The Ontario Readers

The Ontario Readers

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Title: The Ontario Readers Third Book
Author: Ontario Ministry of Education
Release Date: June 12, 2006 [EBook #18561]
Language: English
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THE ONTARIO READERS
THIRD BOOK
AUTHORIZED BY
THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION

The price of this book to the purchaser is not the total cost. During the
present period of abnormal and fluctuating trade conditions, an
additional sum, which may vary from time to time, is paid to the
Publisher by the Department of Education.

Entered, according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year 1909,
in the office of the Minister of Agriculture by the Minister of Education
for Ontario.

TORONTO: THE T. EATON Co LIMITED

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION is indebted to Rudyard Kipling,
Henry Newbolt, Beckles Willson, E. B. Osborn, F. T. Bullen, Flora
Annie Steel; Charles G. D. Roberts, W. Wilfred Campbell, Ethelwyn
Wetherald, Jean Blewett, Robert Reid, "Ralph Connor," John Waugh, S.
T. Wood; Henry Van Dyke, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and Richard
Watson Gilder for special permission to reproduce, in this Reader,
selections from their writings.
He is indebted to Lord Tennyson for special permission to reproduce
the poems from the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson; to Lloyd

Osbourne for permission to reproduce the selection from the works of
Robert Louis Stevenson; and to J. F. Edgar for permission to reproduce
one of Sir James D. Edgar's poems.
He is also indebted to Macmillan & Co., Limited, for special
permission, to reproduce selections from the works of Alfred, Lord
Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, and Flora Annie Steel; to Smith, Elder &
Co., for the extract from F. T. Bullen's "The Cruise of the Cachalot"; to
Elkin Mathews for Henry Newbolt's poem from "The Island Race"; to
Sampson Low, Marston & Company for the extract from R. D.
Blackmore's "Lorna Doone"; to Thomas Nelson & Sons for the extract
from W. F. Collier's "History of the British Empire"; to Chatto and
Windus for the extract from E. B. Osborn's "Greater Canada"; to
Houghton Mifflin Company for "The Chase" from Charles Dudley
Warner's "A-Hunting of the Deer," "Mary Elizabeth" by Mrs. Phelps
Ward, and the poems by Celia Thaxter and by Richard Watson Gilder;
to The Century Company for Jacob A. Riis' "The Story of a Fire" from
"The Century Magazine"; to The Copp Clark Co., Limited, for the
selections from Charles G. D. Roberts' works; to The Westminster Co.,
Limited, for the extract from "Ralph Connor's" "The Man from
Glengarry."
The Minister is grateful to these authors and publishers and to others,
not mentioned here, through whose courtesy he has been able to
include in this Reader so many copyright selections.
Toronto, May, 1909.

CONTENTS
PAGE
To-day Thomas Carlyle 1
Fortune and the Beggar Ivan Kirloff 2
The Lark and the Rook Unknown 4

The Pickwick Club on the Ice Charles Dickens 6
Tubal Cain Charles Mackay 11
Professor Frog's Lecture M. A. L. Lane 14
A Song for April Charles G. D. Roberts 25
How the Crickets Brought Good Fortune P. J. Stahl 26
The Battle of Blenheim Robert Southey 31
The Ride for Life "Ralph Connor" 34
Iagoo, the Boaster Henry W. Longfellow 39
The Story of a Fire Jacob A. Riis 40
The Quest Eudora S. Bumstead 43
The Jackal and the Partridge Flora Annie Steel 44
Hide and Seek Henry Van Dyke 50
The Burning of the "Goliath" Dean Stanley 52
Hearts of Oak David Garrick 55
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea Allan Cunningham 56
The Talents Bible 57
A Farewell Charles Kingsley 59
An Apple Orchard in the Spring William Martin 60
The Bluejay "Mark Twain" 61
A Canadian Camping Song Sir James David Edgar 65

The Argonauts John Waugh 66
The Minstrel-Boy Thomas Moore 71
Mary Elizabeth Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward 72
The Frost Hannah Flagg Gould 83
Corn-fields Mary Howitt 84
South-West Wind, Esq. John Ruskin 86
The Meeting of the Waters Thomas Moore 97
Love Bible 98
The Robin's Song Unknown 99
Work or Play "Mark Twain" 100
Burial of Sir John Moore Charles Wolfe 106
The Whistle Benjamin Franklin 108
A Canadian Boat Song Thomas Moore 109
The Little