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Title: De La Salle Fifth Reader

Author: Brothers of the Christian Schools

Release Date: January 23, 2004 [EBook #10811]

Language: English

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_DE LA SALLE SERIES_

FIFTH READER

[Illustration: WILLIAM McKINLEY PRESIDENT 1897-1901]

(REVISED EDITION, 1922)

BY THE BROTHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, ST. JOSEPH'S NORMAL INSTITUTE,
POCANTICO HILLS, N.Y. LA SALLE INSTITUTE, GLENCOE, MO.

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CONTENTS

_2_ PREFACE

_3_ INTRODUCTION

_4_ SUGGESTIONS

_5_ GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION

_6_ DEFINITIONS

_7_ HYMN TO ST. LA SALLE. _Mercedes_

_8_ COLUMBUS AT THE CONVENT. _J.T. Trowbridge_

_9_ THE LITTLE FERN. _Mara L. Pratt_

_10_ HELPING MOTHER.

_11_ A CONTENTED WORKMAN.

_12_ TWO LABORERS. _Thomas Carlyle_

_13_ THE GRUMBLING PUSS.

_14_ THE BROOK SONG. _James Whitcomb Riley_

_15_ THE STORY OF THE SEED-DOWN. _Rydingsvard_

_16_ THE USE OF FLOWERS. _Mary Howitt_

_17_ PIERRE'S LITTLE SONG.

_18_ SEPTEMBER. _Helen Hunt Jackson_

_19_ "MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME." _Mrs. T.A. Sherrard_

_20_ THE FIRST MIRACLE OF JESUS.

_21_ MY BEADS. _Father Ryan_

_22_ THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS. _Thomas Moore_

_23_ A LITTLE LADY. _Louisa M. Alcott_

_24_ WHAT HOUSE TO LIKE. _Anon._

_25_ A SONG OF DUTY. _Denis A. McCarthy_

_26_ AN EVENING WITH THE ANGELS.

_27_ MY GUARDIAN ANGEL. _Cardinal Newman_

_28_ LITTLE BELL. _Thomas Westwood_

_29_ A MODEST WIT. _Selleck Osborne_

_30_ WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE. _George P. Morris_

_31_ THE BOSTON TEA PARTY.

_32_ THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET. _Samuel Woodworth_

_33_ THE BOY AND THE CRICKETS. _Pierre J. Hetzel_

_34_ OUR HEROES. _Phoebe Cary_

_35_ THE MINNOWS WITH SILVER TAILS. _Jean Ingelow_

_36_ THE BROOK. _Tennyson_

_37_ LEARNING TO THINK.

_38_ ONE BY ONE. _Adelaide A. Procter_

_39_ THE BIRCH CANOE. _Longfellow_

_40_ PETER OF COR