THE CLOUD _Percy Bysshe Shelley_ 160 NEW ENGLAND WEATHER _Mark Twain_ 162 THE FIRST SNOWFALL _James Russell Lowell_ 166 OLD EPHRAIM _Theodore Roosevelt_ 168 MIDWINTER _John Townsend Trowbridge_ 175 A GEORGIA FOX HUNT _Joel Chandler Harris_ 177 RAIN AND WIND _Madison Julius Cawein_ 192 THE SOUTHERN SKY _Matthew Fontaine Maury_ 193 DAFFODILS _William Wordsworth_ 195 DAWN _Edward Everett_ 196 SPRING _Henry Timrod_ 198 MOVING ADVENTURE AMONG THE CLIFFS _Charles Egbert Craddock_ 201 A DEAL IN BEARS _W. Cutcliffe Hyne_ 217 LOCHINVAR _Sir Walter Scott_ 232 IN LABRADOR _H. G. Wells_ 235 THE BUGLE SONG _Alfred Tennyson_ 258 THE SIEGE OF THE CASTLE _Sir Walter Scott_ 259 MODERN WONDER TALES SEA FEVER _John Masefield_ 334 A GREYPORT LEGEND _Bret Harte_ 335 A HUNT BENEATH THE OCEAN _Jules Verne_ 337 UNDER SEAS _Count Alexis Tolstoi_ 354 A VOYAGE TO THE MOON _Edgar Allan Poe_ 367 THE GREAT STONE OF SARDIS _Frank R. Stockton_ 391 SKETCHES OF THE GREAT WAR A STOP AT SUZANNE'S _Greayer Clover_ 407 THE MAKING OF A MAN _W. J. Locke_ 414 IN FLANDERS FIELDS _John McCrae_ 436 IN FLANDERS FIELDS (AN ANSWER) _C. B. Galbraith_ 436 A BALLAD OF HEROES _Austin Dobson_ 437 DICTIONARY 439 [Illustration: [See page 19] He Was Tempted to Repeat the Draught] [Illustration] RIP VAN WINKLE I Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Catskill Mountains. They are a branch of the great [v]Appalachian[9-*] family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed, every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the goodwives, far and near, as perfect [v]barometers.