Chapter VII: On the Walpi Trail

If Kwasa had not felt so proud of the honor that had been shown him, he might have feared to go down the long, dark canyons alone. But, boylike, his thoughts were not so much on the danger of his task as they were upon the rewards he might hope for when it was done, for he knew the people of the Cliffs would pay royal honors where they were due. And he never thought of failure, for surely one so high in favor with the gods could not fail, however great the task.

So Kwasa picked his way with a light heart along the first well-known part of the journey. He wanted to be far from home by daybreak, and ready to undertake the unknown paths where he would need all his sharpness of sight to keep the right direction. He had received many and definite instructions from the old men, who knew the Walpi road well, and he felt confident of his ability to reach the Seven Cities without loss of time.

The sun came up, hot and strong, just as he emerged from the shadows of the last wooded canyon and stepped forth upon the wide-spaced plateau that stretched away toward Walpi. There was no chance for cover now, he realized, a little startled at the thought, for he had not before considered this difference between a trail on the plateau and one through the canyons. If he had not been afraid both of delay and of losing the trail if he should attempt to follow it by night he would have liked to lie down in a hidden nook and wait for dusk again rather than to run the risk of a race across such open and dangerous country by day. But he knew no time should be lost, so, eating his breakfast from his food-bag as he went along, he swung forward with the long, easy strides of one who is accustomed to travel much by foot.

It was the middle of the forenoon when a fitful gust of wind brought a strange, regular, pounding sound to his ears. He could not think what it was. Again it came, louder than before, a sharp, ringing “clickety-clicket,” that brought him to a standstill. Then, too late for flight or any chance of concealment, he recognized the sound as one that he had never heard more than once or twice in his life--the beating of hard-ridden ponies’ hoofs.

In another minute he saw them coming, a cloud of dark, terrible riders in fantastic head-dress, with their almost naked bodies horribly striped and scarred. At a glance he knew them, though his only idea of them had been formed from the tales he had heard the men tell, and in the same moment gave himself up for lost. For they were the hated enemies whose awful deeds made the blood run cold at the barest thought of them--the Utes of the northeastern mountains.

Kwasa knew they had seen him, so, giving up the hope of hiding which had flitted momentarily through his mind, he determined to stand his ground and sell his life as dearly as he could. He ran a few steps from the trail and placed his back against a jutting ledge of rock, at the same time drawing his bow and setting one of his sharpest arrows. Hardly had he time to make even this scanty preparation when they were upon him, a yelling, death-dealing whirlwind of fiendish faces and quick-footed, fiery-eyed ponies.

With an agonized thought of home, of the trust in which he now must fail, and of the terrible danger which was sweeping down upon the Cliff people, he drew his arrow back to the head. Excited as he was, he took steady aim, and a painted warrior slid limply from his pony’s neck and rolled over in the dust. As he hastily fitted another arrow he felt a stinging pain in his throat, his hand lost its strength, the sky reeled about him and turned dark--and then he knew no more.

When he came to himself again he lay where he had fallen on his face in the red dust of the plateau. How sick and dizzy he felt! His first thought was to wonder how he came there; the next to remember that the Utes were headed straight for the canyons, on what awful errand he did not dare to think. He knew the Cliff village could be held for some time, but would not these fiendish foes at last be able to overcome the peaceful, unwarlike men of the Cliffs, no matter what their advantages might be? Help must be brought, and brought quickly. A glance at the sun assured him that he had not long lain unconscious, even though he knew he must have been left for dead. With a great effort he pulled himself to his feet. How black the sunlight grew! And what was that queer, choking thing that seemed to be gripping him by the throat? Putting up his hand, he felt the shaft of an arrow which had pierced his neck, running through until the point projected above his shoulders. With a shudder he tried to pull it out, but the pain turned him sick again. Then, too, even through the turmoil of his thoughts he realized that to remove the arrow would mean a great and weakening loss of blood. So, blinded and choking as he was, the brave lad stumbled along as fast as he could, imploring the gods to give him strength to reach Walpi and send aid to his people before he should die.

It seemed ages before he saw the dark outlines of the pueblo of Walpi rising above the rounded crest of the mesa. But it was not so far from where he fell after all, for he had been nearer than he believed when the attack occurred. He could never quite remember how things happened after that. He had a vague memory of Sado’s voice calling out in sharp surprise, of telling his story quickly between the gasps of his failing breath, and of a sudden great bustle in the court of the pueblo. Only one thing he remembered distinctly, the sudden idea that flashed through his mind at sight of Sado.

“The hidden path,” he gasped, “tell them to take the hidden path. It will bring them up from the back. No one knows it except--except--” and here in spite of himself his voice trailed off into silence and the blindness that was worse than midnight came over his eyes again.

As in a dream he heard Sado’s excited reply:

“I know--I know--I will lead them. Have no fear, for we will save your people yet!”

And then gentle hands laid him down, and he thought no more except that it was very good to rest.

The terrible Battle of the Cliffs had been fought and done for many weeks before Kwasa was strong enough to hear about it. For the arrow in his throat had come very near indeed to causing his death, and only the tender nursing of careful and practised hands could have brought him back to life and strength again. There was one pair of slim, soft hands that he always knew, even through his delirium, so gentle and capable were they, and so soothingly did they place upon his poor, torn throat the cooling poultices of pounded herbs. After he grew able to think again he fell to wondering what the face would be like that belonged with such dear, gentle fingers; but so weary and listless was he that even after the thought came it was a long time before he opened his eyes to see. But when he did look up into the beautiful young face that bent so anxiously above him, he knew that one of two things would surely happen--either he would stay at Walpi forever, or he would not go back to the canyons alone.

And that day Kwasa heard the story of the Battle of the Cliffs. It was Sado who told it, helping the words with vivid gestures of his long, brown fingers. He told how bravely the men of the village had held their own for many long and fearful hours, even against the death-bearing poisoned arrows of their foes; and how, hard pressed as they were and overwhelmed by numbers, as the Utes swarmed up the niche stairway, the men who stood along the ledge sold their lives at a heavy price. And then, just as the Utes were sounding their wild whoop of final victory, and were pressing upward unchecked over the narrow stair, so slippery with the horrible slime of blood, the fresh band of fighters which Sado had led secretly up the hidden path sounded their battle cry from the back of the long court into which they had come unseen. At this the savages had wavered a moment in surprise, and then, seeing the lithe brown bodies of the men of Walpi, whose prowess they knew of old, had broken and fled, many of them losing their foothold and falling down the face of the cliff to a horrible death on the rocks below. And just then had come up from the south the bands from the Rainbow and Bear Clans, summoned by Wiki, and before the sun had set upon the narrow valley the grass was stained with a deeper red than that of the red dust. Only two Ute horsemen were able to break through the terrible ring of death that shut them in and get away on their fleet ponies. And that, said Sado, was just as it should be, for with the story of that disastrous fight as a warning it would be long before the northern tribes would attempt to take revenge.

The day came at last when Kwasa was strong enough to go back to his people. Glad as he was at the thought of seeing them all again, a greater gladness lay at his heart--a joy even greater than all the honor that his grateful people were waiting to give could bring. For Ani, the gentle sister of Sado, who had nursed the stricken messenger so faithfully and well, was easily persuaded that her services might still be needed by her brave young patient. So she decided to go back across the mesas and down the cool, dusky canyon paths with him, lest evil should again befall him.

So it happened that when the rejoicing people of the Cliffs came down the niche stairway to welcome their honored hero, they took also to their grateful hearts the dark-eyed girl who had saved him from death for them. And not the less did they love her because she was the sister of Sado, who had brought them help in their hour of greatest need.

“But what of Wiki?” said Kwasa, when they would have overwhelmed him with loving honors.

“He has had his share,” answered Wiki himself, pressing the hand of his old playfellow affectionately. “Besides, my little deed needed no honor, since it did not require a particularly stout heart to run an errand where there was no danger. Yet Mosu has promised me no less a gift than that I should lead the dance of the priests in his own place at the next Blessing of Seeds. And he says he will make a priest of me when the time comes. Besides--” he paused in some confusion, and beckoned to a pretty brown maiden who stood not far away.

“Besides?” prompted Kwasa with a smile.

“Not all the maidens in the world dwell on the mesa of the Seven Cities,” blurted out Wiki, taking the girl’s slender fingers in his own.

Kwasa laughed, then his face grew grave.

“Yet it was well for me that one maid dwelt there,” he said softly, looking up into Ani’s sweet face with adoring eyes.

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7c--Supplementary Readers and Classics for all Grades--7c

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FIRST GRADE

Fables and Myths

*6 Fairy Stories of the Moon--_Maguire_
*27 Eleven Fables from Æsop--_Reiter_
*28 More Fables from Æsop--_Reiter_
*29 Indian Myths--_Bush_
*140 Nursery Tales--_Taylor_
*288 Primer from Fableland--_Maguire_

Nature

*1 Little Plant People--Part I--_Chase_
*2 Little Plant People--Part II--_Chase_
*30 Story of a Sunbeam--_Miller_
*31 Kitty Mittens and Her Friends--_Chase_

History

*32 Patriotic Stories--_Reiter_

Literature

*104 Mother Goose Reader--_Faxon_
*228 First Term Primer--_Maguire_
*230 Rhyme and Jingle Reader for Beginners
*245 Three Billy Goats Gruff and Other Stories

SECOND GRADE

Fables and Myths

*33 Stories from Andersen--_Taylor_
*34 Stories from Grimm--_Taylor_
*36 Little Red Riding Hood--_Reiter_
*37 Jack and the Beanstalk--_Reiter_
*38 Adventures of a Brownie--_Reiter_

Nature and Industry

*3 Little Workers (Animal Stories)--_Chase_
*39 Little Wood Friends--_Mayne_
*40 Wings and Stings--_Halifax_
*41 Story of Wool--_Mayne_
*42 Bird Stories from the Poets--_Jollie_

History and Biography

*43 Story of the Mayflower--_McCabe_
*45 Boyhood of Washington--_Reiter_
*204 Boyhood of Lincoln--_Reiter_

Literature

*72 Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew--_Craik_
*152 Child’s Garden of Verses--_Stevenson_
*206 Picture Study Stories for Little Children
*220 Story of the Christ Child--_Hushower_
*262 Four Little Cotton Tails--_Smith_
*268 Four Little Cotton Tails in Winter--_Smith_
*269 Four Little Cotton Tails at Play--_Smith_
*270 Four Little Cotton Tails in Vacation--_Smith_
*290 Fuzz in Japan--A Child Life Reader
*300 Four Little Bushy Tails--_Smith_
*301 Patriotic Bushy Tails--_Smith_
*302 Tinkle Bell and Other Stories--_Smith_
*303 The Rainbow Fairy--_Smith_
*308 Story of Peter Rabbit--_Potter_

THIRD GRADE

Fables and Myths

*46 Puss in Boots and Cinderella--_Reiter_
*47 Greek Myths--_Klingensmith_
*48 Nature Myths--_Metcalfe_
*50 Reynard the Fox--_Best_
*102 Thumbelina and Dream Stories--_Reiter_
*146 Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories
174 Sun Myths--_Reiter_
175 Norse Legends, I--_Reiter_
176 Norse Legends, II--_Reiter_
*177 Legends of the Rhineland--_McCabe_
*282 Siegfried and Other Rhine Legends
*289 The Snow Man and Other Stories
*292 East of the Sun and West of the Moon

Nature and Industry

*49 Buds, Stems and Fruits--_Mayne_
*51 Story of Flax--_Mayne_
*52 Story of Glass--_Hanson_
*53 Story of a Little Water Drop--_Mayne_
*133 Aunt Martha’s Corner Cupboard--Part I. Story of Tea and the
Teacup
*135 Little People of the Hills--_Chase_
*137 Aunt Martha’s Corner Cupboard--Part II. Story of Sugar, Coffee
and Salt
*138 Aunt Martha’s Corner Cupboard--Part III. Story of Rice, Currants
and Honey
*203 Little Plant People of the Waterways--_Chase_

History and Biography

*4 Story of Washington--_Reiter_
*7 Story of Longfellow--_McCabe_
*21 Story of the Pilgrims--_Powers_
*44 Famous Early Americans (Smith, Standish, Penn)--_Bush_
*54 Story of Columbus--_McCabe_
55 Story of Whittier--_McCabe_
57 Story of Louisa M. Alcott--_Bush_
*59 Story of the Boston Tea Party--_McCabe_
*60 Children of the Northland--_Bush_
*62 Children of the South Lands--I (Florida, Cuba, Puerto
Rico)--_McFee_
*63 Children of the South Lands--II (Africa, Hawaii, The
Philippines)--_McFee_
*64 Child Life in the Colonies--I (New Amsterdam)--_Baker_
*65 Child Life in the Colonies--II (Pennsylvania)--_Baker_
*66 Child Life in the Colonies--III (Virginia)
*68 Stories of the Revolution--I (Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain
Boys)--_McCabe_
*69 Stories of the Revolution--II (Around Philadelphia)--_McCabe_
*70 Stories of the Revolution--III (Marion, the Swamp Fox)--_McCabe_
*132 Story of Franklin--_Faris_
*164 The Little Brown Baby and Other Babies
*165 Gemila, the Child of the Desert
*166 Louise on the Rhine and in Her New Home
(_Nos. 164, 165, 166 are the stories from “Seven
Little Sisters” by Jane Andrews_)
*167 Famous Artists--I--(Landseer and Bonheur)

Literature

*35 Little Goody Two Shoes
58 Selections from Alice and Phoebe Cary
*67 The Story of Robinson Crusoe--_Bush_
*71 Selections from Hiawatha (Five Grades)
*227 Our Animal Friends: How to Treat Them
*233 Poems Worth Knowing--Book I--Primary

FOURTH GRADE

Nature and Industry

*75 Story of Coal--_McKane_
*76 Story of Wheat--_Halifax_
*77 Story of Cotton--_Brown_
*134 Conquests of Little Plant People--_Chase_
*136 Peeps into Bird Nooks--I--_McFee_
*181 Stories of the Stars--_McFee_
*205 Eyes and No Eyes and The Three Giants

History and Biography

*5 Story of Lincoln--_Reiter_
*56 Indian Children Tales--_Bush_
*78 Stories of the Backwoods--_Reiter_
*79 A Little New England Viking--_Baker_
*81 Story of De Soto--_Hatfield_
*82 Story of Daniel Boone--_Reiter_
*83 Story of Printing--_McCabe_
*84 Story of David Crockett--_Reiter_
*85 Story of Patrick Henry--_Littlefield_
*86 American Inventors--I (Whitney, Fulton)
*87 American Inventors--II (Morse, Edison)
*88 American Naval Heroes (Jones, Perry, Farragut)--_Bush_
*89 Fremont and Kit Carson--_Judd_
*91 Story of Eugene Field--_McCabe_
*178 Story of Lexington and Bunker Hill--_Baker_
*182 Story of Joan of Arc--_McFee_
*207 Famous Artists--II--Reynolds and Murillo
*243 Famous Artists--III--Millet
*248 Makers of European History--_White_

Literature

*90 Fifteen Selections from Longfellow--(Village Blacksmith,
Children’s Hour, etc.)
*95 Japanese Myths and Legends--_McFee_
*103 Stories from the Old Testament--_McFee_
*111 Water Babies (Abridged)--_Kingsley_
*159 Little Lame Prince (Cond.)--_Mulock_
*171 Tolmi of the Tree-Tops--_Grimes_
*172 Labu the Little Lake Dweller--_Grimes_
*173 Tara of the Tents--_Grimes_
*195 Night before Christmas and Other Christmas Poems and Stories
(Any Grade)
*201 Alice’s First Adventures in Wonderland
*202 Alice’s Further Adventures in Wonderland
*256 Bolo the Cave Boy--_Grimes_
*257 Kwasa the Cliff Dweller--_Grimes_
*291 Voyage to Lilliput (Abridged)--_Swift_
*293 Hansel and Grettel, and Pretty Goldilocks
*304 Story Lessons in Everyday Manners--_Bailey_
*312 Legends from Many Lands--_Bailey_
*314 The Enchanted Bugle and Other Stories

FIFTH GRADE

Nature and Industry

*92 Animal Life in the Sea--_Reiter_
*93 Story of Silk--_Brown_
*94 Story of Sugar--_Reiter_
*96 What We Drink (Tea, Coffee and Cocoa)
*139 Peeps into Bird Nooks--II
210 Snowdrops and Crocuses
263 The Sky Family--_Denton_
*280 Making of the World--_Herndon_
*281 Builders of the World--_Herndon_
*283 Stories of Time--_Bush_
*290 Story of King Corn--_Cooley_

History and Biography

*16 Explorations of the Northwest
*80 Story of the Cabots--_McBride_
*97 Stories of the Norsemen--_Hanson_
*98 Story of Nathan Hale--_McCabe_
*99 Story of Jefferson--_McCabe_
100 Story of Bryant--_McFee_
*101 Story of Robert E. Lee--_McKane_
105 Story of Canada--_McCabe_
*106 Story of Mexico--_McCabe_
*107 Story of Robert Louis Stevenson--_Bush_
110 Story of Hawthorne--_McFee_
112 Biographical Stories--_Hawthorne_
*141 Story of Grant--_McKane_
*144 Story of Steam--_McCabe_
*145 Story of McKinley--_McBride_
157 Story of Dickens--_Smith_
*179 Story of the Flag--_Baker_
*185 Story of the First Crusade--_Mead_
190 Story of Father Hennepin--_McBride_
191 Story of La Salle--_McBride_
*217 Story of Florence Nightingale--_McFee_
*218 Story of Peter Cooper--_McFee_
*219 Little Stories of Discovery--_Halsey_
232 Story of Shakespeare--_Grames_
*265 Four Little Discoverers in Panama--_Bush_
274 Stories from Grandfather’s Chair--_Hawthorne_
*275 When Plymouth Colony Was Young
*287 Life in Colonial Days--_Tillinghast_

Literature

*8 King of the Golden River--_Ruskin_
*9 The Golden Touch--_Hawthorne_
*61 Story of Sindbad the Sailor
*108 History in Verse
*113 Little Daffydowndilly and Other Stories
*180 Story of Aladdin and of Ali Baba--_Lewis_
*183 A Dog of Flanders--_De La Ramee_
*184 The Nurnberg Stove--_De La Ramee_
*186 Heroes from King Arthur--_Grames_
194 Whittier’s Poems--Selected
*199 Jackanapes--_Ewing_
*200 The Child of Urbino--_De La Ramee_
208 Heroes of Asgard--Selections--_Keary_
*212 Stories of Robin Hood--_Bush_
*234 Poems Worth Knowing--Book II--Inter.
*244 What Happened at the Zoo--_Bailey_
*250 At the Back of the North Wind, Selection from--_Macdonald_
255 Chinese Fables and Stories--_Feltges_
*309 Moni the Goat Boy--_Spyri_
*313 In Nature’s Fairyland--_Bailey_

SIXTH GRADE

Nature and Industry

*109 Gifts of the Forests (Rubber, Cinchona, Resins, etc.)--_McFee_
249 Flowers and Birds of Illinois--_Patterson_
*298 Story of Leather--_Peirce_
*299 Story of Iron--_Ogden_

Agricultural

*271 Animal Husbandry, I--Horses and Cattle
*272 Animal Husbandry, II--Sheep and Swine

Geography

*114 Great European Cities--I (London-Paris)
*115 Great European Cities--II (Rome-Berlin)
*168 Great European Cities--III
(St. Petersburg-Constantinople)--_Bush_
*246 What I Saw in Japan--_Griffis_
*247 The Chinese and Their Country--_Paulson_
*285 Story of Panama and the Canal--_Nida_

History and Biography

*73 Four Great Musicians--_Bush_
*74 Four More Great Musicians--_Bush_
*116 Old English Heroes (Alfred, Richard the Lion-Hearted, The Black
Prince)--_Bush_
*117 Later English Heroes (Cromwell, Wellington, Gladstone)--_Bush_
*160 Heroes of the Revolution--_Tristram_
*163 Stories of Courage--_Bush_
187 Lives of Webster and Clay--_Tristram_
*188 Story of Napoleon--_Bush_
*189 Stories of Heroism--_Bush_
*197 Story of Lafayette--_Bush_
198 Story of Roger Williams--_Leighton_
*209 Lewis and Clark Expedition--_Herndon_
*224 Story of William Tell--_Hallock_
*253 Story of the Aeroplane--_Galbreath_
*266 Story of Belgium--_Griffis_
*267 Story of Wheels--_Bush_
*286 Story of Slavery--_Booker T. Washington_
*310 Story of Frances E. Willard--_Babcock_

Stories of the States

508 Story of Florida--_Bauskett_
509 Story of Georgia--_Derry_
511 Story of Illinois--_Smith_
512 Story of Indiana--_Clem_
513 Story of Iowa--_McFee_
515 Story of Kentucky--_Eubank_
520 Story of Michigan--_Skinner_
521 Story of Minnesota--_Skinner_
523 Story of Missouri--_Pierce_
*525 Story of Nebraska--_Mears_
*528 Story of New Jersey--_Hutchinson_
533 Story of Ohio--_Galbreath_
*536 Story of Pennsylvania--_March_
*540 Story of Tennessee--_Overall_
542 Story of Utah--_Young_
546 Story of West Virginia--_Shawkey_
547 Story of Wisconsin--_Skinner_

Literature

*10 The Snow Image--_Hawthorne_
*11 Rip Van Winkle--_Irving_
*12 Legend of Sleepy Hollow--_Irving_
*22 Rab and His Friends--_Brown_
*24 Three Golden Apples--_Hawthorne_[2]
*25 The Miraculous Pitcher--_Hawthorne_[2]
*26 The Minotaur--_Hawthorne_
*118 A Tale of the White Hills and Other Stories--_Hawthorne_
*119 Bryant’s Thanatopsis, and Other Poems
*120 Ten Selections from Longfellow--(Paul Revere’s Ride, The
Skeleton in Armor, etc.)
*121 Selections from Holmes (The Wonderful One Hoss Shay, Old
Ironsides, and Others)
*122 The Pied Piper of Hamelin--_Browning_
161 The Great Carbuncle, Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe,
Snowflakes--_Hawthorne_
162 The Pygmies--_Hawthorne_
*211 The Golden Fleece--_Hawthorne_
*222 Kingsley’s Greek Heroes--I. The Story of Perseus
*223 Kingsley’s Greek Heroes--II. The Story of Theseus
*225 Tennyson’s Poems--Selected (Any grade)
226 A Child’s Dream of a Star, and Other Stories
229 Responsive Bible Readings--_Zeller_
*258 The Pilgrim’s Progress (Abridged)--_Simons_
*264 The Story of Don Quixote--_Bush_
277 Thrift Stories--_Benj. Franklin and Others_
*284 Story of Little Nell (Dickens)--_Smith_
294 The Dragon’s Teeth--_Hawthorne_
*295 The Gentle Boy--_Hawthorne_

SEVENTH GRADE

*13 Courtship of Miles Standish--_Longfellow_
*14 Evangeline--_Longfellow_[2]
*15 Snowbound--_Whittier_[2]
*20 The Great Stone Face--_Hawthorne_
123 Selections from Wordsworth (Ode on Immortality, We are Seven,
To the Cuckoo, and other poems)
124 Selections from Shelley and Keats
125 Selections from The Merchant of Venice
*147 Story of King Arthur, as told by Tennyson
*149 The Man Without a Country--_Hale_[2]
*192 Story of Jean Valjean--_Grames_
*193 Selections from the Sketch Book--_Irving_
196 The Gray Champion--_Hawthorne_
213 Poems of Thomas Moore--(Selected)
214 More Selections from the Sketch Book
*216 Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare--Selected
*231 The Oregon Trail (Condensed)--_Parkman_
*235 Poems Worth Knowing--Book III--Grammar--_Faxon_
*238 Lamb’s Adventures of Ulysses--Part I
*239 Lamb’s Adventures of Ulysses--Part II
*241 Story of the Iliad--_Church_ (Cond.)
*242 Story of the Æneid--_Church_ (Cond.)
*251 Story of Language and Literature--_Heilig_
*252 The Battle of Waterloo--_Hugo_
*254 Story of “The Talisman” (Scott)--_Weekes_
*259 The Last of the Mohicans (Abridged)
*260 Oliver Twist (abridged)--_Dickens_
*261 Selected Tales of a Wayside Inn--_Longfellow_
*296 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Condensed)
*297 Story of David Copperfield (Condensed)
*307 The Chariot Race--_Wallace_
*311 Story of Jerusalem--_Heilig_
*315 The Story of Armenia--_Heilig_

Nature

*278 Mars and Its Mysteries--_Wilson_
*279 True Story of the Man in the Moon--_Wilson_

EIGHTH GRADE

*17 Enoch Arden--_Tennyson_[2]
*18 Vision of Sir Launfal--_Lowell_[2]
*19 Cotter’s Saturday Night--_Burns_[2]
*23 The Deserted Village--_Goldsmith_
*126 Rime of the Ancient Mariner--_Coleridge_[2]
*127 Gray’s Elegy and Other Poems
*128 Speeches of Lincoln
*129 Julius Cæsar--Selections--_Shakespeare_
130 Henry the VIII--Selections--_Shakespeare_
131 Macbeth--Selections--_Shakespeare_
*142 Scott’s Lady of the Lake--Canto I[2]
*154 Scott’s Lady of the Lake--Canto II[2]
143 Building of the Ship and Other Poems--_Longfellow_
148 Horatius, Ivry, The Armada--_Macaulay_
*150 Bunker Hill Address--Selections from Adams and Jefferson
Oration--_Webster_[2]
*151 Gold Bug, The--_Poe_
153 Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems--_Byron_[2]
155 Rhoecus and Other Poems--_Lowell_[2]
156 Edgar Allan Poe--Biography and Selected Poems--_Link_
*158 Washington’s Farewell Address
169 Abram Joseph Ryan--Biography and Selected Poems--_Smith_
170 Paul H. Hayne--Biography and Selected Poems--_Link_
215 Life of Samuel Johnson--_Macaulay_[2]
*221 Sir Roger de Coverley Papers--_Addison_[2]
*236 Poems Worth Knowing--Book IV Adv.
237 Lay of the Last Minstrel--Canto I--_Scott_[2]
276 Landing of the Pilgrims (Orations)--_Webster_
*305 Wee Willie Winkie--_Kipling_
*306 Howe’s Masquerade--_Hawthorne_

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27 =Hiawatha.= Introduction and notes. =30c=

29 =Milton’s Minor Poems.= Biography, introduction, notes, questions,
critical comments and pronouncing vocabulary. =18c=

31 =Idylls of the King.= (Coming of Arthur, Gareth and Lynette,
Lancelot and Elaine, Passing of Arthur.) Biography, introduction,
notes, questions, comments, pronouncing vocab. =24c=

33 =Silas Marner.= Eliot. Biography, notes, questions, critical
comments. 238 pages. =30c=

35 =Lady of the Lake.= Scott. Biography, introduction, pronouncing
vocabulary. =30c=

37 =Literature of the Bible.= Heilig. =18c=

39 =The Sketch Book.= (Selected) Irving. Biography, introduction and
notes. =30c=

41 =Julius Cæsar.= Edited by Thomas C. Blaisdell, Ph.D., LL.D. Notes
and questions. =24c=

43 =Macbeth.= Edited by Thomas C. Blaisdell. Notes and questions.
=24c=

45 =Merchant of Venice.= Edited by Thomas C. Blaisdell. Notes and
questions. =24c=

47 =As You Like It.= Edited by Thomas C. Blaisdell. Introduction,
notes, questions. =24c=

49 =Hamlet.= Edited by Thomas C. Blaisdell. Notes and questions. =24c=

59 =Poe’s Tales.= (Selected) Biography, introduction and notes. =24c=

61 =Message to Garcia and Other Inspirational Stories.= Introduction
and notes. =12c=

63 =Lincoln-Douglas Debates.= Edited by Edwin Erle Sparks, Pres. Pa.
State College. =24c=

65 =The Man Without a Country.= With introduction and notes by Horace
G. Brown. =12c=

67 =Democracy and the War.= Seventeen Addresses of President Wilson,
with others. =24c=

September--1920

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Transcriber’s Notes:

Illustrations have been moved to paragraph breaks near where they are mentioned, except for the front illustration.

Punctuation has been made consistent.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

The book catalog that was split between the beginning and end of the original book has been consolidated at the end.