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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Part 1

Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

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A Donkey, a Donkey of the Two Americas

The aspiring youth of Gude are within a day's walk of the railway at La Puy, and here in the inn you may find an engraved portrait of the host nephew. Regie Sinac was Professor of Fencing, and Champion of the Two Americas. He gained this distinction along with the sum of $500 at Tammany Hall, New York, on the 10th of April 1876. I think I never heard of anyone in as mean a situation. As we climbed the interminable hill upon the other side, Prout seemed to have lost its virtue. I prouted malefluously like a sucking dove,. but Modas Dean would be neither softened nor intimidated.

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