The history of the Do-as-you-likes speaks for itself. It is a fancy story rather than a myth, but it is one that children will like, long before they will understand its whole significance; and we much doubt whether the Rev. Charles Kingsley ever produced a more valuable and original book than "Water-Babies," from which this story is taken.

CONTENTS.

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MYTHS.
I.[Latona and the Rustics]7
II.[The Music of Pan]9
III.[Baucis and Philemon]10
IV.[The Dragon's Teeth]13
V.[The Do-as-you-likes]17
INDIAN STORIES.
VI.[Columbus and the Eclipse]25
VII.[The Pequots]27
VIII.[Schenectady]29
IX.[The Story of Mrs. Dustin]31
X.[Rogers's Slide]34
XI.[General Clinton's March]36
XII.[Frances Slocum]39
XIII.[Obed's Pumpkins]43
STORIES OF THE REVOLUTION.
XIV.[The Gaspé]50
XV.[Ethan Allen]53
XVI.[Joseph Reed]54
XVII.[General Prescott]56
XVIII.[Prescott and the Yankee Boy]58
XIX.[Battle of the Kegs]62
XX.[The Daring of Paul Jones]66
XXI.[Fort Moultrie]71
XXII.[Count Pulaski and his Banner]73
XXIII.[Lydia Darrah]77
XXIV.[The Liberty-Bell]80
XXV.[The Tory's Horse]83
XXVI.[General Schuyler]87
XXVII.[Ode]92
SCOTTISH STORIES.
XXVIII.[Edinburgh Castle]93
XXIX.[Scottish Strategy]96
XXX.[Castle Dangerous]100
XXXI.[The Black Agnes]103
MISCELLANEOUS STORIES.
XXXII.[A Little Maid]108
XXXIII.[Alexander Selkirk]112
XXXIV.[The Old-fashioned School]118
XXXV.[Story of Franklin's Kite]123
XXXVI.[The Case of John Hook]126
XXXVII.[The First Steamboat in the West]128
XXXVIII.[The Power of Kindness]134
XXXIX.[Old Ironsides]137
XL.[Chicago]142

MYTHS.

I.—LATONA AND THE RUSTICS.

1. Once on a time the goddess Latona wandered into the country with her infant twins in her arms. Weary with her burden and parched with thirst, she espied in the bottom of the valley a pond of clear water, where the country people were at work gathering willows and osiers. The goddess approached, and, kneeling on the banks, would have slaked her thirst in the cool water but the rustics forbade her.