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They Come to the Gate of Higham By the Way

In The Well at the World's End: Book 4: The Road Home

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William Morris

In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) wit…

Good News in Cuba

In Seckatary Hawkins in Cuba

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Seckatary Hawkins

Seckatary Hawkins, the genial fat boy, is a favorite character with everyone who enjoys the deeds of a very real boy who manages to discover…

Chapter 14

In Ada Merton

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Francis J. Finn, S.J.

The conversion of an indifferent father and mother, through the death of an only child, is well told in another story by Fr Finn, S.J. entit…

Locked Up

In The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp

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Laura Lee Hope

In this 14th book in the Bobbsey Twins Series, the twins go on more adventures, including getting lost in a blizzard! (Summary by Maria Ther…

Book III, Cabot and Verrazzano (1497‒1524). Part 1, First News of John and Seba…

In A Book of American Explorers

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson

This book tells the story of exploration in America in the words of the explorers themselves. It consists of extracts from narratives of the…

Dill

In Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses (Version 2)

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Maurice Grenville Kains

Culinary Herbs may be regarded as the secret to preparing good food from antiquity to the the height of culinary art. Maurice Grenville Kain…

Chapter I Olive and Tony at Home

In The World that Never Was

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Arthur St. John Adcock

Olive, age seven and a half, and her brother Tony, who is one year younger, live in London. Because their mother has been sent away ill, the…

Preface

In Workhouse Characters

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Margaret Nevinson and Margaret Nevinson

In 1904, Margaret Nevinson, a respectable lady and active suffragette, joined the board of guardians in Hampstead Heath. The guardians had r…

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