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THE CHILDREN’S HOUR

IN TEN VOLUMES

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME III

“It is strange that they let that dog liethere”

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 beginningto lower comes a pause in the days occupations, that is known asthe Children’s Hour.

NOTE

All rights in stories in this volume are reserved by the holdersof the copyrights. The publishers and others named in the subjoinedlist are the proprietors, either in their own right or as agentsfor the authors, of the stories taken from the works enumerated, ofwhich the ownership is hereby acknowledged. The editor takes thisopportunity to thank both authors and publishers for the readygenerosity with which they have allowed her to include thesestories in “The Children’s Hour.”

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

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

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

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