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... soon was discovered to be the editor in secret of a paper called The Thespian Mirror . The merit of this juvenile sheet at- tracted the attention of many people , and among them of Mr. Seaman , a wealthy New Yorker who offered the ...
... soon was discovered to be the editor in secret of a paper called The Thespian Mirror . The merit of this juvenile sheet at- tracted the attention of many people , and among them of Mr. Seaman , a wealthy New Yorker who offered the ...
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... soon it rang out loudly , and so did every bell in the house . This might have lasted half a minute , or a minute , but it seemed an hour . The bells ceased as they had begun , together . They were succeeded by a clanking noise , deep ...
... soon it rang out loudly , and so did every bell in the house . This might have lasted half a minute , or a minute , but it seemed an hour . The bells ceased as they had begun , together . They were succeeded by a clanking noise , deep ...
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... soon put out , with worldly hands , the light I give ? Is it not enough that you are one of those whose passions made this cap , and force me through whole trains of years to wear it low upon my brow ! " Scrooge reverently disclaimed ...
... soon put out , with worldly hands , the light I give ? Is it not enough that you are one of those whose passions made this cap , and force me through whole trains of years to wear it low upon my brow ! " Scrooge reverently disclaimed ...
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... soon approached a mansion of dull red brick , with a little weathercock - sur- mounted cupola , on the roof , and a bell hanging in it . It was a large house , but one of broken fortunes ; for the spacious offices were little used ...
... soon approached a mansion of dull red brick , with a little weathercock - sur- mounted cupola , on the roof , and a bell hanging in it . It was a large house , but one of broken fortunes ; for the spacious offices were little used ...
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... soon as they got there ; all top couples at last , and not a bottom one to help them . When this result was brought about , old Fezziwig , clapping his hands to stop the dance , cried out , " Well done ! " and the fiddler plunged his ...
... soon as they got there ; all top couples at last , and not a bottom one to help them . When this result was brought about , old Fezziwig , clapping his hands to stop the dance , cried out , " Well done ! " and the fiddler plunged his ...
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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