Produced by David Widger A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT by MARK TWAIN (Samuel L. Clemens) Part 1. PREFACE The ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. It is not pretended that these laws and customs existed in
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Some of these pages were OCR’d by Charles Keller for Tina with OmniPage Professional OCR software donated by Caere Corporation, 1-800-535-7226. Contact Mike Lough The Original Peter Rabbit Books By BEATRIX POTTER A LIST OF THE TITLES *The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin The Tailor of Gloucester *The Tale of Benjamin
A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensIn Prose Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
The owner of one scant young nose, gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones are gnawed by dogs, stooped down at Scrooge’s keyhole to regale him with a Christmas carol:
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The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank BaumBeing an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman
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Locrine by William Shakespeare
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My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
Before Adam, by Jack London
Suddenly they hushed their noise and ceased their capering. They shrank down in fear, and quested anxiously about with their eyes for a way of retreat. Then Red-Eye walked in among them. They cowered away from him. All were frightened. But he made no attempt to hurt them. He was one of them. At his