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Handbook of Nature-Study, Part 1

Read by Jill Engle

Anna Botsford Comstock

Handbook of Nature-Study was written by Anna Botsford Comstock during an era of growing societal concern for man's treatment of the natural …

Whitefoot the Wood Mouse

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Thornton W. Burgess

This is the story of Whitefoot the wood mouse, the most timid and shy creature in all the Green Forest. You see, Whitefoot has many enemies …

11 - Part 2, Chapter 5 - Of Physical Proprieties in Conversation

In The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

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Elisabeth Celnart and Élisabeth Celnart

A mid-nineteenth century book of etiquette. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

The Chickadee

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…

Dedication; To the Boys and Girls

In Thirty More Famous Stories Retold

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James Baldwin

Thirty More Famous Stories Retold, the sequel to the popular Fifty Famous Stories Retold, retells the stories of legendary people and mythol…

June 5, 1944

In The Fireside Chats

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thirty radio addresses made throughout his terms as President of the United States between 1933 and 1944…

Hunting Hippopotami

In The Giraffe Hunters

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Thomas Mayne Reid

The Young Yägers, Hans and Hendrik Von Bloom, Groot Willem and Arend Van Wyk, are again on a hunting expedition. This time, the reader…

Easy Botany: May

In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 29, May 18, 1880

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Various

Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, po…