School Reading By Grades: Fifth Year

CONTENTS.

	ADAPTED FROM	PAGE
Something about Books	John Ruskin	7
Old Chiron’s School	Charles Kingsley	12
The Dog of Montargis	Old Legend	19
The Old Oaken Bucket	Samuel Woodworth	29
The Village Blacksmith	Henry W. Longfellow	30
The Choice of Hercules		34
Christmas at the Cratchits’	Charles Dickens	37
On the Mountain	St. Matthew	45
Betsey Hull’s Wedding	Nathaniel Hawthorne	48
Ulysses and the Cyclops	Homer’s “Odyssey”	54
The Brook	Alfred Tennyson	67
The Lady of Shalott	Alfred Tennyson	70
Lessons from Nature’s Book	Sir Archibald Geikie	79
The Goodman of Ballengiech	Sir Walter Scott	87
Bugle Song	Alfred Tennyson	92
Some Experiences at Sea	Richard Henry Dana, Jr.	93
The King and the Rebel	Charles E. A. GayarrÉ	97
Daniel Boone	George Bancroft	100
Fulton’s First Steamboat	Robert Fulton	108
The Planting of the Apple Tree	William Cullen Bryant	111
The Corn Song	John G. Whittier	114
Hunting the Walrus		117
The Destruction of Pompeii.
I. History	Charles Kingsley	124
II. R Acknowledgments are due to Messrs. Charles Scribner’s Sons, publishers of the works of Eugene Field, for permission to use the poem entitled “The Wanderer”; to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., publishers of the works of H. W. Longfellow and J. G. Whittier, for the use of “The Village Blacksmith” and “The Corn Song”; and to The J. B. Lippincott Company, publishers of the poems of T. Buchanan Read, for the piece entitled “The Stranger on the Sill.” Clyx.com