The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine
The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine by Katherine Stokes is available here as the complete text, split into 622 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine by Katherine Stokes. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #36320.
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Making New Acquaintances
- Chapter III Timothy's Drowning
- Chapter IV A Race and What Came of It
- Chapter V The Two Edwards
- Chapter VI The Gray Motor Car
- Chapter VII The Coward
- Chapter VIII Mr. Duffy Gives a Party
- Chapter IX The Bullfrog and the Pollywog
- Chapter X The Song of the Motor
- Chapter XI The Orange Grove
- Chapter XII An Unwished Wish
- Chapter XIII In the Deep Woods
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV Out of the Wilderness
- Chapter XVI Mrs. L'estrange
- Chapter XVII A Morning Call
- Chapter XVIII It's an Ill Wind
- Chapter XIX A Passage at Arms
- Chapter XX The Hand of Destiny
- Chapter XXI Picnicking Under the Pines
- Chapter XXII The Last of the House of Troubles
- Chapter XXIII Explanations
- Chapter XXIV So Endeth the Second Lesson
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- Author
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- Motor
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- Maids'
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