JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL LITERATURE BOOK ONE BY WILLIAM H. ELSON AUTHOR ELSON READERS AND GOOD ENGLISH SERIES AND CHRISTINE M. KECK HEAD UNION JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY CHICAGO ATLANTA NEW YORK COPYRIGHT 1919 BY SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY For permission to use copyrighted material grateful acknowledgment is made to _The London Times_ for “The Guards Came Through” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; to Thomas Hardy for “Men Who March Away” from _The London Times_; to John Galsworthy for “England to Free Men” from _The Westminster Gazette_; to John Masefield for “Spanish Waters”; to Hamlin Garland for “The Great Blizzard” from _Boy Life on the Prairie_; to Doubleday Page & Co. for “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry; to G. P. Putnam’s Sons for “Old Ephraim, the Grizzly Bear,” from _The Wilderness Hunter_ by Theodore Roosevelt; to the George H. Doran Company for “Trees” from _Trees and Other Poems_ by Joyce Kilmer; to Mr. R. W. Lillard for “America’s Answer” from _The New York Evening Post_; to Horace Traubel for “Pioneers! O Pioneers!”, “I Hear America Singing”, “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman; to Charles Scribner’s Sons for “On a Florida River” by Sidney Lanier, from _The Lanier Book_, copyright 1904; and to Frederick A. Stokes Company for “Kilmeny—A Song of the Trawlers” by Alfred Noyes from _The New Morning_, copyright 1919. ROBERT O. LAW COMPANY EDITION BOOK MANUFACTURERS CHICAGO, U. S. A. PREFACE