THE
NEW BARNES READERS
FIRST
YEAR-SECOND HALF
BOOK
ONE
BY HERMAN DRESSEL
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS,
KEARNY, N. J.
MAY ROBBINS
PRIMARY SUPERINTENDENT,
KEARNY, N. J.
AND
ELLIS U. GRAFF
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS,
OMAHA, NEBRASKA
ILLUSTRATIONS
BY MABEL D. HILL
NEW
YORK AND CHICAGO
THE A. S. BARNES COMPANY
COPYRIGHT,
1916,
BY
THE A. S. BARNES COMPANY
The
story The Rabbit and the Nut is an adaptation of
The Wise Lion and the
Timid
Rabbit
from a collection of Eastern Stories and Legends by Marie L. Shedlock,
and is used by permission of E. P. Dutton & Co.