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Tuesday Evening (By Mr Baxter from his Poor Man's Family Book)

In A Collection of Family Prayers

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Samuel Palmer

That Family-prayer is an indispensible duty, and an important means of religion, are points which are here taken for granted. Among the many…

Ohia and the Thieving Deer

In West African Folk Tales

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William H. Barker

A collection of folk tales mostly centered around Anansi. In West African lore Anansi is known as a trickster god, and is often depicted as …

Essay 05 - Love

In Essays, First Series

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal b…

Chapter IX

In The Clue of the Twisted Candle

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Edgar Wallace

Well-known mystery writer John Lexman is charged with murder and sent to Broadmoor Prison. His friend T.X., head of a special branch of Scot…

Chapter 26: The Only Son of a Widow

In Princess Sukey: The Story of a Pigeon and Her Human Friends

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Marshall Saunders

Dear little Princess Sukey sitting by the fire—pretty little pigeon—of what is she thinking as she dreamily eyes the blazing wood? If a pige…

Feathered Baby Sitters and Co-op Nursery Nests

In Stray Feathers From a Bird Man's Desk

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Austin L. Rand

Canadian zoologist, Austin L. Rand, takes a divergence from his scholarly works on ornithology to give us 60 entertaining sketches of bird l…

THE RED-LETTER DAY

In The Goody-Naughty Book (Version 2)

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Sarah Cory Rippey

This fun little book was printed with two stories, back to back. Reading from the front cover, it is "The Goody Side," where child…

Between Two Perils

In The Outdoor Girls in Florida

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Laura Lee Hope

In "The Outdoor Girls in Florida, Or Wintering in the Sunny South", the parents of one of the girls have bought an orange grove in…

Some Butterfly Friends

In Wild Pastures

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Winthrop Packard

American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, takes on a journey along pastures, ponds, bogs, brooks and woods alerting us to their many inhabitant…

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