Kasba (White Partridge)
Kasba (White Partridge) by George R. Ray is available here as the complete text, split into 674 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Kasba (White Partridge): A Story of Hudson Bay by George R. Ray. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #53176.
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II _Fort Future._
- Chapter III _Kasba Fights a Bitter Fight._
- Chapter IV _The Man of the Shadows._
- Chapter V _An Eskimo Conjurer and a Pugilistic Encounter._
- Chapter VI _Lost in the Drifting Snow._
- Chapter VII _“The Packet” at Last._
- Chapter VIII _Delgezie’s Despair._
- Chapter IX _Entertaining the “Packet” Men._
- Chapter X _A Trip to an Eskimo Encampment._
- Chapter XI _Broom Has Conscientious Scruples and a Sore Temptation._
- Chapter XII _An Eskimo Encampment._
- Chapter XIII _A Dastardly Deed._
- Chapter XIV _Gruesome Discoveries._
- Chapter XV _A Bitter Sorrow._
- Chapter XVI _Retribution._
- Chapter XVII _A Narrow Escape._
- Chapter XVIII _An Ingenious Expedient._
- Chapter XIX _Kasba’s Sacrifice._
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