l Power 176
_Rab and His Friends_ 177
General Principles and Reflections 181
Completed Studies 185
_The Hare and the Tortoise_ 185
_The Fox and the Crow_ 187
_The Drummer_ 193
_Tom, the Water Baby_ 198
_The Passing of Arthur_ 214

IX. CLOSE READING OR STUDY 224
_Rab and His Friends_ 225
_Braddock's Defeat_ 227
_Industry and Sloth_ 229
_Why the Sea is Salt_ 231
_Faithless Sally Brown_ 232
_The Definition of a Gentleman_ 234
_Adventures in Lilliput_ 235
_The Heart of Bruce_ 238
_Annie Laurie_ 243
_The Lost Child_ 243
_David Crockett in the Creek War_ 244
_The Impeachment of Warren Hastings_ 248
From _The Death of Caesar_ 253

X. CLOSE READING (Concluded) 256
The Author 257
Sentences 258
Figures of Speech 259
Allusions 259
Basis of Figures 262
Simile 263
Metaphor 264
Synecdoche and Metonymy 265
Apostrophe and Personification 266
Studies in Figures 268
_Ode to a Skylark_ 2