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... night in Baltimore , but people paid high pre- miums to hear the boy actor , and a one - evening audience brought in more than a thousand dollars . About the same time in England another boy actor , Master Betty , was creating great ...
... night in Baltimore , but people paid high pre- miums to hear the boy actor , and a one - evening audience brought in more than a thousand dollars . About the same time in England another boy actor , Master Betty , was creating great ...
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... night . " Dickens was born on a Friday , the date the 7th of February , 1812 , the place Landport in Portsea , England . The house was a comfortable one , and during Charles's early childhood his surroundings were prosperous ; for his ...
... night . " Dickens was born on a Friday , the date the 7th of February , 1812 , the place Landport in Portsea , England . The house was a comfortable one , and during Charles's early childhood his surroundings were prosperous ; for his ...
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... Nights and the Tales of the Genii - and did me no harm ; for whatever harm was in some of them was not there for me ; I knew nothing of it .. have been Tom Jones ( a child's Tom Jones , a harmless creature ) for a week together . I have ...
... Nights and the Tales of the Genii - and did me no harm ; for whatever harm was in some of them was not there for me ; I knew nothing of it .. have been Tom Jones ( a child's Tom Jones , a harmless creature ) for a week together . I have ...
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... night , hold- ing on to one of the legs of my table . And yet from the moment I began to the moment of my leaving off , they never missed a point , and they ended with a burst of cheers . " Meanwhile Dickens's domestic life had not been ...
... night , hold- ing on to one of the legs of my table . And yet from the moment I began to the moment of my leaving off , they never missed a point , and they ended with a burst of cheers . " Meanwhile Dickens's domestic life had not been ...
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... night , in an easterly wind , upon his own ram- parts , than there would be in any other middle- aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot - say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance - literally to astonish his son's ...
... night , in an easterly wind , upon his own ram- parts , than there would be in any other middle- aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot - say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance - literally to astonish his son's ...
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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