>>> YOU ARE VIEWING A 200 LINE SAMPLE OF EBOOK# E00500 <<< TITLE: THE JUNIOR CLASSICS AUTHOR: VARIOUS EBOOK: E00500 (O'Briens Book Cellar) The Junior Classics A LIBRARY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS [Illustration: CATHRINE DOUGLAS THRUST HER ARM THROUGH THE EMPTY STAPLES _From the painting by J P Shelton_] THE JUNIOR CLASSICS SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY WILLIAM PATTEN MANAGING EDITOR OF THE HARVARD CLASSICS INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, LL. D. PRESIDENT EMERITUS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY WITH A READING GUIDE BY WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON, Ph.D. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT SMITH COLLEGE, NORTHAMPTON, MASS., SINCE 1917[-1939] VOLUME SEVEN Stories of Courage and Heroism CONTENTS PREFACE How Phidias Helped the Image-Maker _Beatrice Harraden_ The Fight at the Pass of Thermopyle _Charlotte M. Yonge_ The Bravery of Regulus _Charlotte M. Yonge_ The Rabbi Who Found the Diadem _Dr. A. S. Isaacs_ How Livia Won the Brooch _Beatrice Harraden_ Julius Cesar Crossing the Rubicon _Jacob Abbott_ Fearless Saint Genevieve, Patron Saint of Paris _Charlotte M. Yonge_ The Boy Viking--Olaf II of Norway _E. S. Brooks_ The Boy-Heroes of Crecy and Poitiers _Treadwell Walden_ The Noble Burghers of Calais _Charlotte M. Yonge_ The Story of Joan of Arc, the Maid Who Saved France _Anonymous_ How Joan the Maid Took Largess from the English _Anonymous_ Death of Joan the Maid _Anonymous_ How Catherine Douglas Tried to Save King James of Scotland _Charlotte M. Yonge_ The Brave Queen of Hungary _Charlotte M. Yonge_ The Story of Christopher Columbus for Little Children _Elizabeth Harrison_ A Sea-Fight in the Time of Queen Bess _Charles Kingsley_ A Brave Scottish Chief _Anonymous_ The Adventure of Grizel Cochrane _Arthur Quiller-Couch_ The Sunken Treasure _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ The Lost Exiles of Texas _Arthur Oilman_ The Boy Conqueror--Charles XII of Sweden _E. S. Brooks_ The True Story of a Kidnapped Boy as Told by Himself _Peter Williamson_ The Prisoner Who Would Not Stay in Prison _Anonymous_ A White Boy Among the Indians, as Told by Himself _John Tanner_ Evangeline of Acadia _Henry W. Longfellow_ Jabez Rockwell's Powder-Horn _Ralph D. Paine_ A Man Who Coveted Washington's Shoes _Frank R. Stockton._ A Famous Fight Between an English and a French Frigate _Rev. W. H. Fitchett_ The Trick of an Indian Spy _Arthur Quiller-Couch_ The Man in the "Auger Hole" _Frank R. Stockton._ The Remarkable Voyage of the _Bounty_ _Anonymous_ The Two Boy Hostages at the Siege of Seringapatam _Anonymous_ The Man Who Spoiled Napoleon's "Destiny" _Rev. W. H. Fitchett_ A Fire-Fighter's Rescue from the Flames _Arthur Quiller-Couch_ How Napoleon Rewarded His Men _Baron de Marbot_ A Rescue from Shipwreck _Arthur Quiller-Couch_ Rebecca the Drummer _Charles Barnard_ The Messenger _M. E. M. Davis_ Humphry Davy and the Safety-Lamp _George C. Towle_ Kit Carson's Duel _Emerson Hough_ The Story of Grace Darling _Anonymous_ The Struggles of Charles Goodyear _George C. Towle_ Old Johnny Appleseed _Elizabeth Harrison_ The Little Post-Boy _Bayard Taylor_ How June Found Massa Linkum _Elizabeth S. Phelps_ The Story of a Forest Fire _Raymond S. Spears_ ILLUSTRATIONS CATHERINE DOUGLAS THRUST HER ARM THROUGH THE EMPTY STAPLES How Catherine Douglas Tried to Save King James of Scotland _Frontispiece illustration in color from the painting by J. R. Skelton_ HE SHOOK HIS CLENCHED FIST AT THE OBSTRUCTED SEA-STRAIT The Boy Viking--Olaf II of Norway _From the drawing by Gertrude Demain Hammond_ "FIGHT ON!" CRIED THE MAID; "THE PLACE IS OURS" The Story of Joan of Arc _From the painting by William Rainey_ THEN HE OFFERED A FERVENT PRAYER OF THANKS A Story of Christopher Columbus PREFACE The stories in this volume are true stories, and have been arranged in chronological order, an arrangement that will aid the reader to remember the times to which the stories relate. Almost any encyclopedia can be consulted for general details of the life stories of the interesting people whose names crowd the volume except perhaps in the cases of Peter Williamson and John Tanner, "The True Story of a Kidnapped Boy," and "A White Boy Among the Indians." Peter Williamson was kidnapped in Glasgow, Scotland, when he was eight years old, was captured by the Cherokee Indians in 1745, and (though the story does not tell this) he returned to England and became a prominent citizen. He first made the British Government pay damages for his kidnapping, gave the first exhibition in England of Indian war dances, and was the first Englishman to publish a street directory. He was finally pensioned by the Government for his services in establishing a penny post. John Tanner, the son of a clergyman, was stolen by the Indians some years later. His mother died when he was very young, his father treated him harshly, and so when the Indians kidnapped him he made no effort to escape. John remained among them until he was an old man, and the story of his life, which he was obliged to dictate to others as he could neither read nor write, was first published about 1830. The stories of these boys are considered to be two of the most reliable early accounts we possess of life among the Indians. Acknowledgment for permission to include several stories included in this volume is made in Volume X. WILLIAM PATTEN. HOW PHIDIAS HELPED THE IMAGE-MAKER By Beatrice Harraden During the time when Pericles was at the head of the state at Athens he spared no pains and no money to make the city beautiful. He himself was a lover and patron of the arts, and he was determined that Athens should become the very centre of art and refinement, and that she should have splendid public buildings and splendid sculptures and paintings. So he gathered round him all the great sculptors and painters, and set them to work to carry out his ambitious plans; and some of you know that the "Age of Pericles" is still spoken of as an age in which art advanced towards and <<< END OF SAMPLE... (THE FULL EBOOK HAS 777829 TOTAL CHARACTERS) >>>