THE SIXTH READER By MARTHA ADELAIDE HOLTON For ten years Supervisor of Primary Education in the Minneapolis “Industrial Work for Public Schools" and CHARLES MADISON CURRY Professor of Literature in the Indiana State Normal School Illustrated by NED E. HADLEY RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY CHICAGO NEW YORK Thanks are extended to the following publishers and individuals for permission to use the material indicated: Longmans, Green & Co. for "Scythe Song," from Grass of Parnassus by Andrew Lang; Lothrop, Lee & Shepard for "The House by the Side of the Road," from Dreams in Homespun by Sam Walter Foss; A. C. McClurg & Co. for "The Story of a Stone," from Science Sketches by David Starr Jordan; Chas. Scribner's Sons for "The Smudge," from Fisherman's Luck by Henry Van Dyke, and "The Song of the Chattahoochee," from Poems of Lanier by Sidney Lanier; D. Appleton & Co. for "A Quaker Christmas," from Outings at Odd Times by Charles C. Abbott; Small, Maynard & Co. for "In Bay Street," by Bliss Carman; Little, Brown & Co. for "M. Seguin's Goat," from Katherine Prescott Wormeley's translation of Daudet's Letters from My Mill; Ivan Swift for "The Old Coureur de Bois." The selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James T. Fields, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are used by permission of and special arrangement with the Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. The following selections are from the publications of Rand McNally & Co.: "The Bear as a Humorist," from True Bear Stories by Joaquin Miller, and "The Sardinian Drummer Boy" from The Heart of a Boy, Sophie Jewett's translation of De Amicis's Cuore. The Rand McNally Press Chicago |