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Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for

Chapter XVI · Chapter 16

Chapter 16 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for is here in full — 202 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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Then the soldier lad lay down and went to sleep again, nor did he waken till the sun peered into the temple and told him that it was morning.
He quickly found his way out of the forest and walked on until he came to the cottage of a peasant.
As he approached he heard sounds of bitter weeping.
A beautiful young maiden met him at the door, and her eyes were red with crying.
She greeted him kindly.
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Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for

Chapter XVI · Chapter 16

Chapter 16 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for is here in full — 202 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/40 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
Then the soldier lad lay down and went to sleep again, nor did he waken till the sun peered into the temple and told him that it was morning.
Line 2
He quickly found his way out of the forest and walked on until he came to the cottage of a peasant.
Line 3
As he approached he heard sounds of bitter weeping.
Line 4
A beautiful young maiden met him at the door, and her eyes were red with crying.
Line 5
She greeted him kindly.

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a

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again

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and

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approached

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As

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at

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beautiful

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bitter

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came

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cottage

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crying

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did

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door

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down

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eyes

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forest

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found

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greeted

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he

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heard

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her

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him

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his

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into

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it

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kindly

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lad

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lay

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maiden

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met

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morning

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nor

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of

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on

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out

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peasant

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peered

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quickly

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red

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She

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sleep

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soldier

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sounds

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sun

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temple

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that

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the

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Then

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till

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to

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told

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until

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waken

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walked

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was

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way

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weeping

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went

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were

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From this reading A beautiful young maiden met him at the door, and her eyes were red with crying.

with

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young

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Chapter 16 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for by Frances Jenkins Olcott holds 202 sentences, grouped into 41 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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.

What does chapter 16 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for contain?

Chapter 16 holds 202 sentences of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for, unabridged, divided into 41 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 16 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for by Frances Jenkins Olcott exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 202 sentences, grouped into 41 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.

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Work through the 41 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 41 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.

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