Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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Scrooge begs the Spirit of Christmas to tell him what will happen to Tiny Tim.
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Rudolf Rassendyll is on holiday in Ruritania when he stumbles across a plot by the King’s brother to steal the crown.
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What Dr Mortimer saw beside the body of Sir Charles Baskerville sent him hastily to London, to consult Sherlock Holmes.
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Timothy Hackworth (1786-1850) turned steam locomotives into a reliable commercial success.
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Josiah Wedgwood, a village potter whose disability meant he could not use a potter’s wheel, brought about a quiet revolution in English society.
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Mrs Tabby White thought she’d try some of the clever things her humans did.