"Once there was an old lady," said daddy, "who lived all alone.        One day, though, she went to town and bought a ...

        ''On the morning of the birthday of a little girl named Natalie,' said daddy, ''pink cockatoo was ready to greet...

       You know, I think oyster-crabs are perhaps the most selfish of all the sea animals," began daddy. ''The oyster-crabs rea...

       "The Clothespins on the line," said daddy, "were having a very jolly time."        "I'll blow those clot...

 WARREN'S ADDRESS (At the Battle of Bunker Hill.) BY JOHN PIERPONT Stand! the ground's your own, my braves! Will ye give it up to sl...

  COLUMBIA BY TIMOTHY DWIGHT (Written during the author's services as an army chaplain,1777-78.) Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise. The...

 THE BATTLE OF TRENTON (Dec. 26, 1776.) On Christmas-day in seventy-six. Our ragged troops with bayonets fixed. For Trenton march away. The ...

       The advance of the British army was like a solemn pageant in its steady headway, and like a parade for inspection in the completeness...

THE LONELY BUGLE GRIEVES BY GRENVILLE MELLEN The trump hath blown, And now upon that reeking hill Slaughter rides screaming on the vengeful ...

 TICONDEROGA (May 10, 1775) BY V. B. WILSON The cold, gray light of the dawning On old Carillon falls, And dim in the mist of the morning S...

A SONG FOR LEXINGTON BY ROBERT KELLEY WEEKS The spring came earlier on Than usual that year; The shadiest snow was gone. The slowest brook w...

PAUL REVERE'S RIDE (April 18, 1775) BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul R...