Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools

Emilie Kip Baker

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Short Stories and Selections for Use^M in the Secondary Schools, by Emilie Kip Baker Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the header without written permission. Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved. **Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** **eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** *****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!***** Title: Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Author: Emilie Kip Baker Release Date: January, 2005 [EBook #7283] [This file was first posted on April 7, 2003] Edition: 10 Language: English *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, SHORT STORIES AND SELECTIONS FOR USE IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS *** V-M Österman, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team SHORT STORIES AND SELECTIONS FOR USE IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS COMPILED AND ANNOTATED, WITH QUESTIONS FOR STUDY BY EMILIE KIP BAKER [Illustration: Walter Scott's Library at Abbotsford]TABLE OF CONTENTS A LEAF IN THE STORM, by Louise de la Ramee, from A Leaf in the Storm and Other Stories CATS, by Maurice Hewlett, from Earthwork out of Tuscany AN ADVENTURE, by Honore de Balzac, from A Passion in the Desert FOR THOSE WHO LOVE MUSIC, by Axel Munthe, from Vagaries OUT OF DOORS, by Richard Jefferies, from Saint Guido THE TABOO, by Herman Melville, from Typee SCHOOL DAYS AT THE CONVENT, by George Sand, from The Story of My Life (adapted) IN BRITTANY, by Louisa Alcott, from Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag THE ADIRONDACKS, by John Burroughs, from Wake Robin AN ASCENT OF KILAUEA, by Lady Brassey, from Around the World in the Yacht Sunbeam THE FETISH, by George Eliot, from The Mill on the Floss SALMON FISHING IN IRELAND, by James A. Froude, from A Fortnight in Kerry ACROSS RUNNING WATER, by Fiona Macleod, from Sea Magic and Running Water THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, from Grandfather's Chair THE WHITE TRAIL, by Stewart Edward White, from The Silent Places A DISSERTATION ON ROAST PIG, by Charles Lamb, from Essays of Elia THE LAST CLASS, by Alphonse Daudet, from Monday Tales AN ARAB FISHERMAN, by Albert Edwards, from The Barbary Coast THE ARCHERY CONTEST, by Walter Scott, from Ivanhoe BABY SYLVESTER, by Bret Harte, from Bret Harte's Writings THE ADDRESS AT GETTYSBURG, by Abraham Lincoln, from Lincoln's Speeches THE SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS, by Abraham Lincoln, from Lincoln's Speeches AN APPRECIATION OF LINCOLN, by John Hay, from Life of Lincoln THE ELEPHANTS THAT STRUCK, by Samuel White Baker, from Eight Years in Ceylon THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP, by Bret Harte THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD DIN, by Rudyard Kipling, from Plain Tales from the Hills A CHILD, by John Galsworthy, from Commentary TOO DEAR FOR THE WHISTLE, by Benjamin Franklin, from The Autobiography A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT, by Robert Louis Stevenson, from The New Arabian Nights A BAD FIVE MINUTES IN THE ALPS, by Leslie Stephen, from Freethinking and Plainspeaking (adapted) THE GOLD TRAIL, by Stewart Edward White, from Gold TWENTY YEARS OF ARCTIC STRUGGLE, by J. Kennedy McLean, from Heroes of the Farthest North and South (adapted) THE SPEECH IN MANCHESTER, by Henry Ward Beecher, from Addresses and Sermons A GREEN DONKEY DRIVER, by Robert Louis Stevenson, from Travels with a Donkey A NIGHT IN THE PINES, by Robert Louis Stevenson, from Travels with a Donkey LIFE IN OLD NEW YORK, by Washington Irving, from Knickerbocker's History of New York THE BAZAAR IN MOROCCO, by Pierre Loti, from Into MoroccoA BATTLE OF THE ANTS, by Henry D. Thoreau, from Walden (adapted) AN AFRICAN PET, by Paul B. du Chaillu, from The African Forest and Jungle ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE, by Lloyd Morgan, from Animal Sketches (adapted) BUCK'S TRIAL OF STRENGTH, by Jack London, from The Call of the Wild ON THE SOLANDER WHALING GROUND, by Frank Bullen, from Idylls of the Sea AN EPISODE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, by Charles Dickens, from A Tale of Two Cities THE COMMANDER OF THE FAITHFUL, by Pierre Loti, from Into Morocco (adapted) WALT WHITMAN, by John Burroughs, from Whitman—A Study (adapted) HEROISM IN HOUSEKEEPING, by Jane Welsh Carlyle, from Letters A YOUTHFUL ACTOR, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, from The Story of a Bad Boy WAR, by Thomas Carlyle, from Sartor Resartus COON-HUNTING, by Ernest Ingersoll, from Wild Neighbors (adapted) SIGHT IN SAVAGES, by W. H. Hudson, from Idle Days in Patagonia THE VILLAGE SCHOOLMASTER, by Washington Irving, from The Sketch BookINTRODUCTION The testimony of librarians as to the kind of books people are reading nowadays is somewhat discouraging to the book-lover who has been brought up in the old traditions. We are told that Scott and Thackeray and George Eliot cannot compete with the year's "best sellers," and that the old classics are read only by the few who have a cultivated taste and a trained intelligence. The interest of novelty, the dislike of mental effort, the temptation to read merely for a mild sensation,—all these undoubtedly tend to keep down the level of literary taste. To many readers of good average ability, neither the esthetic nor the purely intellectual makes a strong appeal. Even minds of fine quality often find a welcome diversion in trivial reading. In fact, to expect every one and at all times to have his mind keyed up to the higher levels is neither sincere nor reasonable. And yet, making due allowance for intellectual limitations, for the busy and distracting conditions of modern life, and for the real need of light reading at times when recreation is of more value than instruction, it would seem that a fair proportion of our reading could and should be on a higher plane. To put it on this high plane is one of the fixed objects of the school. For this end the schools have given English an important place, have broadened the list of recommended books year by year, and have sought to improve the method of teaching literature. Especially have they hoped to create in the pupil the habit of reading good books and of discovering new material on his own initiative. Thus far their success has fallen much below their hopes, as the testimony of librarians, adduced above, plainly indicates. There is one significant fact which both librarians and teachers have observed. The average reader, child or adult, seldom knows how or where to find things to read. He is lost in a library, whether among the book-shelves or at a card-catalogue. He is like a traveler who is ignorant of the geography of the country and cannot use the compass. And worse still, he has not the explorer's instinct.