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special Canadian Series.
THIKD BOOK
OF
Eeading Lessons.
With Illustrations from Giacomelli and other Eminent Artists,
Also a Vocabulary of the More Difficult Words.
Authorized by the Minister of Education for use in the
High and Public Schools of Ontario.
3? V Ut
:
THOMAS NELSON AND
SONS,
AND
JAMES CAMPBELL AND SON.
PEIItll
Entered, according to Act of Parliament, in the Office of
the Minister of Agriculture, in the year of our Lord 1883, by
Thomas Nelson and Sons, and James Campbell and Son,
Toronto.
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PREFACE.
--
When the Third Book has been reached, the pupil may be
presumed capable of enjoying the delightful lyric poetry in
which English Literature abounds, and to which so many of
the finest minds have contributed. The literarv form is often
easier than that of a prose narrative ; it is, moreover, pecul-
iarly adapted for expressive reading and recitation. The
literary ascent can be made so gradual that, before he is con-
scious of intellectual effort, the young student has come into
the immediate i)resence of the loftiest peaks of that grand and
majestic literature which is the pride and the glory of the
whole English-speaking race.
In our selections, we have ranged over the poets and the
prose writers of three centuries,--from the era of Shakspeare
and Herrick to the era of Tennyson and Rossetti, of Emerson
and Longfellow. The selections, by their freshness, will, it is
hoped, yield a grateful relief to teachers wearied by long years
of monotonous repetition.
The cultivation of children's fancy, though not actually
formulated as part of school-training, has of late years been
most strenuously promoted by delightful gift-books and illus-
;
IV PREFACE.
trated annuals. It were full time that this hurtful distinction
betweon reading-books and gift-books disappeared; and that in
their reading-books children were sup])lied with those airy
forms and fancies for which their minds hunger. The world is
growing older and growing wiser even in strict scientific
;
rescarch we have come all at once to discover the vast conse-
quence of owning an active imagination In Northern Europe
!
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all this is well understood. tender care for the old folk-tales
has yielded all round the shores of the Baltic and in the ad-
joining lands a wealth of the most graceful and wholesome
flowers. In gathering for this volume a few blossoms from
this beautiful flora, we have taken Krilof to represent Russia
Topelius, Finland; Gustafsson, Sweden; Bjornson, Norway;
and Andersen, Denmark. The winter stories and amusements
of Northern Europe vividly picture our Canadian home-life
;
and, when gentler airs are stirring, the glowing tints and the
resinous fragrance of the Baltic forests are once more unmis-
takably those of our noble pine-woods.
We
have not slighted our native Indian folk-lore, which was
with loving care collected by Schoolcraft and his romantic
Indian bride and which so soon afterward.^ yielded to Long-
;
fellow his Hiawatha.
Nor have we forgotten our young Canadian Literature; from
Sangster, Heavysege, and others, we have thankfully gathered
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graceful and fragrant blossoms.
Toronto, 1st June 1SS2.
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CONTENTS.
Note.—PoeticalSelections are indicated by Italics.
!:Part IHirst.
Invitation, CharlesSangstvr, 9
Spring-Time in Canada, Major W. F. Ihdlcr, ... 10
is romantic Jack in the Pulpit, .., J. G. Whittier, 12
id to Long- TPlhueckC:ocAknanEdasttheInGdoioasne,Fa..b.le, ... \( FrCoamhaltlheeroS,p"an.i.s.h of ''*Ftrnan 1145
Linesfrom Horatius, Lord Macntday, 15
Dogs, 16
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Answer to a Child's Question, S. T. Coleridge, 18
The Three Fishers; Charles Kingslcy, 18
The Sparroiv's Nest, Mary Howitt, 20
The Pike, Krdof, 21
The Miller, Krilof, 22
Thanhaifinnfi Hfimn, Robert Herrick, 23
The Happy Bear Family, Lifeofa Bear,... 24
The Countryman andthe Lawyer, clorace Smith,... 27
TheFisherman's S'ln;/, Rev. J. M. Neale, 29
The Sditl ofA[ttHir, ... Rogers, 30
Hospice of St. Bernard, Rev. Hvgh Matmdlan, 31
Liliesfrom " The Excursion,'" Wdlinm Wordsworth, 33
The Red Rirer Voijaiieur, ... J G. Whittbr, 34
Hawaiian Sports, Lady Brossey, 30
(j'randpapn, ... Mr*. Craik, 39
The Traveller's Return, RJ)ert Sovthey, 40
TThheaVBsunrontinthgeoWfatyheaGtoSleiaa,th, DMiesasnHSntvaevrlegya,l,... 4412
Rhyme ofthe Rail, J. G. Saxe, 44
Gertrude's Bird ( Based on Thorpe's Mythology of
, Scandinavia, 45
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