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diff --git a/38412.txt b/38412.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cbc34f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/38412.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4919 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2, by +Ella Flagg Young and Walter Taylor Field + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 + +Author: Ella Flagg Young + Walter Taylor Field + +Illustrator: Maginel Wright Enright + +Release Date: December 26, 2011 [EBook #38412] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE YOUNG AND FIELD LITERARY *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Matthew Wheaton and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + [Illustration: + + + + + THE YOUNG AND FIELD LITERARY READERS + + _Book Two_ + + BY + + ELLA FLAGG YOUNG + + + _Superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools_ + + AND + + WALTER TAYLOR FIELD + + _Author of "Fingerposts to Children's Reading," "Rome," Etc_ + + _Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright_ + + + GINN AND COMPANY + BOSTON . NEW YORK . CHICAGO . LONDON] + + + COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY ELLA FLAGG YOUNG + + AND WALTER TAYLOR FIELD + + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + 116.3 + + + The Athenaeum Press + + GINN AND COMPANY . PROPRIETORS . + BOSTON . U.S.A. + + + + +TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS + + +Dear Boys and Girls: + +Do you like fairy stories? + +You do not need to tell us. + +We know you like them. + +So we are going to give you some to read. + +You may have heard some of these stories before, but not many of them. + +Some have come from far across the sea, and some have come from our +own country. + +Mothers have told them to their children again and again, and children +have never been tired of them. + +We think you will like them, too. + + + + +ACKNOWLEDGMENTS + + +The poems of Mr. Frank Dempster Sherman and Miss Abbie Farwell Brown +are used by special arrangement with the Houghton Mifflin Company, +publishers. + +Acknowledgments are also due to the following publishers and authors +for permission to use copyrighted material: to Charles Scribner's Sons +for poems from Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses" +and Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge's "Rhymes and Jingles"; to the Macmillan +Company for poems from Christina Rossetti's "Sing Song"; to Little, +Brown, and Company for poems from Mrs. Laura E. Richards's "In My +Nursery"; to G. P. Putnam's Sons for the use of Sir George Webbe +Dasent's version of the story "East of the Sun and West of the Moon," +from "Popular Tales from the Norse," as the basis for our story of the +same name; to the A. Flanagan Company and Miss Flora J. Cooke for the +use of "The Rainbow Bridge," from Miss Cooke's "Nature Myths," in a +similar way; to Miss Marion Florence Lansing for permission to adapt +her dramatized Hindu Tale, "The Man's Boot," from "Quaint Old +Stories," in our story "The Shoe"; to Mr. William Hawley Smith for +permission to use his poem "A Child's Prayer." + + + + + CONTENTS + + + ENGLISH FAIRY TALES + CHILDE ROWLAND + TOM TIT TOT + + POEMS BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI + LAMBKINS + FERRY ME ACROSS THE WATER + CORAL + THE SWALLOW + WRENS AND ROBINS + BOATS SAIL ON THE RIVERS + + FABLES FROM AESOP + THE LION AND THE MOUSE + THE HONEST WOODCUTTER + THE WOLF AND THE CRANE + THE TOWN MOUSE AND THE COUNTRY MOUSE + THE WIND AND THE SUN + THE ANT AND THE DOVE + THE LARK AND HER NEST + THE DOG AND HIS SHADOW + THE FOX AND THE GRAPES + + POEMS BY MARY MAPES DODGE + FOUR LITTLE BIRDS + IN THE BASKET + COUSIN JEREMY + LITTLE MISS LIMBERKIN + SNOWFLAKES + HOLLYHOCK + + GERMAN FAIRY TALES + THE LITTLE PINE TREE + THE FAITHFUL BEASTS + + POEMS BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON + WHERE GO THE BOATS? + AT THE SEASIDE + RAIN + AUTUMN FIRES + THE WIND + + HINDU FABLES + THE TIMID HARES + THE SHOE + THE CAMEL AND THE JACKAL + + POEMS BY LAURA E. RICHARDS + THE BUMBLEBEE + LITTLE BROWN BOBBY + JIPPY AND JIMMY + THE SONG OF THE CORN POPPER + + A FRENCH FAIRY TALE + THE FAIRY + + A NORSE FOLK TALE + EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON + + POEMS BY ABBIE FARWELL BROWN + THE SAILOR + A MUSIC BOX + + AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS + LITTLE SCAR-FACE + THE HUNTER WHO FORGOT + THE WATER LILY + + RUSSIAN FABLES + FORTUNE AND THE BEGGAR + THE SPIDER AND THE BEE + THE STONE AND THE WORM + THE FOX IN THE ICE + + POEMS BY FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN + CLOUDS + GHOST FAIRIES + DAISIES + + OLD GREEK STORIES + THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE STAR GIANT + THE WIND AND THE CLOUDS + THE RAINBOW BRIDGE + + POEMS OLD AND NEW + THANK YOU, PRETTY COW _Jane Taylor_ + PLAYGROUNDS _Laurence Alma-Tadema_ + SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP _German Cradle Song_ + A CHILD'S PRAYER _William Hawley Smith_ + + LISTS OF WORDS FOR PHONETIC DRILL + + LIST OF NEW WORDS ARRANGED BY LESSONS + + + + +THE YOUNG AND FIELD LITERARY READERS + +BOOK TWO + + + + +ENGLISH FAIRY TALES + + +CHILDE ROWLAND + +Once upon a time there was a little princess. + +Her name was Ellen. + +She lived with her mother the queen in a great house by the sea. + +She had three brothers. + +One day, as they were playing ball, one of her brothers threw the ball +over the house. + +Ellen ran to get it, but she did not come back. + +The three brothers looked for her. + +They looked and looked, but they could not find her. + +Day after day went by. + +At last the oldest brother went to a wise man and asked what to do. + +"The princess is with the elves. She is in the Dark Tower," said the +wise man. + +"Where is the Dark Tower?" asked the oldest brother. + +"It is far away," said the wise man. "You cannot find it." + +"I can and I will find it. Tell me where it is," said the oldest +brother. + +The wise man told him, and the oldest brother set off at once. + +The other brothers waited. + +They waited long, but the oldest brother did not come back. + +Then the next brother went to the wise man. + +The wise man told him as he had told the oldest brother. + +Then the next brother set out to find the Dark Tower. + +The youngest brother waited. + +He waited long, but no one came. + +Now the youngest brother was called Childe Rowland. + +At last Childe Rowland went to his mother the queen and said: + +"Mother, let me go and find the Dark Tower and bring home Ellen and my +brothers." + +"I cannot let you go. You are all that I have, now," said the queen. + +But Childe Rowland asked again and again, till at last the queen said, +"Go, my boy." + +Then she gave him his father's sword, and he set out. + +He went to the wise man and asked the way. + +The wise man told him and said: + +"I will tell you two things. One thing is for you to do, and one thing +is for you not to do. + +"The thing to do is this: When you get to the country of the elves, +take hold of your father's sword, pull it out quickly, and cut off the +head of any one who speaks to you, till you find the princess Ellen. + +"The thing not to do is this: Bite no bit and drink no drop till you +come back. Go hungry and thirsty while you are in the country of the +elves." + +Childe Rowland said the two things over and over, so that he should +not forget. + +Then he went on his way. + +He went on and on and on, till he came to some horses with eyes of +fire. + +Then he knew he was in the country of the elves. + +A man was with the horses. + +"Where is the Dark Tower?" asked Childe Rowland. + +"I do not know," said the man. "Ask the man that keeps the cows." + +Childe Rowland thought of what the wise man had told him. + +He pulled out his father's sword, and off went the man's head. + +Then Childe Rowland went on and on, till he came to some cows with +eyes of fire. + +The man who kept the cows looked at Childe Rowland. + +"Where is the Dark Tower?" asked Childe Rowland. + +"I cannot tell. Ask the woman that keeps the hens," said the man. + +Childe Rowland took the sword, and off went the man's head. + +Then Childe Rowland went on and on, till he came to some hens with +eyes of fire. + +An old woman was with them. + +"Where is the Dark Tower?" asked Childe Rowland. + +"Go on and look for a hill," said the old woman. "Go around the hill +three times. Each time you go around say: + + 'Open, door! open, door! + Let me come in.' + +When you have gone three times around, a door will open. Go in." + +Childe Rowland did not like to cut off the head of the old woman, but +he thought of what the wise man had told him. + +So he took hold of the sword, and off went her head. + +After this he went on and on and on, till he came to a hill. + +He went three times around it, and each time he said: + + "Open, door! open, door! + Let me come in." + +When he had gone three times around, a door opened. In he went. + +The door shut after him, and he was in the dark. + +Soon he began to see a dim light. + +It seemed to come from the walls. + +He went down a long way, and at last he came to another door. + +All at once it flew open, and he found himself in a great hall. + +The walls were of gold and silver, and were hung with diamonds. + +How the diamonds shone! + +And there sat the princess Ellen in a great chair of gold, with +diamonds all about her head. + +When she saw Childe Rowland, she came to him and said: + +"Brother, why are you here? If the king of the elves comes, it will be +a sad day for you." + +But this did not frighten Childe Rowland. He sat down and told her all +that he had done. + +She told him that the two brothers were in the tower. + +The king of the elves had turned them into stone. + +Soon Childe Rowland began to be very hungry, and asked for something +to eat. + +Ellen went out and soon came back with bread and milk in a golden +bowl. + +Childe Rowland took it and was about to eat. + +All at once he thought of what the wise man had said. + +So he threw the bowl down upon the floor, and said: + + "Not a bit will I bite, + Not a drop will I drink, + Till Ellen is free." + +Then they heard a great noise outside, and some one cried out: + + "Fee-fi-fo-fum! + I smell the blood + Of an Englishman!" + +The door of the hall flew open and the king of the elves came in. + +Childe Rowland took his sword. + +They fought and they fought. + +At last Childe Rowland beat the king of the elves down to the ground. + +"Stop!" cried the king of the elves. "I have had enough." + +"I will stop when you set free the princess Ellen and my brothers," +said Childe Rowland. + +"I will set them free," said the king. + +He went at once to a cupboard and took out a blood-red bottle. + +Out of this bottle he let a drop or two fall upon the eyes of the two +brothers, and up they jumped. + +Childe Rowland took the hand of his sister and went out of the door, +and up the long way. + +The two brothers went after them and left the king of the elves alone. + +Then they came out from the hill and found their way back to their own +country. + +How glad the queen was! + + +TOM TIT TOT + +Once a woman made five pies. + +When she had made them, she found that they were too hard. + +So the woman said to her daughter: + +"Put those pies into the cupboard and leave them there a little while +and they'll come again." + +She meant that they would get soft. + +But the girl said to herself, + +"Well, if they'll come again, I think I will eat them." + +So she ate them all up. + +At supper time the woman said, + +"Daughter, get one of those pies. I think they must have come again." + +The girl went to the cupboard and looked, but no pies were there. + +Then she came back to her mother and said, + +"No, they have not come again." + +"Well, bring one," said the mother. "I want one for my supper." + +"But I can't. They have not come." + +"Yes, you can. Bring me one." + +"But I ate them all up." + +"What!" said the mother, "You bad, bad girl!" + +The woman could not stop thinking about those five pies. + +As she sat at the door spinning, she kept mumbling to herself: + + "My daughter ate five pies to-day, + My daughter ate five pies to-day." + +The king was going by, and he heard the woman mumbling. + +"What are you saying, woman?" asked the king. + +The woman did not like to tell him about the pies, so she said: + + "My daughter spun five skeins to-day, + My daughter spun five skeins to-day." + +"Well, well, well!" said the king, "I didn't know that any one could +spin so much as that!" + +"My daughter knows how to spin," said the woman. + +The king thought a little while. + +Then he said: "I want a wife. If your daughter can spin as much as +that, I will make her my wife. She shall have fine clothes, and for +eleven months in every year she may do anything she wishes. But the +last month of the year she must spin five skeins each day. If she +doesn't, she must have her head cut off." + +"Very well," said the woman. + +She thought how fine it would be if her daughter should be the queen. + +The girl could have a good time for eleven months, anyway, and there +would surely be some way to get the skeins spun. + +So the king took the girl away and made her queen. + +For eleven months she had everything she could think of. + +She had gold and silver and diamonds and fine clothes and good things +to eat. + +But when the last month of the year came, she began to think what she +should do about those five skeins. + +She did not have long to think, for the king took her into a room, all +by herself, and said: + +"Here is a spinning wheel, and here is a chair, and here is some flax. + +"Now, my dear, sit down and spin five skeins before night, or off goes +your head." + +Then he turned and went out. + +How frightened she was! + +She could not spin. + +She could only sit down and cry. + +All at once there was a rap at the door. + +She jumped up and opened it, and what should she see but a little +black thing with a long tail! + +"What are you crying about?" asked the little black thing. + +"It would do no good to tell you," said the queen. + +"How do you know that?" asked the little black thing, and he twirled +his tail. + +"Well, I will tell you," she said. And she told him all that the king +had said to her. + +"Then," said the little black thing, "I will come here to your window +every morning and take some flax, and bring it back at night all spun. + +"If you can guess my name, you shall pay nothing for my work. + +"You may try three times each night, when I bring back the skeins. But +if you can't guess my name before the last day of the month, I will +carry you off with me." + +The queen thought that she could surely guess, so she said: + +"Very well. Take the flax." + +"Yes," said the little black thing, and my! how he twirled his tail! + +That night he came back with five skeins of spun flax, but she could +not guess his name. + +So it went on day after day. Every night the little black thing +brought five skeins, but she could not guess his name. + +On the last day of the month the king came in to see her. + +"You are doing well, my dear," said he. + +"I think I shall not have to cut off your head, after all." + +So he had a fine supper brought in, and they ate it together. + +As they were eating, the king said: + +"I was hunting to-day in the woods, and I heard a queer song. It came +from a hole in the ground. I looked in, and there sat a little black +thing with a long tail. He was spinning. He twirled his tail as he +spun, and sang: + + 'Nimmy, nimmy, not! + I'm Tom Tit Tot.'" + +The queen at once jumped up and danced all around the table, but she +said nothing. + +The king thought she was glad because her spinning was done. + +That night the little black thing brought the last five skeins of +flax. + +"Well," he said, "what is my name? You may guess three times more." + +How he twirled his tail! + +"Is it Jack?" she asked. + +"No, it is not Jack," he said. + +"Is it Tom?" she asked. + +"No, it is not Tom." + +You should have seen him laugh! + +"One more guess; then I take you," said the little black thing, and he +twirled his tail again. + +This time the queen laughed. + +She looked at him a long time and then said: + + "Nimmy, nimmy, not! + You're Tom Tit Tot." + +At that the little black thing gave a great cry, and away he flew, out +into the dark. + +The queen never saw him again. + + + + +POEMS BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI + + +LAMBKINS + + On the grassy banks + Lambkins at their pranks; + Woolly sisters, woolly brothers, + Jumping off their feet, + While their woolly mothers + Watch by them and bleat. + + +FERRY ME ACROSS THE WATER + + "Ferry me across the water, + Do, boatman, do." + "If you've a penny in your purse, + I'll ferry you." + + "I have a penny in my purse, + And my eyes are blue; + So ferry me across the water, + Do, boatman, do." + + "Step into my ferry-boat, + Be they black or blue, + And for the penny in your purse + I'll ferry you." + + +CORAL + + "O sailor, come ashore. + What have you brought for me?" + "Red coral, white coral, + Coral from the sea. + + "I did not dig it from the ground + Nor pluck it from a tree; + Feeble insects made it + In the stormy sea." + + +THE SWALLOW + + Fly away, fly away over the sea, + Sun-loving swallow, for summer is done; + + Come again, come again, come back to me, + Bringing the summer and bringing the sun. + + +WRENS AND ROBINS + + Wrens and robins in the hedge, + Wrens and robins here and there; + Building, perching, pecking, fluttering, + Everywhere! + + +BOATS SAIL ON THE RIVERS + + Boats sail on the rivers, + And ships sail on the seas; + But clouds that sail across the sky + Are prettier far than these. + + There are bridges on the rivers, + As pretty as you please; + But the bow that bridges heaven, + And overtops the trees, + And builds a road from earth to sky, + Is prettier far than these. + + + + +FABLES FROM AESOP + + +THE LION AND THE MOUSE + +A lion was asleep in the woods. + +A little mouse ran over his paw. + +The lion woke up and caught him. + +"You are a very little mouse, but I think I will eat you," he said. + +"Do not eat me," said the mouse, "I am so little! Let me go. Some time +I may be of help to you." + +The lion laughed. + +"What can you do?" he said. + +But he let the mouse go. + +Not very long after this the lion was caught by some men and made fast +with a rope. + +The men left him and went to get more rope, to bind him. + +"Now is my time!" said the mouse. + +He ran to the lion and began to gnaw the rope. + +He gnawed and he gnawed. + +At last he gnawed through the rope and set the lion free. + +"You laughed at me," said the mouse, "but have I not helped you?" + +"You have saved my life," said the lion. + + +THE HONEST WOODCUTTER + +One day a woodcutter lost his ax in a pond. + +He sat down by the water and said to himself, "What shall I do? I have +lost my ax." + +All at once a man stood beside him. + +"What have you lost?" asked the man. + +"I have lost my ax," said the woodcutter. + +The man said nothing, but jumped into the pond and soon came out with +a golden ax. + +"Is this your ax?" he asked. + +"No," said the honest woodcutter, "my ax was not a golden ax." + +The man jumped in again, and soon came out with a silver ax. + +"Is this your ax?" asked the man. + +"No," said the woodcutter, "my ax was not a silver ax." + +Again the man jumped in. + +This time he came out with the ax that the woodcutter had lost. + +"Is this your ax?" he asked. + +"Yes," said the woodcutter, "thank you! How glad I am! But who are +you, kind sir? You must be more than a man." + +"I am Mercury," said the other, "and you are an honest woodcutter. I +will give you the golden ax and the silver ax." + +The woodcutter thanked him and went home. + +Soon he met another woodcutter and told what Mercury had done. + +This other woodcutter thought he should like a golden ax, too. + +So he went to the pond and threw his ax into the water. + +Then he sat down and began to cry, + +"O, I have lost my ax! What shall I do? What shall I do?" + +Mercury came again and jumped into the water. + +Soon he came out with a golden ax. + +"Is this your ax?" he asked. + +"O, yes, yes! that is my ax," said the man. + +"No, it is not," said Mercury. "You are not an honest woodcutter, and +you shall have no golden ax." + +"Then get my own ax for me," said the woodcutter. + +"Get it yourself," said Mercury. + +With that he went away and was seen no more. + + +THE WOLF AND THE CRANE + + (Once a wolf was eating his supper. + + He was hungry and he ate very fast. + + He ate so fast that he swallowed a bone. + + A crane was going by. + + The wolf called to the crane.) + +WOLF. My dear crane, come, help me. I have a bone in my throat. + +CRANE. What do you want me to do? + +WOLF. Put your bill down my throat and pull out the bone. + +CRANE. You will bite off my head. + +WOLF. O, no, I will not. I will pay you well. + + (The crane came and put his head into the wolf's mouth. + + Then he ran his long bill down the wolf's throat and so pulled + out the bone.) + +CRANE. There, Brother Wolf, there is the bone. Now give me my pay. + +WOLF. You have had your pay. + +CRANE. No, I have not. + +WOLF. You have had your head in the mouth of a wolf, you have pulled +it out, and your life is saved. What more can you ask? + +CRANE. After this, I will keep away from a wolf. + + +THE TOWN MOUSE AND THE COUNTRY MOUSE + +Once a country mouse asked her cousin, the town mouse, to come and +visit her. + +The town mouse came, and the country mouse gave her the best she had +to eat. + +It was only a little wheat and corn. + +The town mouse ate some of it. + +Then she said: + +"Cousin, how can you live on this poor corn and wheat? Come to town +with me, and I will give you something good." + +So the two mice set off and soon came to town. + +The town mouse lived well and had everything she wished for. + +She had cake and pie and cheese and everything good to eat. + +O, it was so good! + +The country mouse was hungry, and she ate and ate and ate. + +"How rich my cousin is," she said, "and how poor I am!" + +As she said this, there was a great barking at the door. + +Then two dogs ran into the room. + +They chased the mice about, barking all the time. + +At last the mice ran into a hole. + +"Good-by, cousin, I am going home," said the country mouse. + +"What! Are you going so soon?" asked the other. + +"Yes, I do not like that kind of music with my supper. It is better +to have corn and wheat and be safe than to have cake and cheese and be +always in fear," said the country mouse. + + +THE WIND AND THE SUN + +Once the wind and the sun had a quarrel. + +The sun said, + +"I am stronger than you." + +The wind said, + +"No, I am stronger than you." + +"Let us see," said the sun. "Here comes a man with a big cloak. Can +you make him take it off?" + +"Surely I can," said the wind. + +"Try," said the sun. + +The sun went behind the clouds. + +The wind began to blow. + +How he did blow! + +But the man pulled his cloak close about him. + +He did not care for the wind. + +At last the wind gave it up. + +"Now you try," he said to the sun. + +The sun came out from the clouds. + +He shone down upon the man. + +"How warm it is!" said the man. "I must take off my cloak." + +So he took off his cloak. + +"You have beaten," said the wind. "You are stronger than I." + + +THE ANT AND THE DOVE + +A little ant once fell into a pond. + +A dove was perching in a tree over the water. + +The dove saw the ant fall. + +She pulled off a leaf with her bill and let it drop into the water. + +"There, little ant! get on that leaf, and you will be safe," she said. + +The ant jumped upon the leaf, and the wind blew it to the shore of the +pond. + +Not long after this, a man laid a net to catch the dove. + +He pulled it in and found the dove caught fast in it. + +The ant saw the man with the net, and ran up his leg and bit him. + +"O!" said the man, "what is that?" + +He let the net drop to the ground, and the dove flew away. + +Next time the dove saw the ant, she said: + +"Good ant, you saved my life." + +"You saved my life once, and I only tried to pay you back," said the +ant. + + +THE LARK AND HER NEST + +A lark had made her nest in a field of wheat. + +The wheat was almost ripe. + +One day the old lark said to her young ones: + +"The men will soon come to cut this wheat. You must watch for them and +tell me all you see or hear while I am away." + +Then she left them and went to get something for them to eat. + +When she came home, she asked, + +"Did you see or hear anything?" + +"Yes, mother," said the young ones. + +"The owner of the field came and looked at the wheat. He said, 'This +wheat is ripe. It must be cut at once. I will ask my neighbors to come +and help me cut it.'" + +"That is good," said the old lark. + +"Must we not leave the nest?" asked the young ones. + +"No," said the mother. "If the man waits for his neighbors to come and +help him, he will wait a long time." + +Next day the owner came again. + +"This wheat must be cut," said he. "I cannot wait for my neighbors. I +must ask my uncles and cousins." + +When the old lark came home, the young ones said: + +"O, mother! we must leave the nest now. + +"The man said that he should ask his uncles and cousins to help him +cut the wheat." + +"We will not go yet," said the mother. "If he waits for his uncles and +cousins, he will wait a long time." + +The next day the man came again. His boy was with him. + +"We can't wait any longer," he said. "We must cut the wheat +ourselves." + +Soon the mother lark came home. + +The young ones told her what the man had said. + +"Now we must be off," she cried. "When a man sets out to do his work +himself, it will be done." + +So the lark and her young ones left the nest and found another home. + + +THE DOG AND HIS SHADOW + +A dog once had a piece of meat. + +He was going home with it. + +On the way he had to go across a bridge over some water. + +He looked into the water, and there he thought he saw another dog. + +The dog looked like himself and had a piece of meat in his mouth, too. + +It was his shadow in the water. + +"That meat looks good. I want it," said the dog. + +"My piece is not big enough. I will take the meat away from that other +dog." + +So he barked at the other dog. + +As he opened his mouth to bark, his piece of meat fell into the water. + +"Splash!" it went, and that was the last he ever saw of it. + +"If I had let that dog keep his piece of meat, I should not have lost +my own," he said. + + +THE FOX AND THE GRAPES + +A hungry fox once saw some sweet grapes hanging over a wall. + +"I want those grapes," he said to himself. + +So he jumped for them. + +He did not get them. + +He jumped again. + +Still he did not get them. + +He jumped again and again. + +They were too high. + +At last he gave it up and went away. + +"I don't want those grapes," he said. + +"They are sour grapes. I know they are sour. They are not fit to +eat." + + + + +POEMS BY MARY MAPES DODGE + + +FOUR LITTLE BIRDS + + Four little birds all flew from their nest-- + Flew north, flew south, flew east and west; + + They thought they would like a wider view, + So they spread their wings and away they flew. + + +IN THE BASKET + + Hark! do you hear my basket + Go "kippy! kippy! peek"? + Maybe my funny basket + Is learning how to speak. + + If you want to know the secret, + Go ask the speckled hen, + And tell her when I've warmed them + I'll bring them back again. + +COUSIN JEREMY + + He came behind me and covered my eyes; + "Who is this?" growled he, so sly. + "Why, Cousin Jeremy, how can I tell, + When my eyes are shut?" said I. + + +LITTLE MISS LIMBERKIN + + Little Miss Limberkin, + Dreadful to say, + Found a mouse in the cupboard + Sleeping away. + Little Miss Limberkin + Gave such a scream, + She frightened the little mouse + Out of its dream. + + +SNOWFLAKES + + Little white feathers, + Filling the air; + Little white feathers, + How came you there? + "We came from the cloud birds + Sailing so high; + They're shaking their white wings + Up in the sky." + Little white feathers, + How swift you go! + Little white snowflakes, + I love you so! + "We are swift because + We have work to do; + But hold up your face, + And we'll kiss you true." + + +HOLLYHOCK + + Hollyhock, hollyhock, bend for me; + I need a cheese for my dolly's tea. + I'll put it soon on an acorn plate, + And dolly and I shall feast in state. + + + + +GERMAN FAIRY TALES + + +THE LITTLE PINE TREE + +Once a little pine tree grew in a valley. + +It was covered with needles that were always beautiful and green. + +But it did not like the needles. + +The little tree said: + +"All the other trees in the woods have beautiful leaves, but I have +only needles. I do not like needles. I wish I could have leaves. But I +should like to be more beautiful than the other trees. I should not +like green leaves. I should like gold leaves." + +The little tree went to sleep. + +A fairy happened to be passing and said to herself: + +"This little pine tree would like gold leaves. It shall have them." + +Next morning the tree woke up and found that it was covered with +leaves of shining gold. + +"How beautiful!" said the tree. "No other tree has gold leaves!" + +Soon a man came by with a bag. + +He saw the gold leaves. + +He ran to the little pine tree and began to pull them off and to put +them into his bag. + +He pulled them all off and carried them away. + +The little pine tree was bare. + +"O," cried the little tree, "I don't want gold leaves any more, for +men will take them away. I want something beautiful that they will not +take away. I think I should like glass leaves." + +The little tree went to sleep. + +The fairy came by again and said: + +"This little tree wants glass leaves. It shall have them." + +Next morning the tree woke up and found that it was covered with +leaves of shining glass. + +How they shone in the sun! + +"These leaves are much better than gold leaves," said the little tree. +"They are very beautiful." + +But a wind came down the valley. + +It blew and it blew. + +It blew the glass leaves together and broke them all to pieces. + +The little pine tree was bare again. + +"I don't want glass leaves," said the little tree. "I want leaves that +will not break. Perhaps green leaves are best, after all, but I want +leaves. I don't want needles." + +The little tree went to sleep. + +The fairy came by again and said: + +"This little tree wants green leaves. It shall have them." + +Next morning when the tree woke up it was covered with green leaves. + +"This is fine!" said the tree. "Now I am like the other trees, but +more beautiful." + +Soon a goat came down the valley. + +"These leaves look good," said the goat. + +So he ate them all up. + +The little pine tree was bare again. + +"I think I don't want leaves after all," said the little pine tree. +"Gold leaves are beautiful, but men carry them away. Glass leaves are +beautiful, but the wind breaks them. Green leaves are beautiful, but +goats eat them. My old green needles were best. I wish I could have +them back." + +The little pine tree went to sleep. + +The fairy came by again, and said: + +"This little tree has found out that needles were best for it after +all. It shall have them back." + +Next morning the tree woke up and had the old green needles again. + +Then it was happy. + + +THE FAITHFUL BEASTS + +Once upon a time a man went out to seek his fortune. + +As he walked along, he came to a town and saw some boys teasing a +mouse. + +"Let the poor mouse go. I will pay you if you will let it go," said +the man. + +He gave the boys a penny. + +They let the mouse go, and it ran away. + +After this the man went on till he came to another town. + +There he saw some boys playing with a monkey. + +They had hurt the poor beast so that he cried out with pain. + +"Let the monkey go," said the man. "I will pay you to let him go." + +So he gave the boys some money. + +They let the monkey go, and the monkey ran away. + +The man went on, and by and by he came to another town. + +There he saw some boys trying to make a bear dance. + +They had tied the bear with a rope and were beating him. + +"Let the poor bear go," said the man. "I will pay you to let him go." + +He gave the boys some money, and they let the poor beast go. + +The bear, was glad to be free and walked off as fast as he could. + +The man had spent all his money. + +He had not a penny left. + +He was hungry too, and could get nothing to eat. + +Then the king's men took him and put him into a great box. + +They shut and fastened the lid, and threw the box into the water. + +The man floated about in the water many days and thought he should +never see the light again. + +At last he heard something gnaw and scratch at the lid. + +Then the lid flew open. + +The box was on the shore, and there stood the bear, the monkey, and +the mouse beside it. + +They had helped him because he had helped them. + +As they stood there, a round white stone rolled down to the water. + +"This has come just in time," said the bear. "It is a magic stone and +will take its owner wherever he wishes to go." + +The man picked up the stone and wished he were in a castle with +gardens around it. + +All at once the castle and the gardens were there, and he was in the +castle. + +It was very beautiful. + +Soon some merchants came by. + +"See this fine castle," said one to another. "There was never a castle +here till now." + +The merchants went in and asked the man how he had built the castle so +quickly. + +"I did not do it," said the man. "My magic stone built it." + +"Let us see the stone," said the merchants. + +The man showed them the stone. + +Then the merchants showed him gold and silver and diamonds and other +beautiful things, and said: + +"We will give you all these if you will give us the stone." + +The things looked very beautiful to the man, so he took them and gave +the stone to the merchants. + +All at once he found himself again in the dark box on the water. + +As soon as the bear, the monkey, and the mouse saw what had happened, +they tried to help him. + +But the lid was fastened more strongly than before. + +They could not open it. + +"We must have that stone again," said the bear. + +So the three faithful beasts went back to the castle and found the +merchants there. + +The mouse looked under the door and said: + +"The stone is fastened with a red ribbon under the looking-glass, and +beside it are two great cats with eyes of fire." + +The bear and the monkey said: + +"Wait till the men go to sleep. Then run quickly under the door, jump +quickly up on the bed, scratch the nose of one of the men, and bite +off one of his whiskers." + +The mouse did as he was told. + +The merchant woke up and rubbed his nose. Then he said: + +"Those cats are good for nothing. They let the mice in, and the mice +eat up my very whiskers." + +So he drove the cats away. + +The next night the mouse went in again. The merchants were asleep. + +The mouse gnawed at the ribbon till it gave way, and the stone fell. + +Then he rolled the stone out under the door. + +The monkey took it and carried it down to the water. + +"How shall we get out to the box?" asked the monkey. + +"I will tell you," said the bear. "Sit on my back and hold fast. Carry +the stone in your mouth. The mouse will sit in my right ear, and I +will swim out to the box." + +They did as the bear said, and were soon out in the water. No one said +anything, and it was very still. The bear wanted to talk. + +"How are you, Monkey?" he asked. + +The monkey said nothing. + +"Why don't you talk to me?" asked the bear. + +"Silly!" said the monkey. "How do you think I can talk when I have a +stone in my mouth?" + +As he said this, the stone rolled out into the water. + +"Never mind," said the bear. "The frogs will get it for us." + +So he asked the frogs to get it, and one of them brought it to him. + +"Thank you," said the bear. "That is what we need." + +Then the three faithful beasts broke open the great box. + +They gave the stone to the man. + +He took it and wished himself in the castle again, and wished the +three faithful beasts with him. + +At once they were in the castle. + +The merchants were gone. + +So the man and his three faithful beasts lived there ever after. + + + + +POEMS BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON + + +WHERE GO THE BOATS? + + Dark brown is the river, + Golden is the sand; + It flows along for ever, + With trees on either hand. + + Green leaves a-floating, + Castles of the foam, + Boats of mine a-boating-- + Where will all come home? + + On goes the river + And out past the mill, + Away down the valley, + Away down the hill. + + Away down the river, + A hundred miles or more, + Other little children + Shall bring my boats ashore. + + +AT THE SEASIDE + + When I was down beside the sea + A wooden spade they gave to me + To dig the sandy shore. + My holes were empty like a cup; + In every hole the sea came up, + Till it could come no more. + + +RAIN + + The rain is raining all around; + It falls on field and tree, + It rains on the umbrellas here + And on the ships at sea. + + +AUTUMN FIRES + + In the other gardens + And all up the vale, + From the autumn bonfires + See the smoke trail! + + Pleasant summer over + And all the summer flowers; + The red fire blazes, + The gray smoke towers. + + Sing a song of seasons! + Something bright in all! + Flowers in the summer, + Fires in the fall! + + +THE WIND + + I saw you toss the kites on high + And blow the birds about the sky, + And all around I heard you pass + Like ladies' skirts across the grass-- + O wind, a-blowing all day long + O wind, that sings so loud a song! + + I saw the different things you did, + But always you yourself you hid; + I felt you push, I heard you call, + I could not see yourself at all-- + O wind, a-blowing all day long, + O wind, that sings so loud a song! + + O you that are so strong and cold, + O blower, are you young or old? + Are you a beast of field and tree, + Or just a stronger child than me? + O wind, a-blowing all day long, + O wind, that sings so loud a song! + + + + +HINDU FABLES + + +THE TIMID HARES + +Once there was a timid little hare who was always afraid something +dreadful was going to happen. + +She was always saying, "What if the earth should fall in? What would +happen to me then?" + +One day, after she had been saying this to herself many times, a great +coconut fell from a tree. + +"What was that!" said the hare. + +She jumped as if she had been shot. + +"The earth must be falling in!" she cried. + +So she ran and she ran as fast as she could run. + +Soon she met another hare. + +"O Brother Hare," she said, "run for your life! The earth is falling +in!" + +"What is that you say!" cried the other hare. "Then I will run, too." + +This hare told another hare, and the other hare told other hares, and +soon all the hares were running as fast as they could run, and crying: + +"The earth is falling in! O, the earth is falling in!" + +The big beasts heard them, and they too began to run and to cry: + +"O, the earth is falling in! Run for your life!" + +A wise old lion saw them running and heard them crying. + +"I cannot see that the earth is falling in," he said. + +Then he cried out to the poor frightened beasts to stop. + +"What are you saying?" he asked. + +"We said the earth is falling in," answered the elephants. + +"What makes you think so?" asked the lion. + +"The tigers told us," said the elephants. + +"What makes the tigers think so?" + +"The bears told us," said the tigers. + +"What makes the bears think so?" + +"The buffaloes told us," said the bears. + +"Why do the buffaloes think so?" + +"The deer told us," said the buffaloes. + +"Why do the deer think so?" + +"The monkeys told us so," said the deer. + +"And how did the monkeys know?" + +"The jackals said so," said the monkeys. + +"And how did the jackals know?" + +"The hares said it was so," said the jackals. + +"And how did the hares know?" + +One of the hares then said that another hare told him, and the other +hare said that another told him, and so it went on until at last they +came to the first little hare. + +"Little hare," said the lion, "why did you say that the earth was +falling in?" + +"I saw it," said the little hare. + +"Where?" asked the lion. + +"I saw it there, under that big coconut tree," said the little hare. + +"Come and show me," said the lion. + +"O, no, no!" said the little hare. "I am so frightened. I couldn't +go." + +"Jump on my back," said the lion. + +The little hare at last jumped up on the lion's back, and the lion +took her back to the big tree. + +Just then another coconut fell with a great noise among the leaves. + +"O, run, run!" cried the timid hare. "There is that dreadful thing +again!" + +"Stop and look," said the lion. + +As the hare could not get down from the lion's back, she had to stop +and look. + +"Now what do you think it is?" asked the lion. + +"I think it must be a coconut," said the little hare. + +"Then I think you had better go and tell the other beasts," said the +lion. + +So the little hare told the other beasts that the earth was not +falling in, after all. It was a coconut that was falling. + + +THE SHOE + + (A man once left his shoe in the woods. The beasts found it. + + They had never seen anything like it before, so they came + together and began to talk about it.) + +BEAR. It must be the husk or the outside of some fruit. + +ALL THE BIRDS. O, just hear him! + +ALL THE BEASTS. O, just hear him! + +WOLF. No, that is not it. It is some kind of nest. See! Here is the +hole at the top, for the bird to go into, and here is the place for +the eggs and the young birds. + +BIRDS. O, just hear him! + +BEAR. Just hear him talk! + +GOAT. No, you are both wrong. It is the root of some plant. + + (He showed them the shoe string hanging at the side.) + +See this long, fine root. Surely it is a root! + +BIRDS. O, just hear him talk! + +BEASTS. Just hear him! + +BEAR. I tell you it is the husk of a fruit. + +WOLF. And I tell you it is a nest. + +GOAT. And I tell you it is a root. Surely it is a root! + +OWL. Let me speak. I have lived among men, and I have seen many such +things as this. It is a man's shoe. + +BEAR. What is a man? + +GOAT. What is a shoe? + +OWL. A man is a thing with two legs. He can stand up like a monkey, he +can walk like a bird, but he cannot fly. He can eat and talk, and he +can do many things that we cannot do. + +BEASTS. O, no! + +BIRDS. No, no! + +BEAR. How can that be? How can anything with two legs do more than we, +who have four? + +BIRDS. And this thing you call a man cannot be good for much if he +cannot fly. + +GOAT. But what does the man do with this root? + +OWL. It is not a root. I tell you it is a shoe. + +WOLF. And what is a shoe? + +OWL. It is what the man puts on his feet. He puts one of these shoes +on each of his feet. + +BIRDS. Hear the owl talk! + +BEASTS. Who ever heard of such a thing as a shoe? + +GOAT. Hear that! The man puts them on his feet! + +WOLF. It is not true! + +BEAR. No, it is not true! The owl doesn't know. + +WOLF. You know nothing, Owl. Get out of our woods. You are not fit to +live with us. + +BEAR. Yes, Owl, go away! + +BEASTS. Leave us! Go away! + +BIRDS. Leave us! Leave us, Owl! You surely don't know what you are +talking about! + + (The beasts chase the owl out of the woods.) + +OWL. (Going off) But it is a shoe, anyway. + + +THE CAMEL AND THE JACKAL + +Once upon a time a camel and a jackal lived together by the side of a +river. + +One fine morning the jackal said: + +"There is a big field of sugar cane over on the other side of the +river. Take me on your back, Brother Camel, and I will show you where +it is. You may eat all the sugar cane, and I will find some crabs or +fish on the shore." + +This pleased the camel very much. So he waded through the river and +carried the jackal on his back. + +The jackal could not swim. + +The camel found the sugar cane, and the jackal found some crabs. + +The jackal ate much faster than the camel and soon had enough. + +"Now, Brother Camel," he said, "take me back. I have had enough." + +"But I haven't," said the camel. + +So the camel went on eating. + +The jackal tried to think how he could make the camel go home. + +At last he thought of a way. + +He began to bark and to cry and to make such a noise that all the men +from the village ran out to see what was going on. + +There they found the camel eating the sugar cane, and at once they +beat the poor beast with sticks and so drove him out of the field. + +"Brother Camel, hadn't you better go home now?" asked the jackal. + +"Yes, jackal, jump on my back," said the camel. + +The jackal jumped on his back, and the camel waded through the river +with him. + +As he went, he said to the jackal: + +"Brother Jackal, I think you have not been very good to me to-day. Why +did you make such a noise?" + +"O, I don't know," said the jackal. "It's a way I sometimes have. I +like to sing a little, after dinner." + +The camel waded on. + +When they got out where the water was deep, the camel stopped and +said, "Jackal, I feel as if I must roll a little in the water. + +"O, no, no!" said the jackal. "Why do you want to do that?" + +"O, I don't know," said the camel. "It's a way I sometimes have. I +like to roll a little, after dinner." + +With that, he rolled over, and the jackal fell into the water. + + + + +POEMS BY LAURA E. RICHARDS[1] + + +THE BUMBLEBEE + + The bumblebee, the bumblebee, + He flew to the top of the tulip tree. + He flew to the top, + But he could not stop, + For he had to get home to his early tea. + + The bumblebee, the bumblebee, + He flew away from the tulip tree; + But he made a mistake, + And flew into the lake, + And he never got home to his early tea. + +[1] Copyright, 1890, by Little, Brown, and Company. + + +LITTLE BROWN BOBBY + + Little Brown Bobby sat on the barn floor, + Little Brown Bossy looked in at the door. + Little Brown Bobby said, "Lackaday! + Who'll drive me this little Brown Bossy away?" + + Little Brown Bobby said, "Shoo! shoo! shoo!" + Little Brown Bossy said, "Moo! moo! moo!" + This frightened them so that both of them cried, + And wished they were back at their mammy's side. + + +JIPPY AND JIMMY + + Jippy and Jimmy were two little dogs. + They went to sail on some floating logs; + The logs rolled over, the dogs rolled in, + And they got very wet, for their clothes were thin. + + Jippy and Jimmy crept out again. + They said, "The river is full of rain!" + They said, "The water is far from dry! + Ki-hi! ki-hi! ki-_hi_-yi! ki-hi!" + + Jippy and Jimmy went shivering home. + They said, "On the river no more we will roam; + And we won't go to sail until we learn how, + Bow-wow! bow-wow! bow-_wow_-wow! bow-wow!" + + +THE SONG OF THE CORN POPPER + + Pip! pop! flippety flop! + Here am I, all ready to pop. + Girls and boys, the fire burns clear; + Gather about the chimney here, + Big ones, little ones, all in a row. + Hop away! pop away! here we go! + + Pip! pop! flippety flop! + Into the bowl the kernels drop; + Sharp and hard and yellow and small, + Must say they don't look good at all; + But wait till they burst into warm white snow! + Hop away! pop away! here we go! + + Pip! pop! flippety flop! + Shake me steadily; do not stop! + Backward and forward, not up and down; + Don't let me drop, or you'll burn it brown. + Never too high and never too low; + Hop away! pop away! here we go! + + + + +A FRENCH FAIRY TALE + + +THE FAIRY + +Once on a time there was a woman who had two daughters. The older was +very much like her mother, and was very ugly. + +The younger was not like her, but was very good and beautiful. + +The woman liked the older girl because she was like herself. + +She did not like the younger; so she made her do all the hard work. + +One day the younger daughter had gone to the spring to get water. It +was a long way from home. + +As she was standing by the spring, a poor old woman came by and asked +her for a drink. + +"Indeed, you shall have a drink," said the girl. + +She filled her pitcher and gave the old woman some water. + +The woman drank, and then said, "You are so kind and good, my dear, +that I will give you a gift." + +Now this old woman was a fairy, but the girl did not know it. + +"I will give you a gift," she said, "and this shall be the gift: With +every word that you speak, either a flower or a jewel shall fall from +your mouth." + +When the younger girl came home, her mother scolded her because she +had been so long at the spring. + +"I am very sorry indeed, mother," said the girl. + +At once two roses, two pearls, and two diamonds fell from her mouth. + +"What is this!" cried the mother. "I think I see pearls and diamonds +falling out of your mouth! How does this happen, my child?" + +This was the first time the woman had ever called her "my child." + +The girl told her all that had happened, and while she spoke, many +more diamonds fell from her mouth. + +"Well, well, well!" said the woman, "I must surely send my dear Fanny +to the spring, so that she too may have this gift." + +Then she called her older daughter. "Fanny, my dear, come here! See +what has happened to your sister. Should you not like to have such +diamonds whenever you wish them? + +"All you need to do is to go out to the spring to get some water. An +old woman will ask for a drink and you will give it to her." + +"I think I see myself going out there to the spring to get water!" +said the older daughter. + +"Go at once!" said the mother. + +So the older daughter went. + +She took with her the best silver pitcher in the house, and grumbled +all the way. + +When she had come to the spring, she saw a lady in beautiful clothes +standing under a tree. + +The lady came to her and asked for a drink. + +It was really the fairy, but now she looked like a princess. + +The older daughter did not know that it was the fairy, so she said: + +"Do you think that I came to the spring to get water just for you, or +that I brought this fine silver pitcher so that you could drink from +it? Drink from the spring if you wish." + +"You are not very polite, I think," said the fairy, "but I will give +you a gift, and this shall be the gift: With every word that you +speak, either a snake or a toad shall fall from your mouth." + +When the older daughter went back to the house, her mother called out, +"Well, daughter?" + +"Well, mother," said the girl, and as she spoke, a snake and a toad +fell out of her mouth. + +"What!" cried the mother. "Your sister has done all this, but she +shall pay for it!" + +With that, the mother took a stick and ran after the younger daughter. + +The poor child ran away from her and hid in the woods. + +The prince of that country had been hunting and happened to pass +through those woods on his way home. + +He saw the young girl and asked her why she was standing there and +crying, all alone in the woods. + +"O sir, my mother has turned me out of the house," she said. + +The prince was greatly surprised to see five or six pearls and as many +diamonds fall from her mouth as she spoke. + +"Tell me how all this happened," said the prince. + +So she told him all about it. + +The prince took her with him, and they went to the king's house, and +there they were married, and were very happy. + +But the older sister grew more and more ugly in her heart, until even +her mother could not live with her. + +So her mother turned her out, and no one ever heard of her again. + + + + +A NORSE FOLK TALE + + +EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON + +Once there was a poor woodcutter who had so many children that it was +hard to get enough for them to eat. + +They were all pretty children, but the youngest daughter was the +prettiest of them all. + +One cold, dark night in the fall they were sitting around the fire, +when all at once something went rap! rap! rap! on the window. + +The father went out to see what it was, and there stood a big white +bear. + +"Good evening," said the bear. + +"The same to you," said the man. + +"Give me your youngest daughter, and you shall be rich," said the +bear. + +"You can't have her," said the man. + +"Think it over," said the bear, "I will come again next week." + +Then the bear went away. + +They talked it over and at last the youngest daughter said that she +would go away with the bear when he came back. + +Next Thursday night they heard the rap! rap! rap! on the window, and +there was the white bear again. + +The girl went out and climbed up on his back and off they went. + +When they had gone a little way, the bear turned around and asked, +"Are you afraid?" + +No, she was not afraid. + +"Well, hold fast to me, and there will be nothing to be afraid of," +said the bear. + +They went a long, long way, until they came to a great hill. + +The bear knocked on the ground, and a door opened. They went in. + +It was a castle, with many lights, and it shone with silver and gold. + +The white bear gave to the girl a silver bell, and said to her, "Ring +this bell when you want anything." + +Then he went away. + +Every night, when all the lights had been put out, the bear came and +talked with her. He slept in a bed in the great hall. + +But it was so dark that she could never see him, or know how he +looked, and when she took his paw, it was not like a paw. It was like +a hand. + +She wanted so much to see him! but he told her she must not. + +At last she felt that she could not wait any longer. + +So one night, when he was asleep, she lighted a candle and bent over +and looked at him. + +What do you think she saw? + +It was not a bear, but a prince, and the most beautiful prince that +was ever seen! + +She was so surprised that her hand began to shake, and three drops +from the candle fell upon the coat of the prince. + +This woke him up. + +"What have you done?" he cried. "You have brought trouble upon us. An +ugly witch turned me into a bear, but every night I am myself again, +and if you had waited only a year, and had not tried to find me out, I +should have been free. + +"Now I must go back to my other castle and marry an ugly princess with +a nose three yards long." + +The girl cried and cried and cried, but it did no good. + +She asked if she could go with him, but he said that she could not. + +"Tell me the way there," she said, "and I will find you." + +"It is East of the Sun and West of the Moon, but there is no way to +it," he said. + +Next morning when the girl awoke, she found herself all alone in the +deep woods. + +She set out and walked and walked till she came to a very old woman +sitting under a hill. The old woman had a golden apple in her hand. + +The girl asked the woman to tell her the way to the castle of the +prince who lived East of the Sun and West of the Moon. + +The old woman didn't know, but she gave the girl the golden apple, and +lent her a horse, and said to her: + +"Ask my next neighbor. Maybe she will know. And when you find her, +switch my horse under the left ear and tell him to be off home." + +So the girl got on the horse and rode until she came to an old woman +with a golden comb. This old woman answered her as the first had done, +and lent her another horse and gave her the golden comb. + +The girl got on the horse and rode till she came to another old woman +spinning on a golden spinning wheel. This old woman did as the others +had done, and lent her another horse and gave her the golden spinning +wheel. + +"You might ask the East Wind. Maybe he will know," she said. + +So the girl rode on until she came to the house of the East Wind. + +"I have heard of the prince and his castle, but I never went so far as +that," said the East Wind. + +"Get on my back, and I will carry you to my brother, the West Wind. +Maybe he will know." + +She got on his back, and away they went. O how fast they went! + +At last they found the West Wind, but he had never been so far as the +castle of the prince. + +"Get on my back," said West Wind, "and I will take you to our brother, +the South Wind. He will know, for he has been everywhere." + +So she got on the West Wind, and away they went to the South Wind. + +"It is a long way to that castle," said the South Wind, with a sigh. +"I have never been so far as that, but our brother, the North Wind, is +stronger than any of us. If he has not been there, you will never +find the way, and you might as well give it up. So get on my back, and +I will take you to him." + +The girl got on the back of the South Wind, and soon they came to +where the North Wind lived. + +"Boo-oo-oo! What do you want?" roared the North Wind. + +"Here is a girl who is looking for the prince that lives East of the +Sun and West of the Moon. Do you know where that is?" asked the South +Wind. + +"Yes, once I blew a leaf as far as that, and I was so tired after it +that I couldn't blow for a long time. But if you are sure you want to +go and are not afraid, I'll take you." + +Yes, she was sure she wanted to go. + +North Wind blew himself out so big that he was dreadful to look at. + +But she jumped on his back, and away they went. + +How they did go! + +The North Wind grew so tired that he almost had to stop. + +His feet began to trail in the sea. + +"Are you afraid?" he asked. + +No, she was not afraid. + +So they kept going on and on, till at last they came to the castle, +and the North Wind put her down and went away and left her. + +The next morning, as she sat there, Princess Long-Nose looked out of +the window. + +"What will you take for your big golden apple?" asked Long-Nose. + +"It is not for sale," said the girl. + +"I will give you anything you ask," said Long-Nose. + +"Let me speak to the prince, and you may have it," said the girl. + +"Very well," said Long-Nose. + +She made the girl wait till night, and then let her in, but the prince +was fast asleep. + +He would not wake up. + +Long-Nose had given him a kind of drink to make him sleep soundly. + +So the girl went sadly out. + +Next morning Long-Nose looked out of the window and said to her, "What +will you take for the comb?" + +"It is not for sale," said the girl. + +Long-Nose said that the girl might see the prince again if she would +give her the comb. + +So she saw the prince again, but he was asleep as before. + +Next morning Long-Nose looked out and saw the spinning wheel. + +She wanted that too. So she said she would let the girl come in and +see the prince once more if she would give her the spinning wheel. + +Some one told the prince about it, and that night he did not take the +drink which Long-Nose gave to him. He threw it out of the window. + +When the girl came, he was awake, and she told him her story. + +"You are just in time," said the prince, "for to-morrow I was to be +married to Long-Nose. + +"Now I will have no one but you. I will tell Long-Nose that I will +marry no one who cannot wash three drops of candle grease out of my +coat. She cannot do it, but I know that you can." + +So the next morning the prince said that he must have three drops of +grease washed out of his coat, and that he would marry no one who +couldn't wash them out. + +Long-Nose began to wash the coat, but she couldn't get the grease out. +It turned black. + +Then the old witch tried, but she had no better luck. + +Then the younger witches tried. + +"You cannot wash," said the prince. "I believe the poor girl out under +the window can wash better than you. Let her try." + +So the girl came in and tried, and as soon as she put the coat into +the water it was white as snow. + +"You are the girl for me!" said the prince. + +At this the old witch flew into such a rage that she fell to pieces, +and Princess Long-Nose fell to pieces, and the younger witches all +fell to pieces. And no one could ever put them together again. + +The prince married the poor girl, and they flew away as far as they +could from the castle that lay East of the Sun and West of the Moon. + + + + +POEMS BY ABBIE FARWELL BROWN + + +THE SAILOR + + Little girl, O little girl, + Where did you sail to-day? + The greeny grass is all about; + I cannot see the bay. + + "The greeny grass is water, sir; + I'm sailing on the sea, + I'm tacking to the Island there + Beneath the apple tree. + + "You ought to come aboard my boat, + Or you will soon be drowned! + You're standing in the ocean, sir, + That billows all around!" + + Little girl, O little girl, + And must I pay a fare? + "A penny to the apple tree, + A penny back from there. + + "A penny for a passenger, + But sailors voyage free; + O, will you be a sailor, sir, + And hold the sheet for me?" + + +A MUSIC BOX + + I am a little music box, + Wound up and made to go, + And play my little living tune + The best way that I know. + + If I am naughty, cross, or rude, + The music will go wrong, + My little works be tangled up + And spoil the pretty song. + + I must be very sweet and good + And happy all the day, + And then the little music box + In tune will always play. + + + + +AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS + + +LITTLE SCAR-FACE + +Among the pine trees, by a quiet lake, stood the wigwam of a great +Indian whose name was Big Moose. His sister kept the wigwam for him, +and took care of all that was his. Her name was White Maiden. + +No one but White Maiden had ever seen Big Moose. The Indians could see +the marks of his feet in the snow, and they could hear his sled as it +ran over the ice, but they could not see him. + +It was said that this was because they were not kind and good. + +White Maiden was kind and good, and she could always see him. + +One day White Maiden called all the Indian maidens and said: + +"My brother, Big Moose, wishes to marry, but he will not marry any one +who cannot see him, and only those who are good can see him." + +All the Indian maidens were glad when they heard that Big Moose wished +to marry. They had all heard how brave and strong he was, and what a +great hunter he was, and how kind and good and wonderful he was, in +every way. + +Each wished that he would choose her for his wife, and each was very +sure that she could see him. + +For a long time after that the Indian maidens would go down to the +wigwam of Big Moose, by the lake, and try to see him. Every evening +some of them would go at sunset and sit and watch for him. + +When he came they would hear him, and the door of the wigwam would be +opened, and he would go in, but they could not see him. + +At the other end of the village lived an old Indian with his three +daughters. The two older daughters were not kind to the youngest one. +They made her do all the work and gave her little to eat. + +The oldest sister had a very hard heart. Once, when she was angry, she +threw a pail of hot ashes at the youngest sister. + +The child's face was burned, and she was called Little Scar-Face. + +One day in early winter, when the first white snow lay on the ground, +the oldest sister said: + +"Come, Scar-Face, bring me my shell beads and help me to dress. I am +going to marry Big Moose." + +Little Scar-Face brought the beads and put them on the oldest sister +and helped her to dress. + +At sunset the oldest sister went down to the wigwam by the lake. White +Maiden asked her to come in. By and by they heard Big Moose. They +could hear his sled running through the snow. + +White Maiden took the sister to the door of the wigwam and said, "Can +you see my brother?" + +"Yes, I can see him very well," answered the other. + +"Then look and tell me what the string of his sled is made of," said +White Maiden. + +"It is made of moose skin," said the sister of Little Scar-Face. + +"No, it is not made of moose skin. You have not seen my brother. You +must go away," said White Maiden. + +So she drove out the oldest sister. Next day the next to the oldest +sister said to Little Scar-Face: + +"Come, Scar-Face, bring me my shell beads and help me to dress. I am +going to marry Big Moose." + +Little Scar-Face brought the beads and helped her sister to dress. + +In the evening, just at sunset, the sister went down through the pine +trees to the lake. + +"Come in," said White Maiden. + +Soon they heard Big Moose coming. + +"Can you see my brother?" asked White Maiden. + +"Yes, I can see him very well," said the other. + +"Then what is his sled string made of?" asked White Maiden. + +"It is made of deerskin," said the other. + +"No, it is not made of deerskin," said White Maiden. + +"You have not seen my brother. You must go away." + +And she drove her out. + +The next morning Little Scar-Face worked very hard. She built the fire +and carried out all the ashes and brought in the wood and did +everything that she could. + +Then she said to her two sisters, "Sisters, let me take your beads. I +too should like to find out if I can see Big Moose." + +Her sisters laughed loud and long. They would not let her take their +beads. No, indeed! + +At last one of the sisters said she had an old broken string of beads +that Scar-Face might take. + +So Little Scar-Face took the old broken string of beads and tied it +together and put it on. Then she made a queer little dress out of +birch bark, and she washed herself all fresh and clean, and brushed +her hair, and put on the dress and the old string of beads. So she +went down through the village and the dark pine woods to the wigwam of +Big Moose. + +She was not a pretty child, for her face and hair were burned, and her +clothes were very queer. + +But White Maiden asked her to come in and spoke kindly to her. So she +went in and sat down. + +Soon she heard Big Moose coming. + +White Maiden took her to the door of the wigwam and said: + +"Little Scar-Face, can you see my brother?" + +"Yes, indeed, and I am afraid, for his face is very wonderful and very +beautiful." + +"What is his sled string made of?" asked White Maiden. + +"How wonderful! how wonderful!" cried Little Scar-Face. + +"His sled string is the rainbow!" + +Big Moose heard her and said, "Sister, wash the eyes and hair of +Little Scar-Face in the magic water." + +White Maiden did so, and every scar faded away, and the hair of Little +Scar-Face grew long and black, and her eyes were like two stars. + +White Maiden put a wonderful dress of deerskin and a string of golden +beads on Little Scar-Face, and she was more beautiful than any of the +other maidens. + +And Big Moose made her his wife. + + +THE HUNTER WHO FORGOT + +Once there was a great hunter who was very rich. He had many strings +of shell money around his neck. The Indians call these shells wampum. + +In the woods near his home lived a big white elk that used to come and +talk to him. The elk told him what was right and what was wrong. The +Great Spirit sent the elk to him. + +When he obeyed the elk, he was happy and everything went well, but +when he did not obey, he was not happy, and everything went wrong. + +One day the elk said to him: + +"You are too hungry for wampum. Look! your neck and shoulders are +covered with long strings of wampum. Some of it belongs to your wife. +You took it from her. You took some of it from other Indians and gave +them deer meat that was not fit to eat. You are not honest." + +The hunter was much ashamed, but he would not give back the wampum. He +thought too much of it to give it back. + +"I will give you enough wampum to fill your heart," said the elk, "but +you must do just as I tell you. Will you do it?" + +"I will do it," said the hunter. + +"Go to the top of the great white mountain. There you will find a +black lake. Across the lake are three black rocks. One of them is like +the head of a moose. + +"Dig in the earth before this rock. There you will find a cave full of +wampum. It is on strings of elk skin. Take all you want. + +"While you dig, twelve otters will come out of the black lake. Put a +string of wampum around the neck of each of the otters and upon each +of the three black rocks." + +The hunter went back to the village. There he got an elk-horn pick and +set out. No one knew where he went. + +He made his camp that night at the foot of the great white mountain. +As soon as it was light, he began to climb up the mountain side. At +last he stood on the top, and there before him was a great hollow. It +was so great that he could not shoot an arrow across it. + +The hollow was white with snow, but in the middle was a black lake, +and on the other side of the lake stood the three black rocks. + +The hunter walked around the lake over the snow. Then he took the +elk-horn pick and struck one blow before the black rock which looked +like the head of a moose. + +Four great otters came up out of the black lake and sat beside him. + +He struck another blow. Four more otters came and sat behind him. + +He struck again. Four more otters came and sat on the other side. + +At last the pick struck a rock. The hunter dug it out, and beneath it +was a cave full of wampum. + +The hunter put both of his hands into the wampum and played with it. +It felt good. He took out great strings of it and put them around his +neck and over his shoulders. + +He worked fast, for the sun was now going down, and he must go home. + +He put so many strings of wampum around his neck and shoulders that he +could hardly walk. + +But he did not put any around the necks of the twelve otters, nor on +the three black rocks. He did not give them one string--not one +shell. + +He forgot what the white elk had told him. He did not obey. + +Soon it grew dark. He crept along by the shore of the big black lake. +The otters jumped into it and swam and beat the water into white foam. +A black mist came over the mountain. + +Then the storm winds came, and the Great Spirit was in the storm. + +It seemed as if the storm said, "You did not obey! You did not obey!" + +Then the thunder roared at him, "You did not obey!" + +The hunter was greatly frightened. He broke a great string of wampum +and threw it to the storm winds, but the storm winds only laughed. + +He broke another string and threw it to the thunder voices, but the +thunder roared louder than before. + +He threw away one string after another until all of them were gone. +Then he fell upon the ground and went to sleep. He slept long. + +When he woke up he was an old man with white hair. He did not know +what had happened, but he sat there and looked at the great mountain, +and his heart was full of peace. + +"I have no wampum. I have given it all away. I am not hungry for it +any more. I will go home," he said. + +He could hardly find his way, for the trees had grown across the +trail. + +When at last he got home, no one but his wife knew him. She was now +very old and had white hair like himself. She showed him a tall man +near by, and said it was their baby. + +The hunter looked at them. + +"I have slept many moons," he said. + +He lived among the Indians long after that and taught them much. He +taught them to keep their word, and to obey the Great Spirit. + + +THE WATER LILY + +One summer evening, many years ago, some Indians were sitting out +under the stars, telling stories. + +All at once they saw a star fall. It fell halfway down the sky. + +That night one of the Indians had a dream about the star. It seemed to +come and stand beside him, and it was like a young girl, dressed all +in white. + +She said, "I have left my home in the sky because I love the Indians +and want to live among them. Call your wise men together and ask them +what shape I shall take." + +The Indian woke up and called all the wise men together. + +Then he told them his dream. + +The wise men said, "Let her choose what shape she will take. She may +live in the top of a tree, or she may live in a flower, or she may +live where she will." + +Every night the star came down a little lower in the sky, and stood +over the valley where the Indians lived, and made it very bright. + +Then one night it fell down upon the side of the mountain and became a +white rose. + +But it was lonely on the mountain. The rose could see the Indians, but +it could not hear them talk. So one day it left the mountain and came +down into the plain and became a great white prairie flower. + +Here it lived for a time. But the buffaloes and the other wild beasts +of the prairie ran all around it and over it, and it was afraid. + +One night the Indians saw a star go up from the prairie. + +They knew that it was the prairie flower and they thought that it was +going back into the sky. + +But it floated toward them until it came over the lake that lay just +beside them. + +It looked down into the lake, and there it saw its shadow and the +shadows of the other stars that live in the sky. + +It came down lower and lower, and at last floated on the top of the +water. + +The next morning the lake was covered with water lilies. + +"See! the stars have blossomed!" said all the children. + +But the wise men answered: + +"It is the white star and her sisters. They will stay with us." + + + + +RUSSIAN FABLES + + +FORTUNE AND THE BEGGAR + +A poor beggar, with a ragged old bag, crept along the road one day, +begging his bread. + +As he went he grumbled to himself because there were so many rich men +in the world. + +"The rich never think that they have enough," he said to himself. +"They always want more than they have. Now if I had a very little +money, I should be happy. I should not want too much." + +A fairy named Fortune, who brought good gifts to men, heard the poor +beggar grumbling to himself and came to him. + +"Friend," said Fortune, "I have wanted to help you. Open your bag. I +will give you all the gold that it will hold. But if any falls out +upon the ground, it will turn to dust. Your bag is old. Don't try to +have it too full, for if you do, it will break, and you will lose +all." + +The beggar was so happy that he began to dance up and down. + +He opened his bag and let the gold run into it in a big, yellow +stream. Soon the bag was almost full. + +"Is that enough?" asked Fortune. + +"No," said the beggar, "not yet." + +"The bag is old. It is going to break," said Fortune. + +"Never fear!" said the beggar. + +"But you are now a rich man. Isn't that enough?" asked Fortune. + +"A little more," said the beggar. + +"Now," said Fortune, "the bag is full, but take care, or you will lose +it." + +"Just a little more," said the beggar. + +Fortune put in just a little more. The bag broke. All the gold fell +through upon the ground and turned to dust. + +The beggar had nothing left but his old broken bag. He was as poor as +he had been before. + + +THE SPIDER AND THE BEE + +A merchant brought some linen to a fair and opened a shop. It was good +linen, and many came to buy of him. + +A spider saw what was going on, and said to herself: + +"I can spin. Why shouldn't I open a shop, too?" + +So the spider opened a little shop in the corner of a window, and +spun all night, and made a beautiful web. She hung it out where +everybody could see it. + +"That is fine!" said the spider. "Surely, when the morning comes, all +will want to buy it." + +At last the morning came. + +A man saw the web in the corner and swept it away, spider and all. + +"That is a pretty thing to do!" cried the spider. "I should like to +ask whose work is the finer, mine or that merchant's?" + +A bee happened to fly past. + +"Yours is the finer," said the bee. "We all know that. But what is it +good for? It will neither warm nor cover any one." + + +THE STONE AND THE WORM + + (A stone lay in a field. A farmer and his son were talking near + by.) + +FARMER. That was a fine rain we had this morning. + +SON. Yes, indeed! A rain like that makes everybody glad. + +FARMER. I have been wishing a long time for such a rain as that. + +SON. It was better than gold. + + (As they walked away, a worm crept out from under the stone. + The stone called to the worm.) + +STONE. Friend Worm, did you hear what those men were saying? + +WORM. Yes, they were saying how good the rain was. + +STONE. What has the rain done, I should like to know? It rained two +hours and made me all wet. + +WORM. That didn't hurt you. + +STONE. Yes, it did. But it hurts me more to hear everybody saying how +fine the rain was. Why don't they talk about me? I have been here for +hundreds of years. I hurt nobody. I wet nobody. I stay quietly where I +am put. Yet nobody ever has a kind word for me. + +WORM. Stop your talk. This rain has helped the wheat and made it grow. +And the wheat will help the farmer. It will give him bread. What have +you ever given to anybody? + + +THE FOX IN THE ICE + +Very early one winter morning a fox was drinking at a hole in the ice. + +While he was drinking, the end of his tail got into the water, and +there it froze fast. + +He could have pulled it out and left some of the hairs behind, but he +would not do this. + +"How can I spoil such a beautiful tail!" said the fox to himself. + +"No, I will wait a little. The men are asleep and will not catch me. +Perhaps when the sun comes up the ice will melt." + +So he waited, and the water froze harder and harder. + +At last the sun came up. + +The fox could see men coming down to the pond. He pulled and pulled, +but now his tail was frozen so fast that he could not pull it out. + +Just then a wolf came by. + +"Help me, friend," cried the fox, "or I shall be lost." + +The wolf helped him, and set him free very quickly. He bit off the +tail of the fox. + +So the fox lost all of his fine great tail because he would not give +up a little hair from it. + + + + +POEMS BY FRANK D. SHERMAN + + +CLOUDS + + The sky is full of clouds to-day, + And idly, to and fro, + Like sheep across the pasture, they + Across the heavens go. + I hear the wind with merry noise + Around the housetops sweep, + And dream it is the shepherd boys-- + They're driving home their sheep. + + The clouds move faster now, and see! + The west is red and gold; + Each sheep seems hastening to be + The first within the fold. + I watch them hurry on until + The blue is clear and deep, + And dream that far beyond the hill + The shepherds fold their sheep. + + Then in the sky the trembling stars + Like little flowers shine out, + While Night puts up the shadow bars, + And darkness falls about. + I hear the shepherd wind's good night, + "Good night, and happy sleep!" + And dream that in the east, all white, + Slumber the clouds, the sheep. + + +GHOST FAIRIES + + When the open fire is lit, + In the evening after tea, + Then I like to come and sit + Where the fire can talk to me. + + Fairy stories it can tell, + Tales of a forgotten race-- + Of the fairy ghosts that dwell + In the ancient chimney place. + + They are quite the strangest folk + Anybody ever knew, + Shapes of shadow and of smoke + Living in the chimney flue. + + "Once," the fire said, "long ago, + With the wind they used to rove, + Gypsy fairies, to and fro, + Camping in the field and grove. + + "Hither with the trees they came + Hidden in the logs; and here, + Hovering above the flame, + Often some of them appear." + + So I watch, and sure enough, + I can see the fairies! Then + Suddenly there comes a puff-- + Whish!--and they are gone again! + + +DAISIES + + At evening when I go to bed + I see the stars shine overhead; + They are the little daisies white + That dot the meadow of the night. + + And often while I'm dreaming so, + Across the sky the moon will go; + It is a lady, sweet and fair, + Who comes to gather daisies there. + + For when at morning I arise, + There's not a star left in the skies; + She's picked them all and dropped them down + Into the meadows of the town. + + + + +OLD GREEK STORIES + + +THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE STAR GIANT + +A great many years ago the Greeks told beautiful stories about what +they saw in the earth and in the sky and in the sea. + +They said the Sun drove each day across the sky in a car of fire, and +gave light and heat to men. + +He always had a bow and arrows with him, and his arrows were the +sunbeams. + +When he shot them very hard and struck men with them, the men were +said to be sun-struck, but when he let the arrows fall gently on the +earth, they did only good. + +The Sun was called Apollo. + +He was said to be a beautiful young man with golden hair, and he made +wonderful music on a kind of harp called a lyre. + +Men loved him, but they were a little afraid of him, too; he was so +bright and strong. + +His sister was the Moon. Her name was Artemis, or Diana. She rode +through the sky at night in a silver car, and she, too, had a bow and +arrows. + +Her bow was a silver bow, and her arrows were the moonbeams. + +She loved hunting, and often at night she would come down to earth and +roam through the woods with her bow in her hand and her arrows at her +side or on her back. + +In pictures she is always seen with a little new moon in her hair. + +Artemis was so beautiful that men were afraid to look at her. It was +said that if any man should look full at her he would lose his mind. + +So when she came to those whom she did not wish to hurt, she covered +herself with clouds. + +For a time the good giant Orion helped Artemis in her hunting, for he +too was a great hunter. Artemis loved him as well as she loved any +one, but she was very cold and did not care much for anybody. + +After a time Orion left her. He wanted to marry the daughter of a king +in one of the islands of the sea. The king said that he might if he +would drive all the wild beasts out of the island. Orion did this, but +the king did not keep his word. + +Instead of that, he put out the eyes of Orion, but Orion went to +Apollo, and was made to see again. + +Then Orion went back to help Artemis with her hunting, but Apollo did +not like that and wished to get rid of him. + +He did not wish, himself, to hurt Orion, so he made Artemis do it. + +"Sister," he said to her one day, "some men say that you can shoot as +well as I can, but we all know that is not so." + +"I should like to know why it is not so!" said Artemis. + +"Well, let us try," said Apollo. "Do you see that little black speck +away out there in the sea?" + +"Yes, I see it," said Artemis. + +"Can you hit it?" asked Apollo. + +"Indeed I can," said Artemis; and with that she let an arrow fly from +her bow. It went straight through the black speck. + +The black speck was the head of Orion. He was swimming back to Artemis +from the country of the bad king. + +The speck at once went under the water and was seen no more. + +When Artemis found what she had done, she was very sad indeed. She +could not bring Orion back to earth, but she took him up into the sky +and put him among the stars, and there he is standing to this day. + +If you will look up into the sky on any clear winter night, you can +see him. Just before him is his dog. We call it the Dog Star. + + +THE WIND AND THE CLOUDS + +The Sun and the Moon had a brother, the Summer Wind. His name was +Hermes, but sometimes he was called Mercury. + +He had shoes with wings on them, which always took him very quickly +wherever he wished to go, and he had a magic cap which kept him from +being seen. + +He ran on errands for his father and his older brothers. He went +everywhere, and he often picked up things that lay in his way, and +that didn't belong to him. + +One day, when he was a small child, he crept down to the seaside and +there found the shell of a tortoise. He stretched some strings +tightly across it, and blew upon the strings, and made wonderful +music. + +He called this thing a lyre. + +On the same day, toward evening, he looked across the meadows and saw +some beautiful white cows. His brother Apollo was looking after them. + +"What fun it would be to drive those cows away!" he said. + +So he crept up behind the cows while Apollo was not looking, and he +drove them away. He drove them far, and at last shut them up in a +cave, where he thought Apollo could not find them. + +Apollo saw that the cows were gone, and went to look for them, but he +had a hard time. + +He thought that Hermes might have had something to do with them. So he +went to Hermes. + +Hermes was playing upon the lyre which he had made, and was singing +gently to himself. + +The music was so beautiful that Apollo forgot all about his cows. + +"Where did you find that wonderful thing?" asked Apollo. + +"O, I made it," said Hermes. + +"Let me see it!" cried Apollo. "Show me how to play upon it." + +Hermes showed him, and Apollo sat down and played until it grew dark. + +"O, give me this thing! I must have it," said Apollo. + +So Hermes gave it to him, and Apollo played upon it, gently at first, +and then louder. He made such wild, sweet music as had never before +been heard. + +To pay for the lyre, Apollo gave Hermes a magic stick which would +bring sleep to men and would stop all quarreling. + +One day Hermes saw two snakes fighting. He touched them with the +magic stick, and they stopped at once and wound themselves around it, +and stayed there ever after. + +In the pictures of Hermes you will see this magic stick with the +snakes around it. You will see, too, the cap and the shoes, with the +wings upon them. + +When Hermes and Apollo had made these gifts to each other, Apollo +said: + +"Hermes, my dear boy, you like my white cows so well that I am going +to let you take care of them. I shall not have much time to take care +of cows now, for you know I am learning to play upon the lyre." + +Hermes took care of the white cows after that, and on summer days he +used to drive them across the blue meadows of the sky. + +When the Greeks saw the white clouds running before the wind, they +would say: + +"It is Hermes driving his cows to pasture." + + +THE RAINBOW BRIDGE + +Hermes was so useful that Juno, the queen of the heavens, thought she +must have a messenger, too. So she took Iris, a little sky fairy. + +Iris lived up among the clouds, and played with the stars, and romped +with the little winds. + +At night she used to sleep in the silver cradle of the Moon. + +Sometimes Apollo, the Sun, took her in his golden car. Sometimes she +slipped down to earth with the rain. Sometimes she went to visit her +grandfather, the gray old Sea. + +Her grandfather was always glad to see her, and when she came down, he +would hitch up his white sea horses and drive her over the tops of the +waves. What fun that was! + +Old grandfather Sea loved Iris very much, and Apollo loved her, and +Juno loved her. + +No one who saw her could help loving her; she was so bright and +beautiful and good. + +When Juno sent her down to the earth on errands, the old Sea always +wanted her to stay. + +But Apollo, the Sun, wanted her, too, and Juno wanted her. + +At last the Sun and the Sea and the Air and the Rain all said they +would make a bridge for Iris, so that she might go back and forth +more quickly between the earth and the sky, on the errands of Juno. + +The Earth brought the colors of all her beautiful flowers--rose, and +blue, and violet, and yellow, and orange, and the green of the grass. + +The Sea gave silver mist. + +The Clouds gave gray and gold. + +The Sun himself spun the bridge out of all these colors. + +Then he fastened one end of it to the sky and hung a pot of gold on +the other end, to keep it from blowing away; and it is said that the +pot of gold is still there in the earth at the end of the rainbow +bridge. + +But no one has ever found it. + + + + +POEMS OLD AND NEW + + +THANK YOU, PRETTY COW + + Thank you, pretty cow, that made + Pleasant milk to soak my bread, + Every day and every night, + Warm, and fresh, and sweet, and white. + + Do not chew the hemlock rank, + Growing on the weedy bank; + But the yellow cowslip eat, + That will make it very sweet. + + Where the purple violet grows, + Where the bubbling water flows, + Where the grass is fresh and fine, + Pretty cow, go there and dine. + + JANE TAYLOR + + +PLAYGROUNDS + + In summer I am very glad + We children are so small, + For we can see a thousand things + That men can't see at all. + + They don't know much about the moss + And all the stones they pass; + They never lie and play among + The forests in the grass; + + But when the snow is on the ground, + And all the puddles freeze, + I wish that I were very tall, + High up above the trees. + + LAURENCE ALMA-TADEMA + + +SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP + + Sleep, baby, sleep! + Thy father watches his sheep; + Thy mother is shaking the dreamland tree, + And down comes a little dream on thee. + Sleep, baby, sleep! + + Sleep, baby, sleep! + The great stars are the sheep; + The little stars are the lambs, I guess, + And the gentle moon is the shepherdess. + Sleep, baby, sleep! + + FROM THE GERMAN + + +A CHILD'S PRAYER + + When it gets dark, the birds and flowers + Shut up their eyes and say good night; + And God, who loves them, counts the hours + And keeps them safe till it gets light. + + Dear Father! Count the hours to-night, + When I'm asleep and cannot see; + And in the morning may the light + Shine for the birds and flowers and me! + + WILLIAM HAWLEY SMITH + + + + +PHONETIC TABLES + + +NOTE TO THE TEACHER. The vocabulary of this book is here rearranged +for class drill. This should be given daily until the pupils are able +to pronounce at least thirty words per minute either by following the +columns or the lines. + +In this grade children may be expected to give the reasons for the +several vowel sounds herein taught, but should not be required to +commit and apply phonetic rules. As the words in a column are +generally in the same phonetic group, column drills tend to fix the +principle there presented. But in the line drills and in the review +tables children must rely upon their own knowledge of the phonetic +elements. + +Table I consists of monosyllabic words of not more than four letters +in which a single consonant precedes a short vowel or in which a short +vowel begins the word. There is a column for each vowel. + +Table II contains words with two consonants final or initial or both. + +Table III introduces vowels made long by final silent _e_. + +Table IV is a mixed review with some additional words. + +Table V contains long vowel digraphs and _y_ equivalent to long _i_, +and has a review column of forms ending in _s_. + +Tables VI, VII, and VIII contain lists of words illustrating the +remaining vowel sounds in frequent use throughout the book. + +Table IX presents groups of words taught by analogy. It also +illustrates _c_, _g_, and _dg_, followed by silent _e_. + +Table X is a review of monosyllables with some additional words. + +Table XI teaches words of two syllables with the endings _ing_, short +_y_, and _er_; also the elision of _e_. Column five is largely a +review. + +Table XII presents three columns of words of two syllables +illustrating the phonetic principles previously set forth. Column four +illustrates the long vowel ending an accented syllable; column five +gives final _ed_ pronounced as _d_ or _t_. + +Table XIII, column one, gives _a_ and _be_ as prefixes and _ful_ as a +suffix; column two, silent letters; column three, contractions and +possessives; column four and column five, unclassified phonetic words. + +Table XIV contains unphonetic words or words but partly phonetic. + + + TABLE I + + sad met dim box sun + + ax yet dig fox cup + + bag wet bill top dug + + cap bell fit pop puff + + hand web kiss hop fun + + man nest lid dot husk + + sand bend hid not dust + + camp felt lit got but + + rap send rid pot must + + bad bent hit on run + + + TABLE II + + rich drop still switch things + + ring spun dress struck banks + + neck flax flop swept ships + + witch than fresh whish pranks + + rank swim shell pluck wings + + hitch shot swift drink frogs + + bank thin crept spent rocks + + such sled stand string logs + + fish shop speck spring crabs + + + TABLE III + + safe these fine shone tune + + crane here white those spoke + + plate cave life stone rode + + state shape pine hole rope + + spade flame side woke froze + + vale sale dine shore rove + + shake lake shine drove grove + + brave name drive smoke more + + + TABLE IV + + when spade grove thin yes + + husk shine pranks these dwell + + ring smoke mist same drive + + must spent lent banks drove + + skin whish end tune puff + + shell logs snake shore here + + witch white things flame man + + drink gift melt frogs went + + drops elk stand pip spring + + thank still step such crabs + + dress wave mine dust struck + + + TABLE V + + bee tea sail boat grapes + + sweep each pain goat boats + + three year rain road goats + + freeze bleat trail throat snakes + + thee leaf plain cloak shapes + + queer meat wait foam kites + + free scream pay toad miles + + wheel dream play roam flows + + feet wheat gray coat holes + + sweet feast bay soak seas + + need leaves sky goes years + + green beasts sly bow grows + + seek clear dry row tales + + deer grease try show rains + + deep beads thy low stones + + feel clean pies snow times + + week near lie grow seems + + peek stream tied grown waves + + sheet heat tried new skies + + cheese speaks cried knew Greeks + + + TABLE VI + + far sharp sir nor burn + + car hard first for hurt + + dark scar birds corn turn + + lark stars birch north burst + + barn marks skirts storm purse + + hark yards perch horse purr + + + TABLE VII + + ball glass moo true foot + + hall past shoo flue stood + + small grass room blew full + + tall ant root chew put + + paw fast moose rude pull + + walk last choose rule push + + + TABLE VIII + + soft air word cows sour + + toss hair words town south + + moss fair worm brown round + + cross chair work owl loud + + strong care works tower wound + + long fare world flowers hours + + + TABLE IX + + high kind old ice rage + + light mind gold mice orange + + bright find fold face hedge + + right grind hold place bridges + + night child told peace head + + fright wild cold prince spread + + + TABLE X + + bars trail shore peace grass + + town grease shape child talk + + rage dance swift tight blew + + drink room watch freeze stood + + struck fair clear flows birch + + smoke snake soak worm sharp + + spade noise gray clouds bread + + south spoil world beasts hold + + strong counts small hitch shine + + grown harp wound white skirts + + queen quite storm bear true + + throat waves leaves care perch + + cried brown hedge cross burst + + + TABLE XI + + spinning grassy never feeble Bossy + + mumbling woolly summer uncles every + + hunting ferry rivers needles gipsy + + pecking stormy owner castle Bobby + + barking funny sister bottle kippy + + hanging happy whiskers little Jippy + + filling sandy blower purple Jimmy + + shaking empty dinner puddles Fanny + + passing ugly gather gentle valley + + shining sorry pitcher beaten lilies + + trembling marry silver golden fairies + + sitting greeny hunter gardens teasing + + tacking thirsty otters wooden evening + + living angry thunder maiden perching + + begging lily farmer given camel + + driving lonely winter frozen jewel + + camping merry slumber hidden kernels + + swimming hurry hither frighten ragged + + growing gently either happen scolded + + bubbling weedy neither broken floated + + + TABLE XII + + until errands snowflakes secret saved + + arrows cowslip boatman faded seemed + + billows seaside sunbeams waded turned + + swallow jackals moonbeams table tired + + yellow carried thousand blazes twirled + + shadow forests rainbow tigers growled + + hollow princess wampum tulip happened + + maybe hundred housetops roses rubbed + + basket hemlock ourselves lady grumbled + + magic insects shepherd music surprised + + flowers forgot wigwam quiet drowned + + timid within merchants giant tangled + + visit himself bonfires baby roared + + sunset window darkness finer used + + spirit appear strangest wider showed + + ashes indeed playgrounds cradle brushed + + voices forget dreamland stories dropped + + daisies outside sun-struck going stretched + + linen herself perhaps open romped + + coral mistake married Iris slipped + + + TABLE XIII + + ago knew I've God fluttering + + arise comb I'll Ellen passenger + + around climb I'm Juno woodcutter + + ashamed lambs it's Hermes hollyhock + + across lambkins we'll Orion umbrellas + + ashore wrens you'll Diana bumblebee + + along wrong you've Childe lackaday + + afraid answered you're Jeremy shivering + + aboard sword they'll Mercury everything + + among honest they're Indian everywhere + + Apollo autumn didn't suddenly shepherdess + + belongs fastened don't overtops elephants + + before fighting who'll different buffaloes + + beyond tightly haven't coconut everybody + + because ought doesn't violet messenger + + beneath fought won't shouldn't Rowland + + beside brought ladies' mammy's Limberkin + + became taught she's myself Tom Tit Tot + + useful naughty there's polite Artemis + + faithful daughter dolly's speckled Thursday + + + TABLE XIV + + son elves prayer building wonderful + + fro eyes colors together hovering + + sure to-day touched quarrel to-morrow + + blood floor instead eleven shoulders + + meant rolled months dreadful everywhere + + heard skeins obeyed feathers blossomed + + guess fruit twelve to-night neighbors + + warm built toward island hastening + + love ribbon beggar monkey steadily + + dove above fortune youngest pictures + + field pearls voyage seasons overhead + + piece forth country diamonds grandfather + + view ready coming chimney wherever + + buy acorn enough pasture pleasant + + folk friend anyway backward sugar cane + + both idly ancient forward learning + + does ghosts halfway prairie covered + + earth often loving trouble beautiful + + lyre sailor pretty anybody prettier + + lose ocean heaven nobody Englishman + + + + +WORD LIST + + +This list does not include words used in Book One. The numeral before +each group refers to the page on which the words first appear. + + + 11. Childe Rowland + princess + name + Ellen + ball + + 12. elves + dark + tower + far + + 13. youngest + + 14. sword + things + + 15. country + head + speaks + + 16. drop + thirsty + forget + eyes + knew + + 18. around + each + + 20. dim + light + seemed + himself + hall + gold + silver + diamonds + shone + sad + + 21. turned + stone + golden + + 22. floor + free + noise + outside + fee-fi-fo-fum + blood + Englishman + fought + + 23. enough + bottle + + 24. hand + sister + left + + 25. Tom Tit Tot + hard + daughter + those + meant + soft + + 26. herself + + 27. spinning + mumbling + to-day + heard + spun + skeins + + 28. fine + eleven + months + every + year + + 29. anyway + everything + + 30. room + wheel + flax + before + goes + + 31. twirled + window + guess + pay + work + + 32. try + + 33. brought + + 34. together + hunting + queer + hole + nimmy + I'm + + 35. table + because + + 36. never + + 37. lambkins + grassy + banks + pranks + woolly + feet + watch + bleat + + 38. ferry + across + boatman + you've + purse + I'll + step + boat + + 39. coral + sailor + ashore + white + dig + nor + pluck + feeble + insects + stormy + + 40. swallow + sun-loving + summer + + 41. wrens + hedge + building + perching + pecking + fluttering + everywhere + + 42. sail + rivers + ships + clouds + sky + prettier + than + these + bridges + pretty + bow + heaven + overtops + road + earth + + 43. paw + woke + + 44. saved + life + + 45. honest + ax + woodcutter + stood + + 46. kind + sir + + 47. Mercury + met + + 49. crane + throat + bill + + 51. town + visit + mice + + 52. rich + barking + music + + 53. safe + + 54. quarrel + cloak + care + + 55. warm + + 56. ant + dove + leaf + blew + shore + + 58. lark + nest + field + owner + + 59. neighbors + uncles + + 60. yet + ourselves + + 61. shadow + piece + meat + + 63. grapes + sweet + hanging + still + high + don't + sour + fit + + 64. birds + north + south + wider + view + spread + wings + + 65. bark + basket + kippy + peek + maybe + funny + learning + secret + speckled + + 66. Jeremy + covered + growled + sly + Limberkin + dreadful + scream + dream + + 67. snowflakes + feathers + filling + air + they're + shaking + swift + love + we'll + kiss + true + + 68. hollyhock + bend + need + dolly's + tea + acorn + plate + feast + state + + 69. pine + valley + beautiful + needles + green + + 70. leaves + happened + passing + shining + + 71. carried + glass + + 72. perhaps + + 74. happy + + 75. faithful + beasts + seek + fortune + along + teasing + monkey + hurt + pain + + 76. tied + + 77. spent + box + fastened + lid + + 78. floated + round + rolled + magic + wherever + + 79. castle + gardens + merchants + built + + 80. showed + + 81. ribbon + + 82. whiskers + rubbed + drove + + 83. swim + + 84. mind + frogs + + 85. brown + sand + flows + either + + 86. foam + mine + past + hundred + miles + + 87. seaside + wooden + spade + sandy + empty + cup + rain + umbrellas + + 88. autumn + vale + bonfires + smoke + trail + pleasant + flowers + blazes + gray + seasons + bright + + 89. toss + kites + ladies' + skirts + grass + loud + + 90. different + hid + felt + push + strong + cold + blower + child + + 91. timid + afraid + coconut + shot + + 92. running + + 93. answered + elephants + tigers + + 94. buffaloes + deer + jackals + + 95. first + show + + 97. husk + fruit + + 98. top + place + both + wrong + root + string + side + + 99. owl + among + stand + + 100. does + + 102. camel + sugar cane + crabs + waded + + 103. haven't + + 104. dinner + + 105. deep + feel + + 106. bumblebee + tulip + mistake + lake + + 107. Bobby + barn + Bossy + lackaday + who'll + shoo + drive + moo + mammy's + + 108. Jippy + Jimmy + logs + wet + thin + crept + dry + ki-hi + + 109. shivering + roam + won't + until + pip + pop + flippety + flop + ready + clear + gather + chimney + row + hop + + 110. kernels + sharp + yellow + small + burst + shake + steadily + backward + forward + you'll + low + + 111. ugly + spring + + 112. indeed + pitcher + gift + jewel + scolded + sorry + + 113. roses + pearls + + 114. send + Fanny + myself + + 115. grumbled + lady + + 116. polite + snake + toad + spoke + + 117. prince + + 118. surprised + married + + 119. sitting + evening + same + + 120. week + Thursday + + 121. bell + ring + + 122. bent + + 123. coat + trouble + witch + + 123. marry + yards + + 124. lent + horse + + 125. switch + + 126. rode + comb + + 128. boo-oo-oo + roared + tired + + 130. sale + + 132. to-morrow + grease + + 134. rage + + 135. greeny + bay + tacking + island + beneath + ought + aboard + drowned + ocean + billows + + 136. fare + passenger + voyage + sheet + + 137. wound + living + tune + naughty + cross + rude + tangled + spoil + + 138. scar + quiet + wigwam + Indian + moose + maiden + marks + snow + sled + ice + + 139. brave + hunter + wonderful + choose + + 140. sunset + end + angry + ashes + + 141. shell + beads + dress + + 142. skin + + 145. broken + birch + fresh + clean + brushed + + 146. hair + + 147. rainbow + faded + stars + + 148. forgot + neck + elk + wampum + used + spirit + shoulders + obeyed + + 149. belongs + ashamed + + 150. rocks + cave + twelve + otters + camp + foot + + 151. climb + hollow + middle + struck + + 152. dug + + 153. mist + storm + thunder + voices + + 155. peace + given + grown + tall + near + baby + taught + + 156. lily + ago + stories + halfway + shape + + 157. became + lonely + plain + prairie + + 158. wild + toward + + 159. blossomed + lilies + + 160. beggar + ragged + begging + + 161. friend + dust + lose + stream + + 163. bee + linen + fair + shop + buy + shouldn't + + 164. web + everybody + swept + finer + neither + + 165. worm + farmer + son + + 166. hours + nobody + grow + + 167. winter + froze + + 168. melt + frozen + coming + + 169. idly + fro + pasture + merry + housetops + sweep + shepherd + driving + hastening + within + fold + hurry + beyond + + 170. shine + trembling + bars + darkness + slumber + + 171. ghost + fairies + lit + tales + dwell + forgotten + ancient + + 172. quite + strangest + folk + anybody + flue + rove + gypsy + camping + grove + hither + hidden + flame + hovering + appear + sure + suddenly + puff + whish + + 173. daisies + overhead + dot + often + arise + there's + skies + she's + dropped + + 174. giant + Greeks + car + heat + arrows + sunbeams + sun-struck + gently + + 175. Apollo + harp + lyre + Artemis + Diana + + 176. pictures + moonbeams + new + Orion + + 177. word + instead + rid + + 178. hit + speck + swimming + + 180. Hermes + cap + errands + + 181. stretched + tightly + fun + + 184. quarreling + fighting + touched + themselves + + 186. useful + messenger + Juno + Iris + romped + cradle + slipped + grandfather + + 187. hitch + waves + + 188. forth + colors + violet + orange + + 189. soak + chew + hemlock + rank + growing + weedy + cowslip + purple + bubbling + dine + + 190. playgrounds + thousand + moss + lie + forests + puddles + freeze + above + + 191. thy + dreamland + thee + lambs + gentle + shepherdess + + 192. prayer + God + counts + to-night + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Young and Field Literary Readers, +Book 2, by Ella Flagg Young and Walter Taylor Field + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE YOUNG AND FIELD LITERARY *** + +***** This file should be named 38412.txt or 38412.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/8/4/1/38412/ + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Matthew Wheaton and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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