The Junior Classics A LIBRARY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS [Illustration: CATHRINE DOUGLAS THRUST HER ARM THROUGH THE EMPTY STAPLES _From the painting by J P Shelton_] THE JUNIOR CLASSICS SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY WILLIAM PATTEN MANAGING EDITOR OF THE HARVARD CLASSICS INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, LL. D. PRESIDENT EMERITUS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY WITH A READING GUIDE BY WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON, Ph.D. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT SMITH COLLEGE, NORTHAMPTON, MASS., SINCE 1917[-1939] VOLUME SEVEN Stories of Courage and Heroism CONTENTS PREFACE How Phidias Helped the Image-Maker _Beatrice Harraden_ The Fight at the Pass of Thermopylæ _Charlotte M. Yonge_ The Bravery of Regulus _Charlotte M. Yonge_ The Rabbi Who Found the Diadem _Dr. A. S. Isaacs_ How Livia Won the Brooch _Beatrice Harraden_ Julius Cæsar Crossing the Rubicon _Jacob Abbott_ Fearless Saint Genevieve, Patron Saint of Paris _Charlotte M. Yonge_ The Boy Viking--Olaf II of Norway _E. S. Brooks_ The Boy-Heroes of Crecy and Poitiers _Treadwell Walden_ The Noble Burghers of Calais _Charlotte M. Yonge_ The Story of Joan of Arc, the Maid Who Saved France _Anonymous_ How Joan the Maid Took Largess from the English _Anonymous_ Death of Joan the Maid _Anonymous_ How Catherine Douglas Tried to Save King James of Scotland _Charlotte M. Yonge_ The Brave Queen of Hungary _Charlotte M. Yonge_ The Story of Christopher Columbus for Little Children _Elizabeth Harrison_ A Sea-Fight in the Time of Queen Bess _Charles Kingsley_ A Brave Scottish Chief _Anonymous_ The Adventure of Grizel Cochrane _Arthur Quiller-Couch_ The Sunken Treasure _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ The Lost Exiles of Texas _Arthur Oilman_ The Boy Conqueror--Charles XII of Sweden _E. S. Brooks_ The True Story of a Kidnapped Boy as Told by Himself _Peter Williamson_ The Prisoner Who Would Not Stay in Prison _Anonymous_ A White Boy Among the Indians, as Told by Himself _John Tanner_ Evangeline of Acadia _Henry W. Longfellow_ Jabez Rockwell's Powder-Horn _Ralph D. Paine_ A Man Who Coveted Washington's Shoes _Frank R. Stockton._ A Famous Fight Between an English and a French Frigate _Rev. W. H. Fitchett_ The Trick of an Indian Spy _Arthur Quiller-Couch_ The Man in the "Auger Hole" _Frank R. Stockton._ The Remarkable Voyage of the _Bounty_ _Anonymous_ The Two Boy Hostages at the Siege of Seringapatam _Anonymous_ The Man Who Spoiled Napoleon's "Destiny" _Rev. W. H. Fitchett_ A Fire-Fighter's Rescue from the Flames _Arthur Quiller-Couch_ How Napoleon Rewarded His Men _Baron de Marbot_ A Rescue from Shipwreck _Arthur Quiller-Couch_ Rebecca the Drummer _Charles Barnard_ The Messenger _M. E. M. Davis_ Humphry Davy and the Safety-Lamp _George C. Towle_ Kit Carson's Duel _Emerson Hough_ The Story of Grace Darling _Anonymous_ The Struggles of Charles Goodyear _George C. Towle_ Old Johnny Appleseed _Elizabeth Harrison_ The Little Post-Boy _Bayard Taylor_