on_ 73
French Life in the Northwest _James Baldwin_ 77
A Bear Story _Maurice Thompson_ 82
A Patriot of Georgia _Joel Chandler Harris_ 85
Song of the Pioneers _W. D. Gallagher_ 87

SPECIAL DAYS

Columbus and the Eclipse _James Johonnot_ 91
First Thanksgiving Day Proclamation _George Washington_ 93
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, 1905 _Theodore Roosevelt_ 93
Harvest Song _James Montgomery_ 95
The Cratchits' Christmas _Charles Dickens_ 96
The Holiday Spirit _Emile Souvestre_ 101
Christmas in the Pines _Meredith Nicholson_ 106
The New Year's Dinner Party _Charles Lamb_ 108
Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln 111
O Captain! My Captain _Walt Whitman_ 114
Washington's Greatest Battle _Frederick Trever Hill_ 116
John James Audubon _W. F. Markwick and W. A. Smith_ 122
Memorial Day, 1917 _Woodrow Wilson_ 125

ADVENTURE

A Grandstand Seat in the Sky _Howard Mingos_ 129
Prayer for the Pilot _Cecil Roberts_ 137
A Battle with a Whale _Frank T. Bullen_ 138
The Glove and the Lions _Leigh Hunt_ 145
How Buck Won the Bet _Jack London_ 147
The Loss of the Drake _Charlotte M. Yonge_ 151
The Walrus Hunt _Robert M. Ballantyne_ 155
The Rescue 158
Descending the Grand Canon 162
Night Fishing in the South Seas _Frederick O'Brien_ 164
A Ballad of East and West _Rudyard Kipling_ 168

UNDER THE OPEN SKY

A Night among the Pines _Robert Louis Stevenson_ 177
Autumn on the Farm _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 183
Goldenrod _Elaine Goodale Eastman_ 186
The Palisades _John Masefield_ 188
On the Grasshopper and Cricket _John Keats_ 189
To a Waterfowl _William Cullen Bryant_ 190
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