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Penelope's Experiences in Scotland

Penelope's Experiences in Scotland by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 495 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Penelope's Experiences in Scotland Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #1217.

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