Chapter 1 of The Admirable Tinker Child of the World is here in full — 424 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter I
Chapter 1 of The Admirable Tinker Child of the World is here in full — 424 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. "Here's my father, or the police!"
Chapter 1 of The Admirable Tinker Child of the World is here in full — 424 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon
From this reading McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
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From this reading McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
belonging to the person speaking
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used to join alternatives or possibilities
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the force of policemen and officers
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used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "Here's my father, or the police!"
Chapter 1 of The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Edgar Jepson holds 424 sentences, grouped into 85 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 424 sentences of The Admirable Tinker Child of the World, unabridged, divided into 85 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Edgar Jepson exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 424 sentences, grouped into 85 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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