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Buffalo Bill's ruse

Buffalo Bill's ruse by Prentiss Ingraham is available here as the complete text, split into 953 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Buffalo Bill's ruse by Prentiss Ingraham. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #64664.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
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Academic course · 40 chapters

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  1. Chapter I 6 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 41 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 42 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI 8 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII 54 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII 7 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV 51 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI 41 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV 48 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI 39 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL 25 readings five lines each Open chapter

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