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Page 62
... laughed to hear it . " These are but shadows of the things that have been , " said the Ghost . " They have no consciousness of us . " The jocund travellers came on ; and as they came , Scrooge knew and named them every one . Why was he ...
... laughed to hear it . " These are but shadows of the things that have been , " said the Ghost . " They have no consciousness of us . " The jocund travellers came on ; and as they came , Scrooge knew and named them every one . Why was he ...
Page 66
... laughed , and tried to touch his head ; but being too little , laughed again , and stood on tiptoe to embrace him . Then she began to drag him , in her childish eagerness , towards the door ; and he , nothing loth to go , accompanied ...
... laughed , and tried to touch his head ; but being too little , laughed again , and stood on tiptoe to embrace him . Then she began to drag him , in her childish eagerness , towards the door ; and he , nothing loth to go , accompanied ...
Page 69
... laughed all over himself , from his shoes to his organ of benevolence ; and called out in a comfortable , oily , rich , fat , jovial voice : " Yo ho , there ! Ebenezer ! Dick ! " . Scrooge's former self , now grown a young man , came ...
... laughed all over himself , from his shoes to his organ of benevolence ; and called out in a comfortable , oily , rich , fat , jovial voice : " Yo ho , there ! Ebenezer ! Dick ! " . Scrooge's former self , now grown a young man , came ...
Page 78
... laughed heartily , and enjoyed it very much ; and the latter , soon beginning to mingle in the sports , got pillaged by the young brigands most ruth- lessly . What would I not have given to be one of them ! Though I never could have ...
... laughed heartily , and enjoyed it very much ; and the latter , soon beginning to mingle in the sports , got pillaged by the young brigands most ruth- lessly . What would I not have given to be one of them ! Though I never could have ...
Page 80
... laughed . " Mr. Scrooge . " " Mr. Scrooge it was . I passed his office window ; and as it was not shut up , and he had a candle inside , I could scarcely help seeing him . His partner lies upon the point of death , I hear ; and there he ...
... laughed . " Mr. Scrooge . " " Mr. Scrooge it was . I passed his office window ; and as it was not shut up , and he had a candle inside , I could scarcely help seeing him . His partner lies upon the point of death , I hear ; and there he ...
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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