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... Tree , who sang it in the opera , charmed her audience instantly , and in the end won her husband through its melody . In 1823 , 100,000 copies were sold , and the publishers made 2,000 guineas from it in two years . In fact , it ...
... Tree , who sang it in the opera , charmed her audience instantly , and in the end won her husband through its melody . In 1823 , 100,000 copies were sold , and the publishers made 2,000 guineas from it in two years . In fact , it ...
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... trees - the perfect realization of Cap- tain Somebody , of the Royal British Navy , in danger of being beset by savages , and resolved to sell his life at a great price . " " • I Not only did the little Charles read all he could lay ...
... trees - the perfect realization of Cap- tain Somebody , of the Royal British Navy , in danger of being beset by savages , and resolved to sell his life at a great price . " " • I Not only did the little Charles read all he could lay ...
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... tree ; until a little market - town appeared in the distance , with its bridge , its church , and winding river . Some shaggy ponies now were seen trotting towards them with boys upon their backs , who called to other boys in country ...
... tree ; until a little market - town appeared in the distance , with its bridge , its church , and winding river . Some shaggy ponies now were seen trotting towards them with boys upon their backs , who called to other boys in country ...
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... tree would fall . He was not alone , but sat by the side of a fair young girl in a mourning - dress : in whose eyes there were tears , which sparkled in the light that shone out of the Ghost of Christmas Past . " It matters little ...
... tree would fall . He was not alone , but sat by the side of a fair young girl in a mourning - dress : in whose eyes there were tears , which sparkled in the light that shone out of the Ghost of Christmas Past . " It matters little ...
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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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