TABLE OF CONTENTS

LEGENDS OF OUR LAND
[Rip Van Winkle]Washington Irving[9]
[The Great Stone Face]Nathaniel Hawthorne[33]
[The Courtship of Miles Standish]Henry W. Longfellow[59]
[The Friendship of Nantaquas]Mary Johnston[79]
HOME SCENES
[Harry Esmond’s Boyhood]Wm. Makepeace Thackeray[112]
[The Family Holds Its Head Up]Oliver Goldsmith[126]
[The Little Boy in the Balcony]Henry W. Grady[138]
[Ariel’s Triumph]Booth Tarkington[141]
NATURE AND ANIMALS
[The Cloud]Percy Bysshe Shelley[160]
[New England Weather]Mark Twain[162]
[The First Snowfall]James Russell Lowell[166]
[Old Ephraim]Theodore Roosevelt[168]
[Midwinter]John Townsend Trowbridge[175]
[A Georgia Fox Hunt]Joel Chandler Harris[177]
[Rain and Wind]Madison Julius Cawein[192]
[The Southern Sky]Matthew Fontaine Maury[193]
[Daffodils]William Wordsworth[195]
[Dawn]Edward Everett[196]
[Spring]Henry Timrod[198]
MOVING ADVENTURE
[Among the Cliffs]Charles Egbert Craddock[201]
[A Deal in Bears]W. Cutcliffe Hyne[217]
[Lochinvar]Sir Walter Scott[232]
[In Labrador]H. G. Wells[235]
[The Bugle Song]Alfred Tennyson[258]
[The Siege of the Castle]Sir Walter Scott[259]
MODERN WONDER TALES
[Sea Fever]John Masefield[334]
[A Greyport Legend]Bret Harte[335]
[A Hunt Beneath The Ocean]Jules Verne[337]
[Under Seas]Count Alexis Tolstoi[354]
[A Voyage to the Moon]Edgar Allan Poe[367]
[The Great Stone of Sardis]Frank R. Stockton[391]
SKETCHES OF THE GREAT WAR
[A Stop At Suzanne’s]Greayer Clover[407]
[The Making of a Man]W. J. Locke[414]
[In Flanders Fields]John McCrae[436]
[In Flanders Fields (An Answer)]C. B. Galbraith[436]
[A Ballad Of Heroes]Austin Dobson[437]
[Dictionary][439]