Eighth Reader
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Baldwin James. Eighth Reader
TO THE TEACHER
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
BROTHER AND SISTER1
MY LAST DAY AT SALEM HOUSE2
THE DEPARTURE FROM MISS PINKERTON'S3
TWO GEMS FROM BROWNING
THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA6
THE GLOVE AND THE LIONS7
ST. FRANCIS, THE GENTLE8
THE SERMON OF ST. FRANCIS9
IN THE WOODS10
BEES AND FLOWERS11
SONG OF THE RIVER12
SONG OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE13
WAR AND PEACE
EARLY TIMES IN NEW YORK.19
A WINTER EVENING IN OLD NEW ENGLAND
THE OLD-FASHIONED THANKSGIVING20
A THANKSGIVING21
FIRST DAYS AT WAKEFIELD22
DOUBTING CASTLE23
SHOOTING WITH THE LONGBOW24
A CHRISTMAS HYMN25
CHRISTMAS EVE AT FEZZIWIG'S26
THE CHRISTMAS HOLLY27
THE NEW YEAR'S DINNER PARTY28
THE TOWN PUMP29
COME UP FROM THE FIELDS, FATHER30
THE ADDRESS AT GETTYSBURG31
ODE TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD32
THE CHARIOT RACE33
THE COLISEUM AT MIDNIGHT34
THE DEACON'S MASTERPIECE35
DOGS AND CATS36
THE OWL CRITIC37
MRS. CAUDLE'S UMBRELLA LECTURE38
THE DARK DAY IN CONNECTICUT39
TWO INTERESTING LETTERS
POEMS OF HOME AND COUNTRY
THE AGE OF COAL45
SOMETHING ABOUT THE MOON46
THE COMING OF THE BIRDS47
THE RETURN OF THE BIRDS48
THE POET AND THE BIRD
HARK, HARK! THE LARK49
ECHOES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
THREE GREAT AMERICAN POEMS
THE INDIAN53
NATIONAL RETRIBUTION54
WHO ARE BLESSED55
LITTLE GEMS FROM THE OLDER POETS
HOW KING ARTHUR GOT HIS NAME61
ANTONY'S ORATION OVER CÆSAR'S DEAD BODY63
SELECTIONS TO BE MEMORIZED
PROPER NAMES
LIST OF AUTHORS
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Acknowledgment and thanks are proffered to Andrew Carnegie for permission to reprint in this volume his tract on "War as the Mother of Civilization and Valor"; to the Bobbs-Merrill Company for their courtesy in allowing us to use "The Prayer Perfect," from James Whitcomb Riley's Rhymes of Childhood; to David Mackay for the poem by Walt Whitman entitled "Come up from the Fields, Father"; to Charles Scribner's Sons for the "Song of the Chattahoochee," from the Poems of Sidney Lanier; and, also, to the same publishers for the selection, "The Old-fashioned Thanksgiving," from Bound Together by Donald G. Mitchell. The selections from John Burroughs, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James T. Fields, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry W. Longfellow, and John G. Whittier are used by permission of, and special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers of the works of those authors.
"There he is, my sweet lad!" Mrs. Tulliver stood with her arms open; Maggie jumped first on one leg and then on the other; while Tom descended from the gig, and said, with masculine reticence as to the tender emotions, "Hallo! Yap – what! are you there?"
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Tom stopped immediately in his walk and turned round toward Maggie. "You forgot to feed 'em, then, and Harry forgot," he said, his color heightening for a moment, but soon subsiding. "I'll pitch into Harry – I'll have him turned away. And I don't love you, Maggie. You shan't go fishing with me to-morrow. I told you to go and see the rabbits every day."
He walked on again.
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