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... things . All he asks for are a thatched cottage , singing birds and peace of mind : a curious group of things . The fourth line of that stanza is un- musical and inharmonious . These facts make us see that what really has made the song ...
... things . All he asks for are a thatched cottage , singing birds and peace of mind : a curious group of things . The fourth line of that stanza is un- musical and inharmonious . These facts make us see that what really has made the song ...
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... thing , and in such another position something else , entirely different ; the wonderful vagaries that were played by circles ; the unaccountable consequences that resulted from marks like flies ' legs , the tremendous effect of a curve ...
... thing , and in such another position something else , entirely different ; the wonderful vagaries that were played by circles ; the unaccountable consequences that resulted from marks like flies ' legs , the tremendous effect of a curve ...
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... things to which people looked forward at Yuletide was the publication of a new Dickens Christmas story . One diversion - if diversion it can be called- Dickens allowed himself not infrequently , and enjoyed most thoroughly . This was ...
... things to which people looked forward at Yuletide was the publication of a new Dickens Christmas story . One diversion - if diversion it can be called- Dickens allowed himself not infrequently , and enjoyed most thoroughly . This was ...
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... things that Dickens , writing constantly and copiously , found time to do are wonderful . One of the matters in which he took great interest and an active part was the children's theatricals . These were held each year during the ...
... things that Dickens , writing constantly and copiously , found time to do are wonderful . One of the matters in which he took great interest and an active part was the children's theatricals . These were held each year during the ...
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... things of the world are always possible . ' 66 " Sir , ' said I - you may imagine my condition and dismal sense of my own absurdity by this time — that is true . ' " He then took an immense pinch of snuff , wiped the dust off his ...
... things of the world are always possible . ' 66 " Sir , ' said I - you may imagine my condition and dismal sense of my own absurdity by this time — that is true . ' " He then took an immense pinch of snuff , wiped the dust off his ...
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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