Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 14752-h.htm or 14752-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/7/5/14752/14752-h/14752-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/7/5/14752/14752-h.zip) THE CHILDREN'S HOUR In Ten Volumes Illustrated VOLUME III STORIES FROM THE CLASSICS Selected & Arranged by EVA MARCH TAPPAN Houghton Mifflin Company 1907 [Illustration: "_It is strange that they let that dog lie there_"] Between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower comes a pause in the days occupations, that is known as the Children's Hour. NOTE All rights in stories in this volume are reserved by the holders of the copyrights. The publishers and others named in the subjoined list are the proprietors, either in their own right or as agents for the authors, of the stories taken from the works enumerated, of which the ownership is hereby acknowledged. The editor takes this opportunity to thank both authors and publishers for the ready generosity with which they have allowed her to include these stories in "The Children's Hour." "The Wonder-Book," and "Tanglewood Tales," by Nathaniel Hawthorne; published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company. "Old Greek Folk Stories," by Josephine Preston Peabody; published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company. "The Odyssey of Homer," English prose version by George Herbert Palmer; published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company. CONTENTS TO THE CHILDREN STORIES FROM HERODOTUS LADRONIUS, THE PRINCE OF THIEVES Retold by G. H. Boden and W. Barrington d'Almeida ARION AND THE DOLPHIN Retold by G. H. Boden and W. Barrington d'Almeida STORIES FROM LIVY ROMULUS, FOUNDER OF ROME Alfred J. Church HOW HORATIUS HELD THE BRIDGE Alfred J. Church HOW CINCINNATUS SAVED ROME Alfred J. Church THE STORY OF VIRGINIA Alfred J. Church THE SACRIFICE OF MARCUS CURTIUS Alfred J. Church STORIES FROM OVID THE MIRACULOUS PITCHER Nathaniel Hawthorne THE GOLDEN TOUCH Nathaniel Hawthorne THE POMEGRANATE SEEDS Nathaniel Hawthorne OLD GREEK FOLK-STORIES ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE Josephine Preston Peabody ICARUS AND DÆDALUS Josephine Preston Peabody PHAETHON Josephine Preston Peabody NIOBE Josephine Preston Peabody PYRAMUS AND THISBE Josephine Preston Peabody