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Helping Himself

Helping Himself by Horatio, Jr. Alger is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 811 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Helping Himself by Horatio, Jr. Alger. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #5833.

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