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Reaper and the Flowers.
Longfellow. 29. The Town Pump Hawthorne. 30. Good Night Peter
Parley. 31. An Old-fashioned Girl Louisa M. Alcott. 32. My Mother's
Hands 33. The Discontented Pendulum. Jane Taylor. 34. The Death of
the Flowers Bryant. 35. The Thunderstorm Irving. 36. April Day Mrs.
C. A. Southey. 37. The Tea Rose 38. The Cataract of Lodore Southey.
39. The Bobolink Irving. 40. Robert of Lincoln Bryant. 41. Rebellion in
Massachusetts State Prison J. T. Buckingham. 42. Faithless Nelly Gray
Hood. 43. The Generous Russian Peasant Nikolai Karamzin. 44. Forty
Years Ago 45. Mrs. Caudle's Lecture Douglas Jerrold. 46. The Village
Blacksmith Longfellow. 47. The Relief of Lucknow "London Times."
48. The Snowstorm Thomson. 49. Behind Time 50. The Old Sampler
Mrs. M. E. Sangster. 51. The Goodness of God Bible. 52. My Mother
53. The Hour of Prayer Mrs. F. D. Hemans. 54. The Will 55. The Nose
and the Eyes Cowper. 56. An Iceberg L. L. Noble. 57. About Quail W.
P. Hawes. 58. The Blue and the Gray F. M. Finch. 59. The Machinist's
Return Washington "Capital." 60. Make Way for Liberty James
Montgomery. 61. The English Skylark Elihu Burritt. 62. How Sleep the
Brave William Collins. 63. The Rainbow John Keble. 64. Supposed
Speech of John Adams Daniel Webster. 65. The Rising T. R. Read. 66.
Control your Temper Dr. John Todd. 67. William Tell Sheridan
Knowles. 68. William Tell Sheridan Knowles. 69. The Crazy Engineer

70. The Heritage Lowell. 71. No Excellence without Labor William
Wirt. 72. The Old House Clock 73. The Examination. D. P. Thompson.
74. The Isle of Long Ago B. F. Taylor. 75. The Boston Massacre
Bancroft. 76. Death of the Beautiful Mrs. E. L. Follen. 77. Snow
Falling J. J. Piatt. 78. Squeers's Method Dickens. 79. The Gift of Empty
Hands Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt. 80. Capturing the Wild Horse Irving. 81.
Sowing and Reaping Adelaide Anne Procter. 82. Taking Comfort
Whittier. 83. Calling the Roll Shepherd. 84. Turtle Soup C. F. Briggs.
85. The Best Kind of Revenge 86. The Soldier of the Rhine Mrs. C. E.
S. Norton. 87. The Winged Worshipers Charles Sprague. 88. The
Peevish Wife Maria Edgeworth. 89. The Rainy Day Longfellow. 90.
Break, Break, Break Tennyson. 91. Transportation and Planting of
Seeds H. D. Thoreau. 92. Spring Again Mrs. Celia Thaxter. 93.
Religion the only Basis of Society W. E. Channing. 94. Rock Me to
Sleep Mrs. E. A. Allen. 95. Man and the Inferior Animals Jane Taylor.
96. The Blind Men and the Elephant J. G. Saxe. 97. A Home Scene D.
G. Mitchell. 98. The Light of Other Days Moore. 99. A Chase in the
English Channel Cooper. 100. Burial of Sir John Moore Charles Wolfe.
101. Little Victories Harriet Martineau. 102. The Character of a Happy
Life Sir Henry Wotton. 103. The Art of Discouragement Arthur Helps.
104. The Mariner's Dream William Dimond. 105. The Passenger
Pigeon Audubon. 106. The Country Life R. H. Stoddard. 107. The
Virginians Thackeray. 108. Minot's Ledge Fitz-James O'Brien. 109.
Hamlet. Shakespeare. 110. Dissertation on Roast Pig Charles Lamb.
111. A Pen Picture William Black. 112. The Great Voices C. T. Brooks.
113. A Picture of Human Life Samuel Johnson. 114. A Summer
Longing George Arnold. 115. Fate Bret Harte. 116. The Bible the Best
of Classics T. S. Grimke. 117. My Mother's Bible G. P. Morris.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
SUBJECT. ARTIST.
The Good Reader H. F. Farny. The Fish I Did n't Catch H. F. Farny.
The Corn Song E. K. Foote. I Pity Them. W. L. Sheppard. The Town
Pump Howard Pyle. Good Night J. A. Knapp. The Tea Rose C. S.

Reinhart. Forty Years Ago H. Fenn. The Old Sampler Mary Hallock
Foote. The Old Sampler Mary Hallock Foote. About Quail Alexander
Pope. The Crazy Engineer H. F. Farny. Squeers's Method Howard Pyle.
Turtle Soup W. L. Sheppard. Hamlet Alfred Fredericks.

INTRODUCTION.
1. PRELIMINARY REMARKS.
The great object to be accomplished in reading, as a rhetorical exercise,
is to convey to the hearer, fully and clearly, the ideas and feelings of
the writer.
In order to do this, it is necessary that a selection should be carefully
studied by the pupil before he attempts to read it. In accordance with
this view, a preliminary rule of importance is the following:
RULE 1.--Before attempting to read a lesson, the learner should make
himself fully acquainted with the subject as treated of in that lesson,
and endeavor to make the thought and feeling and sentiments of the
writer his own.
REMARK.--When he has thus identified himself with the author, he
has the substance of all rules in his own mind. It is by going to nature
that we find rules. The child or the savage orator never mistakes in
inflection or emphasis