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Tom Slade on a Transport

Tom Slade on a Transport by Percy Keese Fitzhugh is available here as the complete text, split into 463 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Tom Slade on a Transport by Percy Keese Fitzhugh. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #23663.

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About 192 minutes of reading across 463 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Slade: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Tom Slade on a Transport; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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