus
CHAPTER VII. The Adventure of the Tramper; and what Happens on Long and on Short Days
CHAPTER VIII. How Opal Takes a Walk in the Forest of Chantilly; she Visits Elsie and her Baby Boy, and Explains Many Things to the Girl that Has no Seeing
CHAPTER IX. Of an Exploring Trip with Brave Horatius; and how Opal Kept Sadness away from her Animal Friends
CHAPTER X. How Brave Horatius is Lost and Found again, but Peter Paul Rubens is Lost Forever
CHAPTER XI. How Opal Took the Miller’s Brand out of the Flour-Sack, and Got Many Sore Feels thereby; and how Sparks Come on Cold Nights; and how William Shakespeare Has Likings for Poems
CHAPTER XII. Of Elsie’s Brand-New Baby, and all the Things that Go with it; and the Goodly Wisdom of the Angels who Bring Folks Babies that Are like them
CHAPTER XIII. How Felix Mendelssohn and Lucian Horace Ovid Virgil Go for a Ride; William Shakespeare Suffers One Whipping and Opal Another
CHAPTER XIV. How Opal Feels Satisfaction Feels, and Takes a Ride on William Shakespeare; and all that Came of it
CHAPTER XV. Of Jenny Strong’s Visit, its Gladness and its Sadness
CHAPTER XVI. Of the Woods on a Lonesome Day, and the Friendliness of the Wood-Folks on December Days when you Put your Ears Close and Listen
CHAPTER XVII. Of Works to be Done; and how it Was that a Glad Light Came into the Eyes of the Man who Wears Gray Neckties and Is Kind to Mice
CHAPTER XVIII. How Opal Pays One Visit to Elsie and Another to Dear Love, and Learns how to Mend her Clothes in a Quick Way
CHAPTER XIX. Of the Camp by the Mill by the Far Woods; of the Spanking that Came from the New Way of Mending Clothes; and of the Long Sleep of William Shakespeare
CHAPTER XX. Of the Little Song-Notes that Dance about Babies; and of the Solemn Christening of Solomon Grundy
CHAPTER XXI. How Opal Names Names of the Lambs of Aidan of Iona, and Seeks for the Soul of Peter Paul Rubens
CHAPTER XXII. How Solomon Grundy Falls Sick and Grows Well again; and Minerva’s Chickens are Christened; and the Pensée Girl, with the Far-Away Look in her Eyes, Finds Thirty-and-Three Bunches of Flowers
CHAPTER XXIII. How Opal and Brave Horatius Go on Explores and Visit the Hospital.—How the Mamma Dyes Clothes and Opal Dyes Clementine
CHAPTER XXIV. How the Mamma’s Wish Came True, and how Opal was Spanked for it; and of the Likes which Aphrodite Had for a Clean Place to Live in
CHAPTER XXV. Of Many Washings and a Walk
CHAPTER XXVI. Why it Was that the Girl who Has no Seeing Was not at Home when Opal Called
CHAPTER XXVII. Of a Cathedral Service in the Pig-Pen.—How the World Looks from a Man’s Shoulder
CHAPTER XXVIII. How Opal Piped with Reeds, and what a Good Time Dear Love Gave Thomas Chatterton Jupiter Zeus
CHAPTER XXIX. How Opal Feels the Heat of the Sun, and Decorates a Goodly Number of the White Poker-Chips of the Chore Boy
CHAPTER XXX. How Opal and the Little Birds from the Great Tree Have a Happy Time at the House of Dear Love
CHAPTER XXXI. How Lola Wears her White Silk Dress at Last
CHAPTER XXXII. Of the Ways that Fairies Write, and the Proper Way to Drink in the Song of the Wood
CHAPTER XXXIII. Of the Death of Lars Porsena of Clusium, and of the Comfort that Sadie McKibben can Give
CHAPTER XXXIV. Of the Fall of the Great Tree, and the Funeral of Aristotle
CHAPTER XXXV. How the Man of the Long Step that Whistles Most of the Time Takes an Interesting Walk
CHAPTER XXXVI. Of Taking-Egg Day, and the Remarkable Things that Befell thereon
CHAPTER XXXVII. Of the Strange Adventure in the Woods on the Going-Away Day of Saint Louis
CHAPTER XXXVIII. How Opal Makes Prepares to Move. How she Collects All the Necessary Things, Bids Good-bye to Dear Love, and Learns that her Prayer has been Answered
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