FOR TEN YEARS SUPERVISOR OF PRIMARY EDUCATION IN THE WORK FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS" MINA HOLTON PAGE FORMERLY TEACHER IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF AND CHARLES MADISON CURRY PROFESSOR OF LITERATURE IN THE INDIANA STATE NORMAL AUTHOR OF "LITERARY READINGS" ILLUSTRATED BY FREDERICK RICHARDSON APPROVED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION SACRAMENTO: ROBERT L. TELFER, SUPERINTENDENT STATE PRINTING 1916 Gin:: EDUCATION DEPT. Copyright, 1916 BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Copyright, 1916 By RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY In the compilation of this book certain matter from the 1st Ed.-1916 894 C153 deft. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks are extended to the following publishers and individuals for permission to use the material indicated: Small, Maynard & Co. for "High and Low," from Child Verse by John Banister Tabb; Madge A. Bigham for "Blackie in the Trap," from Merry Animal Tales; Charles Scribner's Sons for "In Trust," from Rhymes and Jingles by Mary Mapes Dodge, and "The Night Wind," from Love-Songs of Childhood, "Little Boy Blue" and "Little Blue Pigeon" (Japanese Lullaby), from With Trumpet and Drum by Eugene Field; The Youth's Companion and Anna M. Pratt for "Patience," originally entitled "A Useful Possession"; Julia Darrow Cowles for "How Fire Came to the Indians"; Frank Dempster Sherman for "The Snowbird," from Little-Folk Lyrics. The selections from Lucy Larcom, Celia Thaxter, Alice and Phoebe Cary, and "The Four Winds" and "Daisies” by Frank Dempster Sherman, are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, the authorized publishers of the works enumerated. The following selections are from the publications of Rand McNally & Co.: "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow," from Japanese Fairy Tales by Teresa Peirce Williston; "The Real Princess," retold, and "The Constant Tin Soldier," from Andersen's Best Fairy Tales, translated by Alice Corbin Henderson; “Two Brass Kettles," from Pilgrim Stories by Margaret B. Pumphrey; "A Dog of Flanders," retold from A Dog of Flanders by Louise de la Ramée. |