The Ontario Readers | Page 2

158
A Rough Ride Richard D. Blackmore 161
The Arab and His Steed The Honourable Mrs. Norton 169
The Poet's Song Alfred, Lord Tennyson 173
Adventure with a Whale Frank T. Bullen 174
The Maple H. F. Darnell 179
Damon and Pythias Charlotte M. Yonge 181
The Wreck of the Orpheus C. A. L. 184
The Tide River Charles Kingsley 185
Wisdom the Supreme Prize Bible 187
The Orchard Jean Blewett 188
Inspired by the Snow Samuel T. Wood 189
The Squirrel William Cowper 192
Soldier, Rest Sir Walter Scott 192
Fishing Thomas Hughes 193
The Fountain James Russell Lowell 199
Break, Break, Break Alfred, Lord Tennyson 201
The Bed of Procrustes Charles Kingsley 202
"Bob White" George Cooper 208
Radisson and the Indians Beckles Willson 209
The Brook Alfred, Lord Tennyson 212
"Do Seek Their Meat From God" Charles G. D. Roberts 215
A Song of the Sea "Barry Cornwall" 222
Little Daffydowndilly Nathaniel Hawthorne 223
The Sandpiper Celia Thaxter 234
From "The Sermon on the Mount" Bible 236
The Legend of Saint Christopher Helen Hunt Jackson 237
William Tell and His Son Chamber's "Tracts" 241
A Midsummer Song Richard Watson Gilder 244
The Relief of Lucknow "Letter from an officer's wife" 246
The Song in Camp Bayard Taylor 250
Afterglow William Wilfred Campbell 252
King Richard and Saladin Sir Walter Scott 253
England's Dead Felicia Hemans 258
Hohenlinden Thomas Campbell 260
The Dream of the Oak Tree Hans Christian Andersen 262
A Prayer Robert Louis Stevenson 266
The Death of the Flowers William Cullen Bryant 267
'Tis the Last Rose of Summer Thomas Moore 269
A Roman's Honour Charlotte M. Yonge 270
The Fighting Téméraire Henry Newbolt 273
Don Quixote's Fight with the Windmills Miguel de Cervantes 275
The Romance of the Swan's Nest Elizabeth Barrett Browning 281
Moonlight Sonata Unknown 285
The Red-Winged Blackbird Ethelwyn Wetherald 290
To the Cuckoo John Logan 291
The Story of a Stone D. B. 293
The Snow-Storm John G. Whittier 298
The Heroine of Verchères Francis Parkman 301
Jacques Cartier Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee 307
Ants and Their Slaves Jules Michelet 310
Lead, Kindly Light John Henry Newman 315
The Jolly Sandboys Charles Dickens 316
The Gladness of Nature William Cullen Bryant 324
Old English Life William F. Collier 325
Puck's Song Rudyard Kipling 330
The Battle of Queenston Heights Unknown 332
The Bugle Song Alfred, Lord Tennyson 337
Charity Bible 338
A Christmas Carol James Russell Lowell 339
The Barren Lands E. B. Osborn 341
A Spring Morning William Wordsworth 345
Crossing the Bar Alfred, Lord Tennyson 346

EMPIRE DAY
I want you to remember what Empire Day means. Empire Day is the festival on which every British subject should reverently remember that the British Empire stands out before the whole world as the fearless champion of freedom, fair play and equal rights; that its watchwords are responsibility, duty, sympathy and self-sacrifice, and that a special responsibility rests with you individually to be true to the traditions and to the mission of your race.
I also want you to remember that one day Canada will become, if her people are faithful to their high British traditions, the most powerful of all the self-governing nations, not excluding the people of the United Kingdom, which make up the British Empire, and that it rests with each one of you individually to do your utmost by your own conduct and example to make Canada not only the most powerful, but the noblest of all the self-governing nations that are proud to owe allegiance to the King.
Earl Grey. Governor-General of Canada

THIRD READER

TO-DAY
So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away?
Out of Eternity This new day is born; Into Eternity At night will return.
Behold it aforetime No eye ever did; So soon it forever From all eyes is hid.
Here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away?
CARLYLE

FORTUNE AND THE BEGGAR
One day a ragged beggar was creeping along from house to house. He carried an old wallet in his hand, and was asking at every door for a few cents to buy something to eat. As he was grumbling at his lot, he kept wondering why it was that folks who had so much money were never satisfied but were always wanting more.
"Here," said he, "is the master of this house--I know him well. He was always a good business man, and he made himself wondrously rich a long time ago. Had he been wise he would have stopped then. He would have turned over his business to some one else, and then he could have spent the rest of his life in ease. But what did he do instead? He built ships and sent them to sea to trade with foreign lands. He thought he would get mountains of gold.
"But there were great storms on the water; his ships were wrecked, and his riches were swallowed up by the waves. Now all his hopes lie at the bottom of the sea, and his great wealth has vanished.
"There are many such cases. Men seem to be never satisfied unless they gain the whole world.
"As for me, if I had