Chapter 1 of Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 3 is here in full — 438 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 3 is here in full — 438 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
This text includes characters that require UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding. If apostrophes and quotation marks appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. Additional notes are at the end of the book. Song Book No. 3.
Chapter 1 of Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 3 is here in full — 438 sentences across 88 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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plural of “apostrophe” — address to an absent or imaginary person
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loss due to not showing up
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the activity of converting data or information into code
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a specific size and style of type within a type family
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food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
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third-person singular of “include” — have as a part, be made up out of
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a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
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possessive form of “reader” — a person who enjoys reading
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make a point of doing something; act purposefully and intentionally
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From this reading Song Book No. 3.
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further or added
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in addition
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
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plural of “apostrophe” — address to an absent or imaginary person
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give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
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the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
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at the same time that; because; in the way that
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in or near a particular place or position
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a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)
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cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
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an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
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plural of “character” — an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
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loss due to not showing up
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the activity of converting data or information into code
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either extremity of something that has length
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record in a public office or in a court of law
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a specific size and style of type within a type family
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food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
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on condition that; in the event that
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third-person singular of “include” — have as a part, be made up out of
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the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
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engage in
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English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964)
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used to say something is possible, or to give permission
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a condition requiring relief
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not any; not one
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plural of “note” — a brief written record
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belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
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used to join alternatives or possibilities
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a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
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possessive form of “reader” — a person who enjoys reading
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require as useful, just, or proper
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put into a certain place or abstract location
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a short musical composition with words
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having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured
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the words of something written
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used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
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used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
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used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
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used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
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Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
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the person or people being spoken to
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belonging to the person or people being spoken to
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Chapter 1 of Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 3 by Various holds 438 sentences, grouped into 88 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 1 holds 438 sentences of Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 3, unabridged, divided into 88 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 3 by Various exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 438 sentences, grouped into 88 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 88 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 88 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 1 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 71 minutes of reading across 171 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 3 section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 3, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
