Polly's Southern Cruise
Polly's Southern Cruise by Lillian Elizabeth Roy is available here as the complete text, split into 545 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Polly's Southern Cruise by Lillian Elizabeth Roy. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #42934.
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Polly's Southern Cruise
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- Chapter I The Perfected Plans
- Chapter II “They’re Off!”
- Chapter III The First Night Out
- Chapter IV The Second Day Out
- Chapter V Touching at Palm Beach
- Chapter VI Mr. Dalken’s Paternal Training
- Chapter VII The Havana Race Course
- Chapter VIII Lost in Kingston
- Chapter IX The Sights of Jamaica
- Chapter X Sports at Jamaica
- Chapter XI Meeting Old Friends in Panama
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII High Life at the Canal
- Chapter XIV In and About Panama
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- Settled
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- Declared
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- Polly
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- Brewster
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