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The Tin Box, and What it Contained

The Tin Box, and What it Contained by Horatio, Jr. Alger is available here as the complete text, split into 845 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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The Tin Box, and What it Contained by Horatio, Jr. Alger. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #27222.

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