Partial contents : The little elf / John Kendrick Bangs
Questions at night / Louis Untermeyer
Poor Richard's wisdom / Benjamin Franklin
The camel's lament / Charles Edward Carryl
The rhinoceros ; An introduction to dogs / Ogden Nash
The bloodhound / Edward Anthony
Bob white / George Cooper
The ant and the cricket / Aesop
The raggle taggle gypsies (Old folk song)
The village blacksmith ; Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Old mother hubbard / Sarah Catherine Martin
Partial contents cont'd : Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe
The fox and the grapes / Joseph Lauren
The enchanted shirt / John Hay
Molly Pitcher / Kate Brownlee Sherwood
The blind men and the elephant / John Godfrey Saxe
Humpty Dumpty's recitation / Lewis Carroll
The table and the chair ; Lear's limericks / Edward Lear
Thanksgiving day / L. Maria Child
A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore
The fly-away horse / Eugene Field
The land of nod / Robert Louis Stevenson
I hear America singing / Walt Whitman
Battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe
When I have fears that I may cease to be / John Keats