_John Greenleaf Whittier_ 64
November _Alice Cary_ 65
The Frost Spirit _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 67
The Owl _Alfred Tennyson_ 69
The Wind and the Moon _George Macdonald_ 70
The Tempest _James T. Fields_ 74
A Visit from St. Nicholas _Clement C. Moore_ 76
Lucy Gray _William Wordsworth_ 81
The Wonderful World _William Brighty Rands_ 84
To a Child. Written in her Album _William Wordsworth_ 85
Consider _Christina G. Rossetti_ 86
Lullaby of an Infant Chief _Sir Walter Scott_ 87
Dutch Lullaby _Eugene Field_ 88
The Night Wind _Eugene Field_ 91
Marjorie's Almanac _Thomas Bailey Aldrich_ 93
A Child's Prayer _Betham Edwards_ 96

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The poems by Longfellow, Whittier, Alice Cary, J. T. Fields, and Frank
Dempster Sherman are published by special arrangement with the
publishers, Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin, & Company.

THIRD YEAR--FIRST HALF

EDWARD LEAR

ENGLAND, 1812-1888

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat.
They took some honey, and plenty of money
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the moon above, 5
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love!
What a beautiful Pussy you are,--
You are;
What a beautiful Pussy you are!" 10

Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!
How wonderful sweet you sing!
Oh let us be married,--too long we have tarried,--
But what shall we do for a ring?"
They sailed away for a year and a day
To the land where the Bong-tree grows,
And there in a wood, a piggy-wig stood 5
With a ring in the end of his nose,--
His nose;
With a ring in the e