THE ELEPHANTS THAT STRUCK, by Samuel White Baker, from Eight Years in Ceylon
THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP, by Bret Harte
THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD DIN, by Rudyard Kipling, from Plain Tales from the Hills
A CHILD, by John Galsworthy, from Commentary
TOO DEAR FOR THE WHISTLE, by Benjamin Franklin, from The Autobiography
A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT, by Robert Louis Stevenson, from The New Arabian Nights
A BAD FIVE MINUTES IN THE ALPS, by Leslie Stephen, from Freethinking and Plainspeaking (adapted)
THE GOLD TRAIL, by Stewart Edward White, from Gold
TWENTY YEARS OF ARCTIC STRUGGLE, by J. Kennedy McLean, from Heroes of the Farthest North and South (adapted)
THE SPEECH IN MANCHESTER, by Henry Ward Beecher, from Addresses and Sermons