Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger
Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger by John Masefield is available here as the complete text, split into 1062 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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- Chapter I I Leave Home
- Chapter II I Leave Home Again
- Chapter III I Leave Home a Third Time
- Chapter IV I Leave Home for the Last Time
- Chapter V I Go to Sea
- Chapter VI The Sea! the Sea!
- Chapter VII Land Rats and Water Rats
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX I See More of My Friend
- Chapter X Sounds in the Night
- Chapter XI Aurelia
- Chapter XII Brave Captain Barlow
- Chapter XIII It Breezes Up
- Chapter XIV A Drink of Sherbet
- Chapter XV The Road to Lyme
- Chapter XVI The Landing
- Chapter XVII A Voice at Dawn
- Chapter XVIII I Speak with Aurelia
- Chapter XIX I Meet the Club Men
- Chapter XX The Squire's House
- Chapter XXI My Friend Aurelia and Her Uncle
- Chapter XXII The Priest's Hole
- Chapter XXIII Free
- Chapter XXIV The End
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