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Chapter 20: Contains more Particulars of the Colonel and his Brethren

In The Newcomes

Read by Maddie Burns


William Makepeace Thackeray


The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The …

Black-Eyed Susan of Featherbed Lane

In Black-Eyed Susan

Read by Kari Burns


Ethel Calvert Phillips


Susan has black eyes and that's why her grandfather calls her his little black-eyed Susan. Her pink cheeks and merry smile remind her grandm…

How a Persian Mohammedan says his prayers, by Rev. S. G. Wilson

In The World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine

Read by TJ Burns


Eva March Tappan


This is the second volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…

His Kindness to others

In The Children's Book of Birds

Read by Jessica Burns


Olive Thorne Miller


The Children's Book of Birds combines under a single cover the First and Second Books of Birds, originally published in 1899 and 1901 respec…

King Suleyman and the Nightingale

In The Wonder Garden

Read by TJ Burns


Frances Jenkins Olcott


"Here are 150 nature myths and short stories from all parts of the World. They are the kind that children delight in -- tales of transf…

The Sirens

In Miscellaneous Poems

Read by Eric Burns


James Russell Lowell


This is the second part of James Russell Lowell's collected poems: the Miscellaneous Poems. This series of poems covers, as the title implie…

Hans in Luck

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 025

Read by TJ Burns


Leo Tolstoy and Kate Douglas Wiggin


Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 025: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

10 - The Rocker

In Widdershins (Version 2)

Read by Melissa Burns-Price


Oliver Onions


Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair…

07 - The Adventure of Mrs. Rockerbilt's Tiara

In Mrs. Raffles

Read by Melissa Burns-Price


John Kendrick Bangs


Mrs. Raffles, widow of the now deceased A. J. Raffles (who was the gentleman thief pursued at one time by Sherlock Holmes), continues the fa…

SnapdragonAlley 01

In Snapdragon Alley

Read by Tom Lichtenberg


Tom Lichtenberg


Ten year old friends Alex and Sapphire discover something strange on the city bus map – a street that existed for only one year. As they set…

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