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Siegfried, the King's SonThe Song of the Pine TreeA Christmas StoryThe Myth of ArachneThe Birds of KillingworthThe Myth of PanThe Bell of AtriThe Anxious LeafComing and GoingHow the Dimples CameThe Proud Little Apple BlossomThe Brave KnightKing Robert of SicilyThe Great Stone FaceThe First Christmas TreeThe Story of AbrahamThe Story of MosesThe Story of DavidThe Story of JosephThe Courtesy of the Spartan BoyTwenty-third Psalm.Compiled by Elizabeth Heber.

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ou know. The man had a kind face and he handled Pine Tree very carefully. He sawed and smoothed Pine Tree many days, and as he worked he whistled and sang, for he was happy. Sometimes he would whistle some of the songs that Pine Tree had heard when he lived in the forest, and then sometimes those he had heard on the ocean, and again he would whistle the songs that Pine Tree had heard in the home of the children.

At last the man's work was finished. Pine Tree had been made into a wonderful musical instrument--a violin. The man took a bow and drew it across the strings, and as he did so he smiled and nodded his head, for the music was very sweet. The violin, which had once been Pine Tree, and then part of a ship, and the ridge-pole of the cottage and the barn, seemed to sing to the man the songs of the forest, the songs of the ocean, the songs of the home, and the songs of the lowly barn.

One day the man put the violin in a case and took it away on a long journey. When the case was opened, the vio

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