Fanciful Tales
The Negro in Our History
BOYS OF OTHER COUNTRIES
STORIES FOR AMERICAN BOYS
BY BAYARD TAYLOR
NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
182 FIFTH AVENUE
1876
STORY I.
THE LITTLE POST-BOY
STORY II.
THE PASHA'S SON
STORY III.
JON OF ICELAND
STORY IV.
THE Two HERD-BOYS
STORY V.
THE YOUNG SERF
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CONTENTS
John James Audubon, Lover and Student of Birds i
Mark Hopkins, President of Williams College . . . .11
Cyrus H. McCoRM1CK, Inventor of the Reaper .... 20
Charles Goodyear, a Man who Persevered .... 30
William T. G.morton, Master of Pain 39
Elias Howe, Inventor of the Sewing-Machine .... 47
Maria Mitchell, Astronomer and Teacher 54
Henry Oscar Houghton, Printer and Publisher . . .61
Cyrus W. Field, the Manwho Laid the Atlantic Cable. . .71
Jean Lou1s Rodolphe Agassiz, Beloved Teacher of Science . 79
Julia Ward Howe, Author of the "Battle Hymn of the Repub-
George Thorndike Angell, Knight of Kindness to Animals 97
Luther Burbank, Plant-Breeder 106
Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the Telephone . .115
John Wanamaker, Founder of the Departme.nl Store . . .122
Frances E. Willard, Temperance Reformer 132
Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross . . . 140
Booker T. Washington, Founder of Tuskegee Institute . . 147
Augustus Saint-gaudens, Greatest American Sculptor . .157
James Jerome Hill, Builder of Railroads 168
John Muir, the Man who Loved Trees and Mountains . .179
Theodore Thomas, the Man who Taught us to Love Music . 189
Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor 199
Edwin Austin Abbey, Illustrator and Painter .... 208
Samuel Pierpont Langley, Inventor of the First Heavier-than-
Andrew Carnegie, the Man who Would not Die Rich . . 228
William Crawford Gorgas, who Made the Canal Zone
Robert E. Peary, Discoverer of the North Pole .... 245
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