ine these exactly: inquisitorial; lachrymose;
laconic; surreptitious; contumely.

Get the habit of looking up new words and writing down their
meanings.

4. Can you write a story about a school experience?

5. Other books containing stories of school life are:

_Little Aliens_, Myra Kelly; _May Iverson Tackles Life_, Elizabeth
Jordan; _Ten to Seventeen_, Josephine Daskam Bacon; _Closed Doors_,
Margaret P. Montague. Read a story from one of these books, and
compare it with this story.

THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE

Central Park, New York, covers an era of more than eight hundred acres,
with a zoo and several small lakes. On one of the lakes there are large
boats with a huge wooden swan on each side. Richard Harding Davis
located one of his stories here: See "Van Bibber and the Swan Boats,"
in the volume called _Van Bibber and Others_.

1. How is this story like the preceding one? What difference in the
characters? What difference in their homes?

2. How does Myra Kelly make you feel sympathy for the little folks?
In what ways have their lives been less fortunate than the lives of
children in your town?

3. What is peculiar about the talk of these children? Do they all
speak the same dialect? Many of the children of the East Side never
hear English spoken at home.

4. What touches of humor are there in this story?

5. What new words do you find? Define garrulous, pedagogically,
cicerone.

6. Where did Miss Kelly get her materials for this story? See the
life on page 37.

7. What other stories by this author have you read? This is from
_Little Citizens_; other books telling about the same characters
are _Little Aliens_, and _Wards of Liberty_.

8. Other books of short stories dealing with children are:
_Whilomville Stories_, by Stephen Crane; _The Golden Age_, by
Kenneth Grahame; _The Madness of Philip_, by Josephine Daskam
Bacon; _The King of Boyville_, by William Allen White; _New
Chronicles of Rebecca_, by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Read one of these,
and compare it with Myra Kelly's story.

THE TENOR

1. Point out the humorous touches in this story.

2. Is the story probable? To answer this, consider two points:
would Louise have undertaken such a thing as answering the
advertisement? and would she have had the spirit to act as s