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Chapter 5

In The Reason Why

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Robert Kemp Philp

This collection of useful information on "Common Things" is put in the interesting form of "Why and Because," and compre…

Oh What Their Joy and Their Glory Must Be

In Short Poetry Collection 100

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Peter Abelard (1079-1142) and Pierre Abélard

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2011.

'Shrink From YOU?'

In He Fell in Love with His Wife

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Edward P. Roe

James desperately needs someone to help him keep his farm going, but has failure after colossal failure finding a good housekeeper. Alida ma…

Blue Violets; Work for Girls: An Embroidered Work-Bag; "I Am the Lad in the Cad…

In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 29, May 18, 1880

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Various

Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, po…

The Boundaries of the Solar System

In The Romance of Modern Astronomy

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Hector Macpherson

From the series, The Library of Romance, the reader is introduced in this book to the modern astronomy of 1911. The author discusses our sol…

First Territorial Legislature

In The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 1

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Charles E. Flandrau

"It has been a little over fifty years since the organization of the Territory of Minnesota, which at its birth was a very small and un…

04 - On the Eve, Part 2

In Ten Days that Shook the World

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John Reed

Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917…

07 - The Wolf and the Seven Kids

In Snowdrop and Other Tales

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm

Many of these tales were published in English in 1909, the Brothers Grimm tales in this book were published separately in 1920 with illustra…

11 - The Hunted Watches the Hunter

In The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer

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Thornton W. Burgess

The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer is another set of children’s stories by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. More serious than som…