Ontario Readers: Third Book
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111 chapters · 7 h 15 min · English
Read by David Lawrence, Sibella Denton, Clara Snyder, Ancilla, Linda Ferguson, Laura Caldwell and others
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The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary works, both stories and poems, geared to grade-school age children. (Summary by aradlaw)
Chapters
1 Acknowledgements 5 min 2 To-day 1 min 3 Fortune and the Beggar 3 min 4 The Lark and the Rook 2 min 5 The Pickwick Club on Ice 6 min 6 Tubal Cain 3 min 7 Professor Frog's Lecture 13 min 8 A Song for April 1 min 9 How the Crickets Brought Good Fortune 5 min 10 The Battle of Blenheim 2 min 11 The Ride for Life 6 min 12 Iagoo, the Boaster 2 min 13 The Story of a Fire 3 min 14 The Quest 2 min 15 The Jackal and the Partridge 6 min 16 Hide and Seek 2 min 17 The Burning of the "Goliath" 4 min 18 Hearts of Oak 1 min 19 A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea 1 min 20 The Talents 3 min 21 A Farewell 1 min 22 An Apple Orchard in the Spring 2 min 23 The Bluejay 5 min 24 A Canadian Camping Song 2 min 25 The Argonauts 6 min 26 The Minstrel-Boy 1 min 27 Mary Elizabeth 17 min 28 The Frost 2 min 29 Corn-fields 2 min 30 South-West Wind, Esq 11 min 31 The Meeting of the Waters 2 min 32 Love 2 min 33 The Robin's Song 1 min 34 Work or Play 7 min 35 Burial of Sir John Moore 2 min 36 The Whistle 2 min 37 A Canadian Boat Song 1 min 38 The Little Hero of Haarlem 6 min 39 Father William 3 min 40 David and Goliath 7 min 41 Charge of the Light Brigade 2 min 42 Maggie Tulliver 8 min 43 The Corn Song 2 min 44 Sports in Norman England 6 min 45 A Song of Canada 4 min 46 A Mad Tea Party 8 min 47 The Slave's Dream 3 min 48 The Chase 11 min 49 The Inchcape Rock 4 min 50 A Rough Ride 9 min 51 The Arab and His Steed 5 min 52 The Poet's Song 1 min 53 Adventure with a Whale 6 min 54 The Maple 2 min 55 Damon and Pythias 3 min 56 The Wreck of the Orpheus 2 min 57 The Tide River 2 min 58 Wisdom the Supreme Prize 1 min 59 The Orchard 1 min 60 Inspired by the Snow 4 min 61 The Squirrel 1 min 62 Soldier, Rest 1 min 63 Fishing 6 min 64 The Fountain 1 min 65 Break, Break, Break 1 min 66 The Bed of Procrustes 7 min 67 Bob White 2 min 68 Radisson and the Indians 4 min 69 The Brook 2 min 70 Do Seek Their Meat From God 8 min 71 A Song of the Sea 2 min 72 Little Daffydownilly 14 min 73 The Sandpiper 2 min 74 From "The Sermon on the Mount" 2 min 75 The Legend of Saint Christopher 4 min 76 William Tell and His Son (from Chambers' 'Tracts') 5 min 77 A Midsummer Song 2 min 78 The Relief of Lucknow 5 min 79 The Song in Camp 2 min 80 Afterglow 1 min 81 King Richard and Salidin 7 min 82 England's Dead 3 min 83 Hohenlinden 2 min 84 The Dream of the Oak Tree (translator unknown) 6 min 85 A Prayer 1 min 86 The Death of the Flowers 3 min 87 'Tis the Last Rose of Summer 1 min 88 A Roman's Honour 4 min 89 The Fighting Téméraire 2 min 90 Don Quixote's Fight with the Windmills (translator unknown) 7 min 91 The Romance of the Swan's Nest 5 min 92 Moonlight Sonata 6 min 93 The Red-Winged Blackbird 2 min 94 To the Cuckoo 2 min 95 The Story of a Stone 6 min 96 The Snow-Storm 3 min 97 The Heroine of Vercheres 7 min 98 Jacques Cartier 3 min 99 Ants and Their Slaves 6 min 100 Lead, Kindly Light 2 min 101 The Jolly Sandboys 9 min 102 The Gladness of Nature 2 min 103 Old English Life 8 min 104 Puck's Song 2 min 105 The Battle of Queenston Heights 7 min 106 The Bugle Song 2 min 107 Charity 2 min 108 A Christmas Carol 2 min 109 The Barren Lands 7 min 110 A Spring Morning 2 min 111 Crossing the Bar 2 min
