UNIV. Or

HOLTON-CURRY READERS

THE FOURTH READER

BY MARTHA ADELAIDE, HOLTON

For ten years Supervisor of Primary Education in the Minneapolis
Public Schools. Author of the "Holton Primer" and '
"Industrial Work for Public Schools"

MINA HOLTON PAGE
Formerly Teacher in the Public Schools,
of Salt Lake City, Utah

and

CHARLES MADISON CURRY

Professor of Literature in the Indiana State Normal School
Author of "Literary Readings"

Illustrated by

MAUD HUNT SQUIRE

RAND

MCNALLY &

CHICAGO

COMPANY

NEW YORK

V .VIMU

CYTILOBMM

Copyright, 1914.

By RAND, MCNALLY & COMPANY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks are extended to the following publishers and individuals for permission to
use the material indicated:

Small, Maynard & Co. for "The Tax Gatherer" and "Fern Song," from Poems
by John Banister Tabb; Charles Scribner's Sons for "The Horse That B'leeved
He'd Get There," from Story-Tell Lib by Annie Trumbull Slosson; Nixon Waterman
and Forbes and Company for "The Secret of Success, from Boy Wanted; Atkinson,
Mentzer & Company for “Mrs. Spider-Brown" and "Mrs. Spider-Brown's Children,'
from Little Folks' Land by Madge A. Bigham.

The selections from Lucy Larcom, Celia Thaxter, J. G. Whittier, Alice and Phoebe
Cary, Henry W. Longfellow, John G. Saxe, and James Russell Lowell are used by
permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston,
authorized publishers of the works from which the selections are taken.

The following selections are from the publications of Rand McNally & Co.: "The
Language of the Birds" and "The Tsarevna Frog," from Folk Tales from the Russian
by Verra X. K. de Blumenthal.

The Band-McNally Press

Chicago

Gift

EDUCATION DEPT.

R.D.LINQUIST

THE CONTENTS

WHY THE SUNFLOWERS HANG THEIR HEADS.. Madge A. Bigham..

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