Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
A New Year’s Bow, 1 The Two Travellers, 2 Fidelity of a Negro Servant, 4 Maple Tree at Matibo, in Italy, 5 The Lost Found, 6 The Snow-Man, 8 An Intelligent Horse, 9 True Stories, 10, 42, 112, 167 Kindness and Sagacity of the Ass, 10 A Test of Christianity, 11 A Tahitian Christ...
A New Year’s Bow, 1 The Two Travellers, 2 Fidelity of a Negro Servant, 4 Maple Tree at Matibo, in Italy, 5 The Lost Found, 6 The Snow-Man, 8 An Intelligent Horse, 9 True Stories...
2. CHAPTER I._Jack’s habit of roaming about――His singular way of satisfying his curiosity――The story of the whortleberry bush――Frogs, tadpoles, and lizards――How to see and investigate――The a...
3. CHAPTER II.I have told you in the preceding chapter, how Jack watched the ants in the garden, and how he found out their ways of living. He was very young at this time, and having never be...
4. CHAPTER III.As soon as breakfast was over, the next day, Jack and his aunt set out to visit the ants in the garden. Jack soon pointed out a hill, which he had observed before, and they both...
5. CHAPTER IV.One day, as Jack was going along in the field, he saw a dead mole lying upon the ground. He took it up, and admired its soft fur, and the rays upon its nose, making it look, in...
6. CHAPTER V.There are a great many people who imagine that such little things as bees, bugs, butterflies, spiders and other insects, are unworthy of their notice; but this is a great mistake.
7. VOLUME VI.A Midsummer Morning, 1 Listening, 2 Eugene Aram, 3 Bald Eagle, 10 Gallantry in a Dog, 11 Charon, 12 A Civilized Bear, 13 The Palisadoes, 14 A Real Hero, ” A Revolutionary Story,...
8. CHAPTER I.A little to the west of the point where Connecticut river pours itself into Long Island Sound, lies a small, circular piece of land, called Duck Island. It is some two miles in...
9. CHAPTER I.Kind reader, as you and I are about to take a ramble together, I beg leave to settle one or two points at the outset. In the first place, then, I shall tell you my story in a ve...
10. CHAPTER VI.One day Jack was going along by a row of bee-hives, which belonged to his father, when he observed an unusual confusion among the bees of one of them. A great many bees were goi...
11. CHAPTER I._Introduction――Early life――Commences a sea-faring life――Columbus goes to Lisbon――His views about undiscovered land in the west――He pursues measures to go on a voyage of discover...
12. CHAPTER II.I do not know how long it was after the scene I have described, when I so far recovered my senses as to notice the objects around me. When my consciousness returned, I was lying...
13. CHAPTER VII.In the preceding chapter we have told how Jack became interested about the bees: in this, we have promised to relate some of those curious things which his aunt Piper told him,―...
14. CHAPTER III.After I had been about a month in the village, a swift Indian, despatched by the warriors who had been absent on an expedition against some distant tribes, came in, and announce...
15. CHAPTER II.The third of August, 1496, was a memorable day to Columbus and to the world. On the morning of that day the sails of the three vessels were seen by the inhabitants of Palos, spr...
16. CHAPTER VIII.It is well worth while to attend minutely to the business that is going on in the bee-hive. Nothing, in a great city, where we see houses, and streets, and manufactures, and a v...
17. CHAPTER II.It is not our design to detail the proceedings of the regiment raised in Saybrook, and commanded by Colonel Joinly. It is sufficient to say that it marched toward New York, and...
18. CHAPTER III.Although, as I said, the hopes of the seamen were for a time blasted, and they appeared sad and dispirited, the vessels still continued their westward course. The weather was fi...
19. CHAPTER IV.Some time now passed without any remarkable event. After a hunting or war expedition, the Indian men usually spend a large part of their time in idleness. For several weeks afte...
20. CHAPTER IX.We have already told so much about bees, that our young readers are perhaps weary of the subject; but it must be remembered that we are relating the story of Inquisitive Jack, a...
21. CHAPTER III.We have related the bitter disappointment experienced by Colonel Joinly, at being deprived of the means of release from his captivity, and of even obtaining a short respite for...
22. CHAPTER IV.The youth found himself suddenly sprawling in the water, but he was entirely unhurt. Preserving his presence of mind, he rose after the first dip upon the surface, and said, hal...
23. CHAPTER V.Our young adventurer had ascertained that the Tiger, the British frigate of which we have already spoken, lay at anchor in a little harbor of Long Island, toward the western ext...
24. CHAPTER V.Five of our hunting party were on horseback, and the rest on foot. We proceeded over a hilly country for two days, meeting with no other game than a single deer, which was shot...
25. CHAPTER IV.Having thus determined to return to Spain, Columbus selected thirty-nine of the crew, who were to remain. He established rules for their government, and, having made all the pro...
26. CHAPTER X.I have already told my readers that our little hero, whom we call Inquisitive Jack, was of a very investigating turn of mind. I do not mean to say that he was curious and inquis...
27. CHAPTER VI.We left our party of adventurers at a moment of deep interest. Young Joinly and the greater portion of his companions were posted near the house in which the captain of the Tige...
28. CHAPTER VII.General Washington was now stationed upon the west bank of the Hudson river, about twenty miles from New York. It was young Joinly’s scheme to take his captive directly to the c...
29. CHAPTER V.The discovery, which Columbus had made, was everywhere deemed of great importance. But its vast results were not yet foreseen. Curiosity was alive. Ferdinand and Isabella themse...
30. CHAPTER VI.Columbus, as I said, arrived off the fort of La Navidad on the 27th of November, 1493. It was in the evening when the fleet cast anchor. The fort could not be distinguished, but...
31. CHAPTER VII.Some time before Columbus departed on his voyage, he had erected a fortress in the mountains of Cibao, within the territory of Caonabo. When completed, he gave the command of it...
32. CHAPTER VIII.I have related how Pedro Margarite seized a ship, and, with some others, fled to Spain. Here they found full exercise for their enmity to Columbus. They accused him of many wick...
33. CHAPTER IX.Columbus left Spain, on his third voyage, in May, 1498. During this voyage, he and his men suffered greatly in being becalmed, in the middle of summer, within the tropics. For e...
34. CHAPTER X.Bobadilla arrived at Isabella in July, 1500. Columbus, at this time, was in another part of the island. No sooner was the former landed, than it was apparent to the friends of C...
35. CHAPTER VI.If I were to give a minute account of all that happened while I was with the Indians, it would fill a large book. Perhaps I may, some time or other, give a more particular accou...
36. CHAPTER XI.Our readers must not suppose that our little hero had no interest in anything but insects. It is true that his mind being once engaged upon this subject, his curiosity increased...
37. CHAPTER XII.Insects are so called because they appear to be divided into two parts, and the word _insect_ means _cut apart_. The insect tribe are divided by naturalists into several orders....
38. CHAPTER XIII.I hope my readers are satisfied, by this time, that Inquisitive Jack, in pursuing the study of insects, was not wasting his time. It not only gave him a great deal of pleasure,...