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ANONYMOUS Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, 6 The Days of the Month, 7 The Boy who Never Told a Lie, 19 The Bluebell of Scotland, 20 The Nautilus and the Ammonite, 188 A Ballad for a Boy, 236 ARNOLD, MATTHEW The Forsaken Merman, 260 AUSTIN, ALFRED To America, 335
The delight with which trees hang out their new little tassels every year is one of the charms of “the pine family.” John Burroughs sent us down a tiny hemlock, that grew in our...
10. Chapter 10The man is wrecked and his ship is sunken before he ever steps on board or sees the water if his heart is hard and his estimate of human beings low. “The Inchcape Rock” is a thr...
8. Chapter 8“Jack Frost,” by Hannah Flagg Gould (1789-1865), is perhaps a hundred years old, but he is the same rollicking fellow to-day as of yore. The poem puts his merry pranks to the fr...
9. Chapter 9“Lochinvar” and “Lord Ullin’s Daughter,” the first by Scott (1771-1832) and the second by Campbell (1777-1844), are companions in sentiment and equally popular with boys who lov...
11. Chapter 11“June” (by James Russell Lowell, 1819-91), is a fragment from “The Vision of Sir Launfal.” It finds a place in this volume because it is the most perfect description of a charmi...
7. Chapter 7“The Arrow and the Song,” by Longfellow (1807-82), is placed first in this volume out of respect to a little girl of six years who used to love to recite it to me. She knew many...
6. Chapter 6ANONYMOUS Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, 6 The Days of the Month, 7 The Boy who Never Told a Lie, 19 The Bluebell of Scotland, 20 The Nautilus and the Ammonite, 188 A Ballad for...
2. Chapter 21. Chapter 14. Chapter 43. Chapter 35. Chapter 5