Lefty o' the bush
Lefty o' the bush by Burt L. Standish is available here as the complete text, split into 707 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Lefty o' the bush by Burt L. Standish. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #72013.
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Lefty o' the bush
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII
- Chapter XVIII
- Chapter XIX
- Chapter XX
- Chapter XXI
- Chapter XXII
- Chapter XXIII
- Chapter XXIV
- Chapter XXV
- Chapter XXVI
- Chapter XXVII
- Chapter XXVIII
- Chapter XXIX
- Chapter XXX
- Chapter XXXI
- Chapter XXXII
- Chapter XXXIII
- Chapter XXXIV
- Chapter XXXV
- Chapter XXXVI
- Chapter XXXVII
- Chapter XXXVIII
- Chapter XXXIX
- Chapter XL
This edition of Lefty o' the bush by Burt L. Standish carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #72013, divided into 40 chapters and 707 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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Vocabulary met early in Lefty o' the bush
Words and structures a reader meets early in Lefty o' the bush, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Author
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of Lefty o' the bush; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Lefty
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- League
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- Stockings
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