Chapter 1 of The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses is here in full — 142 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses is here in full — 142 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
[British-born Canadian Poet -- 1874-1958.] [This text was also published (in Britain) under the title, "Songs of a Sourdough".] [Note on text: Italicized stanzas will be indented 5 spaces. Italicized AND indented stanzas will be indented 10 spaces. Italicized words or phrases will be capitalized.
Chapter 1 of The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses is here in full — 142 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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From this reading [This text was also published (in Britain) under the title, "Songs of a Sourdough".]
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From this reading [Note on text: Italicized stanzas will be indented 5 spaces.
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From this reading Italicized words or phrases will be capitalized.
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From this reading Italicized words or phrases will be capitalized.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading [British-born Canadian Poet -- 1874-1958.]
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From this reading [This text was also published (in Britain) under the title, "Songs of a Sourdough".]
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From this reading [This text was also published (in Britain) under the title, "Songs of a Sourdough".]
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From this reading [This text was also published (in Britain) under the title, "Songs of a Sourdough".]
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From this reading [Note on text: Italicized stanzas will be indented 5 spaces.
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From this reading [This text was also published (in Britain) under the title, "Songs of a Sourdough".]
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From this reading [This text was also published (in Britain) under the title, "Songs of a Sourdough".]
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From this reading [This text was also published (in Britain) under the title, "Songs of a Sourdough".]
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From this reading [This text was also published (in Britain) under the title, "Songs of a Sourdough".]
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From this reading [This text was also published (in Britain) under the title, "Songs of a Sourdough".]
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From this reading [This text was also published (in Britain) under the title, "Songs of a Sourdough".]
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Chapter 1 of The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses by Robert W. (Robert William) Service holds 142 sentences, grouped into 29 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.
Chapter 1 holds 142 sentences of The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, unabridged, divided into 29 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses by Robert W. (Robert William) Service exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 142 sentences, grouped into 29 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 29 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 29 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.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 1 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 40 minutes of reading across 97 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
