the Tropics _Richard Henry Dana, Jr._ 192
A Winter Ride _Amy Lowell_ 193
The Snowstorm _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 194
Snow-Bound _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 195
Tom Pinch's Ride _Charles Dickens_ 198
Ode to a Butterfly _Thomas Wentworth Higginson_ 201
In the Desert _A. W. Kinglake_ 203
May is Building her House _Richard Le Gallienne_ 207
The Daffodils _William Wordsworth_ 208
The Falls of Lodore _Robert Southey_ 210

STORIES THAT TEACH

An Adventure in Brotherhood 215
The Prayer Perfect _James Whitcomb Riley_ 217
Get Out or Get in Line _Elbert Hubbard_ 218
John Marshall of Virginia _John Esten Cooke_ 224
Opportunity _Edward Rowland Sill_ 227
Boy Wanted _Dr. Frank Crane_ 228
John Littlejohn _Charles Mackay_ 230
The Discontented Pendulum 232
Two Sides to Every Question 235
If I were a Boy _Washington Gladden_ 237
The Lesson of the Water Mill _Sarah Doudney_ 239
A Motto of Oxford 241
Sailing and Failing _Hamilton W. Mabie_ 242
Use and Abuse of Time _Archer Brown_ 243
Hidden Treasure _Charles Reade_ 245
The Solitary Reaper _William Wordsworth_ 249

IN GOOD HUMOR

The Stagecoach _Mark Twain_ 253
The Chameleon _James Merrick_ 261
The Pickwick Club on Ice _Charles Dickens_ 263
Darius Green and his Flying Machine _John Townsend Trowbridge_ 270
Aunt Doleful's Visit 279
Gradgrind's Idea of Education _Charles Dickens_ 281
The Deacon's Masterpiece, or The Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay"
_Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 286
The Schoolmaster's Ride _Washington Irvi