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... hearts by the beauty of his person and his captivating address , the premature richness of his mind and his chaste and flowing utterance . " His great successes here led him to go to England , where his popularity was not nearly so ...
... hearts by the beauty of his person and his captivating address , the premature richness of his mind and his chaste and flowing utterance . " His great successes here led him to go to England , where his popularity was not nearly so ...
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... heart of Paris , Berlin , London or some other city , and have heard persons singing or hand organs playing Sweet Home without having a shilling to buy myself the next meal or a place to lay my head ! The world has literally sung my ...
... heart of Paris , Berlin , London or some other city , and have heard persons singing or hand organs playing Sweet Home without having a shilling to buy myself the next meal or a place to lay my head ! The world has literally sung my ...
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... heart . He should ! " " Uncle ! " pleaded the nephew . " Nephew ! " returned the uncle , sternly , " keep Christmas ... hearts freely , and to think of people below them as if they really were 32 A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
... heart . He should ! " " Uncle ! " pleaded the nephew . " Nephew ! " returned the uncle , sternly , " keep Christmas ... hearts freely , and to think of people below them as if they really were 32 A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
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... heart , to find you so resolute . We have never had any quarrel to which I have been a party . But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas , and I'll keep my Christmas humour to the last . So A Merry Christmas , uncle ! " " Good ...
... heart , to find you so resolute . We have never had any quarrel to which I have been a party . But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas , and I'll keep my Christmas humour to the last . So A Merry Christmas , uncle ! " " Good ...
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... heart , by any means waggish then . The truth is , that he tried to be smart , as a means of distracting his own atten- tion , and keeping down his terror ; for the ' spectre's voice disturbed the very marrow in his bones . To sit ...
... heart , by any means waggish then . The truth is , that he tried to be smart , as a means of distracting his own atten- tion , and keeping down his terror ; for the ' spectre's voice disturbed the very marrow in his bones . To sit ...
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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