FOR

JUNIORS.

COMPILED BY

ELEANOR O'GRADY,

AUTHOR OF

“Aids to Effective Elocution," "Select Recitations," etc.

NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO: BENZIGER

Printers to the Holy Apostolic See.

BROTHERS,

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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
GIFT OF THE

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

SEP 16 1932

Copyright, 1891, by BENZIGER BROTHERS

PREFACE.

THE Selections in this little book have been made with the greatest care, and will, we trust, impress lessons of Beauty, Truth, and Virtue.

ELEANOR O'GRADY.

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CONTENTS.

FAITH AND WORKS,

A LOST CHILD, .

A DISAPPOINTMENT,

MUS'N'T TOUCH, .

SNOW-FLAKES,

BEING A BOY,

MY NEIGHBOR'S BABY,

THE LIP AND THE HEART,

WHERE DID YOU COME

FROM, BABY?

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AT THE PARTY,

THE LITTLE ORATOR,

THE LITTLE LIGHT,

THE WISH OF THE FLOWERS,

THE GRAY SWAN,

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Charles Dudley Warner,. 24

Lillian Payson,.

Mary Lacey,

S. M. Parker,

William H. Montgomery,

Anna E. Burnham,

John Quincy Adams,

George Macdonald,

E. Stuart Phelps Ward,.

Thaddeus M. Harris,