Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories

About this eBook

Author

Baldwin, James, 1841-1925

Credits

Bill Rozmiarek, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Character -- Juvenile literature

Category

Text

eBook-No.

6168

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6168

Release Date

July 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.FIFTY FAMOUS PEOPLE — PREFATORY NOTE
2. 2.CONTENTS — SAVING THE BIRDS
3. 3.SAVING THE BIRDS — ANOTHER BIRD STORY
4. 4.SPEAKING A PIECE
5. 5.WRITING A COMPOSITION
6. 6.THE WHISTLE
7. 7.THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD — II — A BOY'S SONG
8. 8.THE CALIPH AND THE POET
9. 9."BECOS! BECOS! BECOS!"
10. 10.A LESSON IN HUMILITY
11. 11.THE MIDNIGHT RIDE
12. 12.THE BOY AND THE WOLF
13. 13.ANOTHER WOLF STORY — II
14. 14.THE HORSESHOE NAILS — II
15. 15.THE LANDLORD'S MISTAKE
16. 16.A LESSON IN MANNERS
17. 17.GOING TO SEA
18. 18.THE SHEPHERD-BOY PAINTER
19. 19.TWO GREAT PAINTERS
20. 20.THE KING AND THE BEES
21. 21.OUR FIRST GREAT PAINTER
22. 22.THE YOUNG SCOUT
23. 23.THE LAD WHO RODE SIDESADDLE
24. 24.THE WHISPERERS
25. 25.HOW A PRINCE LEARNED TO READ — II
26. 26."READ, AND YOU WILL KNOW"
27. 27.THE YOUNG CUPBEARER — II — III
28. 28.THE SONS OF THE CALIPH
29. 29.THE BOY AND THE ROBBERS — A LESSON IN JUSTICE
30. 30.THE GENERAL AND THE FOX
31. 31.THE BOMB — A STORY OF OLD ROME
32. 32.SAVED BY A DOLPHIN — "LITTLE BROTHERS OF THE AIR"
33. 33.A CLEVER SLAVE
34. 34.ONE OF AESOP'S FABLES
35. 35.THE DARK DAY
36. 36.THE SURLY GUEST — III
37. 37.THE STORY OF A GREAT STORY
38. 38.THE KING AND THE PAGE
39. 39.THE HUNTED KING — "TRY, TRY AGAIN!"
40. 40.WHY HE CARRIED THE TURKEY
41. 41.THE PADDLE-WHEEL BOAT
42. 42.THE CALIPH AND THE GARDENER
43. 43.THE COWHERD WHO BECAME A POET — II
44. 44.THE LOVER OF MEN
45. 45.THE CHARCOAL MAN AND THE KING
46. 46.WHICH WAS THE KING?
47. 47.THE GOLDEN TRIPOD — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII
48. 48.FIFTY FAMOUS PEOPLE

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