Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Our Home and Personal Duty

HONEST ABE 23 I. THE BROKEN BUCK-HORN 23 II. THE RAIN-SOAKED BOOK 24 III. THE YOUNG STOREKEEPER 26 DRY RAIN AND THE HATCHET 28 I. HOW DRY RAIN GOT HIS NAME 28 II. DRY RAIN GOES TRADING 29 THE SEVEN CRANBERRIES 32 THE DONKEY’S TAIL 36 HURTING A GOOD FRIEND 39

Chapters

1. PART I

HONEST ABE 23 I. THE BROKEN BUCK-HORN 23 II. THE RAIN-SOAKED BOOK 24 III. THE YOUNG STOREKEEPER 26 DRY RAIN AND THE HATCHET 28 I. HOW DRY RAIN GOT HIS NAME 28 II. DRY RAIN GOES...

2. PART II

THE BAKER 95 I. AN EARLY CALL 95 II. THE STAFF OF LIFE 99 III. A VISIT TO THE BAKERY 101 IV. WHERE THE WHEAT COMES FROM 107 BAKING THE JOHNNY-CAKE 111 THE MILKMAN 115 I. BEFORE...

3. PART III

THE JUNIOR RED CROSS 209 THE PRESIDENT’S PROCLAMATION 210 THE AMERICAN RED CROSS IN TIMES OF PEACE 211 THE AMERICAN RED CROSS IN TIMES OF WAR 215 BEFORE THE DAYS OF THE RED CROS...

4. PART I

“See here, Mr. Thump,” growled old Mr. Wolf, “do you intend to keep me waiting all day while you warm first one foot and then the other? I am tired of such foolishness. I want m...

5. PART II

These stories develop very simply, the fundamental ideas of service, dependence and interdependence, and reciprocal duties. They also teach incidentally the civic virtues of tho...

6. PART III

He told them that the President of the United States is the President of the American Red Cross, and he said that the Red Cross people wanted the children to help them in their...

7. Act I. The Sick Doll

_Florence._ Yes, I do. I’m going to be a nurse when I grow up. Well, if you don’t want to play that you are the doctor, I am going to ask Harry Miller to play that he is. (_Goes...

8. Act II. Good Old Cap

_Florence._ It is a beautiful day, Mr. Vicar. I am so glad we are going to call to see old Mrs. Williams. I hope she is better than when mother last saw her.

9. Act III. The Lady of the Lamp

Obvious punctuation errors repaired. The table of contents uses the œ ligature in Phœbe Cary’s name. In the text it’s italic and the transcriber assumes that the printer didn’t...