The Ugly Duckling / Hans Christian Anderson -- Androcles and the lion / Aesop -- The early days of Black Beauty from Black Beauty / Anna Sewell -- Roin Hood and the Merry little old woman / Eva March Tappan -- How Arthur was crowned King from Morte de'Arthur / Sir Thomas Malory -- The Adventure of the windmills from Don Quixote de la Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes -- from Gullivers Travels / Jonathan Swift -- Ulysses and the Cyclops from The Odyssey / Homer -- The Golden touch adapted from The Wonder book / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Glorious whitewasher from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain -- The Ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry -- Romeo and Juliet [adaptation] / William Shakespeare -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Jim Bakers Bluejay yarn from A Tramp Abroad / Mark Twain -- from The Red Badge of courage / Stephen Crane -- [Adventure of the Speckled Band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- from The Call of the wild / Jack London -- Casey at the Bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- The Windmill / henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Highwayman / Alfred Noyes -- The Charge of the Light Brigade / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- If / Rudyard Kipling -- It couldn't be done / Edgar A. Guest -- Passover: Pharaoh of the hard heart from Exodus -- Easter: "The Risen Lord" from The Gospels of Mark, Luke, and John -- Halloween: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" / Washington Irving -- Thanksgiving: "A Paayer of Thanksgiving" / Robert Louis Stevenson; "Ezra's Thanksgivin' out west / Eugene Field -- Christmas: "A visit from St. Nicholas" / Clement Clarke Moore; "The Gift of the Magi" / O. Henry -- A Christmas Carol / Charles Dickens.