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Penrod

Chapter VIII · Chapter 8

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Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.
And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?
The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.
Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we never know when we are well off.”
The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.
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Archivist
/ˈɑːrkɪvɪst/
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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.

Penrod

Chapter VIII · Chapter 8

Chapter 8 of Penrod is here in full — 40 sentences across 8 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/8 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

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Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.
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And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?
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The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.
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Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that wenever know when we are well off.”
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The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

Learner Dictionary

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Memory noun US /ˈmem.ər.i/

The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information and knowledge.

From this reading “The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.”

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a

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

agreeable

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

all

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

And

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

appreciation

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

are

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From this reading Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we “never know when we are well off.”

aware

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

before

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

blunted

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

boys

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

burden

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From this reading Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.

busy

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

casual

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

children

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

condition

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From this reading Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we “never know when we are well off.”

dreadful

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From this reading Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.

duller

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From this reading Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.

education

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From this reading Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.

exhilarating

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

experience

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

felicity

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

filled

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

for

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From this reading Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we “never know when we are well off.”

from

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

gazing

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

girls

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

greater

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From this reading Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we “never know when we are well off.”

had

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From this reading Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.

happiness

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From this reading Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we “never know when we are well off.”

happy

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

he

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From this reading Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.

heads

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

himself

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

his

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

in

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

infinitely

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From this reading Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.

is

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

it

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From this reading Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.

just

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

know

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From this reading Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we “never know when we are well off.”

least

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

less

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

little

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

memorynounUS /ˈmem.ər.i/

The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information and knowledge.

From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

more

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From this reading Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.

morning

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From this reading Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.

most

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

needs

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

never

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From this reading Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we “never know when we are well off.”

Next

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From this reading Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.

nothing

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From this reading Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we “never know when we are well off.”

of

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From this reading Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.

off

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From this reading Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we “never know when we are well off.”

once

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From this reading Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.

only

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

part

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From this reading Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we “never know when we are well off.”

pathetically

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From this reading Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we “never know when we are well off.”

Penrod

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

platform

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

pleasanter

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

probably

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

public

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

resumed

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From this reading Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.

room

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

school

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

schoolroom

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

seemed

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From this reading Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.

sensations

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

sight

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

sprouting

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

state

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From this reading The boys in a public school are less aware of their happy state than are the girls; and of all the boys in his room, probably Penrod himself had the least appreciation of his felicity.

Still

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From this reading Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we “never know when we are well off.”

teacher's

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

teens

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

than

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

that

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From this reading Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we “never know when we are well off.”

the

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From this reading Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.

their

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From this reading Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we “never know when we are well off.”

there

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

these

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

those

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

to

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

true

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From this reading Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we “never know when we are well off.”

unconscious

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From this reading Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we “never know when we are well off.”

upon

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

visitor

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From this reading The casual visitor, gazing from the teacher's platform upon these busy little heads, needs only a blunted memory to experience the most agreeable and exhilarating sensations.

we

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From this reading Still, for the greater part, the children are unconscious of the happiness of their condition; for nothing is more pathetically true than that we “never know when we are well off.”

well

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

what

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

when

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From this reading Next morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller.

with

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

years

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

yet

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From this reading And yet what pleasanter sight is there than a schoolroom well filled with children of those sprouting years just before the 'teens?

Chapter 8 of Penrod by Booth Tarkington holds 40 sentences, grouped into 8 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 8 of Penrod contain?

Chapter 8 holds 40 sentences of Penrod, unabridged, divided into 8 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 8 of Penrod by Booth Tarkington exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 40 sentences, grouped into 8 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 8 of Penrod?

Work through the 8 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 8 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 8 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 8 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 308 minutes of reading across 742 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Penrod

Words and structures a reader meets early in Penrod, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Penrod
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Penrod; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Morosely
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Fence
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Penrod; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Gazed
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Penrod; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.