The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2

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THE YOUNG AND FIELD LITERARY READERS

_Book Two_

ELLA FLAGG YOUNG

_Superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools_

AND

WALTER TAYLOR FIELD

_Author of "Fingerposts to Children's Reading," "Rome," Etc_

_Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright_

GINN AND COMPANY BOSTON . NEW YORK . CHICAGO . LONDON]

AND WALTER TAYLOR FIELD

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The Athenaeum Press

GINN AND COMPANY . PROPRIETORS . BOSTON . U.S.A.

TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Boys and Girls:

Do you like fairy stories?

You do not need to tell us.

We know you like them.

So we are going to give you some to read.

You may have heard some of these stories before, but not many of them.

Some have come from far across the sea, and some have come from our own country.

Mothers have told them to their children again and again, and children have never been tired of them.

We think you will like them, too.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The poems of Mr. Frank Dempster Sherman and Miss Abbie Farwell Brown are used by special arrangement with the Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers.

Acknowledgments are also due to the following publishers and authors for permission to use copyrighted material: to Charles Scribner's Sons for poems from Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses" and Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge's "Rhymes and Jingles"; to the Macmillan Company for poems from Christina Rossetti's "Sing Song"; to Little, Brown, and Company for poems from Mrs. Laura E. Richards's "In My Nursery"; to G. P. Putnam's Sons for the use of Sir George Webbe Dasent's version of the story "East of the Sun and West of the Moon," from "Popular Tales from the Norse," as the basis for our story of the same name; to the A. Flanagan Company and Miss Flora J. Cooke for the use of "The Rainbow Bridge," from Miss Cooke's "Nature Myths," in a similar way; to Miss Marion Florence Lansing for permission to adapt her dramatized Hindu Tale, "The Man's Boot," from "Quaint Old Stories," in our story "The Shoe"; to Mr. William Hawley Smith for permission to use his poem "A Child's Prayer."

CONTENTS

ENGLISH FAIRY TALES CHILDE ROWLAND TOM TIT TOT

POEMS BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI LAMBKINS FERRY ME ACROSS THE WATER CORAL THE SWALLOW WRENS AND ROBINS BOATS SAIL ON THE RIVERS

FABLES FROM AESOP THE LION AND THE MOUSE THE HONEST WOODCUTTER THE WOLF AND THE CRANE THE TOWN MOUSE AND THE COUNTRY MOUSE THE WIND AND THE SUN THE ANT AND THE DOVE THE LARK AND HER NEST THE DOG AND HIS SHADOW THE FOX AND THE GRAPES

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