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Oh Hame Fain Wad I Be! from Popular Sketches of British Quadrupeds

A cat moved home from Edinburgh to Glasgow and seemed to settle in nicely, but it turned out she was only biding her time.

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‘Please Sir, I Want Some More!’ by Charles Dickens

Oliver was elected as the unwilling spokesman for all the hungry children.

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75
‘Really, I do not see the signal!’ by Robert Southey

During the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, Horatio Nelson decided it was time to turn a blind eye.

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76
Tell Me the Old, Old Story by Katherine Hankey

A hymn about the enduring freshness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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77
The Daring Escape of Richard the Fearless by Clay Lane

The ten-year-old got away from a royal castle disguised as a bundle of hay.

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The Disappearance of Arthur by Clay Lane

In April 1203, a royal prince and heir vanished from Rouen at just the right moment for King John.

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How Britain Brought Football to Chile : British expats in Valparaíso kicked off the Chilean passion for soccer.
The Two Shakespeares : Arthur Clutton-Brock complained that idealising Shakespeare had made him dull.
Fairway : Use each noun below in two sentences, first as the subject, and then as the object of a verb.
England Expects : Lieutenant John Pasco not only flew the most famous signal in British history, he helped write it.
Running Late : Use these adverbial clauses in your own sentences.
Peggy’s Dog : Some lines from the comic verse of Thomas Hood, for reading aloud.
An Interruption : Report this conversation without using direct speech.
Tender Plants : Prince Albert regretted the destructive power of the Art Critic.
Lost for Words : Join these ideas together into a single sentence, using ‘although’ or ‘though’.
Loan Words : Match these words to the language they come from, whether Old Norse, Malay or Welsh.
Evidence : Join these ideas together to form a single sentence, using the relative pronoun ‘who’.
Fatal Vow : Robert Pierrepont called heaven to witness that he would never pick a side in the Civil War.
Lost and Found : What would you in these difficult situations?
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