University of Virginia Library

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE compiler's thanks are due to the following publishers and authors who have allowed the publication of their stories in this volume:—

To the American Book Company for permission to use “A Brave Girl,” by James Johonnot; “A Gunpowder Story,” by John Esten Cooke; “Columbus and the Egg,” and “Cornelia's Jewels,” by James Baldwin; “Shippeitaro,” by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet; “Signing of the Declaration of Independence,” by H. A. Guerber; “The Proud Oak Tree,” and “The Three Little Butterfly Brothers,” from Deutsches Drittes Lesebuch.

To the Century Company for permission to use “Bill Brown's Test,” by Cleveland Moffett.

To the Cosmopolitan Magazine for permission to use “A Prisoner's Valentine,” by Millicent Olmsted.

To the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company for permission to use “Two Hero-Stories of the Civil War,” by Ben La Bree.

To J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., for permission to use “The King of the Cats,” by Ernest Rhys.

To E. P. Dutton and Company, for permission to use “Saint Christopher,” by William Caxton; “The Lark and its Young Ones,” and “The Smithy,” by P. V. Ramaswami Raju.

To Ginn and Company for permission to use “Washington the Athlete,” by Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis E. Ball.

To Henry Holt and Company for permission to use “A Flag Incident,” by M. M. Thomas; and “Baucis and Philemon,” by H. P. Maskell.

To J. B. Lippincott Company for permission to use “The Revenge of Coriolanus,” by Charles Morris; “The Three Kings of Cologne,” by H. S. Morris.

To Little, Brown and Company for permission to use “The Greedy Geese,” from Il libro d'Oro, translated by Mrs. Francis Alexander.

To Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company for permission to use “Training for the Presidency,” by Orison Swett Marden.

To the Macmillan Company for permission to use “Queen Margaret and the Robbers,” by Albert F. Blaisdell; “The Boston Tea-Party,” by John Andrews; “The Little Drummer-Boy,” by Albert Bushnell Hart; “Burg Hill's on Fire,” by Elizabeth W. Grierson.

To Milton Bradley Company for permission to use “The Fairy's New Year Gift,” by Emilie Poulsson; “The Snowdrop,” adapted by Bailey and Lewis.

To the New York State Museum for permission to use “The Elves,” and “The Spirit of the Corn,” by Harriet Maxwell Converse.

To the Presbyterian Board of Publication for permission to use “Betsy Ross and the Flag,” by Harry Pringle Ford, published in Forward Magazine.

To G. P. Putnam's Sons for permission to use “He rescues the Birds,” “The Colonel of the Zouaves,” “Why Lincoln was called `Honest Abe,' ” by Noah Brooks; “The Magpie's Nest,” and “The Strange Visitor,” by Joseph Jacobs.

To Fleming H. Revell Company for permission to use “The Cañon Flowers,” by Ralph Connor.

To Mr. William S. Walsh for permission to use “The Three Purses,” and “The Thunder Oak.”

To Houghton Mifflin Company for permission to use “Arachne,” and “Cupid and Psyche,” by Josephine Preston Peabody; “A Solomon come to Judgment,” “George Pickett's Friend,” “Lincoln and the Little Girl,” by Charles W. Moores; “Hofus the Stone-Cutter,” from the Riverside Third Reader; “Babes in the Woods,” by John Burroughs; “Hansel and Grethel,” by the Brothers Grimm; “The Busy Blue Jay,” by Olive Thorne Miller; “The Dove who spoke Truth,” by Abbie Farwell Brown; “The Dryad of the Old Oak,” by James Russell Lowell; “The Elves and the Shoemaker,” and “Young George and the Colt,” by Horace E. Scudder; “The First Harvest Home in Plymouth,” by W. De Loss Love, Jr.; “The Mother Murre,” by Dallas Lore Sharp; “The Pine Tree,” “The Little Match Girl,” “The Loveliest Rose in the World,” by Hans Christian Andersen; “Little Piccola,” by Celia Thaxter; “The Nail,” by the Brothers Grimm; “The Old Woman who became a Woodpecker,” by Pheebe Cary; “The Pride of the Regiment,” by Harry M. Kieffer; “The Quails,” from the Riveraide Fourth Reader; “The Stream that Ran Away,” by Mary Austin; “The Star-Spangled Banner,” by Eva March Tappan; “The Mutiny,” by A. de Lamartine; “Washington at Yorktown,” and “Washington's Modesty,” by Henry Cabot Lodge; “Why the Evergreen Trees never lose their Leaves,” by Florence Holbrook.