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... FACE INTO A POT OF PORTER UPON THE COUCH THERE SAT A JOLLY GIANT Gordon Stevenson 72 Gordon Stevenson 84 Gordon Stevenson 114 Gordon Stevenson 120 SCROOGE STARTED BACK APPALLED " SO I AM TOLD , " RETURNED THE SECOND CHRISTMAS CAROL ...
... FACE INTO A POT OF PORTER UPON THE COUCH THERE SAT A JOLLY GIANT Gordon Stevenson 72 Gordon Stevenson 84 Gordon Stevenson 114 Gordon Stevenson 120 SCROOGE STARTED BACK APPALLED " SO I AM TOLD , " RETURNED THE SECOND CHRISTMAS CAROL ...
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... face , beautiful features and graceful bearing combined to attract also the marked attention of every stranger who met him . At thirteen years of age he was at work in New York , and soon was discovered to be the editor in secret of a ...
... face , beautiful features and graceful bearing combined to attract also the marked attention of every stranger who met him . At thirteen years of age he was at work in New York , and soon was discovered to be the editor in secret of a ...
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... face to the box where the poet sat , and in a voice of marvelous pathos and power sang : " Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam , Be it ever so humble , there's no place like home ! A charm from the skies seems to hallow us ...
... face to the box where the poet sat , and in a voice of marvelous pathos and power sang : " Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam , Be it ever so humble , there's no place like home ! A charm from the skies seems to hallow us ...
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... face - cloth from the face ; Yet she neither moved nor wept . Rose a nurse of ninety years , Set his child upon her knee- . Like summer tempest came her tears- " Sweet my child , I live for thee . " 17. Guid is the Scottish spelling of ...
... face - cloth from the face ; Yet she neither moved nor wept . Rose a nurse of ninety years , Set his child upon her knee- . Like summer tempest came her tears- " Sweet my child , I live for thee . " 17. Guid is the Scottish spelling of ...
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... face flushed and his eyes shining , would be placed on a table to sing a comic song , amid the applause of all present . His early days were thus very happy ; but when he was about eleven years old , money difficulties beset the family ...
... face flushed and his eyes shining , would be placed on a table to sing a comic song , amid the applause of all present . His early days were thus very happy ; but when he was about eleven years old , money difficulties beset the family ...
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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