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Stories of Don Quixote Written Anew for Children Chapter 17: With Friends and Neighbors
Chapter 17: With Friends and Neighbors For nearly a month Don Quixote remained at home, seeing no one at all but his niece and the housekeeper. The curate and the barber came daily to inquire how he was doing; but they kept carefully out of his sight lest they might hinder his recovery. At length…
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Stories of Don Quixote Written Anew for Children Chapter 16: The Ox-Cart Journey
Chapter 16: The Ox-Cart Journey They were still far from their home village, and Don Quixote’s malady grew worse every day. He gave himself up to so many strange fancies that there was really no getting along with him. At length, when he would ride no farther in the right direction, the curate and the…
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Stories of Don Quixote Written Anew for Children Chapter 15: Sancho Panza on the Road
Chapter 15: Sancho Panza on the Road The next day as Sancho Panza was plodding slowly along the highway, he came to a little inn. He knew the place quite well, for he and his master had lodged there not a month before. It was dinner time, and the odors of the kitchen filled the…
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Stories of Don Quixote Written Anew for Children Chapter 14: The Message to Dulcinea
Chapter 14: The Message to Dulcinea One day as Don Quixote with his squire was strolling aimlessly through the roughest and wildest part of the mountains, he became suddenly very silent. “Friend Sancho,” he said, “as you value your life, I bid you not to speak a word to me until I give you leave.”…
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Stories of Don Quixote Written Anew for Children Chapter 13: In the Black Mountains
Chapter 13: In the Black Mountains The darkness of night found our two travelers in the midst of the mountains and far from any friendly inn. The sky was clear, however, and above the tree tops the round, full moon was shining brightly. Both knight and squire were weary from long traveling, and sore from…
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Stories of Don Quixote Written Anew for Children Chapter 12: The Adventure with the Prisoners
Chapter 12: The Adventure with the Prisoners Day after day, the two travelers jogged slowly along, rambling hither and thither wherever their fancy chose to wander. At length they came into the rugged highway which leads through the Black Mountains, or, as they are called in Spain, the Sierra Morena. “Now we shall have our…
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Stories of Don Quixote Written Anew for Children Chapter 11: The Adventure with the Barber
Chapter 11: The Adventure with the Barber Days passed, and still Don Quixote rode bare-headed: for as yet he had found no means whereby to win for himself a new helmet. Every day, however, had its adventures, and every turn of the road seemed to lead the knight and his squire into new fields of…
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THE ADVENTURES OF OLD MR. TOAD: OLD MR. TOAD’S MUSIC BAG
Never think that you have learned All there is to know. That’s the surest way of all Ignorance to show. “I’ve found Old Mr. Toad!” cried Peter Rabbit, hurrying after Jimmy Skunk. “Where?” demanded Jimmy. “In the water,” declared Peter. “He’s sitting right over there where the water is shallow, and he didn’t notice me…
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THE ADVENTURES OF OLD MR. TOAD: JIMMY SKUNK CONSULTS HIS FRIENDS
Jimmy Skunk scratched his head thoughtfully as he watched Old Mr. Toad go down the Lone Little Path, hop, hop, hipperty-hop, towards the Smiling Pool. He certainly was puzzled, was Jimmy Skunk. If Old Mr. Toad had told him that he could fly, Jimmy would not have been more surprised, or found it harder to…
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Pilgrim Stories chapter: Chapters 9 and 10
ON THE CANAL audio NEXT morning, the pretty blue and white dishes washed, the kettles scoured, and fresh white sand sprinkled on the kitchen floor, Patience took baby Love and went out on the doorstep to watch the boats on the canal. There were many of these boats passing to and fro. Some carried fuel…