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THE SHIP _Old English Rhyme_ 13
THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN YOUNG KIDS _William and Jacob Grimm_ 14
THEY DIDN'T THINK _Phoebe Cary_ 22
TOM THUMB _English Fairy Tale_ 24
SUPPOSE _Alice Cary_ 34
CINDERELLA _English Fairy Tale_ 36
RAINDROPS _Ann Hawkshawe_ 43
THE FOUR FRIENDS _William and Jacob Grimm_ 44
LITTLE BIRDIE _Alfred Tennyson_ 54
MOTHER FROST _William and Jacob Grimm_ 55
IF EVER I SEE _Lydia Maria Child_ 65
WHY THE BEAR'S TAIL IS SHORT _German Folk Tale_ 66
RUMPELSTILTSKIN _William and Jacob Grimm_ 70
BED IN SUMMER _Robert Louis Stevenson_ 81
THE GOLDEN TOUCH _Greek Myth_ 82
OVER IN THE MEADOW _Olive A. Wadsworth_ 89
THE BELL OF ATRI _German Folk Tale_ 92
THE BABY _Hugh Miller_ 96
BRUCE AND THE SPIDER _Scottish Tradition_ 97
THE WISE LITTLE PIG _Anonymous_ 100
AN INDIAN STORY 102
A GOOD PLAY _Robert Louis Stevenson_ 112
DICK WHITTINGTON _English Folk Tale_ 113
THE NEW MOON _Eliza Lee Follen_ 124
BRIAR ROSE _William and Jacob Grimm_ 126
ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL _Mrs. C.F. Alexander_ 135
THE BAKER BOYS AND THE BEES _German Folk Tale_ 136
FALLING SNOW _Anonymous_ 142
LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES _Ascribed to Goldsmith_ 143
ONE STEP AND THEN ANOTHER _Anonymous_ 157
GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD MORNING _Lord Houghton_ 158
DAVID AND GOLIATH _Adapted from the Bible_ 160
PHONETIC TABLES 167
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