The Battleship Boys at Sea
The Battleship Boys at Sea by Frank Gee Patchin is available here as the complete text, split into 802 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Battleship Boys at Sea by Frank Gee Patchin. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #36322.
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The Battleship Boys at Sea
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III Who Threw the Pie?
- Chapter IV Piping Up Hammocks
- Chapter V Trying Out Their Grit
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII The Red-Headed Boy’s Surprise
- Chapter VIII On the Rifle Range
- Chapter IX Betrayed by a Streak of Red
- Chapter X Their First Detail
- Chapter XI On Board a Battleship
- Chapter XII In the Deck Division
- Chapter XIII Resenting an Insult
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV A Bad Banged-Up Bully
- Chapter XVI Receiving a Challenge
- Chapter XVII Proving His Courage
- Chapter XVIII The Orderly Takes a Header
- Chapter XIX The Work of an Enemy
- Chapter XX
- Chapter XXI Breaking the Record
- Chapter XXII Buried Three Fathoms Deep
- Chapter XXIII Heroes to the Rescue
- Chapter XXIV
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- Apprentices
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- Uncle
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- Author
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- Battleship
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