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... spirit fled To realms above the azure dome , With outstretched arms God's angels said Welcome to Heaven's Home , Sweet Home . " Much sentiment has been wasted over Payne , who was really not a great poet and whose lack of stamina ...
... spirit fled To realms above the azure dome , With outstretched arms God's angels said Welcome to Heaven's Home , Sweet Home . " Much sentiment has been wasted over Payne , who was really not a great poet and whose lack of stamina ...
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... spirits . At the ominous word " liber- ality , " Scrooge frowned , and shook his head , and handed the credentials back . " At this festive season of the year , Mr. Scrooge , " said the gentleman , taking up a pen , " it is more than ...
... spirits . At the ominous word " liber- ality , " Scrooge frowned , and shook his head , and handed the credentials back . " At this festive season of the year , Mr. Scrooge , " said the gentleman , taking up a pen , " it is more than ...
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... Spirit's nose with a touch of such weather as that , instead of using his fa- miliar weapons , then indeed he would have roared to lusty purpose . The owner of one scant young nose , gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones are ...
... Spirit's nose with a touch of such weather as that , instead of using his fa- miliar weapons , then indeed he would have roared to lusty purpose . The owner of one scant young nose , gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones are ...
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... spirit raised a frightful cry , and shook its chain with such a dismal and appalling noise , that Scrooge held on tight to his chair , to save himself from falling in a swoon . But how much greater was his horror , when , the phantom ...
... spirit raised a frightful cry , and shook its chain with such a dismal and appalling noise , that Scrooge held on tight to his chair , to save himself from falling in a swoon . But how much greater was his horror , when , the phantom ...
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... spirits walk the earth , and why do they come to me ? ” " It is required of every man , " the Ghost returned , " that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow - men , and travel far and wide ; and if that spirit goes ...
... spirits walk the earth , and why do they come to me ? ” " It is required of every man , " the Ghost returned , " that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow - men , and travel far and wide ; and if that spirit goes ...
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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