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17 totalE-text prepared by David Edwards, Marcia Brooks, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by the Florida Board of Education, Division of Colleges and Universities, PALMM Project (http://palmm.fcla.edu/juv/)
CHAPTER I. - CALEB'S DISCOVERY.
TROUBLE.
BUILDING THE MOLE.
A DISCUSSION.
THE STORY OF BLIND SAMUEL.
ENGINEERING.
THE SOFA.
THE CART RIDE.
THE FIRE.
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Images of the original pages are available through the Florida Board of Education, Division of Colleges and Universities, PALMM Project (Preservation and Access for American and British Children's Literature). See http://fulltext10.fcla.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=juv&idno=UF00002184&format=jpg or http://fulltext10.fcla.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=juv&idno=UF00002184&format=pdf
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en
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~2 hours (153K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Release date
Dec 24, 2007
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
Jacob Abbott
1803–1879
Best known for the hugely popular Rollo books, this 19th-century American writer helped shape early children's literature with stories that mixed adventure, everyday life, and gentle instruction. He also wrote biographies and histories for young readers, reaching a wide audience on both sides of the Atlantic.
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