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... RETURNED THE SECOND CHRISTMAS CAROL ( Halftone ) HE READ HIS OWN NAME Walter O. Reese 128 Gordon Stevenson 136 HE WAS NOW STANDING THERE , PF RFECTLY WINDED " A MERRY CHRISTMAS , BOB ! " AND LEAVES THE WORLD TO DARKNESS THE COUNTRY ...
... RETURNED THE SECOND CHRISTMAS CAROL ( Halftone ) HE READ HIS OWN NAME Walter O. Reese 128 Gordon Stevenson 136 HE WAS NOW STANDING THERE , PF RFECTLY WINDED " A MERRY CHRISTMAS , BOB ! " AND LEAVES THE WORLD TO DARKNESS THE COUNTRY ...
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... returned the nephew gaily . " What right have you to be dismal ? What reason have you to be morose ? You're rich enough . " Scrooge having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment , said , " Bah ! " again ; and followed it up ...
... returned the nephew gaily . " What right have you to be dismal ? What reason have you to be morose ? You're rich enough . " Scrooge having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment , said , " Bah ! " again ; and followed it up ...
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... returned the uncle , sternly , " keep Christmas in your own way , and let me keep it in mine . " " Keep it ! " repeated Scooge's nephew . “ But you don't keep it . " " Let me leave it alone , then , " said Scrooge . " Much good may it ...
... returned the uncle , sternly , " keep Christmas in your own way , and let me keep it in mine . " " Keep it ! " repeated Scooge's nephew . “ But you don't keep it . " " Let me leave it alone , then , " said Scrooge . " Much good may it ...
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... returned them cordially . " There's another fellow , " muttered Scrooge ; who overheard him : " my clerk , with fifteen shillings a week , and a wife and family , talking about a merry Christmas . I'll retire to Bed- lam . " 2 This ...
... returned them cordially . " There's another fellow , " muttered Scrooge ; who overheard him : " my clerk , with fifteen shillings a week , and a wife and family , talking about a merry Christmas . I'll retire to Bed- lam . " 2 This ...
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... returned the gentleman , " I wish I could say they were not . ' " " 3. Workhouses are establishments where paupers are cared for , a certain amount of labor being expected in return from those who are able to perform it . " The ...
... returned the gentleman , " I wish I could say they were not . ' " " 3. Workhouses are establishments where paupers are cared for , a certain amount of labor being expected in return from those who are able to perform it . " The ...
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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