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Counsel for the Defense

Counsel for the Defense by Leroy Scott is available here as the complete text, split into 1358 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Counsel for the Defense by Leroy Scott. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #28820.

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