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Venus Boy

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Lee Sutton

If you ever make a trip to the green planet of Venus, the first thing you'll see will be the fifty-foot high statue of Venus' greatest hero.…

The Tale of Grunty Pig

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Arthur Scott Bailey

Arthur Scott Bailey, a native of the state of Vermont, wrote over forty children's books using a variety of animals, birds and even insects …

Jacko and Jumpo Kinkytail

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Howard R. Garis

Once upon a time, not so very many years ago, there were two little monkey boys who lived with their papa and mamma off in the woods in a fu…

Ch 2: Justice, Part 1

In Thoughts on the Death Penalty

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Charles C. Burleigh

This 1845 publication, written by a prominent reformer of the day, argues against capital punishment from several perspectives, including hi…

More Crusades

In The Story of Old France

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H. A. Guerber

The aim of this volume is to give a complete graphic account of the main features of the history of France to 1715 A.D., with as much additi…

Book II, Chapter IV: Of the Differences of Wages in Different Employments

In Principles of Political Economy

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John Stuart Mill

The Principles of Political Economy, first published in 1848, was one of the most important texts on the subject of economy at that time. I…

New Friends

In Nobody's Boy

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Hector Malot

One day, French mason Jerome Barberin finds an abandoned baby boy. As the boy is wearing fine clothes, Barberin hopes that he is the son of …

The Squatter's Clearing

In The Wild Huntress

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Thomas Mayne Reid

Marian and Lilian are two sisters living in the backwoods, somewhere in America, with their father as squatters. One May morning a man show…