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Ontario Readers: Fourth Book

A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry and Prose by well known authors of the time. - Summary by David Lawrence (9 hr 36 min)

Chapters

Acknowledgments

The Children's Song/Our Country

Tom Tulliver At School

Ingratitude

The Giant

The Discovery Of America

The First Day of Spring

The Battle of the Pipes

Bega

A Musical Instrument

Wolfe and Montcalm

Canada

Scrooge's Christmas

Hands All Around

Judah's Supplication to Joseph

Miriam's Song

The Destruction of Sennacherib

The Lark at The Diggings

The Ancient Mariner

At the Close of the French Period in Canada

A Hymn of Empire

Story of Absalom

The Burial of Moses

The Crusader and The Saracen

from ''An August Reverie''

Work and Wages

Untrodden Ways

The First Ploughing

The Archery Contest

In November

Autumn Woods

In A Canoe

Afton Water

David Copperfield's First Journey Alone

The Barefoot Boy

Country Life in Canada in the ''Thirties''

Heat

The Two Paths

Bernardo Del Carpio

Moses' Bargains

The Maple

The Greenwood Tree

Lake Superior

The Red River Plain

The Unnamed Lake

Life In Norman England

Ye Mariners of England

Instruction

Home Thoughts from Abroad

The Bells of Shandon

The Vision of Mirzah

Forbearance

Mercy To Animals

The United Empire Loyalists

Oft, In the Stilly Night

The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls

Hudson Strait

Scots Wha Hae

St. Ambrose Crew Win Their First Race

Hunting Song

Border Ballad

The Great Northern Driver

To The Cuckoo

On The Grasshopper and Cricket

The Great Northwest

Rule, Britannia

The Commandment and The Reward

The Spacious Firmament

June

The Fifth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor

Ocean

Pontiac's Attempt to Capture Fort Detroit

My Native Land

Morning on the Lievre

Evening

An Elizabethan Seaman

The Sea-King's Burial

My Castles in Spain

Aladdin

Drake's Voyage Round the World

The Solitary Reaper

Clouds, Rains, and Rivers

Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu

The Indignation of Nicholas Nickleby

Dickens in the Camp

Dost Thou Look Back On What Hath Been

The Passing of Arthur

The Armada

Departure and Death of Nelson

Waterloo

Ode Written in 1746

Balaklava

Funeral for Wellington

In A Cave With a Whale

The Glove and The Lions

Three Scenes in the Tyrol

Marston Moor

London

How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix

An Incident of the French Camp

British Colonial and Naval Power

England, My England

A Good Time Going

God is Our Refuge

Indian Summer

The Skylark

What is War

The Homes of England

To a Water-Fowl

The Fascination of Light

Daffodils

To the Dandelion

True Greatness

The Private of the Bluffs

Honourable Toil

On His Blindness

Mysterious Night

Vitaï Lampada

The Irreparable Past

A Christmas Hymn, 1837

The Quarrel

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