THE FIFTH READER By MARTHA ADELAIDE HOLTON For ten years Supervisor of Primary Education in the Minneapolis "Industrial Work for Public Schools" and CHARLES MADISON CURRY Professor of Literature in the Indiana State Normal School Illustrated by MAUD HUNT SQUIRE RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY CHICAGO NEW YORK Thanks are extended to the following publishers and individuals for permission to use the material indicated: The Bloch Publishing Co. and Dr. A. S. Isaacs for "An Eastern Garden" and “The Rabbi and the Diadem," from Stories from the Rabbis; Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. for "The Toll Bridge Keeper," from Back Country Poems by Sam Walter Foss; Bobbs-Merrill & Co. for "A Sudden Shower," from Rhymes of Childhood by James Whitcomb Riley, copyright, 1890; P. J. Kenedy & Sons for "The Song of the River," from Father Ryan's Poems; A. C. McClurg & Co. for “The Story of a Salmon,” by David Starr Jordan, from Science Sketches; Small, Maynard & Co. for "Step Faster, Please," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Current Literature Co. for the translation of "Boum-Boum" from the French of Jules Claretie, by Edward Tuckerman Mason; Mr. C. H. Crandall for his poem "The Train"; Doubleday, Page & Co. for "A Prayer," by Edwin Markham, and for "The Rat Charmer," from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, by Selma Lagerlöf. The selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lucy Larcom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Godfrey Saxe, Bayard Taylor, Edith M. Thomas, and Charles Dudley Warner are used by permission of and by special arrangement with the Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. The following selections are from the publications of Rand McNally & Co.: "The Other Fellow'," by William Hawley Smith, from The Evolution of "Dodd"; "The Good Sword Excalibur," by Maude Radford Warren, from King Arthur and His Knights; "The New Clothes of the Emperor," from Andersen's Best Fairy Tales, translated by Alice Corbin Henderson; "The Backwoodsman Who Became President" and "The Man Who Led the Confederate Armies," by William H. Mace, from Stories of Heroism The Rand-McNally Press Chicago ii - THE CONTENTS PAGE ESOP (Portrait) THE WIND AND THE MOON... |