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The Mountains

Chapter IX · Chapter 9

Chapter 9 of The Mountains is here in full — 182 sentences across 37 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Stewart Edward White • Curated US English Learning Edition

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This is just the utterly fool reply that upsets your artificial and elaborate courtesy.

You probably foam at the mouth, and dance on your hat, and shriek wild imploring imprecations to the astonished hills.

This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

"Listen to him!" you howl.

"Didn't tell him!

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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.

Chapter IX Reading 1/36

The Mountains

Chapter IX · Chapter 9

Chapter 9 of The Mountains is here in full — 182 sentences across 37 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/36 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

This is just the utterly fool reply that upsets your artificial and elaborate courtesy.

Line 2

You probably foam at the mouth, and dance on your hat, and shriek wild imploring imprecations to the astonished hills.

Line 3

This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

Line 4

"Listen to him!" you howl.

Line 5

"Didn't tell him!

Learner Dictionary

These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.

Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.

Same adjective US /seɪm/

Identical; not different.

From this reading “This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.”

All words in this reading · 51

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Algernon

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From this reading This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

an

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From this reading This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

and

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is just the utterly fool reply that upsets your artificial and elaborate courtesy.

artificial

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From this reading This is just the utterly fool reply that upsets your artificial and elaborate courtesy.

astonished

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From this reading You probably foam at the mouth, and dance on your hat, and shriek wild imploring imprecations to the astonished hills.

at

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading You probably foam at the mouth, and dance on your hat, and shriek wild imploring imprecations to the astonished hills.

because

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

been

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

but

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

courtesy

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is just the utterly fool reply that upsets your artificial and elaborate courtesy.

dance

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From this reading You probably foam at the mouth, and dance on your hat, and shriek wild imploring imprecations to the astonished hills.

Didn't

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From this reading "Didn't tell him!

disposition

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From this reading This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

doing

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From this reading This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

elaborate

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From this reading This is just the utterly fool reply that upsets your artificial and elaborate courtesy.

foam

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading You probably foam at the mouth, and dance on your hat, and shriek wild imploring imprecations to the astonished hills.

fool

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is just the utterly fool reply that upsets your artificial and elaborate courtesy.

for

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

has

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

hat

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading You probably foam at the mouth, and dance on your hat, and shriek wild imploring imprecations to the astonished hills.

have

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

hills

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading You probably foam at the mouth, and dance on your hat, and shriek wild imploring imprecations to the astonished hills.

him

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From this reading "Listen to him!" you howl.

howl

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From this reading "Listen to him!" you howl.

imploring

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From this reading You probably foam at the mouth, and dance on your hat, and shriek wild imploring imprecations to the astonished hills.

imprecations

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From this reading You probably foam at the mouth, and dance on your hat, and shriek wild imploring imprecations to the astonished hills.

is

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From this reading This is just the utterly fool reply that upsets your artificial and elaborate courtesy.

just

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From this reading This is just the utterly fool reply that upsets your artificial and elaborate courtesy.

Listen

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From this reading "Listen to him!" you howl.

months

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From this reading This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

mouth

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading You probably foam at the mouth, and dance on your hat, and shriek wild imploring imprecations to the astonished hills.

not

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

on

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading You probably foam at the mouth, and dance on your hat, and shriek wild imploring imprecations to the astonished hills.

precisely

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From this reading This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

probably

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading You probably foam at the mouth, and dance on your hat, and shriek wild imploring imprecations to the astonished hills.

reply

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is just the utterly fool reply that upsets your artificial and elaborate courtesy.

sameadjectiveUS /seɪm/

Identical; not different.

From this reading This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

shriek

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading You probably foam at the mouth, and dance on your hat, and shriek wild imploring imprecations to the astonished hills.

tell

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading "Didn't tell him!

that

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is just the utterly fool reply that upsets your artificial and elaborate courtesy.

the

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is just the utterly fool reply that upsets your artificial and elaborate courtesy.

thing

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

This

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is just the utterly fool reply that upsets your artificial and elaborate courtesy.

to

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading You probably foam at the mouth, and dance on your hat, and shriek wild imploring imprecations to the astonished hills.

two

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

unfortunate

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is not because you have an unfortunate disposition, but because Algernon has been doing precisely the same thing for two months.

upsets

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is just the utterly fool reply that upsets your artificial and elaborate courtesy.

utterly

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From this reading This is just the utterly fool reply that upsets your artificial and elaborate courtesy.

wild

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading You probably foam at the mouth, and dance on your hat, and shriek wild imploring imprecations to the astonished hills.

You

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading You probably foam at the mouth, and dance on your hat, and shriek wild imploring imprecations to the astonished hills.

your

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading This is just the utterly fool reply that upsets your artificial and elaborate courtesy.

Chapter 9 of The Mountains by Stewart Edward White holds 182 sentences, grouped into 37 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 9 of The Mountains contain?

Chapter 9 holds 182 sentences of The Mountains, unabridged, divided into 37 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 9 of The Mountains by Stewart Edward White exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 182 sentences, grouped into 37 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 9 of The Mountains?

Work through the 37 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 37 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 9 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 9 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 252 minutes of reading across 606 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in The Mountains

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

Blazed: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Mountains; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Trail: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Mountains; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Silent: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Mountains; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Places: A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Mountains; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.