Chapter I: Front Matter

_DE LA SALLE SERIES_

FIFTH READER

(REVISED EDITION, 1922)

BY THE BROTHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, ST. JOSEPH'S NORMAL INSTITUTE, POCANTICO HILLS, N.Y. LA SALLE INSTITUTE, GLENCOE, MO.

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CONTENTS

_2_ PREFACE

_3_ INTRODUCTION

_4_ SUGGESTIONS

_5_ GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION

_6_ DEFINITIONS

_7_ HYMN TO ST. LA SALLE. _Mercedes_

_8_ COLUMBUS AT THE CONVENT. _J.T. Trowbridge_

_9_ THE LITTLE FERN. _Mara L. Pratt_

_10_ HELPING MOTHER.

_11_ A CONTENTED WORKMAN.

_12_ TWO LABORERS. _Thomas Carlyle_

_13_ THE GRUMBLING PUSS.

_14_ THE BROOK SONG. _James Whitcomb Riley_

_15_ THE STORY OF THE SEED-DOWN. _Rydingsvard_

_16_ THE USE OF FLOWERS. _Mary Howitt_

_17_ PIERRE'S LITTLE SONG.

_18_ SEPTEMBER. _Helen Hunt Jackson_

_19_ "MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME." _Mrs. T.A. Sherrard_

_20_ THE FIRST MIRACLE OF JESUS.

_21_ MY BEADS. _Father Ryan_

_22_ THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS. _Thomas Moore_

_23_ A LITTLE LADY. _Louisa M. Alcott_

_24_ WHAT HOUSE TO LIKE. _Anon._

_25_ A SONG OF DUTY. _Denis A. McCarthy_

_26_ AN EVENING WITH THE ANGELS.

_27_ MY GUARDIAN ANGEL. _Cardinal Newman_

_28_ LITTLE BELL. _Thomas Westwood_

_29_ A MODEST WIT. _Selleck Osborne_

_30_ WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE. _George P. Morris_

_31_ THE BOSTON TEA PARTY.

_32_ THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET. _Samuel Woodworth_

_33_ THE BOY AND THE CRICKETS. _Pierre J. Hetzel_

_34_ OUR HEROES. _Phoebe Cary_

_35_ THE MINNOWS WITH SILVER TAILS. _Jean Ingelow_

_36_ THE BROOK. _Tennyson_

_37_ LEARNING TO THINK.

_38_ ONE BY ONE. _Adelaide A. Procter_

_39_ THE BIRCH CANOE. _Longfellow_

_40_ PETER OF CORTONA.

_41_ To MY DOG BLANCO. _J.G. Holland_

_42_ A STORY OF A MONK.

_43_ THE SERMON OF ST. FRANCIS. _Longfellow_

_44_ GLORIA IN EXCELSIS. _Father Ryan_

_45_ THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE. _Eugene Field_

_46_ THE HOLY CITY.

_47_ THE FEAST OF TONGUES. _Aesop_

_48_ THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE GLOWWORM. _William Cowper_

_49_ JACK FROST. _Hannah F. Gould_

_50_ "GOING! GOING! GONE!" _Helen Hunt Jackson_

_51_ SEVEN TIMES TWO. _Jean Ingelow_

_52_ MY MOTHER'S GRAVE.

_53_ THE OLD ARM-CHAIR. _Eliza Cook_

_54_ BREAK, BREAK, BREAK! _Tennyson_

_55_ GOD IS OUR FATHER.

_56_ HAPPY OLD AGE. _Robert Southey_

_57_ KIND WORDS. _Father Faber_

_58_ KINDNESS IS THE WORD. _John Boyle O'Reilly_

_59_ DAFFODILS. _William Wordsworth_

_60_ THE STORY OF TARCISIUS. _Cardinal Wiseman_

_61_ LEGEND OF THE WAXEN CIBORIUM. _Eleanor C. Donnelly_

_62_ LITTLE DAFFY-DOWN-DILLY. _Nathaniel Hawthorne_

_63_ IN SCHOOL DAYS _Whittier_

_64_ THE SUN'S FAMILY

_65_ WILL AND I _Paul H. Hayne_

_66_ CHRISTMAS DINNER AT THE CRATCHITS'. _Charles Dickens_

_67_ WHICH SHALL IT BE? _Anon_

_68_ ST. DOROTHY, MARTYR.

_69_ TO A BUTTERFLY. _William Wordsworth_

_70_ THE PEN AND THE INKSTAND. _Hans Christian Andersen_

_71_ THE WIND AND THE MOON. _George MacDonald_

_72_ ST. PHILIP NERI AND THE YOUTH.

_73_ THE WATER LILY. _Jean Ingelow_

_74_ A BUILDER'S LESSON. _John Boyle O'Reilly_

_75_ WASHINGTON AND HIS MOTHER.

_76_ WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. _Margaret E. Sangster_

_77_ THE SWORD OF BUNKER HILL. _William R. Wallace_

_78_ THE MARTYR'S BOY. _Cardinal Wiseman_

_79_ THE ANGEL'S STORY. _Adelaide A. Procter_

_80_ GLUCK'S VISITOR. _John Ruskin_

_81_ A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS. _Clement C. Moore_

_82_ COMMODORE JOHN BARRY.

_83_ THE BOY OF THE HOUSE. _Jean Blewett_

_84_ BIOGRAPHIES

(Transcriber's Note: Although "ABOU BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL. _Leigh Hunt_" and "A SIMPLE RECIPE. _James Whitcomb Riley_" were originally shown in the list above, neither work appears in the text.)

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