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VICTORIA
Late Queen of Great Britain and Ireland

THE ALEXANDRA READERS

FOURTH READER

BY
W. A. McINTYRE, B.A., LL.D.
PRINCIPAL, NORMAL SCHOOL, WINNIPEG

JOHN DEARNESS, M.A.
VICE-PRINCIPAL, NORMAL SCHOOL, LONDON

AND

JOHN C. SAUL, M.A.

Authorized by the Departments of Education
for Use in the Schools of Alberta
and Saskatchewan

PRICE 50 CENTS

TORONTO
MORANG EDUCATIONAL COMPANY LIMITED
1908

Copyright by
MORANG EDUCATIONAL COMPANY LIMITED
1908
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Copyright in Great Britain

		PAGE
Dominion Hymn	The Duke of Argyle	9
The Moonlight Sonata	Anonymous	10
The Flight of the Birds	Edmund Clarence Stedman	15
The Minstrel Boy	Thomas Moore	16
The Good Saxon King	Charles Dickens	16
A Song	James Whitcomb Riley	21
Better than Gold	Mrs. J. M. Winton	22
The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal	Joseph Jacobs	23
A Canadian Boat-song	Thomas Moore	28
The Song Sparrow	Henry van Dyke	29
The Child of Urbino	Louise de la Ramée	31
Destruction of Sennacherib’s Army	Lord Byron	40
The Arrow and the Song	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	41
The Battle of the Ants	Henry David Thoreau	42
The Curate and the Mulberry Tree	Thomas Love Peacock	45
Miriam’s Song	Thomas Moore	46
The Meeting of the Waters	Thomas Moore	47
The Battle of Balaklava	William Howard Russell	48
True Worth	Ben Jonson	51
Love of Country	Sir Walter Scott	52
Home and Country	James Montgomery	52
The Fatherland	James Russell Lowell	54
The Oak Tree and the Ivy	Eugene Field	55
Harvest Song	James Montgomery	60
Harvest Time	E. Pauline Johnson	61
Hare-and-Hounds at Rugby	Thomas Hughes	62
An Adjudged Case	William Cowper	69
Indian Summer	Susannah Moodie	71
A Winter Journey	Alexander Henry	73
The Inchcape Rock	Robert Southey	78
The Bird of the Morning	Olive Thorne Miller	81
The Four-leaved Shamrock	Samuel Lover	84
King Hacon’s Last Battle	Lord Dufferin	86
Mr. Pickwick on the Ice	Charles Dickens	88
Dickens in Camp	Francis Bret Harte	98
Home they brought her Warrior	Lord Tennyson	100
The Locksmith of the Golden Key	Charles Dickens	101
Tubal Cain	Charles Mackay	103
The Bugle Song	Lord Tennyson	105
Leif Ericsson	John Preston True	106
The Loss of the Birkenhead	Sir Francis Hastings Doyle	113
The Burial of Sir John Moore	Charles Wolfe	115
The Second Voyage of Sinbad	Arabian Nights’ Entertainment	116
The Daffodils	William Wordsworth	122
The Harp that once thro’ Tara’s Halls	Thomas Moore	123
The Heroine of Verchères	Francis Parkman	123
The Slave’s Dream	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	128
The Song of the Camp	Bayard Taylor	130
An Uncomfortable Bed	Charles Kingsley	132
Chinook	Ezra Hurlburt Stafford	138
The Ivy Green	Charles Dickens	139
The Relief of Lucknow	From a Letter	140
The Charge of the Light Brigade	Lord Tennyson	143
Haste not, Rest not	Johann Wolfgang Goethe	146
Doubting Castle	John Bunyan	147
The Daisy	James Montgomery	153
Lead, Kindly Light	John Henry Newman	155
Escape from a Panther	James Fenimore Cooper	156
Hunting Song	Sir Walter Scott	162
The Landing of the Pilgrims	Felicia Dorothea Hemans	163
An Eskimo Hut	Isaac Hayes	166
Young Lochinvar	Sir Walter Scott	170
The Song my Paddle Sings	E. Pauline Johnson	172
The First Years of the Red River Settlement	Alexander Ross	174
The Red River Voyageur	John Greenleaf Whittier	178
Seven Times Four	Jean Ingelow	180
The Lark at the Diggings	Charles Reade	181
The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs	Arthur Wentworth Eaton	185
The Beatitudes	From the Sermon on the Mount	187
Maggie Tulliver and the Gypsies	George Eliot	188
Lady Clare	Lord Tennyson	199
Don Quixote and the Lion	Miguel de Cervantes	203
The Battle of Blenheim	Robert Southey	208
A Huron Mission House	Francis Parkman	211
The Burial of Moses	Cecil Frances Alexander	213
The Cruise of the Coracle	Robert Louis Stevenson	216
The Sea	Bryan Waller Procter	223
The Wind’s Word	Archibald Lampman	225
Gulliver among the Giants	Jonathan Swift	226
To a Water-fowl	William Cullen Bryant	229
’Tis the Last Rose of Summer	Thomas Moore	231
The Archery Contest	Sir Walter Scott	232
The Plains of Abraham	Charles Sangster	241
The Graves of a Household	Felicia Dorothea Hemans	243
The Miraculous Pitcher	Nathaniel Hawthorne	244
The Unnamed Lake	Frederick George Scott	253
The Hunter of the Prairies	William Cullen Bryant	255
Moses goes to the Fair	Oliver Goldsmith	257
Columbus	Joaquin Miller	262
Opportunity	Edward Rowland Sill	264
To-day	Thomas Carlyle	265
An Eruption of Vesuvius	Anonymous	266
The Sermon of St. Francis	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	269
The Greenwood Tree	William Shakespeare	271
Incident of the French Camp	Robert Browning	272
Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	273
The Wonderful One-hoss Shay	Oliver Wendell Holmes	280
William Tell and his Son	Chambers’ Tracts	285
Saint Christopher	Helen Hunt Jackson	287
General Brock	Charles Sangster	292
An Iceberg	Richard Henry Dana	293
A Legend of Bregenz	Adelaide Anne Procter	295
Gluck’s Visitor	John Ruskin	300
Jacques Cartier	Thomas D’Arcy McGee	313
Bless the Lord, O my Soul	From the Book of Psalms	315
The Heroes of the Long Sault	Francis Parkman	317
The Marseillaise	Rouget De Lisle	325
The Watch on the Rhine	Max Schneckenburger	327
Scots, Wha Hae Wi’ Wallace Bled	Robert Burns	329
The Coyote	Mark Twain	330
Step by Step	Josiah Gilbert Holland	333
A Summer Storm	Duncan Campbell Scott	335
The Death of Nelson	Robert Southey	336
The Battle of the Baltic	Thomas Campbell	342
Ye Mariners of England	Thomas Campbell	345
The Apples of Idun	Hamilton Wright Mabie	347
How they brought the Good News	Robert Browning	354
Marmion and Douglas	Sir Walter Scott	356
The Tempest	Mary Seymour	359
Edinburgh after Flodden	William Edmondstoune Aytoun	371
The Discovery of the Mackenzie River	Lawrence J. Burpee	377
The Face against the Pane	Thomas Bailey Aldrich	381
The Carronade	Victor Hugo	385
The Vision of Mirza	Joseph Addison	390
The Prairies	William Cullen Bryant	396
The Great Stone Face	Nathaniel Hawthorne	400
King Oswald’s Feast	Archibald Lampman	406
The Burning of Moscow	James T. Headley	409
Ode to the Brave	William Collins	415
The Torch of Life	Henry Newbolt	416

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