Brooks's Readers, Third Year

by Stratton D. Brooks

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

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Copyright, 1906, by
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.
Copyright, 1907, Tokyo.

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BROOKS'S READERS. THIRD YEAR.

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[CONTENTS]

		Page
The Magic Windows		[11]
The Land of Story Books	Robert Louis Stevenson	[16]
O Big, Round World	Alice C. D. Riley	[18]
A Wonderful Ball	Adapted	[19]
The Great, Wide World	William Brighty Rands	[21]
Flowers that Tell Time	Kate L. Brown	[22]
Dandelion	George Cooper	[24]
The Farmer's Wheat Field	W. E. Baldwin	[25]
The Song of the Wheat	Selected	[27]
The Song of the Mill Wheel	Selected	[29]
The Sky Bridge	Christina G. Rossetti	[30]
The Apple-tree Mother	Selected	[31]
The Diamond Dipper	An Old Legend	[39]
Beautiful Things	David Swing	[43]
My Country	Marie Zetterberg	[44]
My Own Land Forever	John G. Whittier	[44]
Home, Sweet Home	John Howard Payne	[45]
Verses for September, October, November		[46]
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Dora Read Goodale
An Autumn Riddle	Selected	[48]
Leaves at Play	Frank D. Sherman	[48]
Where Go the Boats	Robert Louis Stevenson	[49]
The Corn Song	John G. Whittier	[50]
Shapes of Leaves	Adapted	[52]
Dogs that almost Talk	Edith Carrington	[56]
A Little Girl's Fancies	Selected	[60]
A Boy's Wishes	William Allingham	[61]
Rollo and George	Jacob Abbott	[62]
The Farmer's Story	Jacob Abbott	[64]
The Dog and his Image	Æsop	[68]
Belling the Cat	Æsop	[69]
The Dog in the Manger	Æsop	[70]
A Wise Indian	Adapted	[70]
Clovernook		[73]
The Poet Sisters		[76]
Our Homestead	Phœbe Cary	[78]
Suppose	Phœbe Cary	[79]
November	Alice Cary	[81]
Columbus in the New World		[82]
Columbus returns to Spain		[85]
Columbus at the Court of Spain		[87]
The First Thanksgiving	Marian M. George	[90]
Thanksgiving Day	Lydia Maria Child	[94]
The Snow Baby	Josephine D. Peary	[96]
A Snow House	Adapted	[101]
The Northern Seas	William Howitt	[104]
Verses for December, January,
February	Mary Mapes Dodge	[106]
Christmas Everywhere	Phillips Brooks	[107]
The Christmas Song	Selected	[108]
The New Year	Marie Zetterberg	[110]
How Plants Grow	Adapted	[111]
Talking in their Sleep	Edith M. Thomas	[115]
A Riddle	George Macdonald	[116]
Snowflakes	Frank Dempster Sherman	[117]
Fannie's Menagerie	"Rainbows for Children"	[118]
How Lambkin White was Saved		[122]
The Lamb	William Blake	[129]
The Necklace of Truth	Old Fairy Tales	[130]
Speak the Truth	Selected	[135]
Saint Valentine	Adapted	[135]
A Famous Old House		[138]
Hiawatha's Hunting	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[140]
Longfellow with his Children	Adapted	[143]
Letter to a Little Girl	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[147]
The Open Window	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[150]
The Village Blacksmith	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[151]
George Washington, the Young Surveyor		[154]
Surveying in the Wilderness		[156]
Abraham Lincoln	James Baldwin
His New Home		[158]
His First Great Sorrow		[163]
Hana and Tora
Their Home		[167]
Their Festival Days		[173]
Verses for March, April, May		[178]
Dora R. Goodale, Thomas Bailey Aldrich
An Easter Song	Mary A. Lathbury	[179]
The Song of the Poppy Seed	E. Nesbit	[180]
Clovers	Helena L. Jelliffe	[181]
Who Told the News?	Selected	[182]
Air	Worthington Hooker	[183]
The Unseen Giant		[185]
What Robin Told	George Cooper	[190]
A Bird's Education	Olive Thorne Miller	[191]
How Birds Learn to Sing	Mary Mapes Dodge	[196]
The Greatest of Beasts		[197]
The Story of Giant Sun	Mary Proctor	[202]
Summer Sun	Robert Louis Stevenson	[205]
The Story of Phaethon	Greek Myths	[206]
A Sunflower Story	Greek Myths	[210]
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod	Eugene Field	[212]
Rosa Bonheur	Adapted
A Little Girl who Loved Animals		[214]
A Little Girl who Painted Animals		[217]
A Great Artist		[220]
When Benjamin Franklin was a
Boy	Adapted	[225]
A Weaving Story	Adapted	[229]
America	Samuel Francis Smith	[234]
A Song for Flag Day	Lydia Coonley Ward	[235]
Verses for June, July, August		[236]
The Seasons. The Months		[237]
For the Girls	Charles Kingsley	[238]
For the Boys	Selected	[238]
What would I Do?	Selected	[239]
Pronouncing Key and Word List		[241]

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[ACKNOWLEDGMENTS]

The selections from the writings of Henry W. Longfellow, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, John G. Whittier, Frank Dempster Sherman, Olive Thorne Miller, Dora Read Goodale, Lucy Larcom, Alice and Phœbe Cary, are used by permission of and by special arrangements with Houghton, Mifflin & Co., the authorized publishers of the writings of these authors.

Special arrangements have also been made with the following publishers for permission to use selections from their publications: Little, Brown & Co. for a stanza from Emily Dickinson's poems; The Macmillan Company for "Clovers," copyright, 1902; Charles Scribner's Sons for "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," by Eugene Field, and for a stanza from "Rhymes and Jingles," by Mary Mapes Dodge.

Acknowledgments are also due to Silver, Burdett & Company for "Flowers that tell Time" and "Maple Leaves," from The Plant Baby and its Friends, by Kate Louise Brown, copyright, 1897, and also for a selection from Stories of Starland; to the Century Company for "How Birds learn to Sing," by Mary Mapes Dodge, from When Life is Young; to F. A. Stokes Company for a selection from The Snow Baby, by Josephine D. Peary, copyright, 1901; to the Biglow & Main Company for "The Easter Song," from Little Pilgrim Songs; to A. Flanagan Company for "The First Thanksgiving," from The Plan Book; to James Baldwin for "Abraham Lincoln," from Four Great Americans; to Alice C. D. Riley and to Lydia A. C. Ward for selections from their writings.

Acknowledgments are due to Miss Frances Lilian Taylor of Galesburg, Illinois, and to Mr. W. J. Button of Chicago for valuable assistance rendered in choosing the selections comprised in this volume.

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THE MAGIC WINDOWS.

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[THE MAGIC WINDOWS]