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40 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Rudyard Kipling
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Rikki-tikki-tavi
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Segowlee cantonment
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Rikki-tikki-tavi
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Teddy
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Rikki-tikki-tavi
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Darzee
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Rikki-tikki-tavi
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Chuchundra
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Rikki-tikki-tavi
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Nagaina
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Rikki-tikki-tavi
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A helpful mongoose saves a little boy from a vicious cobra.
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Rikki-tikki-tavi
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“There are more things to find out about in this house,” he said to himself, “than all my family could find out in all their lives. I shall certainly stay and find out.”
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Rikki-tikki-tavi
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“Let us talk,” he said. “”You eat eggs. Why should not I eat birds?”
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Rikki-tikki-tavi
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“It must be the head,” he said at last; “the head above the hood. And, when I am once there, I must not let go.”
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Rikki-tikki-tavi
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Maple Street
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The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
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Charlie
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The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
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Steve Brand
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The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
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Les Goodman
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The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
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Don
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The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
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Rod Serling
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The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
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As humans, we have the capacity to be our own worst enemies.
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The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
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“Doesn’t make sense. Why should the power go off all of a sudden and the phone line?"
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The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
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A thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has fallout all its own.
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The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
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“Let’s not be a mob!”
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The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
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Harlem, NY
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Thank You, Ma'am
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Roger
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Thank You, Ma'am
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Langston Hughes
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Thank You, Ma'am
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Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones
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Thank You, Ma'am
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"I wanted a pair of blue suede shoes,” said the boy.
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Thank You, Ma'am
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“Aint you got nobody home to tell you to wash your face?”
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Thank You, Ma'am
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“Shoes come by devilish like that will burn your feet.”
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Thank You, Ma'am
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A young boy snatches an older woman’s purse and ends up learning a lesson about life.
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Thank You, Ma'am
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Mrs. Jones stopped, jerked him around in front of her, put a half-nelson about his neck, and continued to drag him up the street.
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Thank You, Ma'am
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“Pick up my pocketbook, boy, and give it here.”
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Thank You, Ma'am
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O. Henry
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A Retrieved Reformation
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A former convict comes clean and saves a little girl.
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A Retrieved Reformation
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Elmore
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A Retrieved Reformation
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Annabel Adams
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A Retrieved Reformation
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Jimmy Valentine
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A Retrieved Reformation
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Ben Price
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A Retrieved Reformation
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“Say, Billy, I’ve quit the old business—a year ago.”
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A Retrieved Reformation
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“Get away from the door, all of you.”
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A Retrieved Reformation
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“Don’t believe I recognize you. Your buggy’s waiting for you, ain’t it?”
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A Retrieved Reformation
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"My! Ralph, how heavy it is. Feels like it was full of gold bricks.”
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A Retrieved Reformation
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