Ontario Readers: Third Book

by Various

111 chapters7h 14mEnglish1909

About this book

The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary works, both stories and poems, geared to grade-school age children. (Summary by aradlaw)

Chapters (110)

1To-day

2Fortune and the Beggar

162

3The Lark and the Rook

115

4The Pickwick Club on Ice

362

5Tubal Cain

153

6Professor Frog's Lecture

764

7A Song for April

8How the Crickets Brought Good Fortune

310

9The Battle of Blenheim

141

10The Ride for Life

345

11Iagoo, the Boaster

102

12The Story of a Fire

183

13The Quest

14The Jackal and the Partridge

383

15Hide and Seek

108

16The Burning of the "Goliath"

251

17Hearts of Oak

18A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea

19The Talents

176

20A Farewell

21An Apple Orchard in the Spring

111

22The Bluejay

317

23A Canadian Camping Song

24The Argonauts

360

25The Minstrel-Boy

26Mary Elizabeth

1029

27The Frost

150

28Corn-fields

128

29South-West Wind, Esq.

671

30The Meeting of the Waters

31Love

123

32The Robin's Song

33Work or Play

448

34Burial of Sir John Moore

147

35The Whistle

135

36A Canadian Boat Song

37The Little Hero of Haarlem

342

38Father William

161

39David and Goliath

434

40Charge of the Light Brigade

124

41Maggie Tulliver

497

42The Corn Song

108

43Sports in Norman England

341

44A Song of Canada

217

45A Mad Tea Party

489

46The Slave's Dream

178

47The Chase

651

48The Inchcape Rock

226

49A Rough Ride

545

50The Arab and His Steed

323

51The Poet's Song

52Adventure with a Whale

362

53The Maple

131

54Damon and Pythias

185

55The Wreck of the Orpheus

100

56The Tide River

57Wisdom the Supreme Prize

58The Orchard

59Inspired by the Snow

230

60The Squirrel

61Soldier, Rest

62Fishing

386

63The Fountain

64Break, Break, Break

65The Bed of Procrustes

416

66"Bob White"

67Radisson and the Indians

216

68The Brook

140

69"Do Seek Their Meat From God"

490

70A Song of the Sea

115

71Little Daffydownilly

812

72The Sandpiper

142

73From "The Sermon on the Mount"

147

74The Legend of Saint Christopher

215

75William Tell and His Son (from Chambers' 'Tracts')

283

76A Midsummer Song

128

77The Relief of Lucknow

315

78The Song in Camp

148

79Afterglow

80King Richard and Salidin

443

81England's Dead

174

82Hohenlinden

127

83The Dream of the Oak Tree (translator unknown)

366

84A Prayer

85The Death of the Flowers

160

86'Tis the Last Rose of Summer

87A Roman's Honour

242

88The Fighting Téméraire

102

89Don Quixote's Fight with the Windmills (translator unknown)

401

90The Romance of the Swan's Nest

309

91Moonlight Sonata

388

92The Red-Winged Blackbird

116

93To the Cuckoo

119

94The Story of a Stone

356

95The Snow-Storm

207

96The Heroine of Vercheres

410

97Jacques Cartier

202

98Ants and Their Slaves

375

99Lead, Kindly Light

100The Jolly Sandboys

552

101The Gladness of Nature

102

102Old English Life

453

103Puck's Song

126

104The Battle of Queenston Heights

436

105The Bugle Song

103

106Charity

143

107A Christmas Carol

131

108The Barren Lands

449

109A Spring Morning

111

110Crossing the Bar

Ontario Readers: Third Book

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