The Last Lesson by Alphonse Daudet 

I started for school very late that morning and was in great dread of a scolding, especially because M. Hamel had said that he would question us on participles, and I did not know the first word about them. For a moment I thought of running away and spending the day out of doors. It was so warm, so bright! The birds were chirping at the edge of the woods; and in the open field back of the sawmill the Prussian soldiers were drilling. It was all much more tempting than the rule for participles, but I had the strength to resist, and hurried off to school.

When I passed the town hall there was a crowd in front of the bulletin-board. For the last two years all our bad news had come from there—the lost battles, the draft, the orders of the commanding officer—and I thought to myself, without stopping:

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The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane

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   The great pullman was whirling onward with such dignity of motion that a glance from the window seemed simply to prove that the plains of Texas were pouring eastward. Vast flats of green grass, dull-hued spaces of mesquite and cactus, little groups of frame houses, woods of light and tender trees, all were sweeping into the east, sweeping over the horizon, a precipice.

   A newly married pair had boarded this coach at San Antonio. The man's face was reddened from many days in the wind and sun, and a direct result of his new black clothes was that his brick-colored hands were constantly performing in a most conscious fashion. From time to time he looked down respectfully at his attire. He sat with a hand on each knee, like a man waiting in a barber's shop. The glances he devoted to other passengers were furtive and shy.

   The bride was not pretty, nor was she very young. She wore a dress of blue cashmere, with small reservations of velvet here and there

A RESUMED IDENTITY

by Ambrose Bierce

1: The Review as a Form of Welcome

ONE summer night a man stood on a low hill overlooking a wide expanse of forest and field. By the full moon hanging low in the west he knew what he might not have known otherwise: that it was near the hour of dawn. A light mist lay along the earth, partly veiling the lower features of the landscape, but above it the taller trees showed in well- defined masses against a clear sky. Two or three farmhouses were visible through the haze, but in none of them, naturally, was a light.

Nowhere, in- deed, was any sign or suggestion of life except the barking

of a distant dog, which, repeated with mechanical iteration, served

rather to accentuate than dispel the loneliness of the scene.

   The man looked curiously about him on all sides, as one who among

familiar surroundings is unable to determine his exact place and part in

the scheme of things. It is so, perhaps, that we shall act when, risen

from the dead, we await the call to judgment.

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Alice In Wonderland

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Written Bye: J.K.Rowling

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Written Bye: J.K.Rowling

runtime: 12 Hour And 58 Minute

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