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The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10)
Stories from the Classics

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10), by Various, Edited by Eva March Tappan

Title: The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10)

Author: Various

Release Date: January 21, 2005 [eBook #14752]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHILDREN'S HOUR, VOLUME 3 (OF 10)***

 

E-text prepared by Bill Tozier, Barbara Tozier,
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

 


THE CHILDREN’S HOUR

IN TEN VOLUMES

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME III


A man looks at a melee while a dog lays in the street.

It is strange that they let that dog lie there


The Children’s Hour

STORIES FROM THE CLASSICS

Selected & Arranged by

Eva March Tappan


1907

Houghton Mifflin Company

Between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower comes a pause in the days occupations, that is known as the Children’s Hour.


NOTE

All rights in stories in this volume are reserved by the holders of the copyrights. The publishers and others named in the subjoined list are the proprietors, either in their own right or as agents for the authors, of the stories taken from the works enumerated, of which the ownership is hereby acknowledged. The editor takes this opportunity to thank both authors and publishers for the ready generosity with which they have allowed her to include these stories in “The Children’s Hour.”

“The Wonder-Book,” and “Tanglewood Tales,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne; published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company.

“Old Greek Folk Stories,” by Josephine Preston Peabody; published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company.

“The Odyssey of Homer,” English prose version by George Herbert Palmer; published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company.


CONTENTS

TO THE CHILDREN
STORIES FROM HERODOTUS
Ladronius, The Prince of Thieves Retold by G.H. Boden and W. Barrington d’Almeida
Arion and the Dolphin Retold by G.H. Boden and W. Barrington d’Almeida
STORIES FROM LIVY
Romulus, Founder of Rome Alfred J. Church
How Horatius Held the Bridge Alfred J. Church
How Cincinnatus Saved Rome Alfred J. Church
The Story of Virginia Alfred J. Church
The Sacrifice of Marcus Curtius Alfred J. Church
STORIES FROM OVID
The Miraculous Pitcher Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Golden Touch Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Pomegranate Seeds Nathaniel Hawthorne
OLD GREEK FOLK-STORIES
Orpheus and Eurydice Josephine Preston Peabody
Icarus and Dædalus Josephine Preston Peabody
Phaethon Josephine Preston Peabody
Niobe Josephine Preston Peabody
Pyramus and Thisbe Josephine Preston Peabody
STORIES OF THE TROJAN WAR
The Apple of Discord Josephine Preston Peabody

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