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Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools By: Emilie Kip Baker |
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SHORT STORIES AND SELECTIONS FOR USE IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS COMPILED AND ANNOTATED, WITH QUESTIONS FOR STUDY BY EMILIE KIP BAKER [Illustration: Walter Scott's Library at Abbotsford] TABLE OF CONTENTS A LEAF IN THE STORM, by Louise de la Ramee, from A Leaf in the Storm and Other Stories CATS, by Maurice Hewlett, from Earthwork out of Tuscany AN ADVENTURE, by Honore de Balzac, from A Passion in the Desert FOR THOSE WHO LOVE MUSIC, by Axel Munthe, from Vagaries OUT OF DOORS, by Richard Jefferies, from Saint Guido THE TABOO, by Herman Melville, from Typee SCHOOL DAYS AT THE CONVENT, by George Sand, from The Story of My Life (adapted) IN BRITTANY, by Louisa Alcott, from Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag THE ADIRONDACKS, by John Burroughs, from Wake Robin AN ASCENT OF KILAUEA, by Lady Brassey, from Around the World in the Yacht Sunbeam THE FETISH, by George Eliot, from The Mill on the Floss SALMON FISHING IN IRELAND, by James A. Froude, from A Fortnight in Kerry ACROSS RUNNING WATER, by Fiona Macleod, from Sea Magic and Running Water THE PINE TREE SHILLINGS, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, from Grandfather's Chair THE WHITE TRAIL, by Stewart Edward White, from The Silent Places A DISSERTATION ON ROAST PIG, by Charles Lamb, from Essays of Elia THE LAST CLASS, by Alphonse Daudet, from Monday Tales AN ARAB FISHERMAN, by Albert Edwards, from The Barbary Coast THE ARCHERY CONTEST, by Walter Scott, from Ivanhoe BABY SYLVESTER, by Bret Harte, from Bret Harte's Writings THE ADDRESS AT GETTYSBURG, by Abraham Lincoln, from Lincoln's Speeches THE SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS, by Abraham Lincoln, from Lincoln's Speeches AN APPRECIATION OF LINCOLN, by John Hay, from Life of Lincoln THE ELEPHANTS THAT STRUCK, by Samuel White Baker, from Eight Years in Ceylon THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP, by Bret Harte THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD DIN, by Rudyard Kipling, from Plain Tales from the Hills A CHILD, by John Galsworthy, from Commentary TOO DEAR FOR THE WHISTLE, by Benjamin Franklin, from The Autobiography A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT, by Robert Louis Stevenson, from The New Arabian Nights A BAD FIVE MINUTES IN THE ALPS, by Leslie Stephen, from Freethinking and Plainspeaking (adapted) THE GOLD TRAIL, by Stewart Edward White, from Gold TWENTY YEARS OF ARCTIC STRUGGLE, by J. Kennedy McLean, from Heroes of the Farthest North and South (adapted) THE SPEECH IN MANCHESTER, by Henry Ward Beecher, from Addresses and Sermons A GREEN DONKEY DRIVER, by Robert Louis Stevenson, from Travels with a Donkey A NIGHT IN THE PINES, by Robert Louis Stevenson, from Travels with a Donkey LIFE IN OLD NEW YORK, by Washington Irving, from Knickerbocker's History of New York THE BAZAAR IN MOROCCO, by Pierre Loti, from Into Morocco A BATTLE OF THE ANTS, by Henry D. Thoreau, from Walden (adapted) AN AFRICAN PET, by Paul B. du Chaillu, from The African Forest and Jungle ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE, by Lloyd Morgan, from Animal Sketches (adapted) BUCK'S TRIAL OF STRENGTH, by Jack London, from The Call of the Wild ON THE SOLANDER WHALING GROUND, by Frank Bullen, from Idylls of the Sea AN EPISODE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, by Charles Dickens, from A Tale of Two Cities THE COMMANDER OF THE FAITHFUL, by Pierre Loti, from Into Morocco (adapted) WALT WHITMAN, by John Burroughs, from Whitman A Study (adapted) HEROISM IN HOUSEKEEPING, by Jane Welsh Carlyle, from Letters A YOUTHFUL ACTOR, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, from The Story of a Bad Boy WAR, by Thomas Carlyle, from Sartor Resartus COON HUNTING, by Ernest Ingersoll, from Wild Neighbors (adapted) SIGHT IN SAVAGES, by W... Continue reading book >>
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