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... DARKNESS THE COUNTRY CHURCHYARD THE SHIPWRECK ( Halftone ) I FELL ON MY KNEES AND PRAYED TO THEM THE APPEARANCE OF THE ELEPHANT IS IMPOSING A CEBUS MONKEY THEY GATHERED ROUND HIM THE ATTACK WE MET AT THE CHURCH Gordon Stevenson 140 ...
... DARKNESS THE COUNTRY CHURCHYARD THE SHIPWRECK ( Halftone ) I FELL ON MY KNEES AND PRAYED TO THEM THE APPEARANCE OF THE ELEPHANT IS IMPOSING A CEBUS MONKEY THEY GATHERED ROUND HIM THE ATTACK WE MET AT THE CHURCH Gordon Stevenson 140 ...
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... dark corner , with a man in a white waistcoat ( evi- dently hired ) standing on the top of it fuming . I dashed in at a venture , found it was the place , made the most of the whole story , and was in- describably popular ...
... dark corner , with a man in a white waistcoat ( evi- dently hired ) standing on the top of it fuming . I dashed in at a venture , found it was the place , made the most of the whole story , and was in- describably popular ...
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... dark in a breezy spot - say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance - literally to astonish his son's weak mind . Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name . There it stood , years afterwards , above the ware- house door : Scrooge and ...
... dark in a breezy spot - say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance - literally to astonish his son's weak mind . Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name . There it stood , years afterwards , above the ware- house door : Scrooge and ...
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... dark master ! " But what did Scrooge care ? It was the very thing he liked . To edge his way along the crowded paths of life , warning all human sym- pathy to keep its distance , was what the knowing A CHRISTMAS CAROL 29.
... dark master ! " But what did Scrooge care ? It was the very thing he liked . To edge his way along the crowded paths of life , warning all human sym- pathy to keep its distance , was what the knowing A CHRISTMAS CAROL 29.
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... dark already : it had not been light all day : and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighboring offices , like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air . The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole , and was so dense ...
... dark already : it had not been light all day : and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighboring offices , like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air . The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole , and was so dense ...
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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accent auld lang syne began Black Hawk Bob Cratchit buffalo bull Burleigh Withers called camp canoe child Chingachgook Cratchit cried dark dead dear Dickens door elephant enemy eyes face father feet Fezziwig fire garrison Ghost Gordon Stevenson hand head heard heart herd hills horses hour hundred Indians Jacob Marley JOHN HOWARD PAYNE knew land laughed live looked Marley means Merry Christmas miles morning Neapope never night old Kentucky home Old Oaken Bucket passed poem Poor Richard says prairie queen returned rhyme rifle river ROBERT BURNS rock round Saukenuk scout Scrooge Scrooge's nephew Shaw shot side soon Spirit stanza stood syllables TĂȘte Rouge thee things thou thought Tiny Tim told trees troops turned uncle Uncle Scrooge Victoria voice walked widow machree word yards young