_Fanny E. Coe_ 214

KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS _Flora J. Cooke_ 217

THE STORY OF PEGASUS _Fanny E. Coe_ 219

THE WOLF-MOTHER OF SAINT AILBE _Abbie Farwell Brown_ 223

WHO WAS THE MIGHTIER? _Fanny E. Coe_ 231

STORIES FROM REAL LIFE

HANS THE SHEPHERD BOY _Ella Lyman Cabot_ 234

NATHAN AND THE BEAR _M. A. L. Lane_ 236

THE MAN ON THE CHIMNEY _Fanny E. Coe_ 241

POCAHONTAS _E. A. and M. F. Blaisdell_ 244

THE DAY KIT AND KAT WENT FISHING _Lucy Fitch Perkins_ 247

THE HONEST FARMER _Ella Lyman Cabot_ 257

DAMON AND PYTHIAS _Ella Lyman Cabot_ 259

LINCOLN'S UNVARYING KINDNESS _Fanny E. Coe_ 261

HOW MOLLY SPENT HER SIXPENCE _Eliza Orne White_ 265

HANS AND HIS DOG _Maud Lindsay_ 275

* * * * *

_The Fox and the Wolf_

_A Russian Fable_

Once upon a time there was a fox so shrewd that, although he was
neither so fleet of foot, nor so strong of limb, as many of his
kindred, he nevertheless managed to feed as comfortably as any of
them.

One winter's day, feeling rather hungry, he trotted out of his lair to
take a look round. The neighbouring farmers guarded their hen-roosts
so carefully from his depredations that a nice fat hen was out of the
question, and the weather was too cold to tempt the rabbits out of
their snug warren. Therefore Mr Fox set his wits to work and kept his
eyes open for what might come along.

After a while, as he slunk along the bottom of a dry ditch, he
descried in the distance an old man driving a cart. This was Truvor,
the fisherman, who, since two or three days of December sunshine had
melted the ice, had had a good catch of fish in the lake by the
mountain-side.

"Aha!" said the fox to himself, "I should relish a dinner of fine,
fresh trout. Truvor is far too selfish to share them with me, so I
will have them all."

To achieve the purpose in view, he laid himself flat in the road over
which the fisherman must pass and pretended to be dead. The fisherman
beheld him with surprise when he drew near, an