68
_A Visit from Saint Nicholas_ 270
_The First Snowfall_ 270

XI. READING POETRY 272
_The Reaper and the Flowers_ 272
_The Brown Thrush_ 276
_The Child's World_ 277
_Seven Times One_ 278
_The First Snowfall_ 281
_The Potato_ 285
_Origin of the Opal_ 285
_The Barefoot Boy_ 286
_The Bugle Song_ 287
_The Petrified Fern_ 291
_The Forsaken Merman_ 295
_The Cloud_ 301
_Ode to a Skylark_ 306

XII. READING ALOUD 311
Articulation and Enunciation 311
Emphasis and Inflection 312
Emotional States 312
Pitch 312
Rate or Time 313
Quality 315
Force 315

XIII. LITERATURE AND ITS FORMS 317
Prose 318
Methods of Expression 318
Narration 318
Description 321
Exposition 321
Argumentation 322
Forms of Prose 322
Fiction 322
Essays 322
Orations