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... Hills my father feeds his flocks . ' Of Payne's rendition a critic says , “ He had all the skill of a finished artist combined with the freshness and simplicity of youth . Great praise , but there are few actors who can claim any ...
... Hills my father feeds his flocks . ' Of Payne's rendition a critic says , “ He had all the skill of a finished artist combined with the freshness and simplicity of youth . Great praise , but there are few actors who can claim any ...
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... Hill Cemetery near Washington . There a white marble shaft sur- mounted by a bust of the poet marks his last home . On one side of the shaft is the in- scription : John Howard Payne , Author of " Home , Sweet Home . " Born June 9 , 1792 ...
... Hill Cemetery near Washington . There a white marble shaft sur- mounted by a bust of the poet marks his last home . On one side of the shaft is the in- scription : John Howard Payne , Author of " Home , Sweet Home . " Born June 9 , 1792 ...
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... on June 9 , 1870 , Charles Dickens died , after an illness of but one day , during all of which he was unconscious . His family desired to have him buried near his home , the Gad's Hill which he had admired. CHARLES DICKENS 25.
... on June 9 , 1870 , Charles Dickens died , after an illness of but one day , during all of which he was unconscious . His family desired to have him buried near his home , the Gad's Hill which he had admired. CHARLES DICKENS 25.
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Charles H. Sylvester. his home , the Gad's Hill which he had admired from his childhood and had purchased in his manhood ; but the general wish was that he should be laid in Westminster Abbey , and to this wish his family felt that it ...
Charles H. Sylvester. his home , the Gad's Hill which he had admired from his childhood and had purchased in his manhood ; but the general wish was that he should be laid in Westminster Abbey , and to this wish his family felt that it ...
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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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