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... for Reading , Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children BY Charles H. Sylvester AUTHOR OF English and American Literature , Etc. VOLUME SEVEN BELLOWS - REEVE COMPANY CHICAGO Copyright , 1909 , by CHARLES H. SYLVESTER . CONTENTS.
... for Reading , Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children BY Charles H. Sylvester AUTHOR OF English and American Literature , Etc. VOLUME SEVEN BELLOWS - REEVE COMPANY CHICAGO Copyright , 1909 , by CHARLES H. SYLVESTER . CONTENTS.
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... CHILDREN CROSSED THE RIVER JAMES FENIMORE COOPER ( Halftone ) HAWKEYE CLAMBERED OVER THE ROCKS THE SCOUT LOWERED HIS RIFLE FRANCIS PARKMAN ( Halftone ) GRADUALLY I CAME ABREAST OF HIM HENRY CHATILLON HUNTING ON FOOT ON DUNE AND HEADLAND ...
... CHILDREN CROSSED THE RIVER JAMES FENIMORE COOPER ( Halftone ) HAWKEYE CLAMBERED OVER THE ROCKS THE SCOUT LOWERED HIS RIFLE FRANCIS PARKMAN ( Halftone ) GRADUALLY I CAME ABREAST OF HIM HENRY CHATILLON HUNTING ON FOOT ON DUNE AND HEADLAND ...
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... children , several of whom were remarkably bright , he had from his parents the most careful training , though they were not able always to give him the advantages they wished . John was born in New York City , but early moved with his ...
... children , several of whom were remarkably bright , he had from his parents the most careful training , though they were not able always to give him the advantages they wished . John was born in New York City , but early moved with his ...
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... child he had showed his dra- matic ability , and more than once he was urged to go upon the stage . But his father refused all offers and kept the boy steadily at his work . When he was seventeen , however , two events occurred which ...
... child he had showed his dra- matic ability , and more than once he was urged to go upon the stage . But his father refused all offers and kept the boy steadily at his work . When he was seventeen , however , two events occurred which ...
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... to tears . Even Daniel Webster , stern man of law , lost control of himself and wept like a child . 1. Capitals and punctuation as written by Payne . Payne's later life was not altogether a happy one , 6 JOHN HOWARD PAYNE.
... to tears . Even Daniel Webster , stern man of law , lost control of himself and wept like a child . 1. Capitals and punctuation as written by Payne . Payne's later life was not altogether a happy one , 6 JOHN HOWARD PAYNE.
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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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