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THE ONTARIO READERS
THIRD BOOK
AUTHORIZED BY
THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION
The price of this book to the purchaser is not the total cost. During the present period of abnormal and fluctuating trade conditions, an additional sum, which may vary from time to time, is paid to the Publisher by the Department of Education.
Entered, according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year 1909, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture by the Minister of Education for Ontario.
TORONTO:
THE T. EATON CoLIMITED
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Minister of Education is indebted to Rudyard Kipling, Henry Newbolt, Beckles Willson, E. B. Osborn, F. T. Bullen, Flora Annie Steel; Charles G. D. Roberts, W. Wilfred Campbell, Ethelwyn Wetherald, Jean Blewett, Robert Reid, "Ralph Connor," John Waugh, S. T. Wood; Henry Van Dyke, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and Richard Watson Gilder for special permission to reproduce, in this Reader, selections from their writings.
He is indebted to Lord Tennyson for special permission to reproduce the poems from the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson; to Lloyd Osbourne for permission to reproduce the selection from the works of Robert Louis Stevenson; and to J. F. Edgar for permission to reproduce one of Sir James D. Edgar's poems.
He is also indebted to Macmillan & Co., Limited, for special permission, to reproduce selections from the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, and Flora Annie Steel; to Smith, Elder & Co., for the extract from F. T. Bullen's "The Cruise of the Cachalot"; to Elkin Mathews for Henry Newbolt's poem from "The Island Race"; to Sampson Low, Marston & Company for the extract from R. D. Blackmore's "Lorna Doone"; to Thomas Nelson & Sons for the extract from W. F. Collier's "History of the British Empire"; to Chatto and Windus for the extract from E. B. Osborn's "Greater Canada"; to Houghton Mifflin Company for "The Chase" from Charles Dudley Warner's "A-Hunting of the Deer," "Mary Elizabeth" by Mrs. Phelps Ward, and the poems by Celia Thaxter and by Richard Watson Gilder; to The Century Company for Jacob A. Riis' "The Story of a Fire" from "The Century Magazine"; to The Copp Clark Co., Limited, for the selections from Charles G. D. Roberts' works; to The Westminster Co., Limited, for the extract from "Ralph Connor's" "The Man from Glengarry."
The Minister is grateful to these authors and publishers and to others, not mentioned here, through whose courtesy he has been able to include in this Reader so many copyright selections.
Toronto, May, 1909.
CONTENTS
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To-day | Thomas Carlyle | 1 |
Fortune and the Beggar | Ivan Kirloff | 2 |
The Lark and the Rook | Unknown | 4 |
The Pickwick Club on the Ice | Charles Dickens | 6 |
Tubal Cain | Charles Mackay | 11 |
Professor Frog's Lecture | M. A. L. Lane | 14 |
A Song for April | Charles G. D. Roberts | 25 |
How the Crickets Brought Good Fortune | P. J. Stahl | 26 |
The Battle of Blenheim | Robert Southey | 31 |
The Ride for Life | "Ralph Connor" | 34 |
Iagoo, the Boaster | Henry W. Longfellow | 39 |
The Story of a Fire | Jacob A. Riis | 40 |
The Quest | Eudora S. Bumstead | 43 |
The Jackal and the Partridge | Flora Annie Steel | 44 |
Hide and Seek | Henry Van Dyke | 50 |
The Burning of the "Goliath" | Dean Stanley | 52 |
Hearts of Oak | David Garrick | 55 |