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... eyes shining , would be placed on a table to sing a comic song , amid the applause of all present . His early days were thus very happy ; but when he was about eleven years old , money difficulties beset the family , and they were ...
... eyes shining , would be placed on a table to sing a comic song , amid the applause of all present . His early days were thus very happy ; but when he was about eleven years old , money difficulties beset the family , and they were ...
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... eyes red , his thin lips blue ; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice . A frosty rime was on his head , and on his eye- brows , and his wiry chin . He carried his own low temperature always about with him ; he iced his office in ...
... eyes red , his thin lips blue ; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice . A frosty rime was on his head , and on his eye- brows , and his wiry chin . He carried his own low temperature always about with him ; he iced his office in ...
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... eye upon his clerk , who in a dismal little cell beyond , a sort of tank , was copying letters . Scrooge had a very small fire , but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal . But he couldn't replenish it ...
... eye upon his clerk , who in a dismal little cell beyond , a sort of tank , was copying letters . Scrooge had a very small fire , but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal . But he couldn't replenish it ...
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... eyes sparkled , and his breath smoked again . " Christmas a humbug , uncle ! " said Scrooge's nephew . " You don't mean that , I am sure . " I do , " said Scrooge . " Merry Christmas ! What right have you to be merry ? What reason have ...
... eyes sparkled , and his breath smoked again . " Christmas a humbug , uncle ! " said Scrooge's nephew . " You don't mean that , I am sure . " I do , " said Scrooge . " Merry Christmas ! What right have you to be merry ? What reason have ...
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... before the invention of street lights , they were in common use in England , and they are still seen during the dense London fogs . Vol . VII . - 4 . warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze A CHRISTMAS CAROL 37.
... before the invention of street lights , they were in common use in England , and they are still seen during the dense London fogs . Vol . VII . - 4 . warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze A CHRISTMAS CAROL 37.
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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