The selections from Whittier, Longfellow. Lowell, Miriam Coles Harris, and John Burroughs are used by special permission of, and arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, the publishers of the works of these authors. The selections from Helen Hunt Jackson are used by special arrangement with Little, Brown, & Company. Acknowledgments for the use of copyright material are also made: to Small, Maynard & Company for the poems by Father Tabb; to the editor and publisher of _The Ave Maria_ for “Lucy’s Rosary,” by J. R. Marre, and other poems from that magazine; to Mary F. Nixon-Roulet for the selections of which she is the author; to Longmans, Green, & Company, for “The Reindeer,” by Andrew Lang; to Henry Coyle for the poems of which he is the author; and to the Congregation of the Mission of St Vincent de Paul, Springfield, Mass., for the extract from Mother Mary Loyola’s “Jesus of Nazareth,” of which book they are the publishers. CONTENTS PAGE Little Wolff and his Wooden Shoe _François Coppée_ 7 The Eagle and the Swan _J. J. Audubon_ 14 Lucy’s Rosary _J. R. Marre_ 16 The Taxgatherer _Rev. John B. Tabb_ 17 The Wisdom of Alexander _Horace Binney Wallace_ 18 Thanksgiving _Henry Coyle_ 23 The Enchanted Bark _Cervantes_ 24 A Legend of St. Nicholas _Author Unknown_ 30 Raphael of Urbino 36 Lead, Kindly Light _Cardinal Newman_ 43 Parable of the Good Samaritan _The Bible_ 44 Connor Mac-Nessa--An Irish Legend _M. F. Nixon-Roulet_ 46 The Martyrdom of Blessed John Fisher _Rev. T. E. Bridgett_ 50 The Nightingale and the Glowworm _William Cowper_ 56 If thou couldst be a Bird _Rev. F. W. Faber_ 58 The First Crusade 60 How the Robin Came _John G. Whittier_ 75 How St. Francis preached to the Birds _From “Little Flowers of St. Francis”_ 78 The Petrified Fern _Mary L. Bolles Branch_ 82 Bird Enemies _John Burroughs_ 84 St. Joseph’s Month _H. W._ 95 A Song of Spring _Aubrey de Vere_ 96 Robert Bruce _Sir Walter Scott_ 97 “When Evening Shades are Falling” _Thomas Moore_ 106