Story Hour Readers — Book Three

IDA COE, Pd.M.
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL, PUBLIC SCHOOLS CITY OF NEW YORK
AND
ALICE J. CHRISTIE
PRIMARY TEACHER. PUBLIC SCHOOLS CITY OF NEW YORK
CONTENTS
At evening when the lamp is lit, Around the fire my parents sit; They sit at home and talk and sing, And do not play at anything.
Now with my little gun I crawl, All in the dark, along the wall. And follow round the forest track Away behind the sofa back.
There in the night, where none can spy, All in my hunter's camp I lie, And play at books that I have read, Till it is time to go to bed.
So, when my nurse comes in for me, Home I return across the sea, And go to bed with backward looks At my dear Land of Story Books.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
In a little cottage at the edge of a forest in Germany, lived Peter, a poor broom maker, and his wife Gertrude. They had two children, Hansel and Gretel.