Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Julia Miller, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: Typographical errors have been corrected. A list of the corrected errors is found at the end of the text along with a list of inconsistently hyphenated words. THE LITERARY WORLD SEVENTH READER BY JOHN CALVIN METCALF PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SARAH WITHERS PRINCIPAL ELEMENTARY GRADES AND CRITIC TEACHER WINTHROP NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE ROCK HILL. S.C. AND HETTY S. BROWNE EXTENSION WORKER IN RURAL SCHOOL PRACTICE WINTHROP NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE [Illustration] JOHNSON PUBLISHING COMPANY RICHMOND, VIRGINIA COPYRIGHT, 1919 B. F. JOHNSON PUBLISHING COMPANY _All Rights Reserved_ L.H.J. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For permission to use copyrighted material the authors and publishers express their indebtedness to the Macmillan Company for "A Deal in Bears" from _McTodd_, by W. Cutcliffe Hyne, and for "Sea Fever," by John Masefield; to Duffield & Company and Mr. H. G. Wells for "In Labrador" from _Marriage_; to the John Lane Company for "The Making of a Man" from _The Rough Road_, by W. J. Locke; to Dodd, Mead & Company and Mr. Arthur Dobson for "A Ballad of Heroes," and to Dodd, Mead & Company for "Under Seas," by Count Alexis Tolstoi; to G. P. Putnam's Sons for "Old Ephraim" from _The Hunting Trips of a Ranchman_, by Theodore Roosevelt; to Houghton Mifflin Company for "A Greyport Legend," by Bret Harte, "Midwinter," by John Townsend Trowbridge, "The First Snowfall," by James Russell Lowell, "Among the Cliffs" from _The Young Mountaineers_, by Charles Egbert Craddock (Mary N. Murfree), and for "The Friendship of Nantaquas" from _To Have and to Hold_, by Mary Johnston; to Harper & Brothers for "The Great Stone of Sardis" from _The Great Stone of Sardis_, by Frank R. Stockton, and to Harper & Brothers and Mr. Booth Tarkington for "Ariel's Triumph" from _The Conquest of Canaan_. TABLE OF CONTENTS LEGENDS OF OUR LAND RIP VAN WINKLE _Washington Irving_ 9 THE GREAT STONE FACE _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 33 THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH _Henry W. Longfellow_ 59 THE FRIENDSHIP OF NANTAQUAS _Mary Johnston_ 79 HOME SCENES HARRY ESMOND'S BOYHOOD _Wm. Makepeace Thackeray_ 112 THE FAMILY HOLDS ITS HEAD UP _Oliver Goldsmith_ 126 THE LITTLE BOY IN THE BALCONY _Henry W. Grady_ 138 ARIEL'S TRIUMPH _Booth Tarkington_ 141 NATURE AND ANIMALS