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A Gray Eye or So. In Three Volumes—Volume I

A Gray Eye or So. In Three Volumes—Volume I by Frank Frankfort Moore is available here as the complete text, split into 378 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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A Gray Eye or So. In Three Volumes—Volume I by Frank Frankfort Moore. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #51944.

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A Gray Eye or So. In Three Volumes—Volume I

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  1. Chapter I On Certain Abstractions 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II On a Great Hope 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III On Honesty and the Working Man 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV On Fables 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V On a Perilous Causeway 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI On the Influence of an Ocean 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII On the Advantages of a Full Moon 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII On the Zig-Zag Track 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX On the Helplessness of Woman 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X On Science and Art 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII On the Art of Colouring 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV On an Irish Dance 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV On the Shriek 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI On the Value of a Bad Character 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII On Providence as a Match-Maker 44 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII On the Professional Moralist 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX On Modern Society 14 readings five lines each Open chapter

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