YOUNG PEOPLE.
Reading edition
Compiled and Edited by
MARGARET E. SANGSTER.
PUBLISHED BY
THE CHRISTIAN HERALD
Louis Klopsch, Proprietor,
BIBLE HOUSE, NEW YORK.
Copyright, 1896, By Louis Klopsch.
DEDICATION.
To John and Jane, to Fred and Frank,
To Theodore and Mary,
To Willie and to Reginald,
To Louis, Sue and Gary;
To sturdy boys and merry girls,
And all the dear young people
Who live in towns, or live on farms,
Or dwell near spire or steeple;
To boys who work, and boys who play,
Eager, alert and ready,
To girls who meet each happy day
With faces sweet and steady;
To dearest comrades, one and all,
To Harry, Florrie, Kate,
To children small, and children tall,
This book I dedicate.
PREFACE.
Boys and girls, I am proud to call a host of you my personal friends, and I dearly love you all. It has been a great pleasure to me to arrange this gift book for you, and I hope you will like the stories and ballads, and spend many happy hours over them. One story, "The Middle Daughter," was originally published in Harper's "Round Table," and is inserted here by consent of Messrs. Harper and Brothers. Two of the ballads, "Horatius," and "The Pied Piper," belong to literature, and you cannot afford not to know them, and some of the fairy stories are like bits of golden coin, worth treasuring up and reading often. Miss Mary Joanna Porter deserves the thanks of the boys for the aid she has given in the making of this volume, and the bright stories she has contributed to its pages.
A merry time to you, boys and girls, and a heart full of love from your steadfast friend,
M.E.S.
Holiday Stories for Young People
CONTENTS.
PREFACE.
The Clover Leaf Club of Bloomingdale.—By M.E. Sangster
CHAPTER I.—THE HEROINE PRESENTS HERSELF.
CHAPTER II.—COMPANY TO TEA AND SOME RECEIPTS.
CHAPTER III.—A FAIR WHITE LOAF.
CHAPTER IV.—HOW TO SWEEP.
CHAPTER V.—A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.
CHAPTER VI.—A CANDY PULL.
CHAPTER VII.—KEEPING ACCOUNTS.
CHAPTER VIII.—WE GIVE A RECEPTION.
The Lighthouse Lamp.—By M.E. Sangster.
The Family Mail-bag.—By Mary Joanna Porter
A Day's Fishing.—By Mary Joanna Porter
Why Charlie Didn't Go.—By Mary Joanna Porter
Uncle Giles' Paint Brush.—By Mary Joanna Porter
The Pied Piper of Hamelin.—By Robert Browning
A Girl Graduate.—By Cynthia Barnard
A Christmas Frolic.—By M.E. Sangster
Archie's Vacation.—By Mary Joanna Porter
A Birthday Story.—By M.E. Sangster
A Coquette.—By Amy Pierce
Horatius.—By T.B. Macaulay
A Bit of Brightness.—By Mary Joanna Porter
How Sammy Earned the Prize.—By M.E. Sangster
The Glorious Fourth.
The Middle Daughter.—By M.E. Sangster
CHAPTER I.—AT THE MANSE.
CHAPTER II.—AT WISHING-BRAE.
CHAPTER III.—GRACE TAKES A HAND.
CHAPTER IV.—TWO LITTLE SCHOOLMARMS.
CHAPTER V.—CEMENTS AND RIVETS.
CHAPTER VI.—THE TOWER ROOM.
The Golden Bird.—By the Brothers Grimm
Harry Pemberton's Text.—By Elizabeth Armstrong
Our Cats.
Outovplace.
The Boy Who Dared to Be a Daniel.—By S. Jennie Smith
Little Redcap.—By the Brothers Grimm
New Zealand Children.
The Breeze from the Peak.
The Bremen Town Musicians.—By the Brothers Grimm
A Very Queer Steed, and Some Strange Adventures.—Told after Ariosto, by Elizabeth Armstrong
Freedom's Silent Host.By M.E. Sangster
Presence of Mind.By M.E. Sangster
The Boy Who Went from the Sheepfold to the Throne.—By M.E. Sangster