We saw each other at least once a month, until our parents died. Kate went off to college and I dropped out. The stone had changed from sharing secret dreams to open communication between us.Įventually, we gained new obligations, leaving little time for the wishing stone. It made me feel good to secretly fulfill her modest desires. My wishes became more trivial and I had less and less time to share with her so I concentrated on making her wishes come true. Slowly, as I grew older, my interest began to wane. Once a week, it gave each of us an opportunity to vent our frustrations and express our desire to make things right with the world. We wished for things large and small, all with equal desire they would come true. Kate was its guardian, swearing to use it only for good and only when the two of us were together. We would take turns holding it, vowing on our very lives to only speak the truth while it was in our possession, talking for hours before making our wish. As we grew older it became the conduit between us. It didn't happen every time, but it did more often than not so it became our wishing stone. The following week, she wished for a new notebook for school and the next day it appeared in her room. She wished for the folks to stop and get us an ice cream for the ride home and they did. She would close her eyes and stroke it three times before making a wish. No more than four or five inches long and a dull tan with black freckles it looked more like a potato than anything else. We found it on a camping trip to Deep Creek as kids. City Nights/Knights Submission GuidelinesĪ river stone smoothed with time and endless amounts of water, it was really nothing more than a regular rock.Racine: Whitman Publishing Co., c.1927, 1929. The Dear Old Briar-Patch a book of nature stories.The Crooked Little Path, a book of nature stories.The Burgess Seashore Book for Children.The Burgess Book of Nature Lore Adventures of Tommy, Sue, Sammy with their friends of meadow, pool and forest.Peter Rabbit, (3) Bowser the Hound, (4) Old Granny Fox. The Burgess Big Book of Green Meadow Stories.Burgess and others, with an essay by Tom Masson and pictures by F.
#THE WISHING STONE SERIES#
The Bride’s Primer being a series of quaint parodies on the ways of brides and their misadventures interlaced with useful hints for their advantage.Big Thornton Burgess Story-book Tales from the Storyteller’s House.The Big Book of Burgess Nature Stories At the smiling pool and the dear old briar-patch with illus.The Bedtime Story Calendar enchanting tales of field and forest playmates for little people.Aunt Sally’s Friends in Fur or, the woodhouse night club.At the Smiling Pool a book of nature stories.At Paddy the Beaver’s Pond a book of nature stories.An Important Meeting at the Smiling Pool.
Originally published as "Animal Stories".
For a list of the books in the order they were written, go to Wikipedia
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