23.--A QUEER PEOPLE

25.--WATER

26.--THE HIDDEN TREASURE (I)

27.--THE HIDDEN TREASURE (II)

28.--THE HIDDEN TREASURE (III)

30.--AIR _J. Berners_ (Adapted).

31.--A TIMELY RESCUE

33.--TRUE COURTESY (I)

34.--TRUE COURTESY (II)

35.--WHY AN APPLE FALLS

37.--THE JAGUAR

38.--HOLLAND (I) _Mary Mapes Dodge_.

39.--HOLLAND (II) _Mary Mapes Dodge_.

41.--SOMETHING ABOUT PLANTS

42.--FOREST ON FIRE (I) _Audubon_.

43.--FOREST ON FIRE (II) _Audubon_.

45.--A GHOST STORY (I) _Louisa M. Alcott_.

46.--A GHOST STORY (II) _Louisa M. Alcott_.

47.--A GHOST STORY (III) _Louisa M. Alcott_.

49.--THE RHINOCEROS

50.--PRESENCE OF MIND

51.--HALBERT AND HIS DOG

53.--THE CATERPILLAR AND BUTTERFLY

54.--WILD HORSES OF SOUTH AMERICA

55.--AN EMPEROR'S KINDNESS

57.--STORY OF THE SIOUX WAR (I)

58.--STORY OF THE SIOUX WAR (II)

59.--VOLCANOES

61.--ANECDOTE OF WASHINGTON (I)

62.--ANECDOTE OF WASHINGTON (II)

63.--THE OSTRICH

65.--AN INCIDENT OF THE REVOLUTION

66.--TROPICAL FRUITS

67.--STORY OF DETROIT

69.--MAKING MAPLE SUGAR (I) _Charles Dudley Warner_.

70.--MAKING MAPLE SUGAR (II) _Charles Dudley Warner_.

72.--NATURAL WONDERS OF AMERICA (I)

73.--NATURAL WONDERS OF AMERICA (II)

74.--AFRICAN ANTS _Du Chaillu_.

76.--EGYPT AND ITS RUINS (I)

77.--EGYPT AND ITS RUINS (II)

LESSONS IN VERSE.

4.--TO-MORROW _Mrs. M.R. Johnson_.

8.--RESCUED _Celia Thaxter_.

12.--MARJORIE'S ALMANAC _T.B. Aldrich_.

16.--A LEGEND OF THE NORTHLAND _Phoebe Cary_.

20.--A HAPPY PAIR _Florence Percy_.

24.--ILL-NATURED BRIER _Mrs. Anna Bache_.

29.--LOOKING FOR THE FAIRIES _Julia Bacon_.

32.--BIRDS IN SUMMER _Mary Howitt_.

36.--THE MILLER OF THE DEE _Charles Mackay_.

40.--THE WIND IN A FROLIC _William Howitt_.

44.--COMMON GIFTS

48.--WHAT THE CHIMNEY SANG _Bret Harte_.

52.--THE LIGHT-HOUSE

56.--UNITED AT LAST

60.--THE BROOK _Alfred Tennyson_.

64.--TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW _Charles Mackay_.

68.--THE FISHERMAN _John G. Whittier_.

71.--OLD IRONSIDES _Oliver Wendell Holmes_.

75.--THE LEAP OF ROUSHAN BEG _Henry W. Longfellow_.

DEFINITIONS

GEOGRAPHICAL AND PROPER NAMES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

The publishers desire to thank Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., the
Century Co., Roberts Brothers, and Charles Scribner's Sons, for
permission to use and adapt some of their valuable copyright matter.

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