Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of these changes is found at the end of the text. Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been maintained. A list of inconsistently spelled and hyphenated words is found at the end of the text. The original book used both numerical and symbolic footnote markers. This version follows the original usage. The Canoe Race A NEW AND ORIGINAL PLAN FOR READING APPLIED TO THE WORLD’S BEST LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN BY CHARLES H. SYLVESTER Author of English and American Literature New Edition Chicago BELLOWS-REEVE COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1922 BELLOWS-REEVE COMPANY CONTENTS PAGE The Daffodils William Wordsworth 1 To the Fringed Gentian William Cullen Bryant 4 To a Mouse Robert Burns 5 To a Mountain Daisy Robert Burns 8 The Old Oaken Bucket Samuel Wordsworth 11 Bannockburn Robert Burns 15 Boat Song Sir Walter Scott 17 The Governor and the Notary Washington Irving 20 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel T. Coleridge 29 The Black Hawk Tragedy Edwin D. Coe 58 The Petrified Fern Mary Bolles Branch 77 An Exciting Canoe Race J. Fenimore Cooper 79 The Buffalo Francis Parkman 96 The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred Tennyson 147 For A’ That and A’ That Robert Burns 149 Breathes There the Man Sir Walter Scott 151 How Sleep the Brave William Collins 151 Queen Victoria Anna McCaleb 152 The Recessional Rudyard Kipling 164 The Star-spangled Banner Francis Scott Key 167 How’s My Boy? Sydney Dobell 169 The Soldier’s Dream Thomas Campbell 170 Make Way for Liberty James Montgomery 172 The Old Continentals Guy Humphreys McMaster 175 The Picket-Guard Mrs. Ethel Lynn Beers 177 My Old Kentucky Home Stephen Collins Foster 179 The Forsaken Merman Matthew Arnold 180 Tom and Maggie Tulliver George Eliot 186 A Gorilla Hunt Paul du Chaillu 247 The Cloud Percy Bysshe Shelley 257 Brute Neighbors Henry David Thoreau 260 Ode To a Skylark Percy Bysshe Shelley 275 The Pond in Winter Henry David Thoreau 280 Salmon Fishing Rudyard Kipling 285 Winter Animals Henry David Thoreau 293 Trees and Ants That Help Each Other Thomas Belt 306 The Family of Michael Arout Emile Souvestre 314 On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture William Cowper 331 Those Evening Bells Thomas Moore 340 Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe 341 The Three Fishers Charles Kingsley 343 The Reaper’s Dream Thomas Buchanan Read 345 The Recovery of the Hispaniola Robert Louis Stevenson 352…