Gregg Shorthand Reading Material

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The following reading material is available in sevaral forms:
Aesop's Fables
The Ass and the Lapdog
[phrases 15/22] [max 77/127]
The Cock and the Perl
[phrases 13/21] [max 62/82]
The Dog and the Shadow
[phrases 11/23] [max 65/109]
The Fox and the Crow
[phrases 21/36] [max 96/151]
The Fox and the Mask
[phrases 10/18] [max 55/70]
The Fox and the Stork
[phrases 19/31] [max 103/173]
The Frogs Desiring a King
[phrases 25/47] [max 135/238]
The Hares and the Frogs
[phrases 14/26] [max 74/107]
The Jay and the Peacock
[phrases 11/17] [max 69/89]
The Lion and the Mouse
[phrases 16/28] [max 93/163]
The Lion's Share
[phrases 19/28] [max 95/147]
The Man and the Serpent
[phrases 16/23] [max 94/142]
The Mountains in Labour
[phrases 12/20] [max 72/113]
The Sick Lion
[phrases 11/21] [max 68/107]
The Swallow and the Other Birds
[phrases 15/25] [max 74/116]
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
[phrases 26/49] [max 151/267]
The Wolf and the Crane
[phrases 18/30] [max 99/168]
The Wolf and the Kid
[phrases 7/13] [max 58/71]
The Wolf and the Lamb
[phrases 19/31] [max 93/134]
The Woodman and the Serpent
[phrases 14/24] [max 74/121]
Hans Christian Andersen
The Angel
[phrases 167/732] [max 1243/3777]
The Bell Deep
[phrases 71/191] [max 408/1031]
The Bottle Neck
[phrases 184/789] [max 942/3738]
The Buckwheat
[phrases 50/123] [max 276/558]
The Emperor's New Clothes
[phrases 105/288] [max 452/1341]
The Fir Tree
[phrases 144/503] [max 716/2751]
The Little Mermaid
[phrases 259/1422] [max 1434/7781]
The Metal Pig
[phrases 156/677] [max 977/3663]
The Nightingale
[phrases 188/625] [max 853/3051]
The Snow Man
[phrases 122/372] [max 580/1727]
The Snow Queen
[phrases 312/1993] [max 1662/10614]
Something
[phrases 157/490] [max 773/2382]
The Swineherd
[phrases 106/280] [max 473/1306]
Thumbelina
[phrases 163/706] [max 870/3842]
The Tinder Box
[phrases 148/522] [max 655/2510]
The Ugly Duckling
[phrases 184/654] [max 918/3228]
The Wild Swans
[phrases 190/933] [max 1225/5434]
Anonymous
A True Tale
[phrases 249/1390] [max 2045/7621]
L. Frank Baum
Oz 01: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
[phrases 589/7028] [max 2703/33795]
Oz 02: The Marvelous Land of Oz
[phrases 582/7155] [max 3738/36056]
Oz 03: Ozma of Oz
[phrases 568/6311] [max 3280/32714]
Oz 04: Dorthy and the Wizard in Oz
[phrases 598/7127] [max 3529/35872]
Oz 05: The Road to Oz
[phrases 540/6171] [max 3199/33875]
Oz 06: Emerald City of Oz
[phrases 693/8885] [max 3957/45475]
Oz 07: The Patchwork Girl of Oz
[phrases 674/9838] [max 3901/48823]
Oz 08: Tik-Tok of Oz
[phrases 625/7812] [max 3863/40642]
Oz 09: The Scarecrow of Oz
[phrases 602/7249] [max 3615/39114]
Oz 10: Rinkitink in Oz
[phrases 636/7636] [max 3818/40499]
Oz 11: The Lost Princess of Oz
[phrases 645/7747] [max 3497/39790]
Oz 12: The Tin Woodman of Oz
[phrases 625/7024] [max 3419/37358]
Oz 13: The Magic of Oz
[phrases 578/6414] [max 3049/33051]
Oz 14: Glinda of Oz
[phrases 612/6461] [max 3289/32935]
Ambrose Bierce
An Arrest
[phrases 40/96] [max 286/512]
At Old Man Eckert's
[phrases 52/136] [max 346/664]
A Baffled Ambuscade
[phrases 39/139] [max 322/674]
Charles Ashmore's Trail
[phrases 37/95] [max 283/560]
A Cold Greeting
[phrases 49/117] [max 283/501]
The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
[phrases 60/124] [max 320/601]
A Fruitless Assignment
[phrases 53/168] [max 424/930]
An Heiress from Redhorse
[phrases 277/1588] [max 2065/7913]
The Isle of Pines
[phrases 60/250] [max 538/1268]
A Man with Two Lives
[phrases 72/175] [max 386/775]
The Other Lodgers
[phrases 63/172] [max 370/745]
Present at a Hanging
[phrases 41/117] [max 329/616]
Science to the Front
[phrases 43/90] [max 254/452]
The Spook House
[phrases 71/218] [max 528/1120]
The Thing at Nolan
[phrases 74/271] [max 517/1278]
Three and One are One
[phrases 60/180] [max 463/970]
Two Military Excursions
[phrases 52/140] [max 374/705]
An Unfinished Race
[phrases 29/60] [max 201/312]
A Vine on a House
[phrases 59/182] [max 487/1004]
The Ways of Ghosts
[phrases 19/30] [max 123/168]
A Wireless Message
[phrases 54/139] [max 337/703]
Charles Brockden Brown
Wieland's Maddness
[phrases 427/4741] [max 3835/25054]
Henry Cuyler Bunner
The Nice People
[phrases 151/495] [max 861/2648]
Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland
[phrases 436/3946] [max 2221/22268]
George Randolph Chester
Bargain Day at Tutt House
[phrases 249/1388] [max 1720/6570]
Agatha Christie
Poirot: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
     1. I Go to Styles
[phrases 173/771] [max 1093/3494]
     2. The 16th and 17th of July
[phrases 139/517] [max 794/2232]
     3. The night of the tragedy
[phrases 117/455] [max 687/1853]
     4. Poirot investigates
[phrases 247/1272] [max 1288/5144]
     5. It isnt strychnine, is it?
[phrases 323/1641] [max 1575/6745]
     6. The inquest
[phrases 187/733] [max 969/3048]
     7. Poirot pays his debts
[phrases 202/725] [max 969/2914]
     8. Fresh suspicions
[phrases 240/1058] [max 1128/4156]
     9. Dr. Bauerstein
[phrases 190/797] [max 963/3327]
     10. The arrest
[phrases 220/984] [max 1116/3878]
     11. The case for the prosecution
[phrases 233/1057] [max 1246/4437]
     12. The last link
[phrases 153/607] [max 880/2789]
     13. Poirot explains
[phrases 213/780] [max 996/3383]
Grace MacGowan Cooke
A Call
[phrases 168/813] [max 1211/4069]
F. Marion Crawford
By the Waters of Paradise
[phrases 300/1733] [max 1707/7943]
George William Curtis
Titbottom's Spectacles
[phrases 271/1433] [max 1844/7384]
Arthur Conan Doyle
Study in Scarlet
[phrases 653/8225] [max 4592/36578]
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge*
[phrases 391/2294] [max 2108/9538]
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plan*
[phrases 374/2236] [max 1984/9112]
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot*
[phrases 346/1850] [max 1939/8373]
The Adventure of the Dying Detective*
[phrases 268/1245] [max 1356/4904]
The Adventure of the Red Circle*
[phrases 308/1452] [max 1534/6196]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
     No. 1 Scandal in Bohemia
[phrases 317/1789] [max 1772/7209]
     No. 2 The Red Headed League
[phrases 361/1799] [max 1830/7617]
     No. 3 A Case of Identity
[phrases 304/1321] [max 1531/5721]
     No. 4 The Boscombe Valley Mystery
[phrases 353/1974] [max 1821/7984]
     No. 5 The Five Orange Pips
[phrases 328/1517] [max 1671/5973]
     No. 6 The Man with the Twisted Lip
[phrases 335/1845] [max 1815/7642]
     No. 7 The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
[phrases 316/1592] [max 1641/6497]
     No. 8 The Adventure of the Speckled Band
[phrases 359/1923] [max 1904/8196]
     No. 9 The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
[phrases 325/1623] [max 1687/6945]
     No. 10 The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
[phrases 322/1628] [max 1646/6746]
     No. 11 The Adventure of Beryl Coronet
[phrases 361/1940] [max 1792/8119]
     No. 12 The Adventures of the Copper Beeches
[phrases 377/1968] [max 1828/8195]
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax*
[phrases 327/1553] [max 1674/6564]
His Last Bow*
[phrases 284/1232] [max 1485/5118]
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
     No. 1 The Adventure of Silver Blaze
[phrases 350/1885] [max 1774/7916]
     No. 2 The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
[phrases 344/1660] [max 1692/7215]
     No. 3 The Adventure of the Yellow Face
[phrases 335/1443] [max 1449/6330]
     No. 4 The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk
[phrases 297/1339] [max 1448/5666]
     No. 5 The Adventure of the Gloria Scott
[phrases 315/1448] [max 1623/6532]
     No. 6 The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual
[phrases 291/1397] [max 1601/6269]
     No. 7 The Adventure of the Reigate Squire
[phrases 315/1420] [max 1495/5882]
     No. 8 The Adventure of the Crooked Man
[phrases 295/1366] [max 1509/5944]
     No. 9 The Adventure of the Resident Patient
[phrases 303/1425] [max 1615/6118]
     No. 10 The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter
[phrases 322/1353] [max 1550/5875]
     No. 11 The Adventure of the Naval Treaty
[phrases 432/2466] [max 2068/10541]
     No. 12 The Adventure of the Final Problem
[phrases 295/1397] [max 1577/5902]
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
     No. 1 The Adventure of the Empty House
[phrases 287/1581] [max 1813/7252]
     No. 2 The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
[phrases 375/1819] [max 1822/7630]
     No. 3 The Adventure of the Dancing Men
[phrases 371/1900] [max 1790/8052]
     No. 4 The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
[phrases 328/1535] [max 1670/6575]
     No. 5 The Adventure of the Priory School
[phrases 395/2433] [max 2081/9651]
     No. 6 The Adventure of the Black Peter
[phrases 320/1689] [max 1687/6780]
     No. 7 The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
[phrases 275/1348] [max 1556/5629]
     No. 8 The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
[phrases 331/1673] [max 1657/6891]
     No. 9 The Adventure of the Three Students
[phrases 295/1372] [max 1398/5467]
     No. 10 The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
[phrases 340/1816] [max 1701/7564]
     No. 11 The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
[phrases 344/1614] [max 1720/6724]
     No. 12 The Adventure of the Abbey Grange
[phrases 360/1802] [max 1773/7715]
     No. 13 The Adventure of the Second Stain
[phrases 367/1942] [max 1856/8182]
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
     No. 1 The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
[phrases 374/1972] [max 1968/8202]
     No. 2 The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
[phrases 300/1552] [max 1664/6540]
     No. 3 The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
[phrases 268/1224] [max 1328/4878]
     No. 4 The Adventure of the Three Gables
[phrases 301/1307] [max 1396/5098]
     No. 5 The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
[phrases 279/1217] [max 1420/5171]
     No. 6 The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
[phrases 308/1346] [max 1435/5210]
     No. 7 The Adventure of the Thor Bridge
[phrases 345/1888] [max 1845/8230]
     No. 8 The Adventure of the Creeping Man
[phrases 295/1552] [max 1649/6510]
     No. 9 The Adventure of the Lion's Mane
[phrases 284/1401] [max 1615/6110]
     No. 10 The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
[phrases 233/886] [max 1137/3750]
     No. 11 The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
[phrases 287/1329] [max 1401/5312]
     No. 12 The Adventure of the Retired Colourman
[phrases 273/1180] [max 1397/4679]
Harry Stillwell Edwards
Elder Brown's Backslide
[phrases 186/1043] [max 1517/5552]
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The Shadows on the Wall
[phrases 199/1015] [max 1094/4678]
Edward Everett Hale
My Double; And How He Undid Me
[phrases 286/1287] [max 1531/5762]
Bret Harte
Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff
[phrases 274/1609] [max 2097/8388]
Wells Hastings
Gideon
[phrases 154/932] [max 1517/5115]
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Chippings with a Chisel
[phrases 145/583] [max 1147/3278]
The Minister's Black Veil
[phrases 145/778] [max 1321/4487]
O. Henry
The Duplicity of Hargraves
[phrases 185/826] [max 1287/3990]
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters
[phrases 118/434] [max 707/1856]
Washington Irving
Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams
[phrases 319/3275] [max 3210/17104]
Richard Malcolm Johnston
The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker
[phrases 186/684] [max 1000/3459]
Caroline M.S. Kirkland
The Schoolmaster's Progress
[phrases 192/860] [max 1514/4660]
William James Lampton
How the Widow Won the Deacon
[phrases 131/447] [max 735/2246]
Eliza Leslie
The Watkinson Evening
[phrases 292/1082] [max 1378/5195]
George Pope Morris
The Little Frenchman and his Water Lots
[phrases 111/301] [max 651/1546]
Fitzjames O'Brien
The Golden Ingot
[phrases 228/1003] [max 1446/4783]
My Wife's Tempter
[phrases 193/838] [max 1149/3683]
Edgar Allan Poe
The Angel of the Odd
[phrases 138/565] [max 1054/2927]
The Assignation
[phrases 155/696] [max 1232/3593]
The Balloon Hoax
[phrases 165/842] [max 1244/4300]
Berenice
[phrases 108/472] [max 951/2621]
The Black Cat
[phrases 144/656] [max 1165/3335]
The Cask of Amontillado
[phrases 116/505] [max 715/1887]
A Descent into the Maelström
[phrases 253/1172] [max 1505/5770]
The Domain of Arnheim
[phrases 187/945] [max 1570/4984]
Eleonora
[phrases 94/359] [max 722/1949]
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
[phrases 159/618] [max 1006/2874]
The Fall of the House of Usher
[phrases 176/1130] [max 1711/5838]
Four Beasts in One: The Homo-Cameleopard
[phrases 138/531] [max 822/2162]
The Gold Bug
[phrases 384/2304] [max 2314/10935]
The Imp of the Perverse
[phrases 130/445] [max 810/2021]
The Island of the Fay
[phrases 90/275] [max 680/1607]
Landor's Cottage
[phrases 136/769] [max 1214/4098]
The Masque of the Red Death
[phrases 87/430] [max 731/1981]
Mesmeric Revelation
[phrases 172/722] [max 927/3103]
Ms. Found in a Bottle
[phrases 157/740] [max 1236/3496]
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
[phrases 364/2639] [max 2264/11203]
The Mystery of Marie Roget
[phrases 412/3668] [max 2633/16134]
The Oval Portrait
[phrases 68/200] [max 479/1085]
The Pit and the Pendulum
[phrases 161/1041] [max 1402/5093]
The Premature Burial
[phrases 174/905] [max 1501/4582]
The Purloined Letter
[phrases 279/1303] [max 1523/5700]
Silence -- A Fable
[phrases 45/280] [max 346/1083]
The Tell-Tale Heart
[phrases 103/382] [max 610/1802]
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
[phrases 232/1174] [max 1711/6116]
The Unparalleled Advertures of One Hans Pfaal
[phrases 364/3480] [max 2988/17288]
Von Kempelen and his Discovery
[phrases 143/458] [max 839/2196]
William Wilson
[phrases 228/1216] [max 2001/6680]
Melville D. Post
The Corpus Delicti
[phrases 291/2007] [max 2097/9895]
Frank Richard Stockton
The Buller-Podington Compact
[phrases 284/1329] [max 1279/5535]
Ruth Plumly Thompson
Oz 15: The Royal Book of Oz
[phrases 494/6612] [max 3481/35388]
Oz 16: Kabumpo in Oz
[phrases 482/7055] [max 3380/38319]
Oz 17: The Cowardly Lion of Oz
[phrases 528/7385] [max 3524/38562]
Oz 18: Grandpa in Oz
[phrases 474/6081] [max 3421/34043]
Oz 19: The Lost King of Oz
[phrases 475/6362] [max 3444/35460]
Oz 20: The Hungry Tiger of Oz
[phrases 489/6082] [max 3432/33684]
Oz 21: The Gnome King of Oz
[phrases 474/5845] [max 3443/31484]
Oz 22: The Giant Horse of Oz
[phrases 464/5871] [max 3315/31913]
Mark Twain
The "Tournament" in A.D. 1870
[phrases 40/102] [max 386/734]
About Smells
[phrases 58/134] [max 309/584]
The Approaching Epidemic
[phrases 38/108] [max 244/480]
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
[phrases 100/379] [max 648/2156]
A Couple of Sad Experiences
[phrases 57/109] [max 308/531]
Curious Relic for Sale
[phrases 110/337] [max 740/1737]
The Curious Republic of Gondour
[phrases 83/295] [max 622/1526]
Dan Murphy
[phrases 26/52] [max 169/271]
A Dog's Tale
[phrases 173/639] [max 1012/3648]
The European War
[phrases 35/156] [max 224/568]
Introductory to "Memoranda"
[phrases 54/136] [max 317/589]
Last Words of Great Men
[phrases 101/281] [max 538/1248]
A Memory
[phrases 72/165] [max 471/986]
Our Precious Lunatic
[phrases 70/235] [max 509/1152]
A Reminiscence of the Back Settlements
[phrases 42/145] [max 347/799]
A Royal Compliment
[phrases 89/195] [max 464/890]
The Tone-Imparting Committee
[phrases 58/145] [max 399/759]
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
[phrases 593/8001] [max 4803/43472]
The Wild Man Interviewed
[phrases 69/212] [max 468/909]
H.G. Wells
Aepyornis Island
[phrases 177/956] [max 1044/4186]
The Beautiful Suit
[phrases 71/246] [max 501/1471]
The Cone
[phrases 132/733] [max 956/3642]
The Country of the Blind
[phrases 254/1603] [max 1773/8216]
The Crystal Egg
[phrases 200/1129] [max 1520/5764]
The Door in the Wall
[phrases 239/1276] [max 1414/5733]
A Dream of Armageddon
[phrases 286/1858] [max 1687/8634]
The Empire of the Ants
[phrases 172/983] [max 1327/4869]
The First Men in the Moon
[phrases 684/12525] [max 5457/57525]
The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
[phrases 161/570] [max 863/2553]
In the Avu Observatory
[phrases 115/538] [max 764/2349]
The Jilting of Jane
[phrases 140/468] [max 739/2153]
Jimmy Goggles the God
[phrases 175/906] [max 1061/4306]
The Lord of the Dynamos
[phrases 112/589] [max 925/2813]
The Magic Shop
[phrases 164/756] [max 962/3358]
The Man who Could Work Miracles
[phrases 231/1199] [max 1406/5378]
Miss Winchelsea's Heart
[phrases 202/1027] [max 1459/5712]
The Moth
[phrases 152/741] [max 1049/3426]
The New Accelerator
[phrases 233/1014] [max 1329/4561]
The Obliterated Man
[phrases 144/614] [max 907/2653]
The Plattner Story
[phrases 238/1372] [max 1728/6435]
The Purple Pileus
[phrases 168/814] [max 1120/3759]
The Red Room
[phrases 138/629] [max 902/3049]
The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes
[phrases 166/740] [max 923/3305]
The Sea Raiders
[phrases 139/651] [max 983/3256]
A Slip under the Microscope
[phrases 205/1184] [max 1616/5828]
The Star
[phrases 122/668] [max 1107/3704]
The Stolen Bacillus
[phrases 116/496] [max 764/2120]
The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham
[phrases 205/1300] [max 1530/5754]
The Treasure in the Forest
[phrases 116/607] [max 798/2567]
The Truth about Pyecraft
[phrases 180/783] [max 936/3092]
Under the Knife
[phrases 147/913] [max 1228/4631]
The Valley of Spiders
[phrases 136/719] [max 995/3618]
A Vision of Judgment
[phrases 64/316] [max 492/1440]
Johann David Wyss
The Swiss Family Robinson
[phrases 771/18828] [max 5818/97965]