Junior High School Literature, Book 1

by William H. Elson; Christine M. Keck

TABLE OF CONTENTS

		PAGE
Preface		[iii]
The Three Joys of Reading		[ix]
[PART I] Stories and Poems of Nature
[ANIMALS]
The Buffalo	Francis Parkman	[1]
Old Ephraim, the Grizzly Bear	Theodore Roosevelt	[15]
Moti Guj—Mutineer	Rudyard Kipling	[27]
The Elephants That Struck	Samuel White Baker	[35]
[BIRDS]
Robert of Lincoln	William Cullen Bryant	[39]
The Maryland Yellow-Throat	Henry van Dyke	[43]
The Belfry Pigeon	Nathaniel Parker Willis	[45]
The Sandpiper	Celia Thaxter	[47]
The Throstle	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	[49]
To the Cuckoo	William Wordsworth	[50]
The Birds’ Orchestra	Celia Thaxter	[52]
[FLOWERS AND TREES]
To the Fringed Gentian	William Cullen Bryant	[53]
Violet! Sweet Violet!	James Russell Lowell	[54]
To the Dandelion	James Russell Lowell	[56]
The Daffodils	William Wordsworth	[59]
The Trailing Arbutus	John Greenleaf Whittier	[60]
To a Mountain Daisy	Robert Burns	[61]
Sweet Peas	John Keats	[63]
Chorus of Flowers	Leigh Hunt	[64]
Trees	Joyce Kilmer	[68]
[WINTER]
The Great Blizzard	Hamlin Garland	[69]
The Frost	Hannah F. Gould	[75]
The Frost Spirit	John Greenleaf Whittier	[76]
The Snow Storm	Ralph Waldo Emerson	[78]
Snowflakes	Henry W. Longfellow	[80]
Midwinter	John T. Trowbridge	[82]
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind	William Shakespeare	[84]
When Icicles Hang by the Wall	William Shakespeare	[85]
[PART II] Adventures Old and New
Introduction		[89]
[THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY]
King Arthur Stories Adapted from	Sir Thomas Malory
The Coming of Arthur		[91]
The Story of Gareth		[105]
The Peerless Knight Lancelot		[126]
The Passing of Arthur		[149]
[NARRATIVES IN VERSE]
Sir Patrick Spens	Folk Ballad	[168]
The Skeleton in Armor	Henry W. Longfellow	[171]
The Three Fishers	Charles Kingsley	[177]
Lord Ullin’s Daughter	Thomas Campbell	[178]
The Pipes at Lucknow	John Greenleaf Whittier	[181]
Spanish Waters	John Masefield	[184]
Kilmeny—a Song of the Trawlers	Alfred Noyes	[186]
The Guards Came Through	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	[188]
[STORIES OF THE SEA]
A Descent Into the Maelstrom	Edgar Allan Poe	[191]
The Wreck of the Golden Mary	Charles Dickens	[210]
[TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE]
As You Like It	Charles and Mary Lamb	[259]
The Tempest	Charles and Mary Lamb	[275]
[PART III] Ideals and Heroes of Freedom
Introduction		[289]
[SCOTLAND’S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE]
Tales of a Grandfather	Sir Walter Scott	[293]
The Story of Sir William Wallace		[293]
Robert the Bruce		[301]
The Battle of Bannockburn		[311]
Exploits of Douglas and Randolph		[318]
The Parting of Marmion and Douglas	Sir Walter Scott	[325]
Bruce’s Address at Bannockburn	Robert Burns	[328]
[ENGLAND AND FREEDOM]
The Last Fight of the Revenge	Sir Walter Raleigh	[330]
Ye Mariners of England	Thomas Campbell	[336]
England and America Natural Allies	John Richard Green	[338]
England and America in 1782	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	[340]
England To Free Men	John Galsworthy	[341]
Men Who March Away	Thomas Hardy	[343]
[EARLY AMERICAN SPIRIT OF FREEDOM]
Grandfather’s Chair	Nathaniel Hawthorne	[345]
How New England Was Governed		[345]
The Pine-tree Shillings		[349]
The Stamp Act		[354]
British Soldiers Stationed in Boston		[359]
The Boston Massacre		[364]
Some Famous Portraits		[370]
The Gray Champion	Nathaniel Hawthorne	[376]
Warren’s Address at Bunker Hill	John Pierpont	[385]
Liberty Or Death	Patrick Henry	[386]
George Washington To His Wife		[390]
George Washington To Governor Clinton		[393]
Song of Marion’s Men	William Cullen Bryant	[395]
Times That Try Men’s Souls	Thomas Paine	[397]
[PART IV] Literature and Life in the Homeland
Introduction		[403]
[EARLY AMERICA]
The Character of Columbus	Archbishop Corrigan	[405]
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers	Felicia Hemans	[407]
Philip of Pokanoket	Washington Irving	[409]
The Courtship of Miles Standish	Henry W. Longfellow	[427]
[AMERICAN SCENES AND LEGENDS]
My Visit To Niagara	Nathaniel Hawthorne	[466]
On a Florida River	Sidney Lanier	[473]
I Sigh for the Land of the Cypress	Samuel Henry Dickson	[477]
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	Washington Irving	[479]
The Great Stone Face	Nathaniel Hawthorne	[510]
[AMERICAN LITERATURE OF LIGHTER VEIN]
The Celebrated Jumping Frog	Mark Twain	[531]
The Height of the Ridiculous	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[538]
The Gift of the Magi	O. Henry	[541]
The Renowned Wouter van Twiller	Washington Irving	[547]
[AMERICAN WORKERS AND THEIR WORK]
Makers of the Flag	Franklin K. Lane	[553]
I Hear America Singing	Walt Whitman	[556]
Pioneers! O Pioneers!	Walt Whitman	[557]
The Beanfield	Henry David Thoreau	[559]
Ship-builders	John Greenleaf Whittier	[562]
The Builders	Henry W. Longfellow	[566]
[LOVE OF COUNTRY]
The Flower of Liberty	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[568]
Old Ironsides	Oliver Wendell Holmes	[570]
The American Flag	Henry Ward Beecher	[572]
The American Flag	Joseph Rodman Drake	[574]
The Flag Goes By	Henry H. Bennett	[577]
The Star-spangled Banner	Francis Scott Key	[578]
Citizenship	William Pierce Frye	[580]
The Character of Washington	Thomas Jefferson	[583]
The Twenty-second of February	William Cullen Bryant	[586]
Abraham Lincoln	Richard H. Stoddard	[587]
O Captain! My Captain!	Walt Whitman	[588]
In Flanders Fields	John D. McCrae	[590]
America’s Answer	R. W. Lillard	[591]
Glossary		[592]

THE LITERATURE SERIES
for the Junior High School

The complete series includes:

• Book One, for the first year.
• Book Two, for the second year.
• Book Three, for the third year.

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THE THREE JOYS OF READING

The picture on this page is called “A Reading from Homer.” Study each of the people who form the group. Judging from their dress and appearance, do you think they are people of the present time or of the ancient world? From what sort of book is the poet reading? Should you think such “books” could be owned by all sorts of people, or only by a few? Study the reader’s expression. What sort of story do you think he is reading? Can you decide anything about the listeners, who they are and what they are thinking about? Who is most deeply interested in the story, and why?