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The Ontario Readers: Third Book

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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)

Genre(s): Short works

Language: English

Keyword(s): children (1088), reader (6), various (4), abridged (2), grade-school (1)

Section	Chapter	Author	Source	Reader	Time	Language
Play 00	Acknowledgements	Unknown	Etext	David Lawrence	00:04:40
Play 01	To-day	Thomas Carlyle	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:00:45	en
Play 02	Fortune and the Beggar	Ivan Krylov	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:02:42	en
Play 03	The Lark and the Rook	Unknown	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:01:55	en
Play 04	The Pickwick Club on Ice	Charles Dickens	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:06:02	en
Play 05	Tubal Cain	Charles Mackay	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:02:33	en
Play 06	Professor Frog's Lecture	M. A. L. Lane	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:12:44	en
Play 07	A Song for April	Sir Charles G. D. Roberts	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:01:05	en
Play 08	How the Crickets Brought Good Fortune	P.-J. Stahl	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:05:10	en
Play 09	The Battle of Blenheim	Robert Southey	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:02:21	en
Play 10	The Ride for Life	Ralph Connor	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:05:45	en
Play 11	Iagoo, the Boaster	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Etext	Clara Snyder	00:01:42	en
Play 12	The Story of a Fire	Jacob A. Riis	Etext	Ancilla	00:03:03	en
Play 13	The Quest	Eudora S. Bumstead	Etext	Clara Snyder	00:01:37	en
Play 14	The Jackal and the Partridge	Flora Annie Steel	Etext	Linda Ferguson	00:06:23	en
Play 15	Hide and Seek	Henry van Dyke	Etext	Clara Snyder	00:01:48	en
Play 16	The Burning of the "Goliath"	Dean Stanley	Etext	Laura Caldwell	00:04:11	en
Play 17	Hearts of Oak	David Garrick	Etext	TriciaG	00:01:13	en
Play 18	A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea	Allan Cunningham	Etext	TriciaG	00:01:17	en
Play 19	The Talents	King James Version (KJV)	Etext	Marian Martin	00:02:56	en
Play 20	A Farewell	Charles Kingsley	Etext	Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)	00:01:14	en
Play 21	An Apple Orchard in the Spring	William Martin	Etext	Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)	00:01:51	en
Play 22	The Bluejay	Mark Twain	Etext	Esther	00:05:17	en
Play 23	A Canadian Camping Song	Sir James David Edgar	Etext	Kalynda	00:01:33	en
Play 24	The Argonauts	John Waugh	Etext	TriciaG	00:06:00	en
Play 25	The Minstrel-Boy	Thomas Moore	Etext	Kalynda	00:01:21	en
Play 26	Mary Elizabeth	Elizabeth Stuart Phelps	Etext	ppezz	00:17:09	en
Play 27	The Frost	Hannah Flagg Gould	Etext	Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)	00:02:30	en
Play 28	Corn-fields	Mary Howitt	Etext	Linda Ferguson	00:02:08	en
Play 29	South-West Wind, Esq.	John Ruskin	Etext	Linda Ferguson	00:11:11	en
Play 30	The Meeting of the Waters	Thomas Moore	Etext	meenaiyer	00:01:32	en
Play 31	Love	King James Version (KJV)	Etext	Neeru Iyer	00:02:03	en
Play 32	The Robin's Song	Unknown	Etext	Neeru Iyer	00:01:25	en
Play 33	Work or Play	Mark Twain	Etext	John Greenman	00:07:28	en
Play 34	Burial of Sir John Moore	Charles Wolfe	Etext	Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)	00:02:27	en
Play 35	The Whistle	Benjamin Franklin	Etext	TriciaG	00:02:15	en
Play 36	A Canadian Boat Song	Thomas Moore	Etext	TriciaG	00:01:15	en
Play 37	The Little Hero of Haarlem	Sharpe's London Magazine	Etext	TriciaG	00:05:42	en
Play 38	Father William	Lewis Carroll	Etext	Clara Snyder	00:02:41	en
Play 39	David and Goliath	King James Version (KJV)	Etext	Symmie	00:07:14	en
Play 40	Charge of the Light Brigade	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Etext	TriciaG	00:02:04	en
Play 41	Maggie Tulliver	George Eliot	Etext	Lucy Perry	00:08:17	en
Play 42	The Corn Song	John Greenleaf Whittier	Etext	Linda Ferguson	00:01:48	en
Play 43	Sports in Norman England	William Fitzstephen	Etext	Timothy Ferguson	00:05:41	en
Play 44	A Song of Canada	Robert Reid	Etext	TriciaG	00:03:37	en
Play 45	A Mad Tea Party	Lewis Carroll	Etext	Symmie	00:08:09	en
Play 46	The Slave's Dream	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Etext	Kalynda	00:02:58	en
Play 47	The Chase	Charles Dudley Warner	Etext	ppezz	00:10:51	en
Play 48	The Inchcape Rock	Robert Southey	Etext	meenaiyer	00:03:46	en
Play 49	A Rough Ride	Richard Doddridge Blackmore	Etext	TriciaG	00:09:05	en
Play 50	The Arab and His Steed	Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	Etext	Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)	00:05:23	en
Play 51	The Poet's Song	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:01:14	en
Play 52	Adventure with a Whale	Frank Thomas Bullen	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:06:02	en
Play 53	The Maple	H. F. Darnell	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:02:11	en
Play 54	Damon and Pythias	Charlotte Mary Yonge	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:03:05	en
Play 55	The Wreck of the Orpheus	Unknown	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:01:40	en
Play 56	The Tide River	Charles Kingsley	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:01:39	en
Play 57	Wisdom the Supreme Prize	King James Version (KJV)	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:01:15	en
Play 58	The Orchard	Jean McKishnie Blewett	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:01:05	en
Play 59	Inspired by the Snow	Samuel T. Wood	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:03:50	en
Play 60	The Squirrel	William Cowper	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:00:49	en
Play 61	Soldier, Rest	Sir Walter Scott	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:01:20	en
Play 62	Fishing	Thomas Hughes	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:06:26	en
Play 63	The Fountain	James Russell Lowell	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:01:05	en
Play 64	Break, Break, Break	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:01:13	en
Play 65	The Bed of Procrustes	Charles Kingsley	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:06:56	en
Play 66	"Bob White"	George Cooper	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:01:30	en
Play 67	Radisson and the Indians	Beckles Willson	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:03:36	en
Play 68	The Brook	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:02:20	en
Play 69	"Do Seek Their Meat From God"	Sir Charles G. D. Roberts	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:08:10	en
Play 70	A Song of the Sea	Barry Cornwall	Etext	Sibella Denton	00:01:55	en
Play 71	Little Daffydownilly	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Etext	Neeru Iyer	00:13:32	en
Play 72	The Sandpiper	Celia Thaxter	Etext	Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)	00:02:22	en
Play 73	From "The Sermon on the Mount"	King James Version (KJV)	Etext	Symmie	00:02:27	en
Play 74	The Legend of Saint Christopher	Helen Hunt Jackson	Etext	Marian Martin	00:03:35	en
Play 75	William Tell and His Son (from Chambers' 'Tracts')	Robert Chambers	Etext	TriciaG	00:04:43	en
Play 76	A Midsummer Song	Richard Watson Gilder	Etext	Carol Stripling	00:02:08	en
Play 77	The Relief of Lucknow	Unknown	Etext	David Lawrence	00:05:15	en
Play 78	The Song in Camp	Bayard Taylor	Etext	Carol Stripling	00:02:28	en
Play 79	Afterglow	William Wilfred Campbell	Etext	meenaiyer	00:01:24	en
Play 80	King Richard and Salidin	Sir Walter Scott	Etext	Neeru Iyer	00:07:23	en
Play 81	England's Dead	Felicia Dorothea Hemans	Etext	Kalynda	00:02:54	en
Play 82	Hohenlinden	Thomas Campbell	Etext	Craig Campbell	00:02:07	en
Play 83	The Dream of the Oak Tree (translator unknown)	Hans Christian Andersen	Etext	Neeru Iyer	00:06:06	en
Play 84	A Prayer	Robert Louis Stevenson	Etext	Neeru Iyer	00:01:05	en
Play 85	The Death of the Flowers	William Cullen Bryant	Etext	meenaiyer	00:02:40	en
Play 86	'Tis the Last Rose of Summer	Thomas Moore	Etext	Lucy Perry	00:01:00	en
Play 87	A Roman's Honour	Charlotte Mary Yonge	Etext	Lucy Perry	00:04:02	en
Play 88	The Fighting Téméraire	Sir Henry Newbolt	Etext	Lucy Perry	00:01:42	en
Play 89	Don Quixote's Fight with the Windmills (translator unknown)	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	Etext	Marian Martin	00:06:41	en
Play 90	The Romance of the Swan's Nest	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Etext	Neeru Iyer	00:05:09	en
Play 91	Moonlight Sonata	Unknown	Etext	Marian Martin	00:06:28	en
Play 92	The Red-Winged Blackbird	Ethelwyn Wetherald	Etext	Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)	00:01:56	en
Play 93	To the Cuckoo	John Logan	Etext	Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)	00:01:59	en
Play 94	The Story of a Stone	Unknown	Etext	David Lawrence	00:05:56	en
Play 95	The Snow-Storm	John Greenleaf Whittier	Etext	Lucy Perry	00:03:27	en
Play 96	The Heroine of Vercheres	Francis Parkman, Jr.	Etext	Neeru Iyer	00:06:50	en
Play 97	Jacques Cartier	Thomas D'Arcy McGee	Etext	Kalynda	00:03:22	en
Play 98	Ants and Their Slaves	Jules Michelet	Etext	Symmie	00:06:15	en
Play 99	Lead, Kindly Light	John Henry Newman	Etext	Carol Stripling	00:01:35	en
Play 100	The Jolly Sandboys	Charles Dickens	Etext	Linda Ferguson	00:09:12	en
Play 101	The Gladness of Nature	William Cullen Bryant	Etext	Carol Stripling	00:01:42	en
Play 102	Old English Life	William Francis Collier	Etext	Clara Snyder	00:07:33	en
Play 103	Puck's Song	Rudyard Kipling	Etext	Neeru Iyer	00:02:06	en
Play 104	The Battle of Queenston Heights	Unknown	Etext	Antoine Kaufmann	00:07:16	en
Play 105	The Bugle Song	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Etext	Carol Stripling	00:01:43	en
Play 106	Charity	King James Version (KJV)	Etext	Neeru Iyer	00:02:23	en
Play 107	A Christmas Carol	James Russell Lowell	Etext	Sean McGaughey Rose 264	00:02:11	en
Play 108	The Barren Lands	Edward Bolland Osborn	Etext	Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)	00:07:29	en
Play 109	A Spring Morning	William Wordsworth	Etext	Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)	00:01:51	en
Play 110	Crossing the Bar	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Etext	Neeru Iyer	00:01:33	en

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