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Frank Merriwell's Cruise

Frank Merriwell's Cruise by Burt L. Standish is available here as the complete text, split into 1071 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Frank Merriwell's Cruise by Burt L. Standish. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #22265.

29 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Frank Merriwell's Cruise

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About 446 minutes of reading across 1071 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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