Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools / Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists

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CONTENTS

A Day at Laguerre's	F. Hopkinson Smith	[1]
Quite So	Thomas Bailey Aldrich	[21]
(In Marjorie Daw, and Other Stories)
Pan in Wall Street	Edmund Clarence Stedman	[42]
The Hand of Lincoln	Edmund Clarence Stedman	[48]
Jean Valjean	Augusta Stevenson	[52]
(In A Dramatic Reader, Book Five)
A Combat on the Sands	Mary Johnston	[65]
(From To Have and to Hold, Chapters XXI and XXII)
The Grasshopper	Edith M. Thomas	[80]
Moly	Edith M. Thomas	[83]
The Promised Land	Mary Antin	[85]
(From Chapter IX of The Promised Land)
Warble for Lilac-Time	Walt Whitman	[113]
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	Walt Whitman	[115]
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	Walt Whitman	[116]
Odysseus in Phaeacia	Translated by George Herbert Palmer	[120]
Odysseus	George Cabot Lodge	[139]
A Romance of Real Life	William Dean Howells	[141]
The Wild Ride	Louise Imogen Guiney	[161]
Christmas in the Woods	Dallas Lore Sharp	[164]
(In The Lay of the Land)
Gloucester Moors	William Vaughn Moody	[179]
Road-Hymn for the Start	William Vaughn Moody	[184]
On A Soldier Fallen in the Phillipines	William Vaughn Moody	[187]
The Coon Dog	Sarah Orne Jewett	[189]
(In The Queen's Twin, and Other Stories)
On the Life-Mask of Abraham Lincoln	Richard Watson Gilder	[210]
A Fire among the Giants	John Muir	[212]
(From Our National Parks)
Waiting	John Burroughs	[221]
The Pont du Gard	Henry James	[223]
(Chapter XXVI of A Little Tour in France)
The Youngest Son of his Father's House	Anna Hempstead Branch	[231]
Tennessee's Partner	Bret Harte	[235]
The Course of American History	Woodrow Wilson	[252]
(In Mere Literature)
What I Know about Gardening	Charles Dudley Warner	[268]
(From My Summer in a Garden)
The Singing Man	Josephine Preston Peabody	[280]
The Dance of the Bon-Odori	Lafcadio Hearn	[291]
(From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Volume I, Chapter VI)
Letters:
Thomas Bailey Aldrich to William Dean Howells		[305]
(From The Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich by Ferris Greenslet)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich to E.S. Morse		[305]
(By permission of Professor Morse)
William Vaughn Moody to Josephine Preston Peabody		[306]
(From Some Letters of William Vaughn Moody)
Bret Harte to his Wife		[307]
(From The Life of Bret Harte by Henry C. Merwin)
Lafcadio Hearn to Basil Hall Chamberlain		[309]
(From Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn)
Charles Eliot Norton to William Dean Howells		[311]
(From Letters of Charles Eliot Norton)
Exercises in Dramatic Composition		[316]
Modern Books for Home Reading		[319]

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MODERN PROSE AND POETRY FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

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A DAY AT LAGUERRE'S

F. HOPKINSON SMITH

It is the most delightful of French inns, in the quaintest of French settlements. As you rush by in one of the innumerable trains that pass it daily, you may catch glimpses of tall trees trailing their branches in the still stream,—hardly a dozen yards wide,—of flocks of white ducks paddling together, and of queer punts drawn up on the shelving shore or tied to soggy, patched-up landing-stairs.

If the sun shines, you can see, now and then, between the trees, a figure kneeling at the water's edge, bending over a pile of clothes, washing,—her head bound with a red handkerchief.