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CONTENTS. PAGE 1. Who are the Free....... 2. Advice to the Young.......... 3. The Drunkard's Wife 4. The Force of Habit.... 5. Alexander taming Bucephalus.. .........John C. Prince. 7 8 Elihu Burritt. 9 11 ..Park Benjamin. 13 6. The Three Horsemen................................................................................................................ 7. The Diamond Wedding. 8. Mark Twain's Watch. 9. Those Evening Bells. 10. Better in the Morning. 11. The Fall of the Pemberton Mill.. 13. The Lightkeeper's Daughter........... 16. Mr. O'Hoolahan's Mistake............. 18. Jamie Douglas....... 15 16 ................................S. L. Clemens. 18 Thomas Moore. 20 Leander S. Coan. 21 ....Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. 23 31 Myra A. Goodwin. 32 34 26. The Circus Clown......... Nathan D. Urner. 56 27. The Coronation-Pageant of Anne Boleyn...........J. A. Froude. 57 28. Miltiades Peterkin Paul..... 29. There's Work enough to Do........ 30. Marion's Dinner.... 31. Song of Marion's Men....... 32. She meant Business..... .....John Brownjohn. 59 60 Edward C. Jones. 62 ....... W. C. Bryant. 63 64 33. Tale of Temptation........È............dda ................................................... ...Alice Horton. 66 34. Death and the Drunkard... 68 35. False Witness Detected..................................J. S. Knowles. 69 36. My Wife and I........ 72 37. Lady Clara Vere de Vere............................................................................... Alfred Tennyson. 73 38. The Sailor Boy's Dream...... William Dimond. 74 76 39. Whom wilt thou live For............................................................. 40. Mr. Perkins at the Dentist's............................................. James M. Bailey. 76 50. The Three Sons......... ........................... ............................ 51. The Gladiator....... 52. Letting the Old Cat Die........................... 53. Shun the Bowl....... 54. A Sailor's Story. 55. When to Worship.... 56. Noozell and the Organ-Grinder...... .........John Moultrie. 90 92 Mary Mapes Dodge. 94 98 99 ........Ah-Mie. ....George Zeagles. 102 57. A Tale of the Atlantic Coast.................................................... 58. The Village Preacher............................................................................ Oliver Goldsmith. 105 59. Appeal to Young Men...... 60. Dundreary in the Country.. .Lyman Beecher. 107 108 64. The Bewitched Clock. 65. The Old Sergeant....... 68. A Toast-"Peace and Plenty 69. The Landlord of "The Blue Hen" 70. He never Told a Lie...... 71. The Last Redoubt.... 124 125 Phoebe Cary. 126 127 72. How Tom Sawyer got his Fence Whitewashed...S. L. Clemens. 130 73. My Wife and Child..... 74. The Indian Chieftain..... 75. The Drunkard's "Ten Commandments". 76. How the Cats went to Boarding-School.. 77. Xerxes at the Hellespont.... 78. The Battle of Salamis... 79. The Flight of Xerxes.. R. C. Trench. 141 Eschylus. 142 Maria Jane Jewsbury. 144 80. Paddy McGrath's Introduction to Mr. Bruin.... 81. Hero and Leander................ 82. Auld Robin Gray. 83. We Two..... 84. Annie Protheroe..... 85. A House not Made with Hands........ 86. The Best Thing in the World.....Elizabeth 87. A Curious Life Poem... 88. The Squire's Pledge.. 89. After the Ball.. 90. Come Back. 91. Caught in the Quicksand...... 92. How he Whipped him....... 93. The Avalanche 94. A Catastrophe........... 95. Less than Cost.. 96. An Interesting Traveling 97. King Robert of Sicily..... 98. Reprove Gently.. 99. The Little Match-Girl.... 100. Toby Tosspot.............. 144 Companion......... ............... Victor Hugo. 165 167 168 Peleg Arkwright. 168 M. A. Kidder. 169 M. Quad. 170 H. W. Longfellow. 172 176 Hans Christian Andersen. 177 ..George Colman. 179 100 CHOICE SELECTIONS. No. 15. WHO ARE THE FREE.-JOHN C. PRINCE. Who are the Free? They who have scorned the tyrant and his rod, These are the proudly free! Who are the Great? They who have boldly ventured to explore QQQQ* 7 Who are the Wise? They who have governed with a self control, They who have passed the labyrinth of life, These are the truly wise! Who are the Blest? They who have kept their sympathies awake, Gentle in thought, benevolent in deed; Whose looks have power to make dissension cease, And with that hope which triumphs over pain,— ADVICE TO THE YOUNG. My son, be this thy simple plan: And follow conscience, come what may; |