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Confederate Memorial Day is celebrated in some States on April 26 and in others on May 10.

From For the Children's Hour, by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey and Clara M. Lewis. Copyright by the Milton Bradley Company.

From Deutsches Drittes Lesebuch, by W. H. Weick and C. Grebner. Copyright, 1886, by Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. American Book Company, publishers.

From Fifty Famous Stories Retold. Copyright, 1896, by American Book Company.

From The Story of the Thirteen Colonies. Copyright, 1898, by H. A. Guerber. American Book Company, publishers.

From Stories of Heroic Deeds. Copyright, 1887, by D. Appleton
Company. American Book Company, publishers.

From a letter written to a friend in 1773.

From Stories of the Old Dominion. Used by permission of the American Book Company, publishers.

From the Riverside Fourth Reader.

From Thirty More Famous Stories Retold. Copyright, 1903, by American Book Company.

This prayer is taken from Lamartine.

From Japanese Folk-Stories and Fairy Tales. Copyright, 1908, by American Book Company.

From Deutsches Drittes Lesebuch, by W. H. Weick and C. Grebner. Copyright, 1886, by Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. American Book Company, publishers.