Golden Grain only has been garnered. The great fields of knowledge have been visited, and none but the choicest and ripest kernels have been chosen. Young Folks must, and will, have something to read--something to feed the mind as well as the body. It therefore becomes a very important duty of parents to make choice of such books as are pure in tone and elevating in sentiment; and it follows also, as night follows day, that if parents fail or neglect this duty the young folks themselves will find something to read, nor will they be so careful in their selections. In GOLDEN GRAIN will be found a work in every respect worthy of a place in the Family Circle. Its pages lend inspiration to fight life's battles nobly. Those who go out from a home with noble impulses, pure motives, and true hearts will bear the burden of Earth's cares, duties and disappointments with patience and resignation, having "A heart to resolve, a head to contrive and a hand to execute." CONTENTS. Harvest Song John G. Whittier 13 Minute Men of Liberty George William Curtis 14 Kind Hearts 16 The Children's Hour Henry W. Longfellow 17 The Brook Alfred Tennyson 21 Eulogy on Garfield James G. Blaine 23 Gems from James A. Garfield 24 At the Fireside John D. Long 25 The Frost Spirit John G. Whittier 26 The Arrow and the Song Henry W. Longfellow 29 The Bridge Henry W. Longfellow 31 The Responsive Chord J. William Jones 34 Grandma's Angel Sidney Dayre 35 Cold, Bitter Cold Hans Christian Andersen 37 Nobody's Child Phila H. Case 42 Snow-White and Rosy-Red Friederich Grimm 45 The Song of the Thrush Lucy Larcom 58 The Fox and the Geese 60 Count That Day Lost 61 The Children in the Moon 62 A Night in a Norwegian Forest P. Chr. Asbjornsen 65 Two Little Kittens 88 Labor of Authorship 90 She Was Somebody's Mother 92 Dot Lambs What Mary Haf Got 94 The Mills of God Henry W. Longfellow 95 Bob Cratchit's Christmas Charles Dickens 96 Full Many a Gem Thomas Gray 103 A Snug Little Island 104 Don't Crowd Charles Dickens 111 The Boys Oliver Wendell Holmes 112 Quarrel Between Mountain and Squirrel Ralph Waldo Emerson 114