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... called the Young Roscius , a name that was quickly caught up by the ad- mirers of the Yankee youth , who then became known as the Young American Roscius . He was a wonderful boy in every way , was John Howard Payne . One of a large ...
... called the Young Roscius , a name that was quickly caught up by the ad- mirers of the Yankee youth , who then became known as the Young American Roscius . He was a wonderful boy in every way , was John Howard Payne . One of a large ...
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... called The Thespian Mirror . The merit of this juvenile sheet at- tracted the attention of many people , and among them of Mr. Seaman , a wealthy New Yorker who offered the talented boy an opportunity to go to college free of expense ...
... called The Thespian Mirror . The merit of this juvenile sheet at- tracted the attention of many people , and among them of Mr. Seaman , a wealthy New Yorker who offered the talented boy an opportunity to go to college free of expense ...
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... Pou'd is a contracted form of pulled . 7. Dandelions , daisies and other yellow flowers are called gowans by the Scotch . 8. Mony is many . 9. Sin ' is a contraction of since . 11 We twa hae paidl't i ' the burn , 10 AULD LANG SYNE.
... Pou'd is a contracted form of pulled . 7. Dandelions , daisies and other yellow flowers are called gowans by the Scotch . 8. Mony is many . 9. Sin ' is a contraction of since . 11 We twa hae paidl't i ' the burn , 10 AULD LANG SYNE.
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... called him . This father , whom Dickens long afterward described , in David Copperfield , as Mr. Micawber , was , as his son was always most willing to testify , a kind , gener- ous man ; but he was improvident to the last degree ; and ...
... called him . This father , whom Dickens long afterward described , in David Copperfield , as Mr. Micawber , was , as his son was always most willing to testify , a kind , gener- ous man ; but he was improvident to the last degree ; and ...
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... called- Dickens allowed himself not infrequently , and enjoyed most thoroughly . This was the pro- duction , sometimes before a selected audience , sometimes in public , of plays , in which Dickens himself usually took the chief part ...
... called- Dickens allowed himself not infrequently , and enjoyed most thoroughly . This was the pro- duction , sometimes before a selected audience , sometimes in public , of plays , in which Dickens himself usually took the chief part ...
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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