PREFACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE THREE JOYS OF READING

PART I STORIES AND POEMS OF NATURE

PART II ADVENTURES OLD AND NEW

PART III IDEALS AND HEROES OF FREEDOM

PART IV LITERATURE AND LIFE IN THE HOMELAND

GLOSSARY

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
LITERATURE

BOOK ONE

BY
WILLIAM H. ELSON
AUTHOR ELSON READERS AND GOOD ENGLISH SERIES

AND

CHRISTINE M. KECK
HEAD UNION JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY
CHICAGO ATLANTA NEW YORK

Copyright 1919
By Scott, Foresman and Company

For permission to use copyrighted material grateful acknowledgment is made to The London Times for “The Guards Came Through” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; to Thomas Hardy for “Men Who March Away” from The London Times; to John Galsworthy for “England to Free Men” from The Westminster Gazette; to John Masefield for “Spanish Waters”; to Hamlin Garland for “The Great Blizzard” from Boy Life on the Prairie; to Doubleday Page & Co. for “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry; to G. P. Putnam’s Sons for “Old Ephraim, the Grizzly Bear,” from The Wilderness Hunter by Theodore Roosevelt; to the George H. Doran Company for “Trees” from Trees and Other Poems by Joyce Kilmer; to Mr. R. W. Lillard for “America’s Answer” from The New York Evening Post; to Horace Traubel for “Pioneers! O Pioneers!”, “I Hear America Singing”, “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman; to Charles Scribner’s Sons for “On a Florida River” by Sidney Lanier, from The Lanier Book, copyright 1904; and to Frederick A. Stokes Company for “Kilmeny—A Song of the Trawlers” by Alfred Noyes from The New Morning, copyright 1919.

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