TABLE OF CONTENTSLEGENDS OF OUR LANDRip Van Winkle Washington Irving 5The Great Stone Face Nathaniel Hawthorne 14The Courtship of Miles Standish Henry W. Longfellow 23The Friendship of Nantaquas Mary Johnston 30HOME SCENESHarry Esmond's Boyhood Wm. Makepeace Thackeray 43The Family Holds Its Head Up Oliver Goldsmith 49The Little Boy in the Balcony Henry W. Grady 54Ariel's Triumph Booth Tarkington 56NATURE AND ANIMALSThe Cloud Percy Bysshe Shelley 64New England Weather Mark Twain 65The First Snowfall James Russell Lowell 67Old Ephraim Theodore Roosevelt 68Midwinter John Townsend Trowbridge 71A Georgia Fox Hunt Joel Chandler Harris 72Rain and Wind Madison Julius Cawein 78The Southern Sky Matthew Fontaine Maury 79Daffodils William Wordsworth 80Dawn Edward Everett 81Spring Henry Timrod 82MOVING ADVENTUREAmong the Cliffs Charles Egbert Craddock 83A Deal in Bears W. Cutcliffe Hyne 90Lochinvar Sir Walter Scott 96In Labrador H. G. Wells 97The Bugle Song Alfred Tennyson 106The Siege of the Castle Sir Walter Scott 107MODERN WONDER TALESSea Fever John Masefield 135A Greyport Legend Bret Harte 136A Hunt Beneath The Ocean Jules Verne 137Under Seas Count Alexis Tolstoi 144A Voyage to the Moon Edgar Allan Poe 149The Great Stone of Sardis Frank R. Stockton 158SKETCHES OF THE GREAT WARA Stop At Suzanne's Greayer Clover 164The Making of a Man W. J. Locke 167In Flanders Fields John McCrae 176In Flanders Fields (An Answer) C. B. Galbraith 176A Ballad Of Heroes Austin Dobson 177Dictionary 179