The Wide Awake Third Reader

CONTENTS

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All the Children of all the World		9
The Song Sparrow’s Work	Etta Austin Blaisdell	15
Dutch Children		20
A Little Dutch Girl	Edith Colby Banfield	25
The Great Feast	Laura E. Richards	26
Little Grandmother’s Shoes		30
Little-Folk Land	Edith Colby Banfield	33
Children of a Sunny Land
A Strange Milk Wagon		35
A Ride in a Chair		36
The Carnival		39
The Little Plant	Anna von RydingsvÄrd	42
Two Ways	Laura E. Richards	44
A Song in the Woods	Louise C. Moulton	46
How the Corn Grew	Julia Dalrymple	47
“Do You Know?”	Edith Colby Banfield	51
The Little Goatherds		52
Swiss Children		56
Lullaby-Land	Edith Colby Banfield	60
The Stone Blocks	Laura E. Richards	61
Great-Great-Grandma’s Christmas in England		63
The Whipping Boy		69
The Christmas Spruce Tree	Anna von RydingsvÄrd	72
A Rose	Emily Dickinson	76
The Eve of St. Nicholas		77
Robin Redbreast	William Allingham	81
“The Little Turkeys”
In School		83
At Home		88
“Gillyflower Gentleman”	Laura E. Richards	91
The Ruler	Laura E. Richards	93
The Moon	Edith Colby Banfield	95
The Children of Armenia		96
Armenian Homes		100
The Nest	Helen Hunt Jackson	Clyx.com