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The KISS Presentation and Analysis of
McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader
Revised Edition. N.Y. American Book Company, 1879, 1896, 1907, 1920.

Links from the Lesson Column lead to the texts.*
The "#" column indicates the lesson number in the original.
"Page" indicates the beginning page in the original.
The "Stats" column links to a statistical analysis of the text.
"L" columns link to KISS levels of analyzed text.
# Lesson Page Stats L1 L1A L2 L3 L4 L5
1. Perseverance 25
2. Try, Try Again 28
3. Why the Sea is Salt 29
4. Why the Sea is Salt 32
5. Popping Corn 34
6. Smiles 35
7. Lazy Ned 38
8. The Monkey 39
9. Meddlesome Matty 42
10. The Good Son 44
11. To-morrow 45
12. Where there is a Will  47
13. Piccola 48
14. True Manliness 50
15. True Manliness 52
16. The Brown Thrush 54
17. A Ship in a Storm 55
18. The Sailor's Consolation 58
19. Two Ways of Telling a Story 60
20. Freaks of the Frost 63
21. Waste not, Want not 64
22. Jeannette and Jo 67
23. The Lion 69
24. Strawberries 71
25. Harry's Riches 74
26. In Time's Swing 77
27. Harry and his Dog 79
28. The Voice of the Grass 83
29. The Eagle 84
30. The Old Eagle Tree 86
31. Alpine Song 88
32. Circumstances alter Cases 89
33. The Noblest Revenge 94
34. Evening Hymn 97
35. How Margery Wondered 99
36. The Child's World 103
37. Susie's Composition 104
38. The Summer Shower 109
39. Consequences of Idleness 110
40. Advantages of Industry 113
41. The Fountain 116
42. Coffee 117
43. The Winter King 120
44. The Nettle 121
45. The Tempest 125
46. The Creator 126
47. The Horse 128
48. Emulation 132
49. The Sandpiper 134
50. The Right Way 136
51. The Golden Rule 139
52. The Snow Man 143
53. Robinson Crusoe's House 144
54. Robinson Crusoe's Dress 147
55. Somebody's Darling 150
56. Knowledge is Power 151
57. Good Will 153
58. A Chinese Story 156
59. The Way to be Happy 159
60. The Giraffe 162
61. The Lost Child 165
62. Which? 168
63. The Pet Fawn 172
64. Annie's Dream 175
65. My Ghost 178
66. The Elephant 180
67. Dare to do Right 183
68. Dare to do Right 186
69. Wreck of the Hesperus 190
70. Anecdotes of Birds 193
71. The Rainbow Pilgrimage 197
72. The Old Oaken Bucket 202
73. The Sermon on the Mount 204
74. The Young Witness 207
75. King Solomon and the Ants 211
76. Rivermouth Theater 213
77. Alfred the Great 216
78. Living on a Farm 220
79. Hugh Idle and Mr. Toll 221
80. Hugh Idle and Mr. Toll 224
81. Burning the Fallow 227
82. Dying Soldiers 230
83. The Attack on Nymwegen 233
84. The Seasons 237
85. Brandywine Ford 239
86. Brandywine Ford 242
87. The Best Capital 245
88. The Inchcape Rock 249
89. My Mother's Grave 253
90. A Mother's Gift 255
*  Because these are intended as instructinal material for young students, minor changes in punctuation have been made in some of the text to reflect current practice. 

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(The illustrator is not identified.)