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Title: Aldine second language book for grades five and six ..
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Bryce, Catherine Turner, 1871- (from old catalog) Spaulding, Frank Ellsworth, 1866- (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: Readers (Elementary)
Publisher: New York : Newson & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ECOND LANGUAGE BOOK Who feels the thirst for knowledge, In Helicon may slake it,If he has still the Roman will To find a way, or make it! — John G. Saxe II. TELLING STORIES FROM A PICTURE (See picture, p. 291) III. MORE PICTURE STORIES Here is another picture of a knight engagedin some great quest; and here is the beginningof a story suggested by the picture : The Lamp of Truth Years and years ago there was in the world a templemade all of dazzling marble. On a high stand ofshining gold in the exact center of the temple stood avery small brass lamp. It seemed a very commonlamp, but really it was the most wonderful lamp in allthe world, — the lamp in which ever burned the Lightof Truth. Were this light turned on a man, allthe thoughts of his mind and the desires of his heartcould be read as plainly as the words on the writtenpage. Many great kings desired this lamp, that by itswonderful light they could test the love and loyalty oftheir councilors and people. So kings and lords and
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295 296 SECOND LANGUAGE BOOK nobles set out on a great quest for the Lamp ofTruth. Now so great a gift could not be placed in heedlesshands, so the gods decided to make the quest a mostdifficult one. Upon reaching the entrance to the tem-ple, every man had to pass three tests, — one to provehis courage, one to prove his wisdom, and one to provehis truth. He who stood the tests should have theLamp of Truth for his own; but all who failed wereturned into steps before the doorway, each step liftingthe temple farther from the earth and nearer to theheavens. Each one who failed thus made it moredifficult for the next comer to reach the temple.What these tests were no one living knew, for all whohad tried and failed were turned into stone steps, untilat length a stairway of a thousand steps led to thedoor of the temple. Far away in the East there lived a prince so daunt-less, wise, and loyal that his people called him True-heart. To his ears came the story of the Lamp ofTruth, and he made

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