SEVENTH YEAR BY
E. C. HARTWELL, M.A., M.Pd.
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
A SHEAF OF LEGENDS
ALI HAFED'S QUEST By Orison Swett Marden
HOW KILHUGH RODE TO ARTHUR'S HALL By James Baldwin
THE GIFT OF THE WHITE BEAR By George Webbe Dasent
THE STORY OF IRON
THE WONDERFUL ARTISAN By James Baldwin
CHARLEMAGNE AND ROLAND By HElEne A. Guerber
KEEPING THE BRIDGE By Thomas Babington Macaulay
PIONEER DAYS
THE STORY OF MOLLY PITCHER By Frank R. Stockton
KING PHILIP TO THE WHITE SETTLERS By Edward Everett
PIONEER LIFE IN OHIO By William Dean Howells
WITCHCRAFT By Nathaniel Hawthorne
TEA PARTIES IN OLD NEW YORK By Washington Irving
A SCHOOL OF LONG AGO By Edward Eggleston
FRENCH LIFE IN THE NORTHWEST By James Baldwin
A BEAR STORY By Maurice Thompson
A PATRIOT OF GEORGIA By Joel Chandler Harris
SONG OF THE PIONEERS By W. D. Gallagher A song for the early
SPECIAL DAYS
COLUMBUS AND THE ECLIPSE By James Johonnot
FIRST THANKSGIVING DAY PROCLAMATION By George Washington , 1789
THANKSGIVING DAY PROCLAMATION, 1905 By Theodore Roosevelt
HARVEST SONG By James Montgomery The God of harvest praise; In
THE CRATCHITS' CHRISTMAS By Charles Dickens
THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT By Emile Souvestre
CHRISTMAS IN THE PINES By Meredith Nicholson
THE NEW YEAR'S DINNER PARTY By Charles Lamb
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN ( Written for Jesse W. Fell , December 20, 1859)
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN By Walt Whitman
WASHINGTON'S GREATEST BATTLE By Frederick Trevor Hill
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON By W. F. Markwick and W. A. Smith
MEMORIAL DAY, 1917 By Woodrow Wilson
ADVENTURE
A GRANDSTAND SEAT IN THE SKY By Howard Mingos
PRAYER FOR THE PILOT By Cecil Roberts Lord of Sea and Earth and
A BATTLE WITH A WHALE By Frank T. Bullen
THE GLOVE AND THE LIONS By Leigh Hunt
HOW BUCK WON THE BET By Jack London
THE LOSS OF THE DRAKE By Charlotte M. Yonge
THE WALRUS HUNT By Robert M. Ballantyne
THE RESCUE
DESCENDING THE GRAND CAnON
NIGHT FISHING IN THE SOUTH SEAS By Frederick O'Brien
A BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST By Rudyard Kipling
UNDER THE OPEN SKY
A NIGHT AMONG THE PINES By Robert Louis Stevenson
AUTUMN ON THE FARM By John Greenleaf Whittier
GOLDENROD By Elaine Goodale Eastman
THE PALISADES By John Masefield
ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET By John Keats The poetry of
TO A WATERFOWL By William Cullen Bryant
A NIGHT IN THE TROPICS By Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
A WINTER RIDE By Amy Lowell Who shall declare the joy of the
THE SNOWSTORM By Ralph Waldo Emerson
SNOW-BOUND By John Greenleaf Whittier The sun that brief
TOM PINCH'S RIDE By Charles Dickens
ODE TO A BUTTERFLY By Thomas Wentworth Higginson
IN THE DESERT By A. W. Kinglake
MAY IS BUILDING HER HOUSE By Richard Le Gallienne
THE DAFFODILS By William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a
THE FALLS OF LODORE By Robert Southey
STORIES THAT TEACH
AN ADVENTURE IN BROTHERHOOD
THE PRAYER PERFECT By James Whitcomb Riley Dear Lord! kind
GET OUT OR GET IN LINE By Elbert Hubbard
JOHN MARSHALL OF VIRGINIA By John Esten Cooke
OPPORTUNITY By Edward Rowland Sill
BOY WANTED By Dr. Frank Crane
JOHN LITTLEJOHN By Charles Mackay John Littlejohn was stanch
THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM
TWO SIDES TO EVERY QUESTION
IF I WERE A BOY By Washington Gladden
THE LESSON OF THE WATER MILL By Sarah Doudney Listen to the
A MOTTO OF OXFORD
SAILING AND FAILING By Hamilton W. Mabie
USE AND ABUSE OF TIME By Archer Brown
HIDDEN TREASURE By Charles Reade
THE SOLITARY REAPER By William Wordsworth
IN GOOD HUMOR
THE STAGECOACH By Mark Twain
THE CHAMELEON By James Merrick Two travelers of conceited cast,
THE PICKWICK CLUB ON ICE By Charles Dickens
DARIUS GREEN AND HIS FLYING MACHINE By John Townsend Trowbridge
AUNT DOLEFUL'S VISIT
GRADGRIND'S IDEA OF EDUCATION By Charles Dickens
THE DEACON'S MASTERPIECE, OR THE WONDERFUL "ONE-HOSS SHAY" By Oliver Wendell Holmes
THE SCHOOLMASTER'S RIDE By Washington Irving
SIGNING PETITIONS
IN TIME OF WAR
GREAT LITTLE RIVERS By Frazier Hunt
THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE By Charles Wolfe
LEXINGTON AND CONCORD By William Emerson
HERVE RIEL By Robert Browning
THE SONG OF THE CAMP By Bayard Taylor
CABIN BOY AND ADMIRAL
LITTLE GIFFEN By Francis O. Ticknor
MARCO BOZZARIS By Fitz-Greene Halleck
SAN JUAN HILL By General John J. Pershing
BURIAL OF A SOLDIER IN FRANCE By Gerald M. Dwyer
OUR COUNTRY
AMERICA FOR ME By Henry van Dyke
WARREN'S ADDRESS AT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL By John Pierpont
WHAT IS AN AMERICAN? By Hector Saint Jean de CrEvecoeur
THE RISING OF '76 By Thomas Buchanan Read
OUR OWN COUNTRY By James Montgomery There is a land of every
PATRICK HENRY'S SPEECH
ABRAHAM LINCOLN TO MRS. BIXBY
THE FLOWER OF LIBERTY By Oliver Wendell Holmes What flower is
TRUE PATRIOTISM By Benjamin Harrison
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL By Katharine Lee Bates O beautiful for
O BEAUTIFUL! MY COUNTRY! By James Russell Lowell
THE PROBLEMS OF THE REPUBLIC By Theodore Roosevelt
THE MEANING OF AMERICANISM By Charles Evans Hughes
WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? By William Jones What constitutes a
A PATRIOTIC CREED By Edgar A. Guest To serve my country day by
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