SECOND YEAR LANGUAGE READER BY FRANKLIN T. BAKER PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN TEACHERS COLLEGE GEORGE R. CARPENTER PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AND KATHARINE B. OWEN INSTRUCTOR IN THE CHARLTON SCHOOL NEW YORK CITY New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1909 All rights reserved IRY TOUCHED THE TREE WITH HER WAND. See page 16.