The Literary World Seventh Reader

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LEGENDS OF OUR LAND
RIP VAN WINKLE Washington Irving 9
THE GREAT STONE FACE Nathaniel Hawthorne 33
THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH Henry W. Longfellow 59
THE FRIENDSHIP OF NANTAQUAS Mary Johnston 79
HOME SCENES
HARRY ESMOND'S BOYHOOD Wm. Makepeace Thackeray 112
THE FAMILY HOLDS ITS HEAD UP Oliver Goldsmith 126
THE LITTLE BOY IN THE BALCONY Henry W. Grady 138
ARIEL'S TRIUMPH Booth Tarkington 141
NATURE AND ANIMALS
THE CLOUD Percy Bysshe Shelley 160
NEW ENGLAND WEATHER Mark Twain 162
THE FIRST SNOWFALL James Russell Lowell 166
OLD EPHRAIM Theodore Roosevelt 168
MIDWINTER John Townsend Trowbridge 175
A GEORGIA FOX HUNT Joel Chandler Harris 177
RAIN AND WIND Madison Julius Cawein 192
THE SOUTHERN SKY Matthew Fontaine Maury 193
DAFFODILS William Wordsworth 195
DAWN Edward Everett 196
SPRING Henry Timrod 198
MOVING ADVENTURE
AMONG THE CLIFFS Charles Egbert Craddock 201
A DEAL IN BEARS W. Cutcliffe Hyne 217
LOCHINVAR Sir Walter Scott 232
IN LABRADOR H. G. Wells 235
THE BUGLE SONG Alfred Tennyson 258
THE SIEGE OF THE CASTLE Sir Walter Scott 259
MODERN WONDER TALES
SEA FEVER John Masefield 334
A GREYPORT LEGEND Bret Harte 335
A HUNT BENEATH THE OCEAN Jules Verne 337
UNDER SEAS Count Alexis Tolstoi 354
A VOYAGE TO THE MOON Edgar Allan Poe 367
THE GREAT STONE OF SARDIS Frank R. Stockton 391
SKETCHES OF THE GREAT WAR
A STOP AT SUZANNE'S Greayer Clover 407
THE MAKING OF A MAN W. J. Locke 414
IN FLANDERS FIELDS John McCrae 436
IN FLANDERS FIELDS (AN ANSWER) C. B. Galbraith 436
A BALLAD OF HEROES Austin Dobson 437

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