yn Wetherald_
290

_To the Cuckoo_
_John Logan_
291

The Story of a Stone
_D. B._
293

_The Snow-Storm_
_John G. Whittier_
298

The Heroine of Vercheres
_Francis Parkman_
301

_Jacques Cartier_
_Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee_
307

Ants and Their Slaves
_Jules Michelet_
310

_Lead, Kindly Light_
_John Henry Newman_
315

The Jolly Sandboys
_Charles Dickens_
316

_The Gladness of Nature_
_William Cullen Bryant_
324

Old English Life
_William F. Collier_
325

_Puck's Song_
_Rudyard Kipling_
330

The Battle of Queenston Heights
_Unknown_
332

_The Bugle Song_
_Alfred, Lord Tennyson_
337

Charity
_Bible_
338

_A Christmas Carol_
_James Russell Lowell_
339

The Barren Lands
_E. B. Osborn_
341

_A Spring Morning_
_William Wordsworth_
345

_Crossing the Bar_
_Alfred, Lord Tennyson_
346

EMPIRE DAY

I want you to remember what Empire Day means. Empire Day is the festival
on which every British subject should reverently remember that the
British Empire stands out before the whole world as the fearless
champion of freedom, fair play and equal rights; that its watchwords are
responsibility, duty, sympathy and self-sacrifice, and that a special
responsibility rests with you individually to be true to the traditions
and to the mission of your race.

I also want you to remember that one day Canada will become, if her
people are faithful to their high British traditions, the most powerful
of all the self-governing nations, not excluding the people of the
United Kingdom, which make up the British Empire, and that it rests with
each one of you individually to do your utmost by your own conduct and
example to make Canada not only the most powerful, but the noblest of
all the self-governing nations that are proud to owe allegiance to the
King.

Earl Grey.
Governor-General of Canada

THIRD READER

TO-DAY

So here hath been dawning
Another blue day;
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?

Out of Eternity
This new day is born;
Into Eternity