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HORATIUS _Lord Macaulay_ 1
LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER _Thomas Campbell_ 23
SIR WALTER SCOTT _Grace E. Sellon_ 26
THE TOURNAMENT _Sir Walter Scott_ 38
THE RAINBOW _Thomas Campbell_ 91
THE LION AND THE MISSIONARY _David Livingstone_ 93
THE MOSS ROSE _Translated from Krummacher_ 98
FOUR DUCKS ON A POND _William Allingham_ 98
RAB AND HIS FRIENDS _John Brown, M.D._ 99
ANNIE LAURIE _William Douglas_ 119
THE BLIND LASSIE _T. C. Latto_ 120
BOYHOOD _Washington Allston_ 122
SWEET AND LOW _Alfred Tennyson_ 122
CHILDHOOD _Donald G. Mitchell_ 124
THE BUGLE SONG _Alfred Tennyson_ 133
THE IMITATION OF CHRIST _Thomas à Kempis_ 134
THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB _Lord Byron_ 141
RUTH 143
THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Lord Byron_ 153
SOHRAB AND RUSTEM 157
SOHRAB AND RUSTUM _Matthew Arnold_ 173
THE POET AND THE PEASANT _Emile Souvestre_ 206
JOHN HOWARD PAYNE AND _Home, Sweet Home_ 221
AULD LANG SYNE _Robert Burns_ 228
HOME THEY BROUGHT HER WARRIOR DEAD _Alfred Tennyson_ 231
CHARLES DICKENS 232
A CHRISTMAS CAROL _Charles Dickens_ 244
CHRISTMAS IN OLD TIME _Sir Walter Scott_ 356
ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD _Thomas Gray_ 360
THE SHIPWRECK _Robert Louis Stevenson_ 371
ELEPHANT HUNTING _Roualeyn Gordon Cumming_ 385
SOME CLEVER MONKEYS _Thomas Belt_ 402
POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC _Benjamin Franklin_ 407
GEORGE ROGERS CLARK 422
THE CAPTURE OF VINCENNES _George Rogers Clark_ 428
THREE SUNDAYS IN A WEEK _Edgar Allan Poe_ 453
THE MODERN BELLE _Stark_ 463
WIDOW MACHREE _Samuel Lover_ 464
LIMESTONE BROTH _Gerald Griffin_ 467
THE KNOCK-OUT _Davy Crockett_ 471
THE COUNTRY SQUIRE _Thomas Yriarte_ 474
TO MY INFANT SON _Thomas Hood_ 478