CONTENTS

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The Straw, the Coal, and the BeanThe Brothers Grimm[9]
SeptemberHelen Hunt Jackson[12]
Robert Louis Stevenson[13]
TravelRobert Louis Stevenson[16]
Travelers' WondersDr. John Aikin[19]
Ants[24]
The Four Sunbeams[28]
Sifting Boys[30]
The FountainJames Russell Lowell[34]
Lewis Carroll[36]
What Alice Said to the KittenLewis Carroll[38]
The Kitten and the Falling LeavesWilliam Wordsworth[43]
The Snow ImageNathaniel Hawthorne[45]
Little by Little[63]
The House I Live In[63]
Jefferson's Ten Rules[70]
The Pet LambWilliam Wordsworth[71]
The Story of FlorindaAbby Morton Diaz[75]
The EagleAlfred, Lord Tennyson[90]
Psalm XXIII[91]
Tilly's ChristmasLouisa May Alcott[92]
Under the Greenwood TreeWilliam Shakspere[101]
Our First Naval Hero[102]
Hiawatha's SailingHenry Wadsworth Longfellow[108]
Shun Delay[114]
The Walrus and the CarpenterLewis Carroll[119]
Prince Ahmed"The Arabian Nights"[124]
The Planting of the Apple TreeWilliam Cullen Bryant[149]
NestsJohn Ruskin[153]
Sir Isaac NewtonNathaniel Hawthorne[153]
LucyWilliam Wordsworth[165]
To a SkylarkWilliam Wordsworth[167]
Tom Goes down to the SeaCharles Kingsley[167]
Psalm XXIV[181]
A Good SamaritanGeorge Macdonald[183]
The Spartan Three Hundred[184]
The Fairy LifeWilliam Shakspere[191]
Charles Dickens[192]
Little CharleyCharles Dickens[196]
TrayRobert Browning[207]
The Golden FleeceNathaniel Hawthorne[209]
The Star-Spangled BannerFrancis Scott Key[237]
My Native LandSir Walter Scott[241]
Hunting the GrizzlyTheodore Roosevelt[242]