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The Magic Egg, and Other Stories
The Magic Egg, and Other Stories

Chapter XV · Chapter 15

Chapter 15 of The Magic Egg, and Other Stories is here in full — 191 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Chapter 15 of The Magic Egg, and Other Stories by Frank R. Stockton holds 191 sentences, grouped into 39 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.

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Chapter 15 holds 191 sentences of The Magic Egg, and Other Stories, unabridged, divided into 39 reading sections.

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Vocabulary met early in The Magic Egg, and Other Stories

Words and structures a reader meets early in The Magic Egg, and Other Stories, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Magic
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Other
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Stories
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Frank
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"As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.
An' I was mighty keerful to read the names on all the boxes.
Some was meat-pies, an' some was salmon, an' some was potted herrin's, an' some was lobsters.
But nary a thing could I see that ever had growed on a tree.
"Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.
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The Magic Egg, and Other Stories

Chapter XV · Chapter 15

Chapter 15 of The Magic Egg, and Other Stories is here in full — 191 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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

Line 1
"As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.
Line 2
An' I was mighty keerful to read the names on all the boxes.
Line 3
Some was meat-pies, an' some was salmon, an' some was potted herrin's, an' some was lobsters.
Line 4
But nary a thing could I see that ever had growed on a tree.
Line 5
"Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.
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a

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

aboard

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

about

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

after

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

all

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From this reading An' I was mighty keerful to read the names on all the boxes.

altogether

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

an

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

another

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

As

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

back

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

boat

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

boxes

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

brought

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

But

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From this reading But nary a thing could I see that ever had growed on a tree.

Christmas

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

come

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

could

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From this reading But nary a thing could I see that ever had growed on a tree.

day

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

deck

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

dinner

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

ever

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From this reading But nary a thing could I see that ever had growed on a tree.

for'ard

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

four

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

fresh

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

got

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

growed

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From this reading But nary a thing could I see that ever had growed on a tree.

had

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

herrin's

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From this reading Some was meat-pies, an' some was salmon, an' some was potted herrin's, an' some was lobsters.

hot

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

hull

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

I

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From this reading An' I was mighty keerful to read the names on all the boxes.

in

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

jolliest

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

keerful

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From this reading An' I was mighty keerful to read the names on all the boxes.

load

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

loads

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

lobsters

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From this reading Some was meat-pies, an' some was salmon, an' some was potted herrin's, an' some was lobsters.

meat-pies

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From this reading Some was meat-pies, an' some was salmon, an' some was potted herrin's, an' some was lobsters.

men

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

mighty

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From this reading An' I was mighty keerful to read the names on all the boxes.

names

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From this reading An' I was mighty keerful to read the names on all the boxes.

nary

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From this reading But nary a thing could I see that ever had growed on a tree.

Ocean

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

of

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

on

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From this reading An' I was mighty keerful to read the names on all the boxes.

one

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

our

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

out

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

Pacific

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

potted

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From this reading Some was meat-pies, an' some was salmon, an' some was potted herrin's, an' some was lobsters.

put

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

read

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From this reading An' I was mighty keerful to read the names on all the boxes.

salmon

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From this reading Some was meat-pies, an' some was salmon, an' some was potted herrin's, an' some was lobsters.

see

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From this reading But nary a thing could I see that ever had growed on a tree.

seen

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

sir

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

Some

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From this reading Some was meat-pies, an' some was salmon, an' some was potted herrin's, an' some was lobsters.

soon

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

steamer's

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

that

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From this reading But nary a thing could I see that ever had growed on a tree.

the

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

there

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

they

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

thing

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From this reading But nary a thing could I see that ever had growed on a tree.

three

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

to

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From this reading An' I was mighty keerful to read the names on all the boxes.

tree

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From this reading But nary a thing could I see that ever had growed on a tree.

was

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From this reading An' I was mighty keerful to read the names on all the boxes.

we

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

Well

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.

while

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

with

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From this reading "As soon as we had got our boxes aboard, four fresh men put out in the boat, an' after a while they come back with another load.

wreck

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From this reading "Well, sir, there was three loads brought in altogether, an' the Christmas dinner we had on the for'ard deck of that steamer's hull was about the jolliest one that was ever seen of a hot day aboard of a wreck in the Pacific Ocean.