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2. The setting of the main incident brings before you what part of the Great War? Wereany of your friends in that country? In the ambulance service anywhere? Locate on themap the places named in the story.3. Find in the story some of the dramatic, graphic scenes that John has sketched for hisuncle. See how well you can fill them out and express them. Why would this story makea good play?4. What three people does Mrs. Andrews make real and likable to you? Does Uncle Billconceal his real character? Of what other character in this book does he remind you?5. Some of you may be able to write a stirring story of the brave deed of some real orimaginary ambulance driver for the Red Cross in Italy or France during the Great War.John G.1. What gives you the thrill in the story "John G."?2. Does this story of Miss Mayo's gain or lack in interest, because it is founded on fact?3. Who would you say was the main character or real hero of the story?
4. Where in the story would you say was the most critical and the most interesting point?5. Could this incident make the foundation for a good moving picture scenario?6. Write either a story or a scenario of an exciting and dangerous adventure in which adog or a horse is the hero.Friends1. In what are you most interested in this story?2. Is the setting of the story in the school or at home?3. Do Mrs. Mowgelewsky and Morris seem like any living persons you have known?4. Do you think the children in the first grade would like Miss Bailey as a teacher? Whatmakes her a lovable person?5. How do this story and others by Myra Kelly that you may have read, show that shesympathized with and understood these American children of foreign birth?A Camping Trip
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SOCIETY OF YOUNG NIGERIAN WRITERSMO
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E-text prepared by Suzanne Lybarger
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CHARLES E. MERRILL COMPANYCopyright
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y Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews; to
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Its History. The idea of the short
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details are omitted. Thus the short
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With the help of the biographical s
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There was a pier-glass between the
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like it in any of the stores, and s
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"Jim, darling," she cried, "don't l
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But she hugged them to her bosom, a
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"Yes; this is nice!" Sam said, in a
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horse who had wandered into the all
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good-night!"Whitey found a little f
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"You hold the doors open," he comma
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"I don't know," said Sam frankly, a
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"What's the matter?" called Penrod
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a casual manner through the house.
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the shovel, stick the shovel in the
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"better," even in his slumber. It i
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"Well, we got to fix about that," s
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in a perfectly amiable manner."I go
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Penrod produced the briefer paragra
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"I just said——""I don't mean th
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smothered shriek reached their ears
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It grew darker in the cellar, so th
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Immediately that door opened, revea
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Each glanced pleasantly at the othe
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or "Scroll and Key"[49-1] and I was
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eyes shone out of the dark face fro
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with his arm around my shoulder una
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over me in his young magnificence.I
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as if his right to being American w
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"He stopped and stared with those q
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"I found him. He was hurt too badly
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I heard my throat make a queer soun
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angelically, Uncle Bill. And he whi
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"'That sounds nice,' he said. Sudde
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It was nine o'clock of a wild night
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Price on John G., leading.John G. h
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the full drive of the storm. Awhile
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"Come along, John, old man. You kno
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The First Sergeant, hanging up the
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"And if the animals—they that wer
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At three o'clock she set out with M
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one boy.""No, no, my golden one," c
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of the antiquated Rover, a collie w
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"None of the boys in the school?""N
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"Is he such a little fellow?""Yiss,
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that dog is lovin' much mit him.""W
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"I guess you don't know what iss po
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Bailey; as much like a man he eats.
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"No?" queried the matron with a div
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handle. And entered Izzie, beautifu
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lap—"so-o-oh, you had friends by
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"D'ye mean it?""You bet I do! I can
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At Sunday School the campers became
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katydids singing. It gave them all
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fall, it seemed they had been a wee
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Their beds were hay, with abundant
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like garnets and rubies. And then t
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It was a little discouraging at fir
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"This is something like it. I'm goi
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she turned sideways toward the wind
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in camp on a lovely lake, with noth
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his doctor's dissertation,[114-1] t
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hearty and honest friendliness of h
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other side of me from Miss Midland
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happens this evening so he doesn't
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exclaimed. "Do you think that so mu
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square by everybody, and by women s
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on a little more style!"He took a s
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in the warm spring air, like unseen
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that." Some of his enthusiasm was r
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She looked up at him with a sudden
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are as primitive as a Sioux Indian,
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Harrison went on: "Now let me give
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Miss Midland looked at him hard. "D
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een the——" With Miss Midland's
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explained. "I'll never get over tha
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with one end of a forty-foot riata
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neighbors—a man supposed to be an
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"Courage and patience, my friend,"
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Chu Chu's belly, and her figure res
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making for the low-stretching branc
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ahead! 'Eave! There you are!"Luckil
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trustfulness I was rash enough to a
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is not company for the one! I make
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lithe contour, and as the mare arch
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after a while was content to ride w
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saddle-blanket in the brush near th
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odeo.[165-1] He speak no more; he i
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again, she had a hairpin between he
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Nevertheless, when Enriquez appeare
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and the half-frightened, half-serio
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and a whiff of smoke from Mother Ri
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fine gentleman has a pumpkin head,
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sunshine which struggled through th
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motes of dust. It seemed a convulsi
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the truth? At its present point of
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The scarecrow gasped, struggled, an
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all the coin she had about her, and
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of all this wonder-work ceased to a
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"That gold head has as much sense i
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ags, nobility would shine through a
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the gate, ascended the steps of the
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"Polly! Daughter Polly!" cried the
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self-possessed, and therefore the s
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witchcraft.The wretched simulacrum!
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"Poor fellow!" quoth Mother Rigby,
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The stout gentleman half rose from
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eing an average commonplace British
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"I begin to think, Watson," said Ho
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"Why, indeed? You seem most fortuna
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very much with one's other occupati
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the crowd, and right up to the step
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their maintenance. It is exceedingl
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"'Is to copy out the "Encyclopædia
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the door was shut and locked, with
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"I started off, Mr. Holmes, but whe
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"At half-wages, in fact?""Yes.""Wha
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the mantelpiece."Sarasate[221-1] pl
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"The knees of his trousers.""And wh
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knowledge was not that of other mor
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as Peter Jones, the official police
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Sherlock Holmes was not very commun
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attempt might be made upon it.""You
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that I could not only hear the gent
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veins. Have the goodness, also, whe
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"So far I had got when we went to v
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waiters, though I have been in the
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eached the soup, and yet he gave me
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"I beg your pardon, sir! I—I shou
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"It was a liberty," I said."I know,
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"Have you been married long, Willia
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"But she is six years old," he said
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Several days passed, and I took car
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I stamped my foot."I beg your pardo
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positions, drew himself up and rais
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the windows in the hope that Willia
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To stop him I had to say:"And, ah,
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"East.""West."I smiled, which so an
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"She told me to nod three times," t
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should get away at twelve, 'cause h
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"I said the young 'uns.""And Willia
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"Such as what?""Like whether he lar
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I had arranged that the girl Jenny,
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"William," I said, "the head waiter
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grape-shot. Just before we reached
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crying."But he is going to get well
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emember, with a heavy heart at the
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country." And then came suggestions
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Was the door of her grandfather's b
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Finally the carriage tongue did ind
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expecting a visit from our King her
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"The people are good," said the min
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said, with an air of preparing to f
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y the King's indifference. "They be
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"'We have a whole mountain,' answer
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"When the minister had gone a short
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emark that there were not fit accom
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Page 329 and 330: O. HENRY (Page 11)Sydney Porter, wh
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Page 333 and 334: (Return)43, 1. Nemesis. An ancient
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Page 337 and 338: our own country.Miss Mayo during th
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Page 345 and 346: armies of France and Spain.(Return)
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Page 349 and 350: 145, 1. Castilian. Of pure Spanish
Page 351 and 352: (Return)162, 2. Alfalfa. A species
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Page 359 and 360: Monsieur Daudet, like the moody, im
Page 361 and 362: (Return)267, 1. Mac Mahon. The Mars
Page 363 and 364: She might well be called the founde
Page 365 and 366: Balzac, HonoréChouans. "A Passion
Page 367 and 368: The Wind in the Rose BushFox, JohnC
Page 369 and 370: Life's Handicap. "Betram and Bimi,"
Page 371 and 372: Stockton, FrankThe Lady or the Tige
Page 373: A Reward of Merit1. Look over the s
Page 377 and 378: 2. When does the story become reall
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Page 383 and 384: publishers.C (Return)The Nobel priz
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