Tag: chilren’s history book
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Great Stories for Little Americans: The Author of ‘Little Women’
Louisa Alcott was a wild little girl. When she was very little, she would run away from home. She liked to play with beggar children. One day she wandered so far away from her home, she could not find the way back again. It was growing dark. The little girl’s feet were tired. She sat…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: A Wonderful Woman
Little Dorothy Dix was poor. Her father did not know how to make a living. Her mother did not know how to bring up her children. The father moved from place to place. Sometimes he printed little tracts to do good. But he let his own children grow up poor and wretched. Dorothy wanted to…
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Great Stories for Little Americans Horace Greeley Learning to Print
Horace Greeley had always wanted to be a printer. He liked books and papers. He thought it would be a fine thing to learn to make them. One day he heard that the newspaper at East Poultney wanted a boy to learn the printer’s trade. He walked many long miles to see about it. He…
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Great Stories for Little Americans Horace Greeley as a Boy
Horace Greeley was the son of a poor farmer. He was always fond of books. He learned to read almost as soon as he could talk. He could read easy books when he was three years old. When he was four, he could read any book that he could get. He went to an old-fashioned…
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Great Stories for Little Americans Kit Carson and the Bears
Great men of one kind are known only in new countries like ours. These men discover new regions. They know how to manage the Indians. They show other people how to live in a wild country. One of the most famous of such men was Kit Carson. He knew all about the wild animals. He…
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Great Stories for Little Americans Longfellow as a Boy
Longfellow was a noble boy. He always wanted to do right. He could not bear to see one person do any wrong to another. He was very tenderhearted. One day he took a gun and went shooting. He killed a robin. Then he felt sorry for the robin He came home with tears in his…
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Great Stories for Little Americans Doctor Kane Gets Out of the Frozen Sea
After they got the seal, Doctor Kane and his men traveled on. Sometimes they were on the ice. Sometimes they were in the boats. The men were so weak, that they could hardly row the boats. They were so hungry, that they could not sleep well at night. One day they were rowing, when they…
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Great Stories for Little Americans A Dinner on the Ice
After two winters of cold and darkness, Doctor Kane made up his mind to leave the ship fast in the ice. He wanted to get to a place in Greenland where there were people living. Then he might find some way of getting home again. The men started out, drawing the boats on sleds. Whenever…
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Great Stories for Little Americans Doctor Kane in the Frozen Sea
Elisha Kent Kane was a doctor in one of the war ships of the United States. He had sailed about the world a great deal. When he heard that ships were to be sent into the icy seas of the north, he asked to be sent along. He went the first time as a doctor.…