Chapter II: Part II: Stories to Tell

I. FAIRY AND WONDER TALES 47

II. FABLES 66

III. FOLK-TALES 77

IV. FAVORITES 90

V. CHRISTMAS STORIES 108

VI. BIBLE STORIES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT 115

VII. BIBLE STORIES FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT 150

VIII. GENERAL HISTORICAL STORIES 182

IX. AMERICAN HISTORICAL STORIES 200

X. HEROES OF PEACE 233

XI. MODERN BOYS AND GIRLS WHO BECAME USEFUL 246

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF STORIES 289

ETHICAL INDEX OF STORIES 291

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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_Glad comradeship with the gladness of a child_ _Frontispiece_

“_Good morning, little girl, where are you going?_” 54

“_Those who play and dance all summer must expect to dance hungry
to bed in winter_” 71

_Offero ... began to cross the flood_ 109

“_Entreat me not to leave thee_” 132

_When Jesus was a boy_ 153

_Stone marking the line of the Minute Men at Lexington_ 215

_Grace, pulling at one oar, and her father at the other_ 237

_Helen Keller_ 287