Introductory matter : Punctuation marks -- Articulation -- Accent and inflection.
Selections in prose and poetry : Perseverance / Charlotte Elizabeth -- Try, try again / T.H. Palmer -- Why the sea is salt / Mary Howitt -- Popping corn -- Smiles -- Lazy Ned -- The monkey -- Meddlesome Matty -- The good son -- To-morrow / Mrs. M.B. Johnson -- Where there is a will there is a way -- Piccola / Celia Thaxter -- True manliness / Mrs. M.O. Johnson -- The brown thrush / Lucy Larcom -- A ship in a storm -- The sailor's consolation / Charles Dibdin -- Two ways of telling a story / Henry K. Oliver -- Freaks of the frost / Hannah Flagg Gould -- Waste not, want not -- Jeannette and Jo / Mary Mapes Dodge -- The lion -- Strawberries / J.T. Trowbridge -- Harry's riches -- In time's swing / Lucy Larcom -- Harry and his dog / Mary Russell Mitford -- The voice of the grass / Sarah Roberts -- The eagle -- The old eagle tree / Dr. John Todd -- Alpine song / W.W. Story.
Circumstances alter cases -- The noblest revenge -- Evening hymn -- How Margery wondered / Lucy Larcom -- The child's world -- Susie's composition -- The summer shower / T.B. Read -- Consequences of idleness / Abbott -- Advantages of industry / Abbott -- The fountain / Lowell -- Coffee -- The winter king / Hannah Flagg Gould -- The nettle / Dr. Walsh -- The tempest / James T. Fields -- The creator / John Keble -- The horse / Bingley -- Emulation -- The sandpiper / Celia Thaxter -- The right way / F.R. Stockton -- The golden rule / Emma C. Embury -- The snow man / Marian Douglas -- Robinson Crusoe's house / Daniel DeFoe -- Robinson Crusoe's dress / Daniel DeFoe -- Somebody's darling -- Knowledge is power -- Good will / J.T. Trowbridge -- A Chinese story / C.P. Cranch -- The way to be happy -- The giraffe -- The lost child / Abbott -- Which? / Mrs. E.L. Beers -- The pet fawn / Miss S.F. Cooper -- Annie's dream -- My ghost / Mrs. S.M.B. Piatt -- The elelphant -- Dare to do right / Thomas Hughes -- Wreck of the Hesperus / Longfellow -- Anecdotes of birds / Hall -- The rainbow pilgrimage / Grace Greenwood -- The old oaken bucket / Samuel Woodworth -- The Sermon on the mount -- The young witness / S.H. Hammond -- King Solomon and the ants / Whittier -- Rivermouth theater / T.B. Aldrich -- Alfred the Great -- Living on a farm -- Hugh Idle and Mr. Toil / Hawthorne -- Burning the fallow / Mrs. Susanna Moodie -- Dying Soldiers.
The attack on Nymwegen / Motley -- The Seasons : Spring / H.G. Adams -- Summer / Lowell -- Autumn / Thomas Hood -- Winter / C.T. Brooks -- Brandywine Ford / Bayard Taylor -- The best capital / Louisa M. Alcott -- The Inchcape rock / Southey -- My mother's grave -- A Mother's gift / W. Fergusson.
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