Frank Allen and his motor boat
Frank Allen and his motor boat by Graham B. Forbes is available here as the complete text, split into 543 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #69509, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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- Tuning
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- Rocket
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- Cunningham
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- Really
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