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... DEAD CHARLES 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 ...
... DEAD CHARLES 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 ...
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... DEAD ALFRED TENNYSON Home they brought her warrior dead : She nor swoon'd nor utter'd cry : All her maidens , watching , said , " She must weep or she will die . ” Then they praised him , soft and low , Call'd him worthy to be loved ...
... DEAD ALFRED TENNYSON Home they brought her warrior dead : She nor swoon'd nor utter'd cry : All her maidens , watching , said , " She must weep or she will die . ” Then they praised him , soft and low , Call'd him worthy to be loved ...
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... dead : to begin with . There is no doubt what- ever about that . The register of his burial was signed by the ... dead as a door - nail . Mind ! I don't mean to say that I know , of my own knowledge , what there is particularly dead ...
... dead : to begin with . There is no doubt what- ever about that . The register of his burial was signed by the ... dead as a door - nail . Mind ! I don't mean to say that I know , of my own knowledge , what there is particularly dead ...
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... dead . This must be distinctly understood , or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate . If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began , there would be nothing more remarkable in ...
... dead . This must be distinctly understood , or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate . If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began , there would be nothing more remarkable in ...
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... dead against you ? If I could work my will , " said Scrooge , indignantly , " every idiot who goes about with ' Merry Christmas , ' on his lips , should be boiled with his own pudding , and buried with a stake of holly through his heart ...
... dead against you ? If I could work my will , " said Scrooge , indignantly , " every idiot who goes about with ' Merry Christmas , ' on his lips , should be boiled with his own pudding , and buried with a stake of holly through his heart ...
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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