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  GOLDEN GRAIN

  BY VARIUOS AUTHORS

  GARNERED FROM THE

  WORLD'S GREAT HARVEST-FIELD OF KNOWLEDGE

  COMPRISING

  Selections from the ablest Modern Writers.

  OF

  Prose, Poetry, and Legendary Lore.

  Some Books with heaps of chaff are stored
    And some do Golden Grain afford;
  Leave then the chaff and spend thy pains
    In gathering up the Golden Grains.

  Elegantly Illustrated.

  J. C. CHILTON & COMPANY,
  DETROIT. MICH.,
  1884.




  COPYRIGHTED
  1884.
  J.C. CHILTON & CO.

  PRESS OF
  RAYNOR & TAYLOR,
  75 BATES STREET.
  DETROIT.




AUTHORS


  HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.
  JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. ALFRED TENNYSON.
  JOHN G. WHITTIER. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
  RALPH WALDO EMERSON. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
  HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. PETER CHRISTIAN ASBJORNSEN.
  WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. SIR ISAAC NEWTON. REV. LAURENCE STERNE.
  HON. JOHN D. LONG. JOHN G. SAXE. PAUL H. HAYNE.
  CHARLES DICKENS. SIR WALTER SCOTT. THOMAS MOORE.
  THOMAS GRAY. LORD LYTTON. J. C. F. SCHILLER.
  GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. MARTIN VAN BUREN.
  GEORGE WASHINGTON. JAMES A. GARFIELD.
  REV. CHARLES KINGSLEY. BARRY CORNWALL.
  PH[OE]BE CARY. SIDNEY DAYRE. LUCIE COBB.
  PHILA H. CASE. LUCY LARCOM. ROSE HARTWICK THORPE.
  MARY D. BRINE. ELIZABETH AKERS. MRS. S. M. B. PIATT.
  GEORGE MCDONALD. EMMA ALICE BROWN. SAMUEL ROGRES.
  BRET HARTE. GEORGE L. CATLIN. J. T. CHOATE.
  GEORGE D. PRENTICE. NATHANIEL P. WILLIS.
  EDWIN P. WHIPPLE. PHILLIP JAMES BAILEY.
  D. BETHUNE DUFFIELD. WILLIAM L. SMITH.
  FRIEDERICH GRIMM.




PUBLISHERS' NOTE.


It has been the constant endeavor of the publishers of GOLDEN GRAIN,
to produce a book in every respect worthy to be classed among the very
best works offered to an intelligent public.

Many of the selections are protected by copyright and for the use of
such, special thanks are due to the following publishers, for the
courtesies extended.

To Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for selections from Longfellow,
Whittier, and Miss Cary; Messrs. D. Lothrop & Co., for use of
selections from Mrs. Piatt, Paul Hayne, and Mary D. Brine; and to those
authors who have furnished special contributions, we are under many
obligations.

The volume is sent forth with the belief that such a work will meet
with appreciative readers all over the land.




INTRODUCTION.

GOLDEN GRAIN.


The best introduction to a book is a glance at its pages, an
examination of its illustrations and the names of its authors.

In all the essentials which go to make up a work which shall meet with
popular favor and a wide range of readers, the Editor and Publishers
confidently believe that GOLDEN GRAIN presents a high standard of
excellence.

That all tastes might be suited, the literature of all modern nations
has been searched and selections of the highest standard made therefrom.

Golden Grain only has been garnered. The great fields of knowledge have
been visited, and none but the choicest and ripest kernels have been
chosen.

Young Folks must, and will, have something to read--something to feed
the mind as well as the body. It therefore becomes a very important
duty of parents to make choice of such books as are pure in tone and
elevating in sentiment; and it follows also, as night follows day, that
if parents fail or neglect this duty the young folks themselves will
find something to read, nor will they be so careful in their selections.

In GOLDEN GRAIN will be found a work in every respect worthy of a
place in the Family Circle. Its pages lend inspiration to fight life's
battles nobly. Those who go out from a home with noble impulses, pure
motives, and true hearts will bear the burden of Earth's cares, duties
and disappointments with patience and resignation, having

 "A heart to resolve, a head to contrive and a hand to execute."




CONTENTS.


  Harvest Song                John G. Whittier           13

  Minute Men of Liberty       George William Curtis      14

  Kind Hearts                                            16

  The Children's Hour         Henry W. Longfellow        17

  The Brook                   Alfred Tennyson            21

  Eulogy on Garfield          James G. Blaine            23

  Gems from James A. Garfield                            24

  At the Fireside             John D. Long               25

  The Frost Spirit            John G. Whittier           26

  The Arrow and the Song      Henry W. Longfellow        29

  The Bridge                  Henry W. Longfellow        31

  The Responsive Chord        J. William Jones           34

  Grandma's Angel             Sidney Dayre               35

  Cold, Bitter Cold           Hans Christian Andersen    37

  Nobody's Child              Phila H. Case              42

  Snow-White and Rosy-Red     Friederich Grimm           45

  The Song of the Thrush      Lucy Larcom                58

  The Fox and the Geese                                  60

  Count That Day Lost                                    61

  The Children in the Moon                               62

  A Night in a Norwegian
    Forest                    P. Chr. Asbjornsen         65

  Two Little Kittens                                     88

  Labor of Authorship                                    90

  She Was Somebody's Mother                              92

  Dot Lambs What Mary Haf Got                            94

  The Mills of God            Henry W. Longfellow        95

  Bob Cratchit's Christmas    Charles Dickens            96

  Full Many a Gem             Thomas Gray               103

  A Snug Little Island                                  104

  Don't Crowd                 Charles Dickens           111

  The Boys                    Oliver Wendell Holmes     112

  Quarrel Between Mountain
    and Squirrel              Ralph Waldo Emerson       114

  For Fathers Sake                                      116

  Backbone                                              130

  A Dog Sheep-Stealer                                   132

  The Best Answer to
    Calumny                   George Washington         133

  If We Knew                  Ph[oe]be Cary             134

  Holiday Song                D. Bethune Duffield       137

  A Queer Duckling            Hans Christian Andersen   138

  Truth                       James Russell Lowell      156

  The Clearin'                                          157

  Prince Willful's
    Three Lessons             J. T. Choate              161

  Miss Edith Helps
    Things Along              F. Bret Harte             170

  The Giant Who Had
    No Heart                  P. Chr. Asbjornsen        173

  Beauty Everywhere           W. L. Smith               185

  Bread on the Waters         George L. Catlin          186

  The Use of Books                                      189

  The Spring                                            190

  Gem from "Lalla Rookh"      Thomas Moore              190

  How Bayard Shot the Bear    J. T. Choate              191

  How We Live                 Phillip James Bailey      195

  New Year's