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In The Boyhood of Lincoln

In The Boyhood of Lincoln by Hezekiah Butterworth is available here as the complete text, split into 1051 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk by Hezekiah Butterworth. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #25672.

26 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
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Academic course · 26 chapters

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In The Boyhood of Lincoln

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  1. Chapter I 7 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 73 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 67 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 92 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 61 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 49 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII 39 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII 45 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV 40 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV 38 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII 47 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX 44 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII 44 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV 81 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV 38 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI 21 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Project Gutenberg eBook #25672, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 437 minutes of reading across 1051 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Tunker
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Schoolmaster
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Times
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Black
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