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material incorporated in this volume, thanks are due as follows for permissions to reprint:
To D. Appleton & Company, Publishers, for permission to use "A Battle with a Whale" from Frank T. Bullen's The Cruise of the Cachalot; to Thomas B. Harned, Literary Executor of Walt Whitman, for permission to reprint "O Captain! My Captain."
"The Stagecoach," from Mark Twain's Roughing It, is used by express permission of the Estate of Samuel L. Clemens, the Mark Twain Company, and Harper & Brothers, Publishers.
Selections by Emerson, Hawthorne, Holmes, Longfellow, Amy Lowell, James Russell Lowell, Sill, Thoreau, and Whittier are used by permission of and special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers of these authors.
Acknowledgment is made to the American Book Company for the use of selections by James Baldwin, John Esten Cooke, Edward Eggleston, H��l��ne Guerber, Joel Chandler Harris, William Dean Howells, James Johonnot, Orison Swett Marden, W. F. Markwick and W. A. Smith, Frank R. Stockton, and Maurice Thompson.

CONTENTS
PAGE A SHEAF OF LEGENDS
Ali Hafed's Quest Orison Swett Marden 13 How Kilhugh Rode to Arthur's Hall James Baldwin 18 The Gift of the White Bear George Webbe Dasent 25 The Story of Iron 31 The Wonderful Artisan James Baldwin 39 Charlemagne and Roland H��l��ne A. Guerber 46 Keeping the Bridge Thomas Babington Macaulay 50
PIONEER DAYS
The Story of Molly Pitcher Frank R. Stockton 57 King Philip to the White Settlers Edward Everett 60 Pioneer Life in Ohio William Dean Howells 62 Witchcraft Nathaniel Hawthorne 70 Tea Parties in Old New York Washington Irving 70 A School of Long Ago Edward Eggleston 73 French Life in the Northwest James Baldwin 77 A Bear Story Maurice Thompson 82 A Patriot of Georgia Joel Chandler Harris 85 Song of the Pioneers W. D. Gallagher 87
SPECIAL DAYS
Columbus and the Eclipse James Johonnot 91 First Thanksgiving Day Proclamation George Washington 93 Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, 1905 Theodore Roosevelt 93 Harvest Song James Montgomery 95 The Cratchits' Christmas Charles Dickens 96 The Holiday Spirit ��mile Souvestre 101 Christmas in the Pines Meredith Nicholson 106 The New Year's Dinner Party Charles Lamb 108 Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln 111 O Captain! My Captain Walt Whitman 114 Washington's Greatest Battle Frederick Trever Hill 116 John James Audubon W. F. Markwick and W. A. Smith 122 Memorial Day, 1917 Woodrow Wilson 125
ADVENTURE
A Grandstand Seat in the Sky Howard Mingos 129 Prayer for the Pilot Cecil Roberts 137 A Battle with a Whale Frank T. Bullen 138 The Glove and the Lions Leigh Hunt 145 How Buck Won the Bet Jack London 147 The Loss of the Drake Charlotte M. Yonge 151 The Walrus Hunt Robert M. Ballantyne 155 The Rescue 158 Descending the Grand Ca?on 162 Night Fishing in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 164 A Ballad of East and West Rudyard Kipling 168
UNDER THE OPEN SKY
A Night among the Pines Robert Louis Stevenson 177 Autumn on the Farm John Greenleaf Whittier 183 Goldenrod Elaine Goodale Eastman 186 The Palisades John Masefield 188 On the Grasshopper and Cricket John Keats 189 To a Waterfowl William Cullen Bryant 190 A Night in the Tropics Richard Henry Dana, Jr. 192 A Winter Ride Amy Lowell 193 The Snowstorm Ralph Waldo Emerson 194 Snow-Bound John Greenleaf Whittier 195 Tom Pinch's Ride Charles Dickens 198 Ode to a Butterfly Thomas Wentworth Higginson 201 In the Desert A. W. Kinglake 203 May is Building her House Richard Le Gallienne 207 The Daffodils William Wordsworth 208 The Falls of Lodore Robert Southey 210
STORIES THAT TEACH
An Adventure in Brotherhood 215 The Prayer Perfect James Whitcomb Riley 217 Get Out or Get in Line Elbert Hubbard 218 John Marshall of Virginia John Esten Cooke 224 Opportunity Edward Rowland Sill 227 Boy Wanted Dr. Frank Crane 228 John Littlejohn Charles Mackay 230 The Discontented Pendulum 232 Two Sides to Every Question 235 If I were a Boy Washington Gladden 237 The Lesson of the Water Mill Sarah Doudney 239 A Motto of Oxford 241 Sailing and Failing Hamilton W. Mabie 242 Use and Abuse of Time Archer Brown 243 Hidden Treasure Charles Reade 245 The Solitary Reaper William Wordsworth 249
IN GOOD HUMOR
The Stagecoach Mark Twain 253 The Chameleon James Merrick 261 The Pickwick Club on Ice Charles Dickens 263 Darius Green and his Flying Machine John Townsend Trowbridge 270 Aunt Doleful's Visit 279 Gradgrind's Idea of Education Charles Dickens 281 The Deacon's Masterpiece, or The Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay" Oliver Wendell Holmes 286 The Schoolmaster's Ride Washington Irving 291 Signing Petitions 296
IN TIME OF WAR
Great Little Rivers Frazier Hunt 299 The Burial of Sir John Moore Charles Wolfe 302 Lexington and Concord William Emerson 304 Herv�� Riel Robert Browning 307 The Song of the Camp Bayard Taylor 313 Cabin Boy and Admiral 315 Little Giffen Francis O. Ticknor 320 Marco Bozzaris Fitz-Greene Halleck 322 San Juan Hill General John J. Pershing 325 Burial