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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.