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A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children

Read by Sarah Jennings


E. Louise Smythe


This is a book of simple, classic stories for beginning readers. It is included in Year 1 of the Ambleside reading list. There are short lis…

How to Camp Out

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John Mead Gould


Advice on camp gear, clothing, cooking, hiking, and other topics. Much of the book remains good and sensible advice today, but modern reader…

THE COMMA

In Stops, or How to Punctuate

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Paul Allardyce


Throughout the ages, languages continue to adapt and change. English, being a relatively new language, is a nice example of that. Though the…

The Grand Canyon

In Canyons of the Colorado

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John Wesley Powell


John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colora…

THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 09 - The Acadian Exiles: A Chronicle of the Land o…

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Arthur Doughty and Arthur G. Doughty


The name Acadia, which we now associate with a great tragedy of history and song, was first used by the French to distinguish the eastern or…

Version 15

In Listening

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D. H. Lawrence


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Listening by D.H. Lawrence. This was the weekly poetry project for December 28th, 2008.

Chapter VIII

In The Little Duke

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Charlotte M. Yonge and Charlotte Mary Yonge


The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge is historical fiction based on the the life of Richard, Duke of Normandy. He assumes the title of Duke…

Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like a…

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

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Grenville Kleiser


A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

HONKER AND DIPPY ARRIVE: The Canada Goose and the Loon.

In The Burgess Bird Book for Children

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Thornton W. Burgess


The Burgess Bird Book for Children is a zoology book written in the form of a story featuring Peter Rabbit. Peter learns from his friend Je…

England Under William the First, the Norman Conqueror

In A Child's History of England

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Charles Dickens


A Child's History of England first appeared in serial form, running from January 25, 1851 to December 10, 1853 and was first published in th…

The Province of Ontario

In Ontario Public School Geography

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Unknown


This Ontario Public School textbook, published in 1922, contains some fascinating facts of a world which no longer exists. It seems politica…

The Master Cat; or, Puss in Boots

In The Blue Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was f…

Foxglove

In Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 4, April 1900

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Various


"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…

1 Samuel, Chapters 01-08

In Bible (WEB) Old Testament - complete

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World English Bible


The World English Bible is a modern English translation of the Bible, released directly into the public domain. (Summary by Leon Mire)

Songs of the Swallow - Spring

In Poems

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Marietta Holley


This is a collection of poems by Marietta Holley, better known as Josiah Allen's Wife. - Summary by Carolin