Chapter III: Book TWO: Prose

STORIES

FABLES The Dog and the Shadow, _Æsop_ The Fox and the Grapes, _Æsop_ The Hare and the Tortoise, _Æsop_ The Shepherd's Boy, _Æsop_ The Husbandman and the Stork, _Æsop_ The Wind and the Sun, _Æsop_ The Tortoise and the Geese, _Bidpai_ The Partridge and the Crow, _Bidpai_ The Fox and the Grapes, _La Fontaine_ The Wolf and the Stork, _La Fontaine_

FAIRY STORIES AND NURSERY TALES

TRADITIONAL

THE ACCUMULATIVE TALE The Old Woman and Her Pig, _Jacobs_

THE ANIMAL STORY The Three Little Pigs, _Jacobs_

THE NOODLE STORY Hans in Luck, _Grimm_

THE HUMBLE HERO STORY The Valiant Little Tailor, _Grimm_ Cinderella, _Perrault_ Whittington and His Cat, _Old Chapbook_

THE SYMBOLISTIC STORY The Ugly Duckling, _Andersen_ The Flax, _Andersen_

THE STORY OF HORROR Blue Beard, _Perrault_

THE GIANT STORY Jack and the Beanstalk, _Jacobs_

MISCELLANEOUS STORIES The Elves, _Grimm_ Te Frog-Prince, _Grimm_ The Quern at the Bottom of the Sea, _Asbjørnsen_

THE NEGRO FOLK TALE Brother Rabbit and Brother Bull-Frog, _Harris_

MODERN Brownie and the Cook, _Craik_ The King of the Golden River, _Ruskin_

THE ORIENTAL WONDER STORY The Story of Aladdin, Arabian Nights

MYTHS AND LEGENDS

CLASSIC The Gorgon's Head, _Hawthorne_ Theseus, _Kingsley_

GERMANIC Thor Goes a-Fishing, _Mabie_ Baldur, _Keary-Morss_

THE HERO STORY Sir William Wallace, _Scott_

THE REPRODUCTION The Tempest, _Shakespeare-Lamb_

DIDACTIC STORIES The Purple Jar, _Edgeworth_ Difference and Agreement, _Aiken and Barbauld_ Eyes and No Eyes, _Aiken and Barbauld_

ANIMAL SKETCHES AND STORIES Rab and His Friends, _Brown_ The Busy Blue Jay, _Miller_ A Cry in the Night, _Long_

SELECTIONS FROM THE BIBLE The Story of Joseph The Story of Samson David's Psalms: First, Nineteenth, Twenty-third Christ's Sermon on the Mount Paul's Discourse on Charity

OTHER PROSE FORMS

LETTERS Lewis Carroll to Miss Standen Thomas Hood to Miss Elliot Charles Dickens to Master Hughes

ESSAYS Traits of Indian Character, _Irving_ Of Studies, _Bacon_ The American Boy, _Roosevelt_

ORATIONS Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, _Henry_ Supposed Speech of John Adams, _Webster_ Gettysburg Address, _Lincoln_