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... hundred years ago , a young man , little more than a boy , was drawing large audi- ences to the theaters of our eastern cities . New York re- ceived him with enthusiasm . cultured Boston was charmed . by his person and his graceful ...
... hundred years ago , a young man , little more than a boy , was drawing large audi- ences to the theaters of our eastern cities . New York re- ceived him with enthusiasm . cultured Boston was charmed . by his person and his graceful ...
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... hundred people . " Dickens had come prepared to like America and Americans - and in many ways he did like them . But in other ways he was disappointed . He ventured to object , in various speeches , to the pirating , in America , of ...
... hundred people . " Dickens had come prepared to like America and Americans - and in many ways he did like them . But in other ways he was disappointed . He ventured to object , in various speeches , to the pirating , in America , of ...
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... hundreds into a place already full to the throat , such indescrib- able confusion , such a rending and tearing of dresses , and yet such a scene of good humor on the whole ! Fifty frantic men got up in all parts of the hall and ...
... hundreds into a place already full to the throat , such indescrib- able confusion , such a rending and tearing of dresses , and yet such a scene of good humor on the whole ! Fifty frantic men got up in all parts of the hall and ...
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... hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts , Sir . " " Are there no prisons ? " asked Scrooge . " Plenty of prisons , " said the gentleman , lay- ing down the pen again . " And the Union workhouses ? " demanded Scrooge . " Are ...
... hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts , Sir . " " Are there no prisons ? " asked Scrooge . " Plenty of prisons , " said the gentleman , lay- ing down the pen again . " And the Union workhouses ? " demanded Scrooge . " Are ...
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... hundreds of figures , to attract his thoughts ; and yet that face of Marley , seven years dead , came like the ancient Prophet's rod , and swallowed up the whole . If each smooth tile had been a blank at first , with power to shape some ...
... hundreds of figures , to attract his thoughts ; and yet that face of Marley , seven years dead , came like the ancient Prophet's rod , and swallowed up the whole . If each smooth tile had been a blank at first , with power to shape some ...
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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