Junior High School Literature, Book 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Preface		iii
The Three Joys of Reading		ix
PART I Stories and Poems of Nature
ANIMALS
The Buffalo	Francis Parkman	1
Old Ephraim, the Grizzly Bear	Theodore Roosevelt	15
Moti Guj—Mutineer	Rudyard Kipling	27
The Elephants That Struck	Samuel White Baker	35
BIRDS
Robert of Lincoln	William Cullen Bryant	39
The Maryland Yellow-Throat	Henry van Dyke	43
The Belfry Pigeon	Nathaniel Parker Willis	45
The Sandpiper	Celia Thaxter	47
The Throstle	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	49
To the Cuckoo	William Wordsworth	50
The Birds’ Orchestra	Celia Thaxter	52
FLOWERS AND TREES
To the Fringed Gentian	William Cullen Bryant	53
Violet! Sweet Violet!	James Russell Lowell	54
To the Dandelion	James Russell Lowell	56
The Daffodils	William Wordsworth	59
The Trailing Arbutus	John Greenleaf Whittier	60
To a Mountain Daisy	Robert Burns	61
Sweet Peas	John Keats	63
Chorus of Flowers	Leigh Hunt	64
Trees	Joyce Kilmer	68
WINTER
The Great Blizzard	Hamlin Garland	69
The Frost	Hannah F. Gould	75
The Frost Spirit	John Greenleaf Whittier	76
The Snow Storm	Ralph Waldo Emerson	78
Snowflakes	Henry W. Longfellow	80
Midwinter	John T. Trowbridge	82
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind	William Shakespeare	84
When Icicles Hang by the Wall	William Shakespeare	85
PART II Adventures Old and New
Introduction		89THE LITERATURE SERIES for the Junior High School The complete series includes: Book One, for the first year. Book Two, for the second year. Book Three, for the third year. Clyx.com