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The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 - Walter Taylor Field
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Title: The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2
Author: Ella Flagg Young
Walter Taylor Field
Illustrator: Maginel Wright Enright
Release Date: December 26, 2011 [EBook #38412]
Language: English
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THE YOUNG AND FIELD LITERARY READERS
Book Two
BY
ELLA FLAGG YOUNG
Superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools
AND
WALTER TAYLOR FIELD
Author of Fingerposts to Children's Reading,
Rome,
Etc
Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright
GINN AND COMPANY
BOSTON · NEW YORK · CHICAGO · LONDON
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY ELLA FLAGG YOUNG
AND WALTER TAYLOR FIELD
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
116.3
The Athenæum Press
GINN AND COMPANY · PROPRIETORS · BOSTON · U.S.A.
TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS
Dear Boys and Girls:
Do you like fairy stories?
You do not need to tell us.
We know you like them.
So we are going to give you some to read.
You may have heard some of these stories before, but not many of them.
Some have come from far across the sea, and some have come from our own country.
Mothers have told them to their children again and again, and children have never been tired of them.
We think you will like them, too.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The poems of Mr. Frank Dempster Sherman and Miss Abbie Farwell Brown are used by special arrangement with the Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers.
Acknowledgments are also due to the following publishers and authors for permission to use copyrighted material: to Charles Scribner's Sons for poems from Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses
and Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge's Rhymes and Jingles
; to the Macmillan Company for poems from Christina Rossetti's Sing Song
; to Little, Brown, and Company for poems from Mrs. Laura E. Richards's In My Nursery
; to G. P. Putnam's Sons for the use of Sir George Webbe Dasent's version of the story East of the Sun and West of the Moon,
from Popular Tales from the Norse,
as the basis for our story of the same name; to the A. Flanagan Company and Miss Flora J. Cooke for the use of The Rainbow Bridge,
from Miss Cooke's Nature Myths,
in a similar way; to Miss Marion Florence Lansing for permission to adapt her dramatized Hindu Tale, The Man's Boot,
from Quaint Old Stories,
in our story The Shoe
; to Mr. William Hawley Smith for permission to use his poem A Child's Prayer.
CONTENTS
English Fairy Tales
Page
Childe Rowland11
Tom Tit Tot25
Poems by Christina Rossetti
Lambkins37
Ferry Me Across the Water38
Coral39
The Swallow40
Wrens and Robins41
Boats Sail on the Rivers42
Fables From Æsop
The Lion and the Mouse43
The Honest Woodcutter45
The Wolf and the Crane49
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse51
The Wind and the Sun54
The Ant and the Dove56
The Lark and her Nest58
The Dog and his Shadow61
The Fox and the Grapes63
Poems by Mary Mapes Dodge
Four Little Birds64
In the Basket65
Cousin Jeremy66
Little Miss Limberkin66
Snowflakes67
Hollyhock68
German Fairy Tales
The Little Pine Tree69
The Faithful Beasts75
Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson
Where Go the Boats?85
At the Seaside87
Rain87
Autumn Fires88
The Wind89
Hindu Fables
The Timid Hares91
The Shoe97
The Camel and the Jackal102
Poems by Laura E. Richards
The Bumblebee106
Little Brown Bobby107
Jippy and Jimmy108
The Song of the Corn Popper109
A French Fairy Tale
The Fairy111
A Norse Folk Tale
East of the Sun and West of the Moon119
Poems by Abbie Farwell Brown
The Sailor135
A Music Box137
American Indian Legends
Little Scar-Face138
The Hunter who Forgot148
The Water Lily156
Russian Fables
Fortune and the Beggar160
The Spider and the Bee163
The Stone and the Worm165
The Fox in the Ice167
Poems by Frank Dempster Sherman
Clouds169
Ghost Fairies171
Daisies173
Old Greek Stories
The Sun, the Moon, and the Star Giant174
The Wind and the Clouds180
The Rainbow Bridge186
Poems Old and New
Thank You, Pretty CowJane Taylor 189
PlaygroundsLaurence Alma-Tadema 190
Sleep, Baby, SleepGerman Cradle Song 191
A Child's PrayerWilliam Hawley Smith 192
LISTS OF WORDS FOR PHONETIC DRILL193
LIST OF NEW WORDS ARRANGED BY LESSONS202
THE YOUNG AND FIELD LITERARY READERS
BOOK TWO
ENGLISH FAIRY TALES
CHILDE ROWLAND
Once upon a time there was a little princess.
Her name was Ellen.
She lived with her mother the queen in a great house by the sea.
She had three brothers.
One day, as they were playing ball, one of her brothers threw the ball over the house.
Ellen ran to get it, but she did not come back.
The three brothers looked for her.
They looked and looked, but they could not find her.
Day after day went by.
At last the oldest brother went to a wise man and asked what to do.
The princess is with the elves. She is in the Dark Tower,
said the wise man.
Where is the Dark Tower?
asked the oldest brother.
It is far away,
said the wise man. You cannot find it.
I can and I will find it. Tell me where it is,
said the oldest brother.
The wise man told him, and the oldest brother set off at once.
The other brothers waited.
They waited long, but the oldest brother did not come back.
Then the next brother went to the wise man.
The wise man told him as he had told the oldest brother.
Then the next brother set out to find the Dark Tower.
The youngest brother waited.
He waited long, but no one came.
Now the youngest brother was called Childe Rowland.
At last Childe Rowland went to his mother the queen and said:
Mother, let me go and find the Dark Tower and bring home Ellen and my brothers.
I cannot let you go. You are all that I have, now,
said the queen.
But Childe Rowland asked again and again, till at last the queen said, Go, my boy.
Then she gave him his father's sword, and he set