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Title: The Literary World Seventh Reader

Author: Various

Editor: John Calvin Metcalf
Sarah Withers
Hetty S. Browne

Release Date: November 5, 2006 [EBook #19721]

Language: English

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THE LITERARY WORLD

SEVENTH READER

BY

JOHN CALVIN METCALF
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

SARAH WITHERS
PRINCIPAL ELEMENTARY GRADES AND CRITIC TEACHER
WINTHROP NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE
ROCK HILL. S.C.

AND

HETTY S. BROWNE
EXTENSION WORKER IN RURAL SCHOOL PRACTICE
WINTHROP NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE

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JOHNSON PUBLISHING COMPANY
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

COPYRIGHT, 1919
B. F. JOHNSON PUBLISHING COMPANY

_All Rights Reserved_

L.H.J.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

For permission to use copyrighted material the authors and publishers
express their indebtedness to the Macmillan Company for "A Deal in
Bears" from _McTodd_, by W. Cutcliffe Hyne, and for "Sea Fever," by John
Masefield; to Duffield & Company and Mr. H. G. Wells for "In Labrador"
from _Marriage_; to the John Lane Company for "The Making of a Man" from
_The Rough Road_, by W. J. Locke; to Dodd, Mead & Company and Mr. Arthur
Dobson for "A Ballad of Heroes," and to Dodd, Mead & Company for "Under
Seas," by Count Alexis Tolstoi; to G. P. Putnam's Sons for "Old Ephraim"
from _The Hunting Trips of a Ranchman_,