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The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat In most contests the choices are win, lose or draw, but what happened here remains a mystery.
Posted Today • The Copy Book
How I Met Nastenka The story-teller recalls his first meeting with Nastenka, and the man who brought them together.
Posted Yesterday • The Copy Book
Columbus Arthur Clough marvels at the vision of a man who could cross the Atlantic without knowing there was a farther shore.
Posted February 2 • The Copy Book
Who’ll Turn the Grindstone? Whenever Charles Miner suspected an ulterior motive, he would say quietly ‘That man has an axe to grind!’
Posted February 1 • The Copy Book
A Full Day’s Play It was one of those rare occasions when a game of cricket had not been interrupted by the weather, but would the Church be so forgiving?
Posted January 29 • The Copy Book
Sunday in London Every Sunday, the Englishman is raised to heaven by the choir, and then taken to her bosom by Mother Earth.
Posted January 29 • The Copy Book
Ye Children, Hearken Unto Me David, fresh from another close encounter with Saul’s men, shares his advice for living a charmed life.
Posted January 28 • The Copy Book
Look Upon This Picture Hamlet cannot understand what his mother could possibly see in his uncle Claudius.
Posted January 27 • The Copy Book
Metaphors Rewrite these sentences, substituting each metaphor with another of similar meaning.
Posted January 27
Vocabulary Compose sentences to illustrate the meaning of these words.
Posted January 27 • Think and Speak
Outbreak John Galsworthy shared his unease at the rise of two competing forms of national speech.
Posted January 26 • The Copy Book