An Interesting Old Lady:—Tell where you saw the old lady; or, if you know her well, explain the nature of your acquaintance with her. Describe her rather fully, telling how she looks and what she wears. How does she walk and talk? What is her chief occupation? If possible, quote some of her remarks in her own words. Tell some incidents in which she figures. Try to bring out her most interesting qualities, so that the reader can see them for himself.
COLLATERAL READINGS
| Dogs and Men | H.C. Merwin |
| Stickeen: The Story of | John Muir |
| Another Dog (in A Gentleman Vagabond) | F.H. Smith |
| The Sporting Dog | Joseph A. Graham |
| Dogtown | Mabel Osgood Wright |
| Bob, Son of Battle | Alfred Ollivant |
| A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs | Laurence Hutton |
| A Boy I Knew and Some More Dogs | " " |
| A Dog of Flanders | Louise de la Ramée |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| White Fang | " " |
| My Dogs in the Northland | E.R. Young |
| Dogs of all Nations | C.J. Miller |
| Leo (poem) | R.W. Gilder |
| Greyfriar's Bobby | Eleanor Atkinson |
| The Biography of a Silver Fox | E.S. Thompson |
| Our Friend the Dog (trans.) | Maurice Maeterlinck |
| Following the Deer | W.J. Long |
| The Trail of the Sand-hill Stag | Ernest Thompson Seton |
| Lives of the Hunted | " " |
| The Wilderness Hunter | Theodore Roosevelt |
| A Watcher in the Woods | Dallas Lore Sharp |
| Wild Life near Home | " " |
| The Watchers of the Trails | C.G.D. Roberts |
| Kindred of the Wild | " " |
| Little People of the Sycamore | " " |
| The Haunters of the Silences | " " |
| Squirrels and other Fur-bearers | John Burroughs |
| My Woodland Intimates | E. Bignell |
Stories of old people:—
| Aged Folk (in Letters from my Mill) | Alphonse Daudet |
| Green Island (chapter 8 of The Country of the Pointed Firs) | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| Aunt Cynthy Dallett | " " |
| The Failure of David Berry | " " |
| A Church Mouse | Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman |
| A White Heron and Other Stories | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| Tales of New England | " " |
| The Country of the Pointed Firs | " " |
| A Country Doctor | " " |
| Deephaven | " " |
| The Queen's Twin and Other Stories | " " |
| The King of Folly Island and Other People | " " |
| A Marsh Island | " " |
| The Tory Lover | " " |
| A Native of Winby and Other Tales | " " |
| Betty Leicester's Christmas | " " |
| Betty Leicester | " " |
| Country By-ways | " " |
| Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett | Mrs. James T. Fields (Ed.) |
For Biographies and criticisms of Miss Jewett, see: Atlantic Monthly, 94:485; Critic, 39:292, October, 1901 (Portrait); New England Magazine, 22:737, August, 1900; Outlook, 69:423; Bookman, 34:221 (Portrait).