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  HOME  THEY  BROUGHT  HER  WARRIOR  DEAD               
_Alfred  Tennyson_  231 
  CHARLES  DICKENS                                                  
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  A  CHRISTMAS  CAROL                                
_Charles  Dickens_  244 
  CHRISTMAS IN OLD TIME                           _Sir 
Walter  Scott_  356 
  ELEGY  WRITTEN  IN  A  COUNTRY  CHURCHYARD                
_Thomas  Gray_  360 
  THE  SHIPWRECK                             _Robert 
Louis  Stevenson_  371 
  ELEPHANT  HUNTING                         _Roualeyn
Gordon  Cumming_  385 
  SOME  CLEVER  MONKEYS                                  
_Thomas  Belt_  402 
  POOR  RICHARD'S  ALMANAC                         
_Benjamin  Franklin_  407 
  GEORGE  ROGERS  CLARK                                             
422 
  THE CAPTURE OF VINCENNES                     _George 
Rogers  Clark_  428 
  THREE  SUNDAYS  IN  A  WEEK                          
_Edgar Allan Poe_  453 
  THE  MODERN  BELLE                                           
_Stark_  463 
  WIDOW  MACHREE                                       
_Samuel  Lover_  464 
  LIMESTONE  BROTH                                   
_Gerald  Griffin_  467 
  THE  KNOCK-OUT                                      
_Davy  Crockett_  471 
  THE  COUNTRY  SQUIRE                                
_Thomas  Yriarte_  474 
  TO  MY  INFANT  SON                                     
_Thomas  Hood_  478 
 
  PRONUNCIATION  OF  PROPER  NAMES                             
    
		
	
	
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