JOHN C. SAUL, M.A.

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for Use in the Schools of Alberta
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TORONTO
MORANG EDUCATIONAL COMPANY LIMITED
1908

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MORANG EDUCATIONAL COMPANY LIMITED
1908

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CONTENTS

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[Canada! Maple Land!]9
[The Shoemaker and the Elves]Jacob Grimm10
[Song of the Golden Sea]Jean Blewett13
[Work]Mary N. Prescott14
[Fortune and the Beggar]Ivan Kriloff15
[The Sprite]Frederick George Scott17
[A Crust of Bread]Selected19
[Two Surprises]Anonymous23
[The Rich Man and the Cobbler]Jean de la Fontaine25
[The Drought]R. K. Kernighan30
[The Eagle]Alfred, Lord Tennyson31
[The Golden Windows]Laura E. Richards32
[A Song of Seasons]Elizabeth Roberts Macdonald36
[A Miser’s Treasure]Grace H. Kupfer38
[Drifted out to Sea]Rosa Hartwick Thorpe42
[The Daisy and the Lark]Hans Christian Andersen44
[The Splendor of the Days]Jean Blewett48
[Before the Rain]Thomas Bailey Aldrich49
[Webster and the Woodchuck]Selected50
[The Fairies of Caldon Low]Mary Howitt53
[The Last Lesson in French]Alphonse Daudet57
[The Brook Song]James Whitcomb Riley62
[The Better Land]Felicia Dorothea Hemans63
[Cædmon]Grace H. Kupfer65
[The Bluebell]Anonymous67
[Lullaby of an Infant Chief]Sir Walter Scott69
[The Minstrel’s Song]Maude Lindsay69
[The Use of Flowers]Mary Howitt74
[The Miller of the Dee]Charles Mackay76
[The Story of Moween]Selected77
[A Hindu Fable]John Godfrey Saxe81
[The Boy Musician]Bertha Leary Saunders83
[The Sparrows]Celia Thaxter87
[The Time and the Deed]Jean Blewett90
[The Flax]Hans Christian Andersen91
[Jeannette and Jo]Mary Mapes Dodge96
[The Maid of Orleans]Maude Barrow Dutton98
[Birds]Eliza Cook102
[The Owl]Alfred, Lord Tennyson103
[Iktomi and the Coyote]Zitkala-S¨a104
[Golden Rod]Frank Dempster Sherman108
[November]Helen Hunt Jackson109
[Sir Edwin Landseer]Selected110
[The Two Church Builders]John Godfrey Saxe115
[How Siegfried made the Sword]Selected118
[Grass and Roses]James Freeman Clarke123
[The Wounded Curlew]Celia Thaxter124
[The Gold and Silver Shield]Selected125
[The White-throat Sparrow]Sir James D. Edgar128
[The Sandpiper]Celia Thaxter129
[Crœsus]James Baldwin131
[The Frost Spirit]John Greenleaf Whittier135
[A Song of the Sleigh]James T. Fields137
[The Christmas Dinner]Charles Dickens138
[Christmas Song]Phillips Brooks144
[Bergetta’s Misfortune]Celia Thaxter146
[Storm Song]Bayard Taylor150
[A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea]Allan Cunningham152
[The Indians]Selected153
[Speak Gently]David Bates157
[Daybreak]Henry Wadsworth Longfellow158
[The Choice of Hercules]James Baldwin159
[The Walker of the Snow]Charles Dawson Shanly162
[The Frog Travellers]William Elliot Griffis165
[The Three Bells]John Greenleaf Whittier169
[How the Indian Knew]Selected171
[Hohenlinden]Thomas Campbell172
[The Clouds]Archibald Lampman174
[Shoeing]Estelle M. Hurll175
[The Village Blacksmith]Henry Wadsworth Longfellow179
[The Search for a Western Sea]Helen Palk181
[The Moss Rose]F. A. Krummacher185
[Woodman, Spare that Tree!]George P. Morris186
[Dick Whittington]Selected187
[Somebody’s Mother]Anonymous195
[The Lord is my Shepherd]The Book of Psalms197
[Black Beauty’s Breaking In]Anna Sewell198
[The Door of Spring]Ethelwyn Wetherald204
[The Crocus’s Song]Hannah Flagg Gould206
[A Sound Opinion]Selected207
[The Soldier’s Dream]Thomas Campbell211
[March of the Men of Harlech]William Duthie212
[Hugh John Smith becomes a Soldier]Samuel R. Crockett213
[England’s Dead]Felicia Dorothea Hemans219
[A Child’s Dream of a Star]Charles Dickens221
[Excelsior]Henry Wadsworth Longfellow226
[The Sentinel’s Pouch]Selected228
[The Milkmaid]Jeffreys Taylor232
[Tom, the Water-baby]Charles Kingsley234
[An April Day]Caroline Bowles Southey241
[Pussy Willow]Anonymous243
[Laura Secord]Helen Palk244
[The Maple Leaf Forever]Alexander Muir249
[The Colors of the Flag]Frederick George Scott250
[How the Mountain was Clad]Björnstjerne Björnson252
[Lucy Gray]William Wordsworth256
[Beautiful Joe]Marshall Saunders259
[Somebody’s Darling]Marie Lacoste267
[Home, Sweet Home]John Howard Payne269
[The Beavers]Julia Augusta Schwartz270
[The Brook]Alfred, Lord Tennyson276
[The Little Postboy]Bayard Taylor278
[Hiawatha’s Friends]Henry Wadsworth Longfellow288
[The White Ship]Charles Dickens295
[The Arab and his Steed]Caroline Norton299
[A Bridge of Monkeys]Mayne Reid303
[We are Seven]William Wordsworth306
[The Mirror]From the Japanese309
[The Wreck of the Hesperus]Henry Wadsworth Longfellow314
[The Black Douglas]Sir Walter Scott318
[Bruce and the Spider]Eliza Cook322
[The Old Man of the Meadow]Julia MacNair Wright325
[John Gilpin]William Cowper329
[A Forest Fire]Susannah Moodie340
[The Horses of Gravelotte]Gerok344
[Four-leaf Clovers]Ella Higginson346
[Aladdin]Arabian Nights’ Entertainment347
[The Rapid]Charles Sangster357
[Long Life]Horatio Bonar358
[Little Daffydowndilly]Nathaniel Hawthorne359
[The Earth is the Lord’s]The Book of Psalms369
[The Singing Leaves]James Russell Lowell370
[The Clocks of Rondaine]Frank R. Stockton374
[The Camel’s Nose]Lydia Huntley Sigourney384
[Lord Ullin’s Daughter]Thomas Campbell385
[God Save the King]388