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... hand organs playing Sweet Home without having a shilling to buy myself the next meal or a place to lay my head ! The world has literally sung my song until every heart is familiar with its melody , yet I have been a wanderer from my ...
... hand organs playing Sweet Home without having a shilling to buy myself the next meal or a place to lay my head ! The world has literally sung my song until every heart is familiar with its melody , yet I have been a wanderer from my ...
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... hand . We should remem- ber , too , that the astonishing popularity of Home , Sweet Home is doubtless due more to the glorious melody of the air , probably composed by some unknown Sicilian , than to the wording of the two stanzas ...
... hand . We should remem- ber , too , that the astonishing popularity of Home , Sweet Home is doubtless due more to the glorious melody of the air , probably composed by some unknown Sicilian , than to the wording of the two stanzas ...
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... hand o ' thine ; 15 And we'll tak a right guid " willie - waught18 For auld lang syne . For auld , etc. 10. Paidl't means paddled . 11. A burn is a brook . 12. Frae is the Scotch word for from . 13. Dine means dinner - time , midday ...
... hand o ' thine ; 15 And we'll tak a right guid " willie - waught18 For auld lang syne . For auld , etc. 10. Paidl't means paddled . 11. A burn is a brook . 12. Frae is the Scotch word for from . 13. Dine means dinner - time , midday ...
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... hand . To him I appealed concerning the Signor Lar- thoor . " Sir , ' said he , with the sweetest politeness , can you speak French ? ' " Sir , ' said I , ' a little . ' ' Sir , ' said he , ' I presume the Signor Loo- theere ' - you ...
... hand . To him I appealed concerning the Signor Lar- thoor . " Sir , ' said he , with the sweetest politeness , can you speak French ? ' " Sir , ' said I , ' a little . ' ' Sir , ' said he , ' I presume the Signor Loo- theere ' - you ...
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... hand to . Old Marley was as dead as a door - nail . Mind ! I don't mean to say that I know , of my own knowledge ... hands shall not disturb it , or the Country's done for . You will therefore permit me to repeat , emphatically , that ...
... hand to . Old Marley was as dead as a door - nail . Mind ! I don't mean to say that I know , of my own knowledge ... hands shall not disturb it , or the Country's done for . You will therefore permit me to repeat , emphatically , that ...
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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accent auld lang syne began Black Hawk Bob Cratchit buffalo bull Burleigh Withers called camp canoe child Chingachgook Cratchit cried dark dead dear Dickens door elephant enemy eyes face father feet Fezziwig fire garrison Ghost Gordon Stevenson hand head heard heart herd hills horses hour hundred Indians Jacob Marley JOHN HOWARD PAYNE knew land laughed live looked Marley means Merry Christmas miles morning Neapope never night old Kentucky home Old Oaken Bucket passed poem Poor Richard says prairie queen returned rhyme rifle river ROBERT BURNS rock round Saukenuk scout Scrooge Scrooge's nephew Shaw shot side soon Spirit stanza stood syllables Tête Rouge thee things thou thought Tiny Tim told trees troops turned uncle Uncle Scrooge Victoria voice walked widow machree word yards young