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Classic Reader: "Bitterroot Billings, Arbiter" by Rex Ellingwood Beach

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "Bitterroot Billings, Arbiter" by Rex Ellingwood Beach.
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Classic Reader: "Black for Luck" by p.g. Wodehouse

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "Black for Luck" by P.G. Wodehouse, a story about a stray black cat.
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Classic Reader: "The Black Poodle" by F. Anstey

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "The Black Poodle" by F. Anstey, a story in which Algernon Weatherhead tries to explain his behavior.
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Classic Reader: "The Black Reaper" by James Branch Cabell

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "The Black Reaper" by James Branch Cabell, a poem and story about the Great Plague of 1665.
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Classic Reader: "Black Venn" by Bernard Edward J. Capes

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "Black Venn" by Bernard Edward J. Capes, a love story.
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Classic Reader: "The Blackbird's Nest" by Juliana Horatia Ewing

For Students 6th - 8th
This is the text of the short story "The Blackbird's Nest" by Juliana Horatia Ewing; a young girl finds three blackbirds birds and imagines that she will carry them on her head, and is very sad when they die.
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Classic Reader: "Blessing of a Good Deed" by Mary Roberts Rinehart

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "Blessing of a Good Deed" by Mary Roberts Rinehart, a story about the benefits of doing good deeds.
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Classic Reader: "The Blue Flower" by Henry Van Dyke

For Students 4th - 8th
This is the text of the short story "The Blue Flower" by Henry Van Dyke. The Blue Flower is a central symbol of inspiration. It stands for desire, love, and the metaphysical striving for the infinite and unreachable. It symbolizes hope...
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Classic Reader: "The Boar Pig" by H. H. Munro

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is the text of the short story "The Boar-Pig" by H. H. Munro, a comical story of ladies trying to crash a garden party, but are blocked by the Boar Pig.
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Classic Reader: "Both to Blame" by t.s. Arthur

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "Both to Blame" by T.S. Arthur; it features a discussion about who is to blame in disagreements.
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Classic Reader: "A Brave Little Quakeress" by Edward Payson Roe

For Students 4th - 6th
This is the text of the short story "A Brave Little Quakeress" by Edward Payson Roe; it is based on a true story of a young girl during the American Revolution.
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Classic Reader: "A Bread and Butter Miss" by H. H. Munro

For Students 4th - 6th
This is the text of the short story "A Bread and Butter Miss" by H. H. Munro. Out in the country, at a large stately home, the early morning conversation turns to a very important matter. Who will win the local Derby?
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Classic Reader: "Bridging the Years" by Kathleen Thompson Norris

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "Bridging the Years" by Kathleen Thompson Norris. Anne is shaken out of her "little indefinable mood of depression" and lifted to a place of gratitude by a stranger, whose own days of domestic bliss...
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Classic Reader: "The Brilliant and the Commonplace" by t.s. Arthur

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the article "The Brilliant and the Commonplace" by T.S. Arthur; it is said to be biographical and maybe a response to Edgar Allen Poe's criticism of Arthur.
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Classic Reader: "The Bromley Gibberts Story" by Robert Barr

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "The Bromley Gibberts Story" by Robert Barr; it's a story about a man selling a story to a newspaper and threatening to carry out the violence in the story.
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Classic Reader: "Brother Sebastian's Friendship" by Harold Frederic

For Students 5th - 8th
This is the text for the short story "Brother Sebastian's Friendship" by Harold Frederic.
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Classic Reader: "A Brown Woman" by James Branch Cabell

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "A Brown Woman" by James Branch Cabell, a poignant recital of the love of Alexander Pope for the unspoiled maiden of the fields - the heartbreak, or the tragedy, of "A Brown Woman"
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Classic Reader: "The Brownies" by Juliana Horatia Ewing

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is the text of the short story "The Brownies" by Juliana Horatia Ewing. This story gave the Baden-Powells the idea and the name for the junior level of the Girl Guides (Girl Scouts in the UK)
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Classic Reader: "The Bull" by H. H. Munro

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "The Bull" by H. H. Munro, the story of a man's quarrel with his brother-in-law and the difference between a real bull and a painting of a bull.
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Classic Reader: "The Buller Podington Compact" by Frank Stockton

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is the text of the short story "The Buller-Podington Compact" by Frank Stockton, a story about two friends who have a conflict.
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Classic Reader: "An Alpine Divorce" by Robert Barr

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "An Alpine Divorce" by Robert Barr, a story of a married couple who intensely dislike each other at a time when divorce was not possible.
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Classic Reader: Authors: F. Anstey

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author F. Anstey including the full text of the short story "The Black Poodle."
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Classic Reader: Author: Melville Davisson Post

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features links to the full text of 17 short stories by Melville Davisson Post including the following: "American Horses," "Cambered Foot," "The Corpus Delicti," "The End of the Road," "The Thing on the Hearth," "The Wrong...
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Classic Reader: Author: i.n. Potapenko

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features a link to the full text of the short story "Dethroned" by I.N. Potapenko.