_e._ A story of longitude: (1) _Three Sundays in a Week_, Volume VI, page 453. _f._ Plants or plant life: (1) _The Potato_, Volume II, page 467. (2) _Trees and Ants That Help Each Other_, VII, 306. (3) _A Bed of Nettles_, VIII, 209. _g._ Animal life: (1) _Salmon Fishing_, VII, 285. (2) _Winter Animals_, VII, 293. (3) _Trees and Ants That Help Each Other_, VII, 306. (4) _Owls_, IX, 229. (5) _Elephant Hunting_, VI, 385. (6) _Some Clever Monkeys_, VI, 402, (7) _The Buffalo_, VII, 96. (8) _A Gorilla Hunt_, VII, 247. (9) _Brute Neighbors_, VII, 260. (10) _The Pond in Winter_, VII, 280. _h._ Natural phenomena: (1) _The Cloud_, Volume VII, page 257. 2. Indians and their habits. The selections are either historical or geographical or both. _a._ _The Arickara Indians._ (A description of the habits and customs of one of the western tribes.) Volume IV, page 472. _b._ _Reminiscences of a Pioneer._ (This contains a few interesting anecdotes of Indians and many incidents of pioneer life.) Volume V, page 340. _c._ _Black Hawk Tragedy._ (A very interesting biographical and historical sketch.) Volume VII, page 58. _d._ _An Exciting Canoe Race._ (A story of the New York Indians at an early day.) Volume VII, page 79. _e._ _David Crockett in the Creek War._ (An interesting account of southern Indians and their wars.) Volume VIII, page 37. 3. Biography. The selections in this group consist of anecdotal sketches, brief biographies, extracts from longer works, and a few poems. _a._ Authors of the United States and of foreign countries: (1) _Robert Louis Stevenson_, Volume I, page 128. (2) _Eugene Field_, I, 242. (3) _Hans Christian Andersen_, II, 81. (4) _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_, IV, 62. (5) _Alice and Phoebe Cary_, IV, 116. (6) _Nathaniel Hawthorne_, IV, 180. (7) _Sir Walter Scott_, VI, 26. (8) _John Greenleaf Whittier_, VII, 381. (9) _William Cullen Bryant_, VII, 391. (10) _Oliver Wendell Holmes_, VII, 398. (11) _James Russell Lowell_, VII, 411. (12) _Washington Irving_, VIII, 216. (13) _Charles and Mary Lamb_, VIII, 328. _b._ Biblical Characters: (1) _The Story of Joseph_, Volume I, page 456. (2) _The Story of Esther_, II, 448. (3) _David_, IV, 274. (4) _Ruth_, VI, 143. _c._ The author of many fables: (1) _Aesop_, Volume II, page 1. _d._ English history: (1) _Alfred the Great_, Volume IV, 260. (2) _Queen Victoria_, VII, 152. (3) _Florence Nightingale_, IX, 13.