Chapter 3 of The Kentucky Warbler is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter III
Chapter 3 of The Kentucky Warbler is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Any negro enjoys being questioned because he enjoys not answering questions. Most of all he enjoys any puzzling exercise of his mother wit. "A bushy woods?" "Yes, a bushy woods." "What do you want with a bushy woods?"
Chapter 3 of The Kentucky Warbler is here in full — 416 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/83 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
replying
From this reading “Any negro enjoys being questioned because he enjoys not answering questions.”
used of hair; thick and poorly groomed
From this reading “"A bushy woods?"”
third-person singular of “enjoy” — derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
From this reading “Any negro enjoys being questioned because he enjoys not answering questions.”
the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
From this reading “Most of all he enjoys any puzzling exercise of his mother wit.”
a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
From this reading “Any negro enjoys being questioned because he enjoys not answering questions.”
not clear to the understanding
From this reading “Most of all he enjoys any puzzling exercise of his mother wit.”
past form of “question” — challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of
From this reading “Any negro enjoys being questioned because he enjoys not answering questions.”
a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
From this reading “Most of all he enjoys any puzzling exercise of his mother wit.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading "A bushy woods?"
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading Most of all he enjoys any puzzling exercise of his mother wit.
replying
From this reading Any negro enjoys being questioned because he enjoys not answering questions.
one or some or every or all without specification
From this reading Any negro enjoys being questioned because he enjoys not answering questions.
for the reason that
From this reading Any negro enjoys being questioned because he enjoys not answering questions.
the -ing form of “be”
From this reading Any negro enjoys being questioned because he enjoys not answering questions.
used of hair; thick and poorly groomed
From this reading "A bushy woods?"
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading "What do you want with a bushy woods?"
third-person singular of “enjoy” — derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
From this reading Any negro enjoys being questioned because he enjoys not answering questions.
the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
From this reading Most of all he enjoys any puzzling exercise of his mother wit.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Any negro enjoys being questioned because he enjoys not answering questions.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Most of all he enjoys any puzzling exercise of his mother wit.
used to form the superlative
From this reading Most of all he enjoys any puzzling exercise of his mother wit.
a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading Most of all he enjoys any puzzling exercise of his mother wit.
a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
From this reading Any negro enjoys being questioned because he enjoys not answering questions.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Any negro enjoys being questioned because he enjoys not answering questions.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Most of all he enjoys any puzzling exercise of his mother wit.
not clear to the understanding
From this reading Most of all he enjoys any puzzling exercise of his mother wit.
past form of “question” — challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of
From this reading Any negro enjoys being questioned because he enjoys not answering questions.
plural of “question” — an instance of questioning
From this reading Any negro enjoys being questioned because he enjoys not answering questions.
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading "What do you want with a bushy woods?"
used to ask for information about something
From this reading "What do you want with a bushy woods?"
a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
From this reading Most of all he enjoys any puzzling exercise of his mother wit.
in the company of; together with
From this reading "What do you want with a bushy woods?"
the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
From this reading "A bushy woods?"
an affirmative
From this reading "Yes, a bushy woods."
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "What do you want with a bushy woods?"
Chapter 3 of The Kentucky Warbler by James Lane Allen holds 416 sentences, grouped into 84 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 3 holds 416 sentences of The Kentucky Warbler, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of The Kentucky Warbler by James Lane Allen exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 416 sentences, grouped into 84 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 84 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 84 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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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 105 minutes of reading across 253 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Kentucky Warbler, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
