Columbus and the Eclipse _James Johonnot_ 91
First Thanksgiving Day Proclamation _George Washington_ 93
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, 1905 _Theodore Roosevelt_ 93
Harvest Song _James Montgomery_ 95
The Cratchits' Christmas _Charles Dickens_ 96
The Holiday Spirit _Émile Souvestre_ 101
Christmas in the Pines _Meredith Nicholson_ 106
The New Year's Dinner Party _Charles Lamb_ 108
Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln 111
O Captain! My Captain _Walt Whitman_ 114
Washington's Greatest Battle _Frederick Trever Hill_ 116
John James Audubon _W. F. Markwick and W. A. Smith_ 122
Memorial Day, 1917 _Woodrow Wilson_ 125