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... DICKENS .. A CHRISTMAS CAROL CHRISTMAS IN OLD TIME . ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD THE SHIPWRECK THE SOLDIER'S DREAM . MAKE WAY FOR LIBERTY THE OLD. AULD LANG SYNE ELEPHANT HUNTING SOME CLEVER MONKEYS POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC ...
... DICKENS .. A CHRISTMAS CAROL CHRISTMAS IN OLD TIME . ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD THE SHIPWRECK THE SOLDIER'S DREAM . MAKE WAY FOR LIBERTY THE OLD. AULD LANG SYNE ELEPHANT HUNTING SOME CLEVER MONKEYS POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC ...
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... DICKENS ( Halftone ) THE CLERK SMILED FAINTLY PAGE Frederick Grant Frontispiece Margaret Hittle 5 Gordon Stevenson 11 20 Gordon Stevenson 40 " IN LIFE I WAS YOUR PARTNER , JACOB MARLEY " Gordon Stevenson 47 HE ADMINISTERED INSTALLMENTS ...
... DICKENS ( Halftone ) THE CLERK SMILED FAINTLY PAGE Frederick Grant Frontispiece Margaret Hittle 5 Gordon Stevenson 11 20 Gordon Stevenson 40 " IN LIFE I WAS YOUR PARTNER , JACOB MARLEY " Gordon Stevenson 47 HE ADMINISTERED INSTALLMENTS ...
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... of good . 18. A willie - waught is a hearty draught . 19. A pint - stoup is a pint - cup or flagon . CHARLES DICKENS JO begin my life with the begin- ning 12 AULD LANG SYNE ́ HOME THEY BROUGHT HER WARRIOR DEAD Alfred Tennyson.
... of good . 18. A willie - waught is a hearty draught . 19. A pint - stoup is a pint - cup or flagon . CHARLES DICKENS JO begin my life with the begin- ning 12 AULD LANG SYNE ́ HOME THEY BROUGHT HER WARRIOR DEAD Alfred Tennyson.
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... Dickens makes one of his heroes say , " I record that I was born ( as I have been informed and believe ) on a Friday , at twelve o'clock at night . " Dickens was born on a Friday , the date the 7th of February , 1812 , the place ...
... Dickens makes one of his heroes say , " I record that I was born ( as I have been informed and believe ) on a Friday , at twelve o'clock at night . " Dickens was born on a Friday , the date the 7th of February , 1812 , the place ...
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... Charles read all he could lay hands upon ; he made up stories , too , which he told to his small playmates , winning thereby their wondering admiration . Some of these tales he wrote down , and thus he became. 14 CHARLES DICKENS.
... Charles read all he could lay hands upon ; he made up stories , too , which he told to his small playmates , winning thereby their wondering admiration . Some of these tales he wrote down , and thus he became. 14 CHARLES DICKENS.
Contents
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CHRISTMAS IN OLD TIME Sir Walter Scott | 150 |
THE SHIPWRECK Robert Louis Stevenson | 165 |
ELEPHANT HUNTING Roualeyn Gordon Cumming | 180 |
SOME CLEVER MONKEYS Thomas Belt | 198 |
POOR RICHARDS ALMANAC Benjamin Franklin | 204 |
GEORGE ROGERS CLARK | 221 |
TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN William Cullen Bryant | 290 |
TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY Robert Burns | 295 |
BANNOCKBURN Robert Burns | 303 |
THE GOVERNOR AND THE NOTARY Washington Irving | 311 |
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER Samuel T Coleridge | 321 |
THE PETRIFIED FERN Mary Bolles Branch | 352 |
AN EXCITING CANOE RACE J Fenimore Cooper | 376 |
THE BUFFALO Francis Parkman | 395 |
THE CAPTURE OF VINCENNES George Rogers Clark | 228 |
THREE SUNDAYS IN A WEEK Edgar Allan Poe | 255 |
THE MODERN BELLE Stark | 266 |
THE KNOCKOUT Davy Crockett | 275 |
TO MY INFANT SON Thomas Hood | 283 |
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE Alfred Tennyson | 452 |
QUEEN VICTORIA Anna McCaleb | 458 |
THE RECESSIONAL Rudyard Kipling | 471 |
THE SOLDIERS DREAM Thomas Campbell | 476 |
THE PICKETGUARD Mrs Ethel Lynn Beers | 483 |
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