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... knew nothing of it .. have been Tom Jones ( a child's Tom Jones , a harmless creature ) for a week together . I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch , I verily believe . I had a greedy relish for a few ...
... knew nothing of it .. have been Tom Jones ( a child's Tom Jones , a harmless creature ) for a week together . I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch , I verily believe . I had a greedy relish for a few ...
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... knew he was dead ? Of course he did . How could it be otherwise ? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years . Scrooge was his sole executor , his sole administrator , his sole assign , his sole residuary legatee , his ...
... knew he was dead ? Of course he did . How could it be otherwise ? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years . Scrooge was his sole executor , his sole administrator , his sole assign , his sole residuary legatee , his ...
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... knew its every stone , was fain to grope with his hands . The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house , that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold . Now , it is a ...
... knew its every stone , was fain to grope with his hands . The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house , that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold . Now , it is a ...
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... knew this , by the smart sound its teeth made , when the jaws were brought together by the bandage . He ventured to raise his eyes again , and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude , with its chain wound ...
... knew this , by the smart sound its teeth made , when the jaws were brought together by the bandage . He ventured to raise his eyes again , and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude , with its chain wound ...
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... knew and named them every one . Why was he rejoiced beyond all bounds to see them ! Why did his cold eye glisten , and his heart leap up as they went past ! Why was he filled with gladness when he heard them give each other Merry ...
... knew and named them every one . Why was he rejoiced beyond all bounds to see them ! Why did his cold eye glisten , and his heart leap up as they went past ! Why was he filled with gladness when he heard them give each other Merry ...
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 TĂȘte Rouge thee things thou thought Tiny Tim told trees troops turned uncle Uncle Scrooge Victoria voice walked widow machree word yards young