The First[-fifth] Reader ...

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Scribner, Armstrong, 1875 - Readers

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Contents

John S C Abbott
51
SEINEFISHING OFF SOUTHAMPTON Clara Hunter
54
AN OLD WOMANS RAILWAY SIGNAL Elihu Burritt
59
CAPTURING THE WILD HORSE Washington Irving
62
A DAY ON CARYSFORT REEF Elizabeth C Agassiz
68
THE FRIGATE BIRD Jules Michelet
78
TELLING ON ONE ANOTHER J G Holland
80
THE SKATER AND THE WOLVES Charles Whitehead
86
THE PANTHER James Fenimore Cooper
94
ICHABOD GOES TO A FROLIC Washington Irving
98
THE BURSTING OF OUSELY DAM Charles Reade
104
BURSTING OF OUSELY DAM concluded
108
RICHARDSON A D 163
114
RURAL LIFE IN SWEDEN H W Longfellow
115
WHEN THIS OLD FLAG WAS
118
THE WHALE James Fenimore Cooper
120
PRIMITIVE LIFE IN NEW YORK Washington Irving
125
A WALRUS HUNT Dr Kane
131
How THE BROOK WENT TO MILL Benj F Taylor
134
NEW YEARS DAY IN YEDDO M Humbert
135
JOURNEY ACROSS THE DESERT
142
John Alexander Kinglake
145
BOB CRATCHITS DINNER PARTY Charles Dickens
148
A VISIT FROM JAPANESE LADIES M Humbert
153
THE PRAIRIE ON FIRE J Fenimore Cooper
156
AN EVENING AT SEA Francis A Chateaubriand
160
THE VALLEY OF THE YOSEMITE A D Richardson
163
THE
169
THE MILL ON THE FLOSS George Eliot
171
HORACE GREELEYS CHILDHOOD Horace Greeley
175
A RIDERLESS WARHORSE W H H Murray
181
A RIDERLESS WARHORSE concluded
186
THE CHARGE AT ECKMUHL J T Headley
190
SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN J H Fyfe
194
THE FIRST AMERICAN CONGRESS Jonathan Maxcy
199
THE AGE OF HOMESPUN Horace Bushnell
203
LOOKING FOR THE SUN Dr I I Hayes
209
ESCAPE OF JAMES V Walter Scott
214
TENNYSON A 416
217
GOLDSMITH W M Thackeray
219
THE DEATH OF DUROC J T Headley
221
DIONYSIUS AND DAMOCLES Cicero
228
THE OLD MEETINGHOUSE Harriet Beecher Stowe
229
UP IN THE WILD
233
ANIMALS OF THE PYRENEES H A Taine
234
CHOICE BOOKS GOOD COMPANY John Ruskin
238
THE FISHERS COTTAGE
242
SIGHTS FROM A STEEPLE Nathaniel Hawthorne
244
THE OCEAN AND ITS LIFE M Schele De Vere
249
A SCENE ON THE YELLOWSTONE N P Langford
254
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Richard Whiting
257
1ом BROWN AT THE MASTERS TOMB
285
Thomas Hughes
287
THE DUMBWAITER Frederick S Cozzens
291
BABie Bell Thomas Bailey Aldrich 288 X
295
THE VINTAGE Alphonse de Lamartine
297
THE AIR MOTHERS Charles Kingsley
301
THE TEMPEST Charles Dickens
304
THE HUSKERS J G Whittier
309
GOOD MANNERS Henry Ward Beecher
312
A VESSEL IN DISTRESS Louisa Lee Schuyler
315
DICKENS IN CAMP Bret Harte
319
A NIGHT RIDE IN SIBERIA Raphael Pumpelly
321
THE CLOUD Shelley
325
THE OLD CHURCH BELL Hans Andersen
326
THE LAY OF THE BELL Schiller
331
RESCUE FROM A CREVASSE John Tyndall
333
CAVALRY SONG Edmund Clarence Stedman
339
EXECUTION OF MARIE ANTOINETTE Thomas Carlyle
340
TUBAL CAIN Charles Mackay
342
BATTLE OF KISSINGEN J D Sherwood
344
WHEN SPARROWS build Jean Ingelow
349
HORSESHOE FALLS AND CAVE OF THE WINDS
350
John Tyndall
354
THE SUMMIT OF THE MATTERHORN
356
Edward Whymper
359
THE ROMANCE OF THE SWANS NEST
360
A PERUVIAN TEMPLE William H Prescott
363
ELIZABETH AND JOHN ESTAUGH H W Longfellow
366
ELIZABETH AND JOHN ESTAUGH concluded
368
APPEAL TO THE REPUBLIC Joseph Story
371
ROME AND CARTHAGE Victor Hugo
373
SCENE FROM THE VESPERS OF PALERMO
375
LIBERTY TRIUMPHANT Daniel Webster
379
WINTERS WILD Birthnight J G Holland
382
DANIEL WEBSTER BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT Chauncey A Goodrich
383
THE RETURN OF COLUMBUS TO SPAIN
387
W H Prescott
390
REASONS FOR PROSECUTING THE WAR OF 1812
392
Calhoun
395
THE EXECUTION OF MONTROSE W E Aytoun
399
THANATOPSIS William Cullen Bryant
402
HOHO OF THE GOLDEN BELT John G Saxe
414
LADY CLARE Tennyson
418
APPENDIX
421
LONG SIMPLE VOWEL SOUNDS
423
COMPOUND VOWEL SOUNDS
424
EXERCISE ON CONSONANTS
425
DIFFICULT COMBINATION OF CONSONANTS
427
EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION
430
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Page 326 - That orbed maiden , with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn...
Page 169 - THE SEA. The Sea ! the Sea ! the open Sea ! The blue, the fresh, the ever free ! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions 'round ; It plays with the clouds ; it mocks the skies ; Or like a cradled creature lies.
Page 404 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 325 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 189 - Reaper Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
Page 405 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 189 - Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Page 220 - To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Page 219 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 404 - Take the wings Of morning, and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.

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