Our Fellows
Our Fellows by Harry Castlemon is available here as the complete text, split into 547 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Our Fellows by Harry Castlemon. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #55402.
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Our Fellows
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- Chapter I Who Our Fellows Are
- Chapter II An Uninvited Guest
- Chapter III Mark’s Adventure
- Chapter IV A Friend in Need
- Chapter V We Talk the Matter Over
- Chapter VI Mark Makes a Discovery
- Chapter VII Our Christmas Turkeys
- Chapter VIII A Ride After the Indians
- Chapter IX Caught at Last
- Chapter X I Stand Picket
- Chapter XI The Tables Turned
- Chapter XII Tom Is Astonished
- Chapter XIII Tom Tells His Story
- Chapter XIV Tom’s Plan
- Chapter XV Dangerous Work
- Chapter XVI Our Stratagem
- Chapter XVII Taking the Back Track
- Chapter XVIII An Unexpected Deliverance
- Chapter XIX “Mark Two Times.”
- Chapter XX Conclusion
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Project Gutenberg eBook #55402, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Our Fellows take to read?
About 227 minutes of reading across 547 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- Joseph
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- Coleman
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- Story
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- Begins
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