TABLE OF CONTENTS
Hetty Sibyl Browne
LEGENDS OF OUR LAND
Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving
9
The Great Stone Face
Nathaniel Hawthorne
33
The Courtship of Miles Standish
Henry W. Longfellow
59
The Friendship of Nantaquas
Mary Johnston
79
HOME SCENES
Harry Esmond’s Boyhood
Wm. Makepeace Thackeray
112
The Family Holds Its Head Up
Oliver Goldsmith
126
The Little Boy in the Balcony
Henry W. Grady
138
Ariel’s Triumph
Booth Tarkington
141
NATURE AND ANIMALS
The Cloud
Percy Bysshe Shelley
160
New England Weather
Mark Twain
162
The First Snowfall
James Russell Lowell
166
Old Ephraim
Theodore Roosevelt
168
Midwinter
John Townsend Trowbridge
175
A Georgia Fox Hunt
Joel Chandler Harris
177
Rain and Wind
Madison Julius Cawein
192
The Southern Sky
Matthew Fontaine Maury
193
Daffodils
William Wordsworth
195
Dawn
Edward Everett
196
Spring
Henry Timrod
198
MOVING ADVENTURE
Among the Cliffs
Charles Egbert Craddock
201
A Deal in Bears
W. Cutcliffe Hyne
217
Lochinvar
Sir Walter Scott
232
In Labrador
H. G. Wells
235
He Was Tempted to Repeat the Draught
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He Was Tempted to Repeat the Draught
Rip Van Winkle
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