A young shepherd refuses to abide by the laws of the kingdom when the king sneezes. The shepherd survives three perilous trials and refused three magnificent gifts for the hand of the princess in marriage, which he eventually gets out of the king’s frustration.
A R I S E, my soul, on wings enraptur'd, rise
Coverdale encounters a stranger bound for Blithedale, and begins to question his involvement with Zenobia.
Phoebe begins spending more and more time with Holgrave. He tells her his thoughts on the Pycheon curse and reads her an article he has written about it.
The Yankee resigns himself to die at the stake. As the monk chants over him, the eclipse begins. The king begs the Yankee to spare the sun. The Yankee gets the king to promise to make him his chief minister and executive and pay him a salary in return for the sun.
Thoreau explores the moral complexities of hunting.
During his visit, Kenyon asks Donatello to let him mold a bust of him.
On the way to Boston, the narrator strikes up a conversation with another man regarding racial issues. Once in Boston, they continue to debate and discuss the social/racial problems of the day. The narrator comes upon several other interesting characters.
Grandfather Frog formulates a plan whereby Jerry Muskrat will gnaw and dig a hole in the dam and force water through it. Jerry sets off to work.
The poem describes a young man passing through a town bearing the banner “Excelsior” (translated from Latin as “ever higher”), ignoring all warnings, climbing higher until inevitably, “lifeless, but beautiful” he lies half-buried in the snow.
Tommy awakens to a dire situation, awash in the Curlew's wreckage.
The twelve sons of the king would be killed if the queen had a daughter. She had a daughter and the sons were banished to the forest until they would meet their sister.
Dorothy and her friends start a roaring fire
As they travel, it begins to rain and they decide to take shelter for the night as they pass through the Erie Canal. However, the hotel is questionable, as are the folk that inhabit it, so the boys are hesitant. They have no choice because of the rain and reluctantly take the rooms offered to them.
Mr. Icky, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a short story describing a strange conversation between Mr. Icky, an older man dressed in a costume, and a young boy named Peter.
Rene decides to make the journey with his friend. He is concerned about whether he can escape the fort undetected.
Sylvie and Bruno go to sleep outdoors.
Du Bois introduces the struggles and strives of the Negro over the course of history.
A letter from the author to Mr. B.
The narrator describes a negro man who works in a pinery and turpentine camp.
Black Beauty shares some of his experiences with his new master, stable boy and driver.
A part of a collection of short stories about three children in the revolutionary times. This story specifically focuses on the children saving a little fox named Reddy from the redcoats.