Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year

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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

FROM GREAT BOOKS

THE LISTS AT ASHBY By Sir Walter Scott

THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM

DOUBTING CASTLE By John Bunyan

CHRISTMAS EVE AT FEZZIWIG'S By Charles Dickens

JEAN VALJEAN MEETS THE BISHOP By Victor Hugo

A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT By Jonathan Swift

THE STRUGGLE IN THE ARENA By Henryk Sienkiewicz

POLONIUS'S ADVICE TO HIS SON By William Shakespeare

MERCY By William Shakespeare

GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD KNOW

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