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THE SUMMERS READERS

SECOND READER

BY
MAUD SUMMERS

ILLUSTRATED FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY
LUCY FITCH PERKINS
AND
MARION L. MAHONY

FRANK D. BEATTYS AND COMPANY
NEW YORK

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Copyright, 1909, by
Frank D. Beattys and Company
New York

THE DE VINNE PRESS

Thanks are due to the following publishers and authors for permission to reprintpoems and to adapt stories on which they hold copyright:

Charles Scribner’s Sons:

“Singing”; “Autumn Fires” by Robert Louis Stevenson from“Poems and Ballads” (copyright 1895, 1896).

Houghton, Mifflin & Company:

“Sir Robin” from “Childhood Songs” by Lucy Larcom; “A Flockof Doves” from “Poems for Children” by Celia Thaxter; “Whatthe Winds Bring” by Edmund Clarence Stedman; “Hiawatha”;“The Children’s Hour”; “Christmas Bells” by Henry WadsworthLongfellow; “The Miraculous Pitcher”; “The PomegranateSeed” by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Kindergarten Literature Company:

“The Bluebird” from “Songs from the Nest” by Emily HuntingtonMiller.

Little, Brown & Company:

“September” by Helen Hunt Jackson.

Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company:

“The Caterpillar” from “Finger Plays” by Emilie Poulsson.

The Macmillan Company:

“The Fairy’s Love Song” by Ella Higginson.

Milton Bradley Company:

“Patty’s New Dress” from “More Mother Stories” by MaudLindsay; “The Teeter” from “Rhymes for Little Fingers” byMaud Burnham.

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge:

“Mary’s Meadow” by Juliana Horatio Ewing.

The Phelps Publishing Company:

“Pop-corn Song” by Sophia T. Newman. From “Good Housekeeping.”

The Youth’s Companion:

“The Calico’s Story”; “The Nixie’s Strain” by Hjalmar HjorthBoyesen.

F. A. Owen Publishing Company:

“The Story of a Little Water Drop” by Eva Mayne.

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