THE TEN TRAILS — _Ernest Thompson Seton_ 22 From “Woodmyth and Fable.” WHERE LOVE IS, THERE GOD IS ALSO — 23 _Count Leo Tolstoi_ From “Tales and Parables.” WOOD-LADIES — _Perceval Gibbon_ From 38 “Scribner’s Magazine.” ON THE FEVER SHIP — _Richard Harding 53 Davis_ From “The Lion and the Unicorn.” A SOURCE OF IRRITATION — _Stacy 69 Aumonier_ From “The Century Magazine.” MOTI GUJ—MUTINEER — _Rudyard Kipling_ 84 From “Plain Tales from the Hills.” GULLIVER THE GREAT — _Walter A. Dyer_ 92 From “Gulliver the Great and Other Stories.” SONNY’S SCHOOLIN’ — _Ruth McEnery 105 Stuart_ From “Sonny, a Christmas Guest.” HER FIRST HORSE SHOW — _David Gray_ From 117 “Gallops 2.” MY HUSBAND’S BOOK — _James Matthew 135 Barrie_ From “Two of Them.” WAR — _Jack London_ From “The 141 Night-Born.” THE BATTLE OF THE MONSTERS — _Morgan 147 Robertson_ From “Where Angels Fear to Tread.” A DILEMMA — _S. Weir Mitchell_ From 160 “Little Stories.” THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE — _A. Conan Doyle_ 166 From “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.” ONE HUNDRED IN THE DARK — _Owen Johnson_ 192 From “Murder in Any Degree.” A RETRIEVED REFORMATION — _O. Henry_ 212 From “Roads of Destiny.” BROTHER LEO — _Phyllis Bottome_ From 221 “The Derelict and Other Stories.” A FIGHT WITH DEATH — _Ian Maclaren_ 238 From “Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush.” THE DÀN-NAN-RÒN — _Fiona Macleod_ From 248 “The Dominion of Dreams, Under the Dark Star.” NOTES AND COMMENTS 275 SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS FOR CLASS USE 296 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTRODUCTION I OUR NATIONAL READING