Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year

by E. C. Hartwell

CONTENTS

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A SHEAF OF LEGENDS
	Ali Hafed's Quest	Orison Swett Marden	[13]
	How Kilhugh Rode to Arthur's Hall	James Baldwin	[18]
	The Gift of the White Bear	George Webbe Dasent	[25]
	The Story of Iron		[31]
	The Wonderful Artisan	James Baldwin	[39]
	Charlemagne and Roland	Hélène A. Guerber	[46]
	Keeping the Bridge	Thomas Babington Macaulay	[50]
PIONEER DAYS
	The Story of Molly Pitcher	Frank R. Stockton	[57]
	King Philip to the White Settlers	Edward Everett	[60]
	Pioneer Life in Ohio	William Dean Howells	[62]
	Witchcraft	Nathaniel Hawthorne	[70]
	Tea Parties in Old New York	Washington Irving	[70]
	A School of Long Ago	Edward Eggleston	[73]
	French Life in the Northwest	James Baldwin	[77]
	A Bear Story	Maurice Thompson	[82]
	A Patriot of Georgia	Joel Chandler Harris	[85]
	Song of the Pioneers	W. D. Gallagher	[87]
SPECIAL DAYS
	Columbus and the Eclipse	James Johonnot	[91]
	First Thanksgiving Day Proclamation	George Washington	[93]
	Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, 1905	Theodore Roosevelt	[93]
	Harvest Song	James Montgomery	[95]
	The Cratchits' Christmas	Charles Dickens	[96]
	The Holiday Spirit	Émile Souvestre	[101]
	Christmas in the Pines	Meredith Nicholson	[106]
	The New Year's Dinner Party	Charles Lamb	[108]
	Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln		[111]
	O Captain! My Captain	Walt Whitman	[114]
	Washington's Greatest Battle	Frederick Trever Hill	[116]
	John James Audubon	W. F. Markwick and W. A. Smith	[122]
	Memorial Day, 1917	Woodrow Wilson	[125]
ADVENTURE
	A Grandstand Seat in the Sky	Howard Mingos	[129]
	Prayer for the Pilot	Cecil Roberts	[137]
	A Battle with a Whale	Frank T. Bullen	[138]
	The Glove and the Lions	Leigh Hunt	[145]
	How Buck Won the Bet	Jack London	[147]
	The Loss of the Drake	Charlotte M. Yonge	[151]
	The Walrus Hunt	Robert M. Ballantyne	[155]
	The Rescue		[158]
	Descending the Grand Cañon		[162]
	Night Fishing in the South Seas	Frederick O'Brien	[164]
	A Ballad of East and West	Rudyard Kipling	[168]
UNDER THE OPEN SKY
	A Night among the Pines	Robert Louis Stevenson	[177]
	Autumn on the Farm	John Greenleaf Whittier	[183]
	Goldenrod	Elaine Goodale Eastman	[186]
	The Palisades	John Masefield	[188]
	On the Grasshopper and Cricket	John Keats	[189]
	To a Waterfowl	William Cullen Bryant	[190]
	A Night in the Tropics	Richard Henry Dana, Jr.	[192]
	A Winter Ride	Amy Lowell	[193]
	The Snowstorm	Ralph Waldo Emerson	[194]
	Snow-Bound	John Greenleaf Whittier	[195]
	Tom Pinch's Ride	Charles Dickens	[198]
	Ode to a Butterfly	Thomas Wentworth Higginson	[201]
	In the Desert	A. W. Kinglake	[203]
	May is Building her House	Richard Le Gallienne	[207]
	The Daffodils	William Wordsworth	[208]
	The Falls of Lodore	Robert Southey	[210]
STORIES THAT TEACH
	An Adventure in Brotherhood		[215]
	The Prayer Perfect	James Whitcomb Riley	[217]
	Get Out or Get in Line	Elbert Hubbard	[218]
	John Marshall of Virginia	John Esten Cooke	[224]
	Opportunity	Edward Rowland Sill	[227]
	Boy Wanted	Dr. Frank Crane	[228]
	John Littlejohn	Charles Mackay	[230]
	The Discontented Pendulum		[232]
	Two Sides to Every Question		[235]
	If I were a Boy	Washington Gladden	[237]
	The Lesson of the Water Mill	Sarah Doudney	[239]
	A Motto of Oxford		[241]
	Sailing and Failing	Hamilton W. Mabie	[242]
	Use and Abuse of Time	Archer Brown	[243]
	Hidden Treasure	Charles Reade	[245]
	The Solitary Reaper	William Wordsworth	[249]
IN GOOD HUMOR
	The Stagecoach	Mark Twain	[253]
	The Chameleon	James Merrick	[261]
	The Pickwick Club on Ice	Charles Dickens	[263]
	Darius Green and his Flying Machine	John Townsend Trowbridge	[270]
	Aunt Doleful's Visit		[279]
	Gradgrind's Idea of Education	Charles Dickens	[281]
	The Deacon's Masterpiece, or The Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay"	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[286]
	The Schoolmaster's Ride	Washington Irving	[291]
	Signing Petitions		[296]
IN TIME OF WAR
	Great Little Rivers	Frazier Hunt	[299]
	The Burial of Sir John Moore	Charles Wolfe	[302]
	Lexington and Concord	William Emerson	[304]
	Hervé Riel	Robert Browning	[307]
	The Song of the Camp	Bayard Taylor	[313]
	Cabin Boy and Admiral		[315]
	Little Giffen	Francis O. Ticknor	[320]
	Marco Bozzaris	Fitz-Greene Halleck	[322]
	San Juan Hill	General John J. Pershing	[325]
	Burial of a Soldier in France	Gerald M. Dwyer	[329]
OUR COUNTRY
	America for Me	Henry van Dyke	[333]
	Warren's Address at the Battle of Bunker Hill	John Pierpont	[335]
	What is an American?	Hector Saint Jean de Crèvecœur	[336]
	The Rising of '76	Thomas Buchanan Read	[338]
	Our Own Country	James Montgomery	[342]
	Patrick Henry's Speech		[343]
	Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby		[347]
	The Flower of Liberty	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[348]
	True Patriotism	Benjamin Harrison	[350]
	America the Beautiful	Katharine Lee Bates	[352]
	O Beautiful! My Country!	James Russell Lowell	[353]
	The Problems of the Republic	Theodore Roosevelt	[354]
	The Meaning of Americanism	Charles Evans Hughes	[356]
	What Constitutes a State?	William Jones	[359]
	A Patriotic Creed	Edgar A. Guest	[360]
FROM GREAT BOOKS
	The Lists at Ashby	Sir Walter Scott	[363]
	The Twenty-Third Psalm	The Bible	[376]
	Doubting Castle	John Bunyan	[377]
	Christmas Eve at Fezziwig's	Charles Dickens	[384]
	Jean Valjean Meets the Bishop	Victor Hugo	[387]
	A Voyage to Lilliput	Jonathan Swift	[394]
	The Struggle in the Arena	Henryk Sienkiewicz	[405]
	Polonius's Advice to his Son	William Shakespeare	[413]
	Mercy	William Shakespeare	[414]

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A SHEAF OF LEGENDS

To every important race of people there has come down through the ages a fine heritage of story and song. Usually these tales are largely fiction and partially fact. They may be songs about heroes; stories to account for the existence of things; moral tales; or tales of pure imagination. Whatever they are, they preserve for us from the past the thoughts or the deeds of our early ancestors; and as tales they excite our interest because of their simplicity and straightforwardness.

Ali Hafed's Quest
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