TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

SHORT STORIES AND SELECTIONS

A LEAF IN THE STORM

CATS

AN ADVENTURE

FOR THOSE WHO LOVE MUSIC

OUT OF DOORS

THE TABOO

SCHOOL DAYS AT THE CONVENT

IN BRITTANY

THE ADIRONDACKS

AN ASCENT OF KILAUEA

THE FETISH

SALMON FISHING IN IRELAND

ACROSS RUNNING WATER

THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS

THE WHITE TRAIL

A DISSERTATION ON ROAST PIG

THE LAST CLASS

AN ARAB FISHERMAN

THE ARCHERY CONTEST

BABY SYLVESTER

ADDRESS AT GETTYSBURG

SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS

AN APPRECIATION OF LINCOLN

THE ELEPHANTS THAT STRUCK

THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP

THE STORY OF MUHANNAD DIN

A CHILD

TOO DEAR FOR THE WHISTLE

A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT

A BAD FIVE MINUTES IN THE ALPS

THE GOLD TRAIL

TWENTY YEARS OF ARCTIC STRUGGLE

HENRY WARD BEECHER'S ACCOUNT OF HIS SPEECH IN MANCHESTER

A GREEN DONKEY DRIVER

A NIGHT IN THE PINES

LIFE IN OLD NEW YORK

THE BAZAAR IN MOROCCO

A BATTLE OF THE ANTS

AN AFRICAN PET

ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE

BUCK'S TRIAL OF STRENGTH

ON THE SOLANDER WHALING GROUND

AN EPISODE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

THE COMMANDER OF THE FAITHFUL

WALT WHITMAN

HEROISM IN HOUSEKEEPING

A YOUTHFUL ACTOR

WAR

COON-HUNTING

SIGHT IN SAVAGES

THE VILLAGE SCHOOLMASTER

Title: Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools

Author: Emilie Kip Baker

Language: English

Produced by V-M Österman, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

SHORT STORIES AND SELECTIONS

FOR USE IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS

COMPILED AND ANNOTATED, WITH QUESTIONS FOR STUDY BY EMILIE KIP BAKER

[Illustration: Walter Scott's Library at Abbotsford]