THE YOUNG AND FIELD LITERARY READERS
Book Two
BY
ELLA FLAGG YOUNG
Superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools
AND
WALTER TAYLOR FIELD
Author of "Fingerposts to Children's Reading," "Rome," Etc
Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright
GINN AND COMPANY
BOSTON · NEW YORK · CHICAGO · LONDON
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY ELLA FLAGG YOUNG
AND WALTER TAYLOR FIELD
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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The Athenæum Press
GINN AND COMPANY · PROPRIETORS ·BOSTON · U.S.A.
TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS
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Dear Boys and Girls:
Do you like fairy stories?
You do not need to tell us.
We know you like them.
So we are going to give you some to read.
You may have heard some of these stories before, but not many of them.
Some have come from far across the sea, and some have come from ourown country.
Mothers have told them to their children again and again, and childrenhave never been tired of them.
We think you will like them, too.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The poems of Mr. Frank Dempster Sherman and Miss Abbie Farwell Brownare used by special arrangement with the Houghton Mifflin Company,publishers.
Acknowledgments are also due to the following publishers and authorsfor permission to use copyrighted material: to Charles Scribner's Sonsfor poems from Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses"and Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge's "Rhymes and Jingles"; to the MacmillanCompany for poems from Christina Rossetti's "Sing Song"; to Little,Brown, and Company for poems from Mrs. Laura E. Richards's "In MyNursery"; to G. P. Putnam's Sons for the use of Sir George WebbeDasent's version of the story "East of the Sun and West of the Moon,"from "Popular Tales from the Norse," as the basis for our story of thesame name; to the A. Flanagan Company and Miss Flora J. Cooke for theuse of "The Rainbow Bridge," from Miss Cooke's "Nature Myths," in asimilar way; to Miss Marion Florence Lansing for permission to adapther dramatized Hindu Tale, "The Man's Boot," from "Quaint OldStories," in our story "The Shoe"; to Mr. William Hawley Smith forpermission to use his poem "A Child's Prayer."
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CONTENTS
English Fairy TalesPage
Childe Rowland11
Tom Tit Tot25
Poems by Christina Rossetti
Lambkins37
Ferry Me Across the Water38
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