Study and Use of
the Dictionary, Reading Outside of School, Use of Illustrative Material,
and Correlation.

II. Detailed lesson plans for each selection in _Story Hour Readings
Seventh Year_.

III. Detailed lesson plans for each selection in _Story Hour Readings
Eighth Year_.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

In addition to acknowledgments made in connection with material
incorporated in this volume, thanks are due as follows for permissions
to reprint:

To D. Appleton & Company, Publishers, for permission to use "A Battle
with a Whale" from Frank T. Bullen's _The Cruise of the Cachalot_; to
Thomas B. Harned, Literary Executor of Walt Whitman, for permission to
reprint "O Captain! My Captain."

"The Stagecoach," from Mark Twain's _Roughing It_, is used by express
permission of the Estate of Samuel L. Clemens, the Mark Twain Company,
and Harper & Brothers, Publishers.

Selections by Emerson, Hawthorne, Holmes, Longfellow, Amy Lowell, James
Russell Lowell, Sill, Thoreau, and Whittier are used by permission of
and special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized
publishers of these authors.

Acknowledgment is made to the American Book Company for the use of
selections by James Baldwin, John Esten Cooke, Edward Eggleston, Helene
Guerber, Joel Chandler Harris, William Dean Howells, James Johonnot,
Orison Swett Marden, W. F. Markwick and W. A. Smith, Frank R. Stockton,
and Maurice Thompson.

CONTENTS

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A SHEAF OF LEGENDS

Ali Hafed's Quest _Orison Swett Marden_ 13
How Kilhugh Rode to Arthur's Hall _James Baldwin_ 18
The Gift of the White Bear _George Webbe Dasent_ 25
The Story of Iron 31
The Wonderful Artisan _James Baldwin_ 39
Charlemagne and Roland _Helene A. Guerber_ 46
Keeping the Bridge _Thomas Babington Macaulay_ 50

PIONEER DAYS

The Story of Molly Pitcher _Frank R. Stockton_ 57
King Philip to the White Settlers _Edward Everett_ 60
Pioneer Life in Ohio _William Dean Howells_ 62
Witchcraft _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 70
Tea Parties in Old New York _Washington Irving_ 70
A School of Long Ago _Edward Egglest