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"The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Author: Various Release Date: June 27, 2006 [eBook #18702] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ONTARIO READERS: FOURTH BOOK*** E-text prepared by Suzanne Lybarger, Paul Ereaut, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/OSIEontarioreadersfourth00miniuoft -1- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various THE ONTARIO READERS FOURTH BOOK AUTHORIZED BY THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION Entered, according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year 1909, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture by the Minister of Education for Ontario TORONTO: The T. EATON Co Limited ’14-1 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Minister of Education is indebted to Goldwin Smith, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Newbolt, The Earl of Dunraven, Sir W. F. Butler, Frank T. Bullen, Charles G. D. Roberts, W. Wilfred Campbell, Frederick George Scott, Agnes Maule Machar, Agnes C. Laut, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, and S. T. Wood, for special permission to reproduce, in this Reader, selections from their writings. He is indebted to Lord Tennyson for special permission to reproduce the poems from the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson; to Lloyd Osbourne for permission to reproduce the extract from Robert Louis Stevenson’s "Kidnapped"; and to C. Egerton Ryerson for permission to reproduce the extract from Egerton Ryerson’s "The Loyalists of America and their Times." He is also indebted to Macmillan & Co., Limited, for special permission to reproduce selected poems from the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, Sir F. H. Doyle, Cecil Frances Alexander; to Longmans, Green & Co., for the selections from Froude’s "Short Studies on Great Subjects" and from his "History of England"; to Smith, Elder & Co., for the extract from F. T. Bullen’s "The Cruise of the Cachalot"; to Elkin Mathews for Henry Newbolt’s poem from "The Island Race"; to Thomas Nelson & Sons for the extract from W. F. Collier’s "History of the British Empire"; to The Copp Clark Co., Limited, for selected poems from the works of Charles G. D. Roberts, and of Agnes Maule Machar; to the Hunter-Rose Company for the extract from Canniff -2- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various Haight’s "Country Life in Canada"; to Morang & Company for selected poems from the works of Archibald Lampman, and for the extract from Roberts’ "History of Canada"; and to Houghton Mifflin Company for the article from "The Atlantic Monthly" on "British Colonial and Naval Power." The Minister is grateful to these authors and publishers and to others, not mentioned here, through whose courtesy he has been able to include in this Reader so many copyright selections. CONTENTS PAGE The Children’s Song Our Country Tom Tulliver at School Ingratitude The Giant The Discovery of America The First Spring Day The Battle of the Pipes Bega A Musical Instrument Wolfe and Montcalm Canada Scrooge’s Christmas Hands All Round Judah’s Supplication to Joseph Miriam’s Song The Destruction of Sennacherib The Lark at the Diggings The Ancient Mariner At the Close of the French Period in Canada A Hymn of Empire Story of Absalom Rudyard Kipling Alfred, Lord Tennyson George Eliot William Shakespeare Charles Mackay William Robertson Christina G. Rossetti Robert Louis Stevenson Marjorie L. C. Pickthall Elizabeth Barrett Browning Francis Parkman Charles G. D. Roberts Charles Dickens Alfred, Lord Tennyson Bible Thomas Moore George Gordon, Lord Byron Charles Reade Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles G. D. Roberts Frederick George Scott Bible 1 2 3 10 11 12 17 18 24 26 28 37 39 49 51 55 56 58 61 65 74 76 -3- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various The Burial of Moses The Crusader and the Saracen Mercy From "An August Reverie" Work and Wages Untrodden Ways The First Ploughing The Archery Contest In November Autumn Woods In a Canoe Afton Water David Copperfield’s First Journey Alone The Barefoot Boy Country Life in Canada in the "Thirties" Heat The Two Paths Bernardo del Carpio Moses’ Bargains The Maple The Greenwood Tree Lake Superior The Red River Plain The Unnamed Lake Life in Norman England Ye Mariners of England Instruction Home Thoughts From Abroad The Bells of Shandon The Vision of Mirzah Cecil Frances Alexander Sir Walter Scott William Shakespeare William Wilfred Campbell John Ruskin Agnes Maule Machar Charles G. D. Roberts Sir Walter Scott Archibald Lampman William Cullen Bryant Lord Dunraven Robert Burns Charles Dickens John G. Whittier Canniff Haight Archibald Lampman Bible Felicia Hemans Oliver Goldsmith Charles G. D. Roberts William Shakespeare Major W. F. Butler Major W. F. Butler Frederick George Scott William F. Collier Thomas Campbell Bible Robert Browning Francis Mahony Joseph Addison 80 83 89 90 91 94 95 97 102 103 105 109 110 118 122 128 130 131 136 141 142 143 145 147 149 154 156 157 158 160 -4- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various Forbearance Mercy to Animals The United Empire Loyalists Oft, in the Stilly Night The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls Hudson Strait Scots, Wha Hae St. Ambrose Crew Win Their First Race Hunting Song Border Ballad The Great Northern Diver To the Cuckoo On the Grasshopper and Cricket The Great Northwest Rule, Britannia The Commandment and the Reward The Spacious Firmament June The Fifth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor Ocean Pontiac’s Attempt to Capture Fort Detroit My Native Land Morning on the Lièvre Evening An Elizabethan Seaman The Sea-King’s Burial My Castles in Spain Aladdin Drake’s Voyage Round the World Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cowper Egerton Ryerson Thomas Moore Thomas Moore Agnes C. Laut Robert Burns Thomas Hughes Sir Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott Samuel T. Wood William Wordsworth John Keats Major W. F. Butler James Thomson Bible Joseph Addison James Russell Lowell "The Arabian Nights Entertainments" George Gordon, Lord Byron Major Richardson Sir Walter Scott Archibald Lampman Archibald Lampman James Anthony Froude Charles Mackay George William Curtis James Russell Lowell James Anthony Froude 168 169 170 173 174 175 179 180 189 191 192 196 197 198 202 204 205 206 208 216 219 227 228 230 231 237 243 247 248 -5- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various The Solitary Reaper Clouds, Rains, and Rivers Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu The Indignation of Nicholas Nickleby Dickens in Camp Dost Thou Look Back on What Hath Been The Passing of Arthur The Armada Departure and Death of Nelson Waterloo Ode Written in 1746 Balaklava Funeral of Wellington In a Cave with a Whale The Glove and the Lions Three Scenes in the Tyrol Marston Moor London How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix An Incident of the French Camp British Colonial and Naval Power England, My England A Good Time Going God is Our Refuge Indian Summer The Skylark What is War The Homes of England To a Water-Fowl William Wordsworth John Tyndall Sir Walter Scott Charles Dickens Bret Harte Alfred, Lord Tennyson Sir Thomas Malory Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay Robert Southey George Gordon, Lord Byron William Collins William Howard Russell Alfred, Lord Tennyson Frank T. Bullen Leigh Hunt Richter William Mackworth Praed Goldwin Smith Robert Browning Robert Browning "Atlantic Monthly" William Ernest Henley Oliver Wendell Holmes Bible Susanna Moodie James Hogg John Bright Felicia Hemans William Cullen Bryant 261 262 270 275 287 289 290 296 302 311 315 316 324 326 334 336 343 347 351 356 358 363 365 367 369 372 373 375 377 -6- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various The Fascination of Light Daffodils To the Dandelion True Greatness The Private of the Buffs Honourable Toil On his Blindness Mysterious Night Vitaï Lampada The Irreparable Past A Christmas Hymn, 1837 The Quarrel Recessional Samuel T. Wood William Wordsworth James Russell Lowell George Eliot Sir Francis Hastings Doyle Thomas Carlyle John Milton Joseph Blanco White Henry Newbolt Frederick W. Robertson Alfred Domett William Shakespeare Rudyard Kipling 379 382 384 384 389 391 393 394 395 396 400 402 409 -7- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various FOURTH READER [Pg 1] THE CHILDREN’S SONG Land of our Birth, we pledge to thee Our love and toil in the years to be, When we are grown and take our place, As men and women with our race. Father in Heaven who lovest all, Oh help Thy children when they call; That they may build from age to age, An undefilèd heritage. Teach us to bear the yoke in youth With steadfastness and careful truth; -8- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various That, in our time, Thy Grace may give The Truth whereby the Nations live. Teach us to rule ourselves alway, Controlled and cleanly night and day, That we may bring, if need arise, No maimed or worthless sacrifice. Teach us to look in all our ends, On Thee for judge, and not our friends; That we, with Thee, may walk uncowed By fear or favour of the crowd. Teach us the Strength that cannot seek, By deed or thought, to hurt the weak; That, under Thee, we may possess Man’s strength to comfort man’s distress. Teach us Delight in simple things, And Mirth that has no bitter springs, Forgiveness free of evil done, And Love to all men ’neath the sun! Land of our Birth, our faith, our pride, For whose dear sake our fathers died, Oh Motherland, we pledge to thee, Head, heart, and hand through years to be! Kipling [Pg 2] OUR COUNTRY Love thou thy land, with love far-brought From out the storied Past, and used Within the Present, but transfused Thro’ future time by power of thought. Tennyson [Pg 3] TOM TULLIVER AT SCHOOL It was Mr. Tulliver’s first visit to see Tom, for the lad must learn not to think too much about home. "Well, my lad," he said to Tom, when Mr. Stelling had left the room to announce the arrival to his wife, and Maggie had begun to kiss Tom freely, "you look rarely. School agrees with you." -9- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various Tom wished he had looked rather ill. "I don’t think I am well, father," said Tom; "I wish you’d ask Mr. Stelling not to let me do Euclid—it brings on the toothache, I think." (The toothache was the only malady to which Tom had ever been subject.) "Euclid, my lad; why, what’s that?" said Mr. Tulliver. "Oh, I don’t know. It’s definitions, and axioms, and triangles, and things. It’s a book I’ve got to learn in; there’s no sense in it." "Go, go!" said Mr. Tulliver, reprovingly, "you mustn’t say so. You must learn what your master tells you. He knows what it’s right for you to learn." "I’ll help you now, Tom," said Maggie, with[Pg 4] a little air of patronizing consolation. "I’m come to stay ever so long, if Mrs. Stelling asks me. I’ve brought my box and my pinafores, haven’t I, father?" "You help me, you silly little thing!" said Tom, in such high spirits at this announcement that he quite enjoyed the idea of confounding Maggie by showing her a page of Euclid. "I should like to see you doing one of my lessons! Why, I learn Latin too! Girls never learn such things. They’re too silly." "I know what Latin is very well," said Maggie, confidently. "Latin’s a language. There are Latin words in the Dictionary. There’s ’bonus, a gift.’" "Now, you’re just wrong there, Miss Maggie!" said Tom, secretly astonished. "You think you’re very wise. But ’bonus’ means ’good,’ as it happens—’bonus, bona, bonum.’" "Well, that’s no reason why it shouldn’t mean ’gift,’" said Maggie, stoutly. "It may mean several things—almost every word does. There’s ’lawn’—it means the grass-plot, as well as the stuff pocket-handkerchiefs are made of." "Well done, little ’un," said Mr. Tulliver, laughing, while Tom felt rather disgusted with Maggie’s knowingness, though beyond measure[Pg 5] cheerful at the thought that she was going to stay with him. Her conceit would soon be overawed by the actual inspection of his books. Mrs. Stelling, in her pressing invitation, did not mention a longer time than a week for Maggie’s stay; but Mr. Stelling, who took her between his knees, and asked her where she stole her dark eyes from, insisted that she must stay a fortnight. Maggie thought Mr. Stelling was a charming man, and Mr. Tulliver was quite proud to leave his little wench where she would have an opportunity of showing her cleverness to appreciating strangers. So it was agreed that she should not be fetched home till the end of the fortnight. "Now, then, come with me into the study, Maggie," said Tom, as their father drove away. "What do you shake and toss your head now for, you silly?" he continued; for, though her hair was now under a new dispensation, and was brushed smoothly behind her ears, she seemed still in imagination to be tossing it out of her eyes. "It makes you look as if you were crazy." - 10 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various "Oh, I can’t help it," said Maggie, impatiently. "Don’t tease me, Tom. Oh, what books!" she exclaimed, as she saw the book[Pg 6]-cases in the study. "How I should like to have as many books as that!" "Why, you couldn’t read one of ’em," said Tom, triumphantly. "They’re all Latin." "No, they aren’t," said Maggie. "I can read the back of this ... ’History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.’" "Well, what does that mean? You don’t know," said Tom, wagging his head. "But I could soon find out," said Maggie, scornfully. "Why, how?" "I should look inside, and see what it was about." "You’d better not, Miss Maggie," said Tom, seeing her hand on the volume. "Mr. Stelling lets nobody touch his books without leave, and I shall catch it if you take it out." "Oh, very well! Let me see all your books, then," said Maggie, turning to throw her arms round Tom’s neck, and rub his cheek with her small, round nose. Tom, in the gladness of his heart at having dear old Maggie to dispute with and crow over again, seized her round the waist, and began to jump with her round the large library table. Away they jumped with more and more vigour,[Pg 7] till Maggie’s hair flew from behind her ears, and twirled about like an animated mop. But the revolutions round the table became more and more irregular in their sweep, till at last reaching Mr. Stelling’s reading-stand, they sent it thundering down with its heavy lexicons to the floor. Happily it was the ground-floor, and the study was a one-storied wing to the house, so that the downfall made no alarming resonance, though Tom stood dizzy and aghast for a few minutes, dreading the appearance of Mr. or Mrs. Stelling. "Oh, I say, Maggie," said Tom at last, lifting up the stand, "we must keep quiet here, you know. If we break anything, Mrs. Stelling’ll make us cry peccavi." "What’s that?" said Maggie. "Oh, it’s the Latin for a good scolding," said Tom, not without some pride in his knowledge. "Is she a cross woman?" said Maggie. "I believe you!" said Tom, with an emphatic nod. "I think all women are crosser than men," said Maggie. "Aunt Glegg’s a great deal crosser than Uncle Glegg, and mother scolds me more than father does." "Well, you’ll be a woman some day," said Tom, "so you needn’t talk."[Pg 8] - 11 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various "But I shall be a clever woman," said Maggie, with a toss. "Oh, I daresay, and a nasty, conceited thing. Everybody’ll hate you." "But you oughtn’t to hate me, Tom. It’ll be very wicked of you, for I shall be your sister." "Yes, but if you’re a nasty, disagreeable thing, I shall hate you." "Oh but, Tom, you won’t! I shan’t be disagreeable. I shall be very good to you, and I shall be good to everybody. You won’t hate me really, will you, Tom?" "Oh, bother, never mind! Come, it’s time for me to learn my lessons. See here, what I’ve got to do," said Tom, drawing Maggie towards him and showing her his theorem, while she pushed her hair behind her ears, and prepared herself to prove her capability of helping him in Euclid. She began to read with full confidence in her own powers; but presently, becoming quite bewildered, her face flushed with irritation. It was unavoidable: she must confess her incompetency, and she was not fond of humiliation. "It’s nonsense!" she said, "and very ugly stuff; nobody need want to make it out." "Ah, there now, Miss Maggie!" said Tom, drawing the book away and wagging his head at[Pg 9] her; "you see you’re not so clever as you thought you were." "Oh," said Maggie, pouting, "I daresay I could make it out if I’d learned what goes before, as you have." "But that’s what you just couldn’t, Miss Wisdom," said Tom. "For it’s all the harder when you know what goes before; for then you’ve got to say what definition 3 is, and what axiom V is. But get along with you now; I must go on with this. Here’s the Latin Grammar. See what you can make of that." Maggie found the Latin Grammar quite soothing after her mathematical mortification, for she delighted in new words, and quickly found that there was an English Key at the end, which would make her very wise about Latin, at slight expense. It was really very interesting—the Latin Grammar that Tom had said no girls could learn, and she was proud because she found it interesting. "Now, then, Magsie, give us the Grammar!" "Oh, Tom, it’s such a pretty book!" she said, as she jumped out of the large arm-chair to give it him; "it’s much prettier than the Dictionary. I could learn Latin very soon. I don’t think it’s at all hard."[Pg 10] "Oh, I know what you’ve been doing," said Tom; "you’ve been reading the English at the end. Any donkey can do that." Tom seized the book and opened it with a determined and business-like air, as much as to say that he had a lesson to learn which no donkeys would find themselves equal to. Maggie, rather piqued, turned to the book-cases to amuse herself with puzzling out the titles. - 12 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various George Eliot: "The Mill on the Floss." INGRATITUDE Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man’s ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, Thou dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot; Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remembered not. Shakespeare - 13 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various H. M. KING EDWARD VII. [Pg 11] THE GIANT There came a Giant to my door, A Giant fierce and strong; His step was heavy on the floor, His arms were ten yards long. He scowled and frowned; he shook the ground; I trembled through and through; At length I looked him in the face And cried, "Who cares for you?" - 14 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various The mighty Giant, as I spoke, Grew pale, and thin, and small, And through his body, as ’twere smoke, I saw the sunshine fall. His blood..."

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