by Theodore Roosevelt; to
Houghton Mifflin Company for "A Greyport Legend," by Bret Harte,
"Midwinter," by John Townsend Trowbridge, "The First Snowfall," by James
Russell Lowell, "Among the Cliffs" from _The Young Mountaineers_, by
Charles Egbert Craddock (Mary N. Murfree), and for "The Friendship of
Nantaquas" from _To Have and to Hold_, by Mary Johnston; to Harper &
Brothers for "The Great Stone of Sardis" from _The Great Stone of
Sardis_, by Frank R. Stockton, and to Harper & Brothers and Mr. Booth
Tarkington for "Ariel's Triumph" from _The Conquest of Canaan_.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LEGENDS OF OUR LAND

RIP VAN WINKLE _Washington Irving_ 9
THE GREAT STONE FACE _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 33
THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH _Henry W. Longfellow_ 59
THE FRIENDSHIP OF NANTAQUAS _Mary Johnston_ 79

HOME SCENES

HARRY ESMOND'S BOYHOOD _Wm. Makepeace Thackeray_ 112
THE FAMILY HOLDS ITS HEAD UP _Oliver Goldsmith_ 126
THE LITTLE BOY IN THE BALCONY _Henry W. Grady_ 138
ARIEL'S TRIUMPH _Booth Tarkington_ 141

NATURE AND ANIMALS

THE CLOUD _Percy Bysshe Shelley_ 160
NEW ENGLAND WEATHER _Mark Twain_ 162
THE FIRST SNOWFALL _James Russell Lowell_ 166
OLD EPHRAIM _Theodore Roosevelt_ 168
MIDWINTER _John Townsend Trowbridge_ 175
A GEORGIA FOX HUNT _Joel Chandler Harris_ 177
RAIN AND WIND _Madison Julius Cawein_ 192
THE SOUTHERN SKY _Matthew Fontaine Maury_ 193
DAFFODILS _William Wordsworth_ 195
DAWN _Edward Everett_ 196
SPRING _Henry Timrod_ 198

MOVING ADVENTURE

AMONG THE CLIFFS _Charles Egbert Craddock_ 201
A DEAL IN BEARS _W. Cutcliffe Hyne_ 217
LOCHINVAR _Sir Walter Scott_ 232
IN LABRADOR _H. G. Wells_ 235
THE BUGLE SONG _Alfred Tennyson_ 258
THE SIEGE OF THE CASTLE _Sir