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The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book

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A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry and Prose by well known authors of the time. - Summary by David Lawrence (9 hr 36 min)

Chapters

Acknowledgments

3:23

Read by David Lawrence

The Children's Song/Our Country

2:26

Read by Rosalind Walsh

Tom Tulliver At School

9:24

Read by Rosalind Walsh

Ingratitude

0:50

Read by Larry Wilson

The Giant

1:15

Read by BettyB

The Discovery Of America

7:30

Read by Rosalind Walsh

The First Day of Spring

1:36

Read by Melissa Perry

The Battle of the Pipes

7:57

Read by Rosalind Walsh

Bega

2:52

Read by Rosalind Walsh

A Musical Instrument

2:40

Read by Melissa Perry

Wolfe and Montcalm

13:03

Read by Rosalind Walsh

Canada

2:11

Read by Rosalind Walsh

Scrooge's Christmas

15:34

Read by Larry Wilson

Hands All Around

1:57

Read by phxtopdog

Judah's Supplication to Joseph

6:43

Read by Rosalind Walsh

Miriam's Song

1:06

Read by Robin Lamb

The Destruction of Sennacherib

1:44

Read by Robin Lamb

The Lark at The Diggings

5:26

Read by phxtopdog

The Ancient Mariner

4:00

Read by Larry Wilson

At the Close of the French Period in Canada

12:31

Read by BettyB

A Hymn of Empire

2:07

Read by Rosalind Walsh

Story of Absalom

6:14

Read by Rosalind Walsh

The Burial of Moses

3:46

Read by Larry Wilson

The Crusader and The Saracen

11:55

Read by Steve C

from ''An August Reverie''

2:16

Read by Melissa Perry

Work and Wages

3:50

Read by BettyB

Untrodden Ways

2:09

Read by Alitheia

The First Ploughing

1:51

Read by Alitheia

The Archery Contest

8:23

Read by Garth Burton

In November

0:56

Read by Alitheia

Autumn Woods

2:35

Read by Anne Fletcher

In A Canoe

7:05

Read by The Voice before the Void

Afton Water

2:11

Read by Anne Fletcher

David Copperfield's First Journey Alone

10:20

Read by James K. White

The Barefoot Boy

4:41

Read by phxtopdog

Country Life in Canada in the ''Thirties''

8:01

Read by BettyB

Heat

2:53

Read by Anne Fletcher

The Two Paths

1:26

Read by Larry Wilson

Bernardo Del Carpio

5:12

Read by phxtopdog

Moses' Bargains

6:49

Read by Rosalind Walsh

The Maple

1:56

Read by Abby

The Greenwood Tree

1:18

Read by Rosalind Walsh

Lake Superior

3:26

Read by BettyB

The Red River Plain

3:00

Read by BettyB

The Unnamed Lake

2:27

Read by Alitheia

Life In Norman England

8:09

Read by Garth Burton

Ye Mariners of England

2:57

Read by Steve C

Instruction

1:48

Read by Larry Wilson

Home Thoughts from Abroad

1:26

Read by Rosalind Walsh

The Bells of Shandon

2:39

Read by BettyB

The Vision of Mirzah

11:49

Read by phxtopdog

Forbearance

0:56

Read by Melissa Perry

Mercy To Animals

1:27

Read by April6090

The United Empire Loyalists

4:58

Read by Rosalind Walsh

Oft, In the Stilly Night

2:41

Read by The Voice before the Void

The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls

1:09

Read by Rosalind Walsh

Hudson Strait

4:52

Read by BettyB

Scots Wha Hae

1:46

Read by Nemo

St. Ambrose Crew Win Their First Race

10:58

Read by ToddHW

Hunting Song

1:55

Read by April6090

Border Ballad

1:15

Read by ToddHW

The Great Northern Driver

6:01

Read by BettyB

To The Cuckoo

1:42

Read by Rosalind Walsh

On The Grasshopper and Cricket

1:11

Read by Rosalind Walsh

The Great Northwest

6:20

Read by BettyB

Rule, Britannia

1:45

Read by Rosalind Walsh

The Commandment and The Reward

1:21

Read by Larry Wilson

The Spacious Firmament

1:26

Read by Larry Wilson

June

2:53

Read by Rosalind Walsh

The Fifth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor

12:02

Read by Garth Burton

Ocean

4:11

Read by Larry Wilson

Pontiac's Attempt to Capture Fort Detroit

10:33

Read by phxtopdog

My Native Land

1:18

Read by Rosalind Walsh

Morning on the Lievre

2:17

Read by BettyB

Evening

1:26

Read by Alitheia

An Elizabethan Seaman

9:11

Read by Rosalind Walsh

The Sea-King's Burial

5:55

Read by Larry Wilson

My Castles in Spain

10:58

Read by The Voice before the Void

Aladdin

1:05

Read by Rosalind Walsh

Drake's Voyage Round the World

15:58

Read by phxtopdog

The Solitary Reaper

1:45

Read by Rosalind Walsh

Clouds, Rains, and Rivers

10:50

Read by Larry Wilson

Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu

9:03

Read by Nemo

The Indignation of Nicholas Nickleby

14:46

Read by phxtopdog

Dickens in the Camp

2:47

Read by Larry Hansen

Dost Thou Look Back On What Hath Been

1:43

Read by Larry Wilson

The Passing of Arthur

7:55

Read by Robin Lamb

The Armada

7:01

Read by Nemo

Departure and Death of Nelson

12:21

Read by Lyre

Waterloo

4:19

Read by Kalynda

Ode Written in 1746

1:28

Read by Rosalind Walsh

Balaklava

9:44

Read by ToddHW

Funeral for Wellington

2:17

Read by BettyB

In A Cave With a Whale

15:42

Read by The Voice before the Void

The Glove and The Lions

2:38

Read by Larry Hansen

Three Scenes in the Tyrol

9:39

Read by phxtopdog

Marston Moor

4:51

Read by Diana Schmidt

London

7:56

Read by Steve C

How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix

3:56

Read by BettyB

An Incident of the French Camp

2:06

Read by Kalynda

British Colonial and Naval Power

7:19

Read by Lazlo

England, My England

2:55

Read by Nemo

A Good Time Going

3:02

Read by Larry Wilson

God is Our Refuge

2:13

Read by Larry Wilson

Indian Summer

3:58

Read by Melissa Perry

The Skylark

1:28

Read by Diana Schmidt

What is War

3:31

Read by Lazlo

The Homes of England

2:05

Read by Rosalind Walsh

To a Water-Fowl

1:57

Read by Larry Wilson

The Fascination of Light

4:43

Read by April6090

Daffodils

1:54

Read by Anne Fletcher

To the Dandelion

0:51

Read by Larry Wilson

True Greatness

6:35

Read by Rosalind Walsh

The Private of the Bluffs

2:43

Read by Steve C

Honourable Toil

3:06

Read by April6090

On His Blindness

1:35

Read by Larry Wilson

Mysterious Night

1:13

Read by April6090

Vitaï Lampada

1:42

Read by Rosalind Walsh

The Irreparable Past

7:11

Read by Larry Wilson

A Christmas Hymn, 1837

3:56

Read by BettyB

The Quarrel

8:13

Read by Larry Wilson

Recessional

2:01

Read by Larry Wilson