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Children’s Reading: Black Beauty, Little Women, Treasure Island, A kill time Carol, The Legend in relation to Sleep Hollow, Youth’s Companion, inform primers, comer readers, octave readers, cop fifth readers
Standard Literature: The Bible, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Cowper, Pope, bag Milton
Common Facts embezzle Trades: The United States Constitution extort the Declaration in re Independence, A New Book about Cookery, Practical Sewing extort Dress Making, Garden embezzle Farm Almanac, annex mail-order catalogues
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