The Reindeer _A. Lang_ 107 A Story of Ancient Ireland _Lady Gregory_ 114 San Gabriel _Helen Hunt Jackson_ 118 Imitation of Mary _St. Ambrose_ 120 Scene from “William Tell” _Sheridan Knowles_ 121 The Schoolmaster of Sleepy Hollow _Washington Irving_ 132 The Bluebird _Rev. John B. Tabb_ 151 The Brook _Alfred Tennyson_ 152 The Story of a Happy Child 154 May Carol _Sister Mary Antonia_ 158 The Precious Blood of Jesus _Henry Coyle_ 160 The Spanish Cook _Miriam Coles Harris_ 161 The Planting of the Apple Tree _William Cullen Bryant_ 166 The Conversion of King Ratbodo _Conrad von Bolanden_ 170 The Blessed Virgin Mary _H. W. Longfellow_ 174 Come to Jesus _Rev. F. W. Faber_ 175 Father Marquette _John G. Shea_ 178 The Shepherd of King Admetus _J. R. Lowell_ 186 The Sermon on the Mount _Mother Mary Loyola_ 188 The Star-spangled Banner _Francis Scott Key_ 196 How America was Discovered 198 The Power of God _Thomas Moore_ 213 Our Country and our Home _James Montgomery_ 214 Notes 215 FIFTH YEAR LITTLE WOLFF AND HIS WOODEN SHOE I Once upon a time, so long ago that everybody has forgotten the date, there was a little boy whose name was Wolff. He lived with his aunt in a tall old house in a city whose name is so hard to pronounce that nobody can speak it. He was seven years old, and he could not remember that he had ever seen his father or his mother. The old aunt who had the care of little Wolff was very selfish and cross. She gave him dry bread to eat, of which there was never enough; and not more than once in the year did she speak kindly to him. But the poor boy loved this woman, because he had no one else to love; and there was never a day so dark that he did not think of the sunlight. Everybody knew that Wolff’s aunt owned a house and had a stocking full of gold under her bed, and so she did not dare to send the little boy to the school for the poor as she would have liked to do. But a schoolmaster on the next street agreed to teach him for almost nothing; and whenever there was work he could do, he was kept at home.