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... doors , in cracked female voices , quaking with fear ; could hear of no such Englishman or any Eng- lishman . By - and - by I came upon a Polenta- shop in the clouds , where an old Frenchman , with an umbrella like a faded tropical leaf ...
... doors , in cracked female voices , quaking with fear ; could hear of no such Englishman or any Eng- lishman . By - and - by I came upon a Polenta- shop in the clouds , where an old Frenchman , with an umbrella like a faded tropical leaf ...
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... door - nail . Mind ! I don't mean to say that I know , of my own knowledge , what there is particularly dead about a door - nail . I might have been in- clined , myself , to regard a coffin - nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in ...
... door - nail . Mind ! I don't mean to say that I know , of my own knowledge , what there is particularly dead about a door - nail . I might have been in- clined , myself , to regard a coffin - nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in ...
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... door : Scrooge and Marley . The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley . Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge and sometimes Marley , but he answered to both names : it was all the same to him . Oh ! But he was a ...
... door : Scrooge and Marley . The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley . Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge and sometimes Marley , but he answered to both names : it was all the same to him . Oh ! But he was a ...
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... door of Scrooge's counting - house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk , who in a dismal little cell beyond , a sort of tank , was copying letters . Scrooge had a very small fire , but the clerk's fire was so very much ...
... door of Scrooge's counting - house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk , who in a dismal little cell beyond , a sort of tank , was copying letters . Scrooge had a very small fire , but the clerk's fire was so very much ...
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... door to bestow the greetings of the season on the clerk , who , cold as he was , was warmer than Scrooge ; for he returned them cordially . " There's another fellow , " muttered Scrooge ; who overheard him : " my clerk , with fifteen ...
... door to bestow the greetings of the season on the clerk , who , cold as he was , was warmer than Scrooge ; for he returned them cordially . " There's another fellow , " muttered Scrooge ; who overheard him : " my clerk , with fifteen ...
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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