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The Winter Pic-Nic

In Daddy Takes Us Skating

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Howard R. Garis

Hal and Mabel's Daddy knows everything - how a thermometer works, what makes a car go, why we get warm when we run. It's a cold and icy even…

Napoleon Bonaparte The Boy of Brienne: 1769-1821

In Historic Boyhoods

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Rupert S. Holland

Most boys grow up to be honest, maybe even good, men, but do not stand out from the crowd. Occasionally, along comes a boy who is destined, …

SHARP EYES.

In Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers

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John Burroughs

Probably no other American writer has a greater sympathy with, and a keener enjoyment of, country life in all its phases—farming, camping, f…

Chapter VIII

In White Dandy: A Horse's Story

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Velma Caldwell Melville

This book is written from the horse's point of view, much as Black Beauty was. Indeed, it is intended to be a companion book to Black Beaut…

Down The Oise: Church Interiors

In An Inland Voyage

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Robert Louis Stevenson

As a young man, Stevenson wished to be financially independent and began his literary career by writing travelogues. This is his first publi…

Book VI - A Greenhorn No Longer, Chapters 1,2

In The Rise of David Levinsky

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Abraham Cahan

Coming to New York from the Russian Empire, Abraham Cahan founded the Jewish Daily Forward to help Yiddish-speaking immigrants adjust to lif…

Chapter 21, Part A - Words

In Aaron's Rod

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D. H. Lawrence

Flutist Aaron Sisson is caught up in the aftermath of WWI. A lost soul, he attempts to find himself in the comfort of bar-room talk and alco…

Chapter I

In Demos: A Story of English Socialism

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George Gissing

"Richard Mutimer is delighted to inherit a large fortune. As a socialist, he means to use it well: he will open a factory in which work…

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