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... HEAR I SHOT THE ALBATROSS THE TWAIN WERE CASTING DICE THEY DROPPED DOWN ONE BY ONE THE ANCIENT MARINER ( Halftone ) WHEN I AWOKE IT RAINED THEY CLUSTERED ROUND THE MAST I PASS FROM LAND TO LAND BLACK HAWK ( Halftone ) BLACK HAWK LEFT BY ...
... HEAR I SHOT THE ALBATROSS THE TWAIN WERE CASTING DICE THEY DROPPED DOWN ONE BY ONE THE ANCIENT MARINER ( Halftone ) WHEN I AWOKE IT RAINED THEY CLUSTERED ROUND THE MAST I PASS FROM LAND TO LAND BLACK HAWK ( Halftone ) BLACK HAWK LEFT BY ...
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... hear the boy actor , and a one - evening audience brought in more than a thousand dollars . About the same time in England another boy actor , Master Betty , was creating great excite- ment , and him they called the Young Roscius , a ...
... hear the boy actor , and a one - evening audience brought in more than a thousand dollars . About the same time in England another boy actor , Master Betty , was creating great excite- ment , and him they called the Young Roscius , a ...
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... hear of no such Englishman or any Eng- lishman . By - and - by I came upon a Polenta- shop in the clouds , where an old Frenchman , with an umbrella like a faded tropical leaf ( it had not rained for six weeks ) was staring at nothing ...
... hear of no such Englishman or any Eng- lishman . By - and - by I came upon a Polenta- shop in the clouds , where an old Frenchman , with an umbrella like a faded tropical leaf ( it had not rained for six weeks ) was staring at nothing ...
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... hear the people in the court outside go wheezing up and down , beating their hands upon their breasts , and stamping their feet upon the pavement- stones to warm them . The City clocks had only just gone three , but it was quite dark ...
... hear the people in the court outside go wheezing up and down , beating their hands upon their breasts , and stamping their feet upon the pavement- stones to warm them . The City clocks had only just gone three , but it was quite dark ...
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... hear another sound from you , " said Scrooge , " and you'll keep your Christmas by losing your situation . You're quite a powerful speaker , Sir , " he added , turning to his nephew . " I wonder you don't go into Parliament . " " " Don ...
... hear another sound from you , " said Scrooge , " and you'll keep your Christmas by losing your situation . You're quite a powerful speaker , Sir , " he added , turning to his nephew . " I wonder you don't go into Parliament . " " " Don ...
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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