publishers, D. C. Heath and Company; the selection, My Noah's Ark, is used by permission of the author and of the publishers, The Atlantic Monthly Company; the brief selections from Olive Thorne Miller, Longfellow, and Whittier are used by permission of and by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company, authorized publishers of the works of these writers. CHAPTER VI-FABLE, DIALOGUE, AND NARRA- TIVE; PARAGRAPHS; APOSTROPHE, COMMA, |