JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL LITERATURE BOOK ONE
Reading edition
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
For permission to use copyrighted material grateful acknowledgment 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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