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The Maid of the Whispering Hills

The Maid of the Whispering Hills by Vingie E. (Vingie Eve) Roe is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 699 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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The Maid of the Whispering Hills by Vingie E. (Vingie Eve) Roe. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #5253.

29 chaptersComplete chronicle

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US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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