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Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks

Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock is available here as the complete text, split into 731 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #27680.

24 chaptersComplete chronicle

Five linesIn each reading

US EnglishNarration and vocabulary

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Project Gutenberg eBook #27680, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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