FOURTH READER

BY
W. A. McINTYRE, B.A., LL.D.
PRINCIPAL, NORMAL SCHOOL, WINNIPEG
JOHN DEARNESS, M.A.
VICE-PRINCIPAL, NORMAL SCHOOL, LONDON
AND
JOHN C. SAUL, M.A.
Authorized by the Departments of Education
for Use in the Schools of Alberta
and Saskatchewan
PRICE 50 CENTS
TORONTO
MORANG EDUCATIONAL COMPANY LIMITED
1908

Copyright by
MORANG EDUCATIONAL COMPANY LIMITED
1908
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Copyright in Great Britain

CONTENTS

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[Dominion Hymn]The Duke of Argyle[9]
[The Moonlight Sonata]Anonymous[10]
[The Flight of the Birds]Edmund Clarence Stedman[15]
[The Minstrel Boy]Thomas Moore[16]
[The Good Saxon King]Charles Dickens[16]
[A Song]James Whitcomb Riley[21]
[Better than Gold]Mrs. J. M. Winton[22]
[The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal]Joseph Jacobs[23]
[A Canadian Boat-song]Thomas Moore[28]
[The Song Sparrow]Henry van Dyke[29]
[The Child of Urbino]Louise de la Ramée[31]
[Destruction of Sennacherib’s Army]Lord Byron[40]
[The Arrow and the Song]Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[41]
[The Battle of the Ants]Henry David Thoreau[42]
[The Curate and the Mulberry Tree]Thomas Love Peacock[45]
[Miriam’s Song]Thomas Moore[46]
[The Meeting of the Waters]Thomas Moore[47]
[The Battle of Balaklava]William Howard Russell[48]
[True Worth]Ben Jonson[51]
[Love of Country]Sir Walter Scott[52]
[Home and Country]James Montgomery[52]
[The Fatherland]James Russell Lowell[54]
[The Oak Tree and the Ivy]Eugene Field[55]
[Harvest Song]James Montgomery[60]
[Harvest Time]E. Pauline Johnson[61]
[Hare-and-Hounds at Rugby]Thomas Hughes[62]
[An Adjudged Case]William Cowper[69]
[Indian Summer]Susannah Moodie[71]
[A Winter Journey]Alexander Henry[73]
[The Inchcape Rock]Robert Southey[78]
[The Bird of the Morning]Olive Thorne Miller[81]
[The Four-leaved Shamrock]Samuel Lover[84]
[King Hacon’s Last Battle]Lord Dufferin[86]
[Mr. Pickwick on the Ice]Charles Dickens[88]
[Dickens in Camp]Francis Bret Harte[98]
[Home they brought her Warrior]Lord Tennyson[100]
[The Locksmith of the Golden Key]Charles Dickens[101]
[Tubal Cain]Charles Mackay[103]
[The Bugle Song]Lord Tennyson[105]
[Leif Ericsson]John Preston True[106]
[The Loss of the Birkenhead]Sir Francis Hastings Doyle[113]
[The Burial of Sir John Moore]Charles Wolfe[115]
[The Second Voyage of Sinbad]Arabian Nights’ Entertainment[116]
[The Daffodils]William Wordsworth[122]
[The Harp that once thro’ Tara’s Halls]Thomas Moore[123]
[The Heroine of Verchères]Francis Parkman[123]
[The Slave’s Dream]Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[128]
[The Song of the Camp]Bayard Taylor[130]
[An Uncomfortable Bed]Charles Kingsley[132]
[Chinook]Ezra Hurlburt Stafford[138]
[The Ivy Green]Charles Dickens[139]
[The Relief of Lucknow]From a Letter[140]
[The Charge of the Light Brigade]Lord Tennyson[143]
[Haste not, Rest not]Johann Wolfgang Goethe[146]
[Doubting Castle]John Bunyan[147]
[The Daisy]James Montgomery[153]
[Lead, Kindly Light]John Henry Newman[155]
[Escape from a Panther]James Fenimore Cooper[156]
[Hunting Song]Sir Walter Scott[162]
[The Landing of the Pilgrims]Felicia Dorothea Hemans[163]
[An Eskimo Hut]Isaac Hayes[166]
[Young Lochinvar]Sir Walter Scott[170]
[The Song my Paddle Sings]E. Pauline Johnson[172]
[The First Years of the Red River Settlement]Alexander Ross[174]
[The Red River Voyageur]John Greenleaf Whittier[178]
[Seven Times Four]Jean Ingelow[180]
[The Lark at the Diggings]Charles Reade[181]
[The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs]Arthur Wentworth Eaton[185]
[The Beatitudes]From the Sermon on the Mount[187]
[Maggie Tulliver and the Gypsies]George Eliot[188]
[Lady Clare]Lord Tennyson[199]
[Don Quixote and the Lion]Miguel de Cervantes[203]
[The Battle of Blenheim]Robert Southey[208]
[A Huron Mission House]Francis Parkman[211]
[The Burial of Moses]Cecil Frances Alexander[213]
[The Cruise of the Coracle]Robert Louis Stevenson[216]
[The Sea]Bryan Waller Procter[223]
[The Wind’s Word]Archibald Lampman[225]
[Gulliver among the Giants]Jonathan Swift[226]
[To a Water-fowl]William Cullen Bryant[229]
[’Tis the Last Rose of Summer]Thomas Moore[231]
[The Archery Contest]Sir Walter Scott[232]
[The Plains of Abraham]Charles Sangster[241]
[The Graves of a Household]Felicia Dorothea Hemans[243]
[The Miraculous Pitcher]Nathaniel Hawthorne[244]
[The Unnamed Lake]Frederick George Scott[253]
[The Hunter of the Prairies]William Cullen Bryant[255]
[Moses goes to the Fair]Oliver Goldsmith[257]
[Columbus]Joaquin Miller[262]
[Opportunity]Edward Rowland Sill[264]
[To-day]Thomas Carlyle[265]
[An Eruption of Vesuvius]Anonymous[266]
[The Sermon of St. Francis]Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[269]
[The Greenwood Tree]William Shakespeare[271]
[Incident of the French Camp]Robert Browning[272]
[Robinson Crusoe]Daniel Defoe[273]
[The Wonderful One-hoss Shay]Oliver Wendell Holmes[280]
[William Tell and his Son]Chambers’ Tracts[285]
[Saint Christopher]Helen Hunt Jackson[287]
[General Brock]Charles Sangster[292]
[An Iceberg]Richard Henry Dana[293]
[A Legend of Bregenz]Adelaide Anne Procter[295]
[Gluck’s Visitor]John Ruskin[300]
[Jacques Cartier]Thomas D’Arcy McGee[313]
[Bless the Lord, O my Soul]From the Book of Psalms[315]
[The Heroes of the Long Sault]Francis Parkman[317]
[The Marseillaise]Rouget De Lisle[325]
[The Watch on the Rhine]Max Schneckenburger[327]
[Scots, Wha Hae Wi’ Wallace Bled]Robert Burns[329]
[The Coyote]Mark Twain[330]
[Step by Step]Josiah Gilbert Holland[333]
[A Summer Storm]Duncan Campbell Scott[335]
[The Death of Nelson]Robert Southey[336]
[The Battle of the Baltic]Thomas Campbell[342]
[Ye Mariners of England]Thomas Campbell[345]
[The Apples of Idun]Hamilton Wright Mabie[347]
[How they brought the Good News]Robert Browning[354]
[Marmion and Douglas]Sir Walter Scott[356]
[The Tempest]Mary Seymour[359]
[Edinburgh after Flodden]William Edmondstoune Aytoun[371]
[The Discovery of the Mackenzie River]Lawrence J. Burpee[377]
[The Face against the Pane]Thomas Bailey Aldrich[381]
[The Carronade]Victor Hugo[385]
[The Vision of Mirza]Joseph Addison[390]
[The Prairies]William Cullen Bryant[396]
[The Great Stone Face]Nathaniel Hawthorne[400]
[King Oswald’s Feast]Archibald Lampman[406]
[The Burning of Moscow]James T. Headley[409]
[Ode to the Brave]William Collins[415]
[The Torch of Life]Henry Newbolt[416]