The selections from Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson, and Lucy Larcom are used by special arrangement with and permission of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., the authorized publishers of the writings of these authors.
CONTENTS
[The Elocutionary Introduction and pronunciation markups are omitted in the Project Gutenberg edition because of abundance of non-ascii characters.]
SELECTIONS FOR READING
Young Benjamin Franklin — Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Hard Word
A Song — James Whitcomb Riley
The Journey of Life. An Allegory
What I live for
Try Again! — Charlotte Elizabeth
True Manliness
The Miller of the Dee — Charles Mackay
A Boy on a Farm — Charles Dudley Warner
Meddlesome Mattie
The Eagle
The Old Eagle Tree — John Todd
A New Kind of Fun — From the German
Two Ways of telling a Story — Henry K. Oliver
The Blind Men and the Elephant — John G. Saxe
Harry's Riches
A Happy New Year — Margaret E. Sangster
Jeanette and Jo — Mary Mapes Dodge
Watseka. An Indian Legend
Harry and his Dog — Mary Russell Milford
Little Boy Blue — Eugene Field
If I were a Boy
The Tempest — James T. Fields
The Right Way — Frank R. Stockton
An Adventure with Wolves
The Old Oaken Bucket — Samuel Woodworth
The Farmer and the Fox — James Anthony Frowde
Hiawatha's Childhood — H. W. Longfellow
At Rugby School — Thomas Hughes
Somebody's Darling — Marie La Coste
The Captive — John R. Musick
The Star-Spangled Banner — F. S. Key
Our National Banner — Edward Everett
Burning the Fallow — Susanna Moodie
Piccola — Celia L. Thaxter
The Mountain and the Squirrel — R. W. Emerson
Srange Stories of Ants:
White Ants — Henry Drummond
Red Ants — Jules Michelet
Dear Country Mine — R. W. Gilder
My Country
The Four MacNicols — William Black
The Blue and the Gray — Ellen H. Flagg
The Captain's Feather — Samuel M. Peck
The Ride to London — Charles Dickens
The Planting of the Apple Tree — W. C. Bryant
The Apple — John Burroughs
The Bugle Song — Alfred Tennyson
The Story of Captain John Smith — John Esten Cooke
On the Banks of the Tennessee — W. D. Gallagher
Good Will — J. T. Trowbridge
The Good Reader
A Legend of Bregenz — Adelaide A. Procter
The Golden Touch — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Brook — Alfred Tennyson
The Sermon on the Mount — Bible
The Song of Steam — G. W. Cutter
The Gentle Hand — T. S. Arthur
Spring — Henry Timrod
Marion's Men — William Gilmore Simms
The Pied Piper of Hamelin — Robert Browning
FOURTH READER
YOUNG BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
When Benjamin Franklin was a boy he was very fond of fishing; and many of his leisure hours were spent on the margin of the mill pond catching flounders, perch, and eels that came up thither with the tide.
The place where Ben and his playmates did most of their fishing was a marshy spot on the outskirts of Boston. On the edge of the water there was a deep bed of clay, in which the boys were forced to stand while they caught their fish.