The Painter
- This next story begins in September of 1902 and focuses on a painter and a seven-year-old girl named Merle.
- On Merle's seventh birthday, her mother gives her a new white smock, a hare carved out of wood, and permission to go with her on a journey.
- Merle is thrilled and her mother promises that the next morning they'll make their way over to the western isle.
- That night, Merle sleeps with her smock and her little hare, but she dreams all about dragons.