A Lad of Mettle
A Lad of Mettle by Nat Gould is available here as the complete text, split into 867 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
A Lad of Mettle by Nat Gould. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #66030.
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A Lad of Mettle
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- Chapter I Bully Rakes Taken Down
- Chapter II In the Cricket-Field
- Chapter III A Critical Moment
- Chapter IV Leaving School
- Chapter V A Furious Storm
- Chapter VI The ‘Distant Shore.’
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII In Wal Jessop’s Cottage
- Chapter IX Up Country
- Chapter X A Wild Scene
- Chapter XI Yacka the Black
- Chapter XII In Search of Adventures
- Chapter XIII By the Lagoon
- Chapter XIV On the Overland Line
- Chapter XV Through the Ranges
- Chapter XVI After the Fight
- Chapter XVII Wondrous Caverns
- Chapter XVIII The White Spirit
- Chapter XIX The Forces of Nature
- Chapter XX The Return to Yanda
- Chapter XXI An Exciting Chase
- Chapter XXII Time Flies
- Chapter XXIII An Eventful Night
- Chapter XXIV Home Again
- Chapter XXV The Scene at Lord’s
- Chapter XXVI An Uphill Game
- Chapter XXVII The Captain or His Ghost
- Chapter XXVIII A Strange Story
- Chapter XXIX Warlike Sports
- Chapter XXX Good-Bye to Australia
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- Lessons
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- Redbank
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