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Good Stories for Great Holidays
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Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for

Chapter XXVIII · Chapter 28

Chapter 28 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for is here in full — 196 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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Ted and I breathed freer.
A burden had been taken from our minds and hearts, and we went cheerfully on our way.
We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.
THE PRIDE OF THE REGIMENT
BY HARRY M.
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LEARNER DICTIONARY
Archivist
/ˈɑːrkɪvɪst/
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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.

Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for

Chapter XXVIII · Chapter 28

Chapter 28 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for is here in full — 196 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/39 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
Ted and I breathed freer.
Line 2
A burden had been taken from our minds and hearts, and we went cheerfully on our way.
Line 3
We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.
Line 4
THE PRIDE OF THE REGIMENT
Line 5
BY HARRY M.

All words in this reading · 41

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A

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From this reading A burden had been taken from our minds and hearts, and we went cheerfully on our way.

and

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From this reading Ted and I breathed freer.

be

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From this reading We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

been

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From this reading A burden had been taken from our minds and hearts, and we went cheerfully on our way.

bluebirds

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From this reading We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

breathed

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From this reading Ted and I breathed freer.

burden

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From this reading A burden had been taken from our minds and hearts, and we went cheerfully on our way.

BY

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From this reading BY HARRY M.

cheerfully

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From this reading A burden had been taken from our minds and hearts, and we went cheerfully on our way.

deep

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From this reading We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

freer

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From this reading Ted and I breathed freer.

from

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From this reading A burden had been taken from our minds and hearts, and we went cheerfully on our way.

had

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From this reading A burden had been taken from our minds and hearts, and we went cheerfully on our way.

HARRY

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From this reading BY HARRY M.

hearts

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From this reading A burden had been taken from our minds and hearts, and we went cheerfully on our way.

I

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From this reading Ted and I breathed freer.

in

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From this reading We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

learned

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From this reading We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

M

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From this reading BY HARRY M.

may

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From this reading We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

minds

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From this reading A burden had been taken from our minds and hearts, and we went cheerfully on our way.

nearer

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From this reading We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

of

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From this reading We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

on

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From this reading A burden had been taken from our minds and hearts, and we went cheerfully on our way.

our

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From this reading A burden had been taken from our minds and hearts, and we went cheerfully on our way.

PRIDE

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From this reading THE PRIDE OF THE REGIMENT

REGIMENT

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From this reading THE PRIDE OF THE REGIMENT

something

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From this reading We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

taken

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From this reading A burden had been taken from our minds and hearts, and we went cheerfully on our way.

Ted

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From this reading Ted and I breathed freer.

than

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From this reading We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

that

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From this reading We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

the

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From this reading We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

think

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From this reading We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

too

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From this reading We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

way

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From this reading A burden had been taken from our minds and hearts, and we went cheerfully on our way.

we

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From this reading A burden had been taken from our minds and hearts, and we went cheerfully on our way.

went

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From this reading A burden had been taken from our minds and hearts, and we went cheerfully on our way.

when

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From this reading We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

woods

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From this reading We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

you

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From this reading We had learned something, too; we had learned that when in the deep woods you think of bluebirds, bluebirds may be nearer you than you think.

Chapter 28 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for by Frances Jenkins Olcott holds 196 sentences, grouped into 40 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 28 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for contain?

Chapter 28 holds 196 sentences of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for, unabridged, divided into 40 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 28 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 196 sentences, grouped into 40 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.

How do I study chapter 28 of Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for?

Work through the 40 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 40 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.

Can chapter 28 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 28 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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Project Gutenberg eBook #359, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 472 minutes of reading across 1134 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for

Words and structures a reader meets early in Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Produced
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Lough
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Stories
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Great
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