Produced by V-M Ísterman, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team SHORT STORIES AND SELECTIONS FOR USE IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS COMPILED AND ANNOTATED, WITH QUESTIONS FOR STUDY BY EMILIE KIP BAKER [Illustration: Walter Scott's Library at Abbotsford] TABLE OF CONTENTS A LEAF IN THE STORM, _by_ Louise de la Ramee, _from_ A Leaf in the Storm and Other Stories CATS, _by_ Maurice Hewlett, _from_ Earthwork out of Tuscany AN ADVENTURE, _by_ Honore de Balzac, _from_ A Passion in the Desert FOR THOSE WHO LOVE MUSIC, _by_ Axel Munthe, _from_ Vagaries OUT OF DOORS, _by_ Richard Jefferies, _from_ Saint Guido THE TABOO, _by_ Herman Melville, _from_ Typee SCHOOL DAYS AT THE CONVENT, _by_ George Sand, _from_ The Story of My Life (adapted) IN BRITTANY, _by_ Louisa Alcott, _from_ Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag THE ADIRONDACKS, _by_ John Burroughs, _from_ Wake Robin AN ASCENT OF KILAUEA, _by_ Lady Brassey, _from_ Around the World in the Yacht Sunbeam THE FETISH, _by_ George Eliot, _from_ The Mill on the Floss SALMON FISHING IN IRELAND, _by_ James A. Froude, _from_ A Fortnight in Kerry ACROSS RUNNING WATER, _by_ Fiona Macleod, _from_ Sea Magic and Running Water THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS, _by_ Nathaniel Hawthorne, _from_ Grandfather's Chair THE WHITE TRAIL, _by_ Stewart Edward White, _from_ The Silent Places A DISSERTATION ON ROAST PIG, _by_ Charles Lamb, _from_ Essays of Elia THE LAST CLASS, _by_ Alphonse Daudet, _from_ Monday Tales AN ARAB FISHERMAN, _by_ Albert Edwards, _from_ The Barbary Coast THE ARCHERY CONTEST, _by_ Walter Scott, _from_ Ivanhoe BABY SYLVESTER, _by_ Bret Harte, _from_ Bret Harte's Writings THE ADDRESS AT GETTYSBURG, _by_ Abraham Lincoln, _from_ Lincoln's Speeches THE SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS, _by_ Abraham Lincoln, _from_ Lincoln's Speeches AN APPRECIATION OF LINCOLN, _by_ John Hay, _from_ Life of Lincoln THE ELEPHANTS THAT STRUCK, _by_ Samuel White Baker, _from_ Eight Years in Ceylon THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP, _by_ Bret Harte THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD DIN, _by_ Rudyard Kipling, _from_ Plain Tales from the Hills A CHILD, _by_ John Galsworthy, _from_ Commentary TOO DEAR FOR THE WHISTLE, _by_ Benjamin Franklin, _from_ The Autobiography A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT, _by_ Robert Louis Stevenson, _from_ The New Arabian Nights A BAD FIVE MINUTES IN THE ALPS, _by_ Leslie Stephen, _from_ Freethinking and Plainspeaking (adapted) THE GOLD TRAIL, _by_ Stewart Edward White, _from_ Gold TWENTY YEARS OF ARCTIC STRUGGLE, _by_ J. Kennedy McLean, _from_ Heroes of the Farthest North and South (adapted) THE SPEECH IN MANCHESTER, _by_ Henry Ward Beecher, _from_ Addresses and Sermons A GREEN DONKEY DRIVER, _by_ Robert Louis Stevenson, _from_ Travels with a Donkey A NIGHT IN THE PINES, _by_ Robert Louis Stevenson, _from_ Travels with a Donkey LIFE IN OLD NEW YORK, _by_ Washington Irving, _from_ Knickerbocker's History of New York THE BAZAAR IN MOROCCO, _by_ Pierre Loti, _from_ Into Morocco