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The Stranding Of The 'Eider'

In Stories of the Lifeboat

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Frank Mundell

There's fury in the tempest,And there's madness in the waves;The lightning snake coils round the foam,The headlong thunder raves;Yet a boat …

The Threepenny Problem

In The Problem Club

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Barry Pain

The Problem Club is an infamous London Club which meets once a month to discuss a given problem. The problems have nothing to do with mathem…

At the Tabard Inn

In The Chaucer Storybook

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Eva March Tappan and Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer's classic "Canterbury Tales" has here been rendered into clear and contemporary English prose. These classic stor…

King Alfred by E.A. Freeman

In Heroes Every Child Should Know

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Hamilton Wright Mabie

The endeavour has been made in this volume to bring together the heroic men of different races, periods and types; and in the selection of m…

The Cost of a Pyramid

In Neither Here nor There

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Oliver Herford

Oliver Herford, and American humorist, writer, and illustrator here gives us short vignettes from topics as seemingly insignificant things a…

A Wide-Awake Boy

In The Story of Edison and The Wonders of Electricity

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Frank Mundell

Despite not having attended conventional school for more than a few months during his childhood, Thomas Alva Edison received a good groundin…

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