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The House of the Seven Gables, the old house

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Year: 1851 Length: 412 characters Difficulty: medium Public domain

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Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne published The House of the Seven Gables in 1851, a year after The Scarlet Letter. He wrote it in Lenox, Massachusetts, in a small red farmhouse. A gabled house in Salem connected with his own family is usually named as the model, and it still stands. The full text is on Project Gutenberg.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne published The House of the Seven Gables in 1851, a year after The Scarlet Letter. He wrote it in Lenox, Massachusetts, in a small red farmhouse. A gabled house in Salem connected with his own family is usually named as the model, and it still stands. The full text is on Project Gutenberg.

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Hyphens and semicolons come in the same sentence, which makes this a compact test of the punctuation keys.

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