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Day 4 - Well-a-well

Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says, and I reckon it’s so. He’ll play hookey this evening*, and I’ll just be obleeged to make him work, tomorrow, to punish him. It’s mighty hard to make him

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Day 3 - Old Scratch

I ain’t doing my duty by that boy, and that’s the Lord’s truth, goodness knows. Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I’m a laying up sin and suffering for us both, I know. He’s full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me! he’s my own

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Day 1 – Where’s Tom?

CHAPTER I


 “TOM!”

No answer.

“TOM!”

No answer.

“What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!”

No answer.

The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looke

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The story of a donkey and a horse

Once upon a time, there was a man who lived in a village. One day, he wants to come to a big city. A street that leads to the city is very far. He decided to take a donkey and a horse with him. At first, he loads everything on the donkey's back which

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Practicing English

Everybody has their own methods to learn English. For the first time, I learn from songs. It is easier for me, cos it is a fun way. I learn vocabularies, grammar and idioms... and also pronounciation. Books gives me a lot of knowledge. The most diffi

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2024 expectations

The year twenty-twenty-four is crawling slowly. I do not want to be pessimistic. Regarding the current one (2023) is taking its last breaths, there were earthquakes in many parts of the world.

 The war in the Ukraine, the war in our country. We killed

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