Front matter
Reading edition
The Little Classic Series
The most popular works of standard authors and poets arranged for use in schools, with introductions, explanatory notes, biographical sketches, portraits, and illustrations. Also elementary stories of nature, myth, history, industry, geography, biography, and literature. The grading suggested has been extensively followed by teachers with very satisfactory results, but may be varied to suit special conditions.
The books have been carefully edited, are clearly printed on good paper, and have extra strong paper cover. Each book in the LITTLE CLASSIC SERIES contains thirty-two pages.
SEVEN CENTS PER COPY
Twenty Copies for $1.20
First and Second Grades
No.
2719 Aesop’s Fables.
2713 Old Time Stories.
2725 Favorite Mother Goose Rhymes.
2707 First Steps in Reading.
2701 Jack and the Beanstalk.
2726 Favorite Mother Goose Jingles.
2720 Little Red Riding Hood.
2727 Story of Little Black Sambo.
2708 Bunny Cottontail Stories.
2728 Ten Little Indian Stories.
2721 Hiawatha and Henry W. Longfellow.
2730 Twelve Little Indian Stories.
2716 Bunny Boy.
2731 The Jenny Wren Book.
2704 Bob the Cat.
2723 Whitter and His Snow-Bound.
2732 The Bluebird Book.
2717 Thanksgiving Stories.
2733 Four Favorite Stories.
2705 The Story of Two Little Rabbits.
2724 The Three Misses Cottontail and King Rabbit.
2734 My Shadow, and Other Poems.
2718 Modern Fables.
2735 My Treasures, and Other Poems.
2706 Famous Poems of Famous Poets—First and Second Grades.
2819 Squirrel and Other Animal Stories.
Second and Third Grades
No.
2736 Three Popular Stories.
2714 The Story of Joseph.
2807 Beauty and the Beast and Other Favorite Fairy Tales.
2702 Susan Cottontail Stories.
2802 Cinderella and Other Favorite Fairy Tales.
2715 Robinson Crusoe.
2738 Stories from Grimm.
2729 Sixteen Little Indian Stories.
2809 The Coming of the Christ-Child.
2709 Our Three Little Sisters and Hiawatha.
2803 Christmas Stories.
2722 Pussy Willow and other Tree Stories.
2740 The Story of Peter Rabbit.
2710 Stories About Animals.
2810 The Little Story Reader.
2711 Mr. and Mrs. Stout of Beaver Dam and How Jackrabbit Lost His Tail.
2823 Stories About Birds.
2712 The Tale of Bunny Cottontail—Abridged.
2825 Who Stole the Bird’s Nest, and Other Poems.
2824 Famous Poems of Famous Poets—For Third Grade.
2826 The Robin Redbreast Book.
2812 The Toyland of Santa Claus.
2827 The Chickadee Book.
2828 Brownie’s Ride and Brownie and the Cook.
2829 Escape at Bedtime, and Other Poems.
2830 My Ship and I, and Other Poems.
PUBLISHED BY
A. FLANAGAN COMPANY
CHICAGO
Daffydowndilly and the
Golden Touch
ADAPTED BY
ALPHA BANTA BENSON
ILLUSTRATED BY
JAMES HARVEY DULIN
1923
A. FLANAGAN COMPANY
CHICAGO
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY A. FLANAGAN COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
DAFFYDOWNDILLY AND THE GOLDEN TOUCH