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... Young 257 Frank H. Young 263 J. Hildebrand 267 M. L. Spoor 269 Beatrice Braidwood 273 R. F. Babcock 279 Marion Miller 284 Marion Miller 288 Marion Miller 291 292 Marion Miller 293 Marion Miller 296 INCLINED TO MY LIPS THE NOTARY ENTERS ...
... Young 257 Frank H. Young 263 J. Hildebrand 267 M. L. Spoor 269 Beatrice Braidwood 273 R. F. Babcock 279 Marion Miller 284 Marion Miller 288 Marion Miller 291 292 Marion Miller 293 Marion Miller 296 INCLINED TO MY LIPS THE NOTARY ENTERS ...
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... Young Roscius , a name that was quickly caught up by the ad- mirers of the Yankee youth , who then became known as the Young American Roscius . He was a wonderful boy in every way , was John Howard Payne . One of a large family of ...
... Young Roscius , a name that was quickly caught up by the ad- mirers of the Yankee youth , who then became known as the Young American Roscius . He was a wonderful boy in every way , was John Howard Payne . One of a large family of ...
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... Young Payne gladly accepted the invitation , and proceeded to Union College , where he soon became one of the most popular boys in the school . His handsome face , graceful manners and elegant delivery were met with applause whenever he ...
... Young Payne gladly accepted the invitation , and proceeded to Union College , where he soon became one of the most popular boys in the school . His handsome face , graceful manners and elegant delivery were met with applause whenever he ...
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... Young Norval . In this play occurs the speech that countless American boys have declaimed , " On the Gram- pian Hills my father feeds his flocks . ' Of Payne's rendition a critic says , “ He had all the skill of a finished artist ...
... Young Norval . In this play occurs the speech that countless American boys have declaimed , " On the Gram- pian Hills my father feeds his flocks . ' Of Payne's rendition a critic says , “ He had all the skill of a finished artist ...
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... young ladies , but no one ever showed the slightest intention of coming . Matters went from bad to worse , and finally Mr. Dickens was arrested for debt and taken to the Marshalsea prison . The time that followed was a most painful one ...
... young ladies , but no one ever showed the slightest intention of coming . Matters went from bad to worse , and finally Mr. Dickens was arrested for debt and taken to the Marshalsea prison . The time that followed was a most painful one ...
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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