8. Beware of spoiling a beautiful poem or an elegant prose selection by poor reproduction. After the story has been related and the meaning made clear have the original read several times exactly as it is written and encourage the children to commit it to memory. There are in _Journeys Through Bookland_ many selections suitable for these oral lessons. For the little folks there are some of the _Nursery Rhymes_, of Volume I, like the following: _Little Boy Blue_, Page 33. _Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary_, Page 30. _Ladybird, Ladybird_, Page 12. _Little Bo-Peep_, Page 9. _Jack and Jill_, Page 27. _Poor Robin_, Page 16. _There Was a Jolly Miller_, Page 47. _Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star_, Page 44. In the same class may be included those beautiful poems by Stevenson and Field, poems that every child loves and will be delighted to talk about. For instance, the following from the same volume: _The Swing_, Page 67. _Singing_, Page 83. _The Rock-a-by Lady_, Page 94. _My Bed is a Boat_, Page 126. _Foreign Lands_, Page 130. _Little Blue Pigeon_, Page 133. _The Land of Counterpane_, Page 144. _Norse Lullaby_, Page 246. _Where Go the Boats?_ Page 256. _Wynken, Blynken and Nod_, Page 262. _Keepsake Mill_, Page 349. _The Duel_, Page 384. The last list, however, includes many of those poems which must not be spoiled by childish re-telling. Use them for conversation subjects and then for reading or recitation. The fables will be found to provide excellent material, and there need be no fear of ruining their effect as literature: _The Lion and the Mouse_, Volume I, page 75. _The Wolf and the Crane_, I, 96. _The Lark and Her Young Ones_, I, 131. _The Cat and the Chestnuts_, I, 142. _The Sparrow and the Eagle_, Volume II, 8. Certain of the fairy stories are excellent; so are anecdotes concerning men of whom the children should know; historical tales, and stories about plants, birds and other animals. Among the great number of selections that might be included under this head, some of the best are the following: 1. Fairy Tales and Folk Stories: _Silverlocks and the Three Bears_, Volume I, 101. _The Hardy Tin Soldier_, I, 148. _Cinderella_, I, 224. _The Ugly Duckling_, I, 414. _Why the Sea is Salt_, II, 484. _The Pied Piper of Hamelin_, III, 384. 2. Biographical Stories: _Robert Louis Stevenson_, Volume I, 128. _Eugene Field_, I, 242. _George Rogers Clark_, VI, 422. _Père Marquette_, VIII, 121. 3. Myths: _The Wonderful Gifts_, Volume I, 368. _The Chimera_, II, 173. _The Story of Phaethon_, II, 206. 4. Historical Tales: _Robert Bruce and the Spider_, Volume V, 314. _The Fall of the Alamo_, VIII, 141. _Hervé Riel_, VIII, 168. 5. About Flowers and Plants: _The Daffodils_, Volume VII, 1. _Trees and Ants That Help Each Other_, VII, 306. _A Bed of Nettles_, VIII, 209.