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
VOLUME NINE
Stories of To-day
P. F. COLLIER & SON CORPORATION
NEW YORK
Copyright, 1912
By P. F. COLLIER & SON
Copyright, 1918
By P. F. COLLIER & SON
“Brother Rabbit’s Cradle,” Joel Chandler Harris; Copyright,1904, by McClure, Phillips & Co. “A Story ofDecoration Day for the Little Children of To-day,”Elisabeth Harrison; Copyright, 1895, by ElizabethHarrison. “The Taxes of Middlebrook,” R. S. Baker;“The Cure of Fear,” N. Duncan; “A Christmas Adventure,”J. E. Chamberlin; “Chased by the Trail,”Jack London; “Big Timber Beacon,” J. L. Mathews;“How Hilda Got a School,” Lelia Munsell; “The SecondString,” J. B. Connolly; “Holding the Pipe,” A. W.Tolman; “The Travelling Doll,” Evelyn S. Barnett; “TheIdea That Went Astray,” Pauline C. Bouvé; “GravityGregg,” I. O. Rankin; “Jonnasen,” D. L. Sharp; “Inthe Oven,” R. W. Child; “On a Slide-Board,” R. Barnes;“On a Tight Rope,” A. W. Tolman; “The Call of theSea,” F. Palmer; “Down the Incline,” C. N. Hood;“Drasnoe Pipe-Line,” A. S. Pier; “Manuk Del Monte,”R. Thomas; Copyright, 1898, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906,1907, 1908, 1909, by Perry Mason Co. “The Fore-RoomRug,” Kate Douglas Wiggin; Copyright, 1895,by Kate Douglas Riggs; used by permission of and byarrangement with the publishers, Houghton, MifflinCompany. “The Imp and the Drum,” JosephineDaskam Bacon; From “The Imp and the Angel,” Copyright,1901, 1907, by Charles Scribner’s Sons. “TheForeman,” S. E. White; Copyright, 1903, by S. S.McClure Co.; 1904, by Stewart Edward White. “TheCost of Loving,” F. O. Bartlett; Copyright, 1912, by P.F. Collier & Son. “Ladybird,” Edith Barnard; Copyright,1906, by P. F. Collier & Son. “The Gray Collie,”Georgia W. Pangborn; by permission from “Interventions”;Copyright,