Jack Harvey's Adventures
Jack Harvey's Adventures by Ruel Perley Smith is available here as the complete text, split into 1061 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Jack Harvey's Adventures by Ruel Perley Smith. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #40396.
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Jack Harvey's Adventures
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- Chapter I Harvey Makes an Acquaintance
- Chapter II The Cabin of the Schooner
- Chapter III Down the Bay
- Chapter IV Aboard the Bug-Eye
- Chapter V The Law of the Bay
- Chapter VI The Working of the Law
- Chapter VII Dredging Fleet Tactics
- Chapter VIII A Night’s Poaching
- Chapter IX Faces Through the Telescope
- Chapter X Flight and Disaster
- Chapter XI Harvey Sends a Message to Shore
- Chapter XII Escape at Last
- Chapter XIII Henry Burns Makes a Discovery
- Chapter XIV Harvey Meets with a Loss
- Chapter XV Henry Burns in Trouble
- Chapter XVI Artie Jenkins Comes Aboard
- Chapter XVII Artie Jenkins at the Dredges
- Chapter XVIII The Battle of Nanticoke River
- Chapter XIX Surprises for Jack Harvey
- Chapter XX The Pursuit of the Brandt
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About 441 minutes of reading across 1061 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- Atlantic
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- Transport
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