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What Jack Horner Did by L. Frank Baum
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner,Eating a Christmas pie;He put in his thumb and pulled out a plumAnd said,…
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The Aged Mother by Matsuo Basho
Also known as The Story of the Aged Mother, this Japanese folktale tells the story of an unkind ruler who issues…
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Tis the first snow by Matsuo Basho
Translated by William George Aston and published in A History of Japanese Literature, Chapter IV (1899). Tis the first snow…
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Clara Barton: A Child’s Biography by Clara Barton
This biography of Clara Barton for children was excerpted from Mary Stoyell Stimpson’s book, A Child’s Book of American Biography…
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My Brother Henry by James M. Barrie
My Brother Henry is a humorous tale about the hazards of telling little white lies that grow out of control. Retrieved…
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The Courting of T’Nowhead’s Bell by James M. Barrie
For two years it had been notorious in the square that Sam’l Dickie was thinking of courting T’nowhead’s Bell, and…
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The Inconsiderate Waiter by James M. Barrie
Frequently I have to ask myself in the street for the name of the man I bowed to just now,…
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A Case of Fever by Robert Barr
“O, underneath the blood red sun,No bloodier deed was ever done!Nor fiercer retribution soughtThe hand that first red ruin wrought.”This…
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A Deal on ‘Change’ by Robert Barr
It was in the days when drawing-rooms were dark, and filled with bric- a-brac. The darkness enabled the half-blinded visitor,…
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A Dramatic Point by Robert Barr
In the bad days of Balmeceda, when Chili was rent in twain, and its capital was practically a besieged city,…
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