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FELBERG ENGLISH READERS
J
ESSE
J
AMES
,
T
HE
O
UTLAW
W. B. LAWSON
SIMPLIFIED EDITION
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FELBERG ENGLISH READERS
Jesse James,
The Outlaw
Simpli
ed edition of a story by
W. B. LAWSON
fi
ELEMENTARY LEVEL
Adaptation and Exercises: Jerzy Siemasz
Series Editor: Adam Wola
ski
Warsaw 2002
1
Reviewers:
Aldona Stepaniuk
Ewa Wola
ska
Copy editor:
Natica Schmeder
Production editor:
Barbara Gluza
Cover designer:
Andrzej-Ludwik W
oszczy
ski
Illustrator:
Dariusz Miro
ski
DTP:
A.L.W. GRAFIK
Text and illustrations copyright ©
by FELBERG SJA Publishing House, 2002
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be
reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted
in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,
photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior
written permission of the publisher.
Printed in Poland
ISBN 83-88667-12-2
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“Jesse James was a
lad
,
Who killed many a man
He robbed the
Glendale train
.
He took from the rich
And he gave to the poor
He’d a hand, a heart, and a brain.”
(Fragment of a popular folk ballad)
PROLOGUE
Of all the legendary
characters
of the
American West, few have attracted so much
fascination as Jesse James. An American Robin
Hood or a cold-blooded killer? Perhaps a little
of both.
Born in Kearney, Missouri on September 5,
1847, the son of a Baptist
minister
, he fought in
the Civil War on the side
of the
Confederacy
. Some say it was the
cruel treatment from
Union
soldiers that
turned brothers Frank and Jesse to a life
of crime. A year after the war they robbed
the
rst bank in peacetime. For the next
15 years, the James boys robbed trains and
banks, building a legend. Jesse married his
own
fi
rst cousin, Zerelda, who bore him
two children, Jesse Edwards and Mary.
She was buried in the same grave alongside
her man. Jesse reached his Waterloo
in 1876 when his gang tried to rob the bank at North
fi
eld,
Minnesota. All e
xcept Frank and Jesse were either killed,
fi
lad
facet, go
;
the Glendale train
poci
g kursuj
cy do miejscowo
ci
Glendale;
character
posta
ki
,
fi lmu itp.)
;
minister
duchowny
;
the Confederacy
Konfederacja Stanów Po
,
bohater (ksi
udnia w wojnie
secesyjnej w USA (1860-65);
Union
Stany Pó
nocne w wojnie secesyjnej
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