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... father refused all offers and kept the boy steadily at his work . When he was seventeen , however , two events occurred which changed all his plans . First his mother died , and then his father failed in business , and the young man saw ...
... father refused all offers and kept the boy steadily at his work . When he was seventeen , however , two events occurred which changed all his plans . First his mother died , and then his father failed in business , and the young man saw ...
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... father feeds his flocks . ' Of Payne's rendition a critic says , “ He had all the skill of a finished artist combined with the freshness and simplicity of youth . Great praise , but there are few actors who can claim any competition ...
... father feeds his flocks . ' Of Payne's rendition a critic says , “ He had all the skill of a finished artist combined with the freshness and simplicity of youth . Great praise , but there are few actors who can claim any competition ...
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... father , John Dickens , a clerk in the navy pay - office , was temporarily in easy circumstances . When Charles was but two , the family moved to London , taking lodgings for a time in Norfolk Street , Bloomsbury , and finally settling ...
... father , John Dickens , a clerk in the navy pay - office , was temporarily in easy circumstances . When Charles was but two , the family moved to London , taking lodgings for a time in Norfolk Street , Bloomsbury , and finally settling ...
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... father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs , to which I had access ( for it adjoined my own ) , and which nobody else in our house ever troubled . From that blessed little room , Roderick Random , Peregrine ...
... father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs , to which I had access ( for it adjoined my own ) , and which nobody else in our house ever troubled . From that blessed little room , Roderick Random , Peregrine ...
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... Father , " as Dickens later called him . This father , whom Dickens long afterward described , in David Copperfield , as Mr. Micawber , was , as his son was always most willing to testify , a kind , gener- ous man ; but he was ...
... Father , " as Dickens later called him . This father , whom Dickens long afterward described , in David Copperfield , as Mr. Micawber , was , as his son was always most willing to testify , a kind , gener- ous man ; but he was ...
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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