Chapter I: Book ONE: BY

WILLIAM H. ELSON
AUTHOR ELSON READERS AND GOOD ENGLISH SERIES

AND

CHRISTINE M. KECK
HEAD UNION JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY
CHICAGO ATLANTA NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT 1919
BY SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY

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is made to _The London Times_ for “The Guards Came Through” by Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle; to Thomas Hardy for “Men Who March Away” from
_The London Times_; to John Galsworthy for “England to Free Men” from
_The Westminster Gazette_; to John Masefield for “Spanish Waters”;
to Hamlin Garland for “The Great Blizzard” from _Boy Life on the
Prairie_; to Doubleday Page & Co. for “The Gift of the Magi” by O.
Henry; to G. P. Putnam’s Sons for “Old Ephraim, the Grizzly Bear,”
from _The Wilderness Hunter_ by Theodore Roosevelt; to the George
H. Doran Company for “Trees” from _Trees and Other Poems_ by Joyce
Kilmer; to Mr. R. W. Lillard for “America’s Answer” from _The New
York Evening Post_; to Horace Traubel for “Pioneers! O Pioneers!”, “I
Hear America Singing”, “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman; to
Charles Scribner’s Sons for “On a Florida River” by Sidney Lanier,
from _The Lanier Book_, copyright 1904; and to Frederick A. Stokes
Company for “Kilmeny—A Song of the Trawlers” by Alfred Noyes from
_The New Morning_, copyright 1919.

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