PAGEThe Straw, the Coal, and the BeanThe Brothers Grimm9SeptemberHelen Hunt Jackson12Robert Louis Stevenson13TravelRobert Louis Stevenson16Travelers' WondersDr. John Aikin19Ants24The Four Sunbeams28Sifting Boys30The FountainJames Russell Lowell34Lewis Carroll36What Alice Said to the KittenLewis Carroll38The Kitten and the Falling LeavesWilliam Wordsworth43The Snow ImageNathaniel Hawthorne45Little by Little63The House I Live In63Jefferson's Ten Rules70The Pet LambWilliam Wordsworth71The Story of FlorindaAbby Morton Diaz75The EagleAlfred, Lord Tennyson90Psalm XXIII91Tilly's ChristmasLouisa May Alcott92Under the Greenwood TreeWilliam Shakspere101Our First Naval Hero102Hiawatha's SailingHenry Wadsworth Longfellow108Shun Delay114The Walrus and the CarpenterLewis Carroll119Prince Ahmed"The Arabian Nights"124The Planting of the Apple TreeWilliam Cullen Bryant149NestsJohn Ruskin153Sir Isaac NewtonNathaniel Hawthorne153LucyWilliam Wordsworth165To a SkylarkWilliam Wordsworth167Tom Goes down to the SeaCharles Kingsley167Psalm XXIV181A Good SamaritanGeorge Macdonald183The Spartan Three Hundred184The Fairy LifeWilliam Shakspere191Charles Dickens192Little CharleyCharles Dickens196TrayRobert Browning207The Golden FleeceNathaniel Hawthorne209The Star-Spangled BannerFrancis Scott Key237My Native LandSir Walter Scott241Hunting the GrizzlyTheodore Roosevelt242