item: #1 of 32 id: 14315 author: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson) title: Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs date: None words: 27927 flesch: 69 summary: Ever since that date, for five hundred years, a boar's head has graced the college table at Christmas.] INDEX. Agape, suggested origin of Church ales, 53 Ales, Church, 52, 53, 57 Alfred, laws relating to holidays, 5 All-hallow Eve, 105 Animals to be hunted, 16 April, 36 Archery, 25--31 Ascension Day, 50 Ascham's accomplishments of English Gentleman, 97 Back-sword play, 81 Baiting bears, bulls, &c., 89 Bale-fires, 50 Ball games, 20, 21, 61--71 Barley-brake, 39 Bath, wakes at, 81 Battledore, 23 Bean, King of, 7 Berks--Old sports, 81 Bessy, 9 Blaize St., 18 Boar's head at Christmas, 123 Bonfires, 6, 57, 106, 108 Book of Sports, 48, 50 Bounds, beating, 50 Bowl, 49 Boy bishop, 116 Bull-baiting, 89 Burning wheel, 59 Butts, 27 Caber-tossing, 38 Candlemas, 18 Carols, 111 _Catherine, St._, miracle play, 99 Charlemagne, 58 Chess, 112 Chester, 41, 48 Choirs, Old, 111 Christmas holidays, 5 customs, 118-126 at Court, 120 Church decoration, 37, 49, 121 Churchwardens' accounts, 34, 36, 42, 54, 72, 100 Church ale, 52, 53, 57 Church house, 53 Cloudslee, William of, 28 Club-ball, 65, 66 Cock-fighting, 23, 24 Cock-throwing, 23 Collop Monday, 19 _Colloquies_ of Erasmus, 113 _Conversion of St. Paul_, mystery play, 98 Country parson, 51 Coventry, 42, 103 _Crafte of Hunting_, 16 Cricket, 38, 61-65 Cross-bow, 27 Cudgel-play, 38 Curling, 39 Customs, local, 4, 5, 6, 12, 20, 24, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 50, 54, 60, 62, 78, 81, 106, 108, 109, 117 Dances, country, on village green, 11 Dancing with swords, 10 December, 115 Dedication festivals, 3 _ He says, The country parson is a lover of old customs, if they be good and harmless. keywords: ball; book; century; chapter; christmas; church; country; cricket; custom; day; days; easter; england; english; feast; festival; football; forefathers; game; good; harvest; home; house; king; man; men; merry; night; pastimes; people; place; play; pole; queen; round; sports; time; village; year cache: 14315.txt plain text: 14315.txt item: #2 of 32 id: 14608 author: May, Sophie title: Jimmy, Lucy, and All date: None words: 27207 flesch: 95 summary: That's the way boys make money 'back East' Then after a pause he burst forth again, Or, I might pick berries--if there were any berries! It's not so very easy for little boys to earn money; is it, dear? said Aunt Vi, putting her arm around her young nephew and drawing him toward her. As he looked at her he remembered Jimmy's play, and the parts they were both to take in it; and the thought of little Kyzie as his poor old grandmother seemed so funny to Nate that he began to laugh and called out, Good morning, grandmother! keywords: aunt; bab; boys; castle; children; dunlee; edith; good; james; jimmy; kyzie; little; look; lucy; mamma; mrs; nate; people; thought; time; watch cache: 14608.txt plain text: 14608.txt item: #3 of 32 id: 15550 author: Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) title: Ethel Morton at Rose House date: None words: 29992 flesch: 83 summary: Hunger, replied Mr. Emerson, and he and Ethel Brown went down stairs at once in search of food, while Mrs. Emerson and Ethel Blue managed to undress their patient and put her into a fresh nightdress and bathe her face and hands. Had we better tell Mrs. Schuler about the embroidery class plan? asked Dorothy. Run up to Rose House now and explain it to her and ask her to talk to the women about it while you are gone, and then when you get back she'll have it all ready to start, Mr. Emerson suggested. keywords: blue; brown; children; club; day; dicky; dorothy; emerson; ethel; gertrude; girls; good; helen; home; house; miss; moya; mrs; new; people; roger; room; rose; schuler; thought; time; way; women; work cache: 15550.txt plain text: 15550.txt item: #4 of 32 id: 16448 author: Burnham, Clara Louise title: Jewel's Story Book date: None words: 91623 flesch: 90 summary: Well, something she told me of an experience she once had, when she was a little girl, put the idea of this tale into my head; and I'll read you THE APPLE WOMAN'S STORY Franz and Emilie and Peter Wenzel were little German children, born in America. This book was written for little girls with short braids. keywords: alma; boy; broker; child; children; day; dog; ernest; evringham; eyes; face; faith; father; fletcher; flossie; gabriel; girl; gladys; good; grandpa; great; hand; harry; hazel; head; heart; home; jewel; julia; little; look; love; lucy; man; miss; mother; mrs; right; saw; thought; time; topaz; way cache: 16448.txt plain text: 16448.txt item: #5 of 32 id: 17956 author: Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, Viscount title: Recreation by Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K.G. date: None words: 7066 flesch: 73 summary: He had, too, a very trained ear for bird songs, which cannot be acquired without having spent much time in listening to them. He had one of the most perfectly trained ears for bird songs that I have ever known, so that if three or four birds were singing together he would pick out their songs, distinguish each, and ask to be told each separate name; and when farther on we heard any bird for a second time, he would remember the song from the first telling and be able to name the bird himself. keywords: birds; books; life; people; recreation; roosevelt; song; time cache: 17956.txt plain text: 17956.txt item: #6 of 32 id: 18907 author: Higgins, Emily Mayer title: Holidays at the Grange; or, A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside date: None words: 95909 flesch: 74 summary: She had little time to brood over her sorrows--those small solicitudes and minute attentions to the feelings and comfort of others, which fill up so large a portion of a true woman's time, were with her a double blessing, cheering both the giver and receiver. None remained behind but old men, squaws, and pappooses, not to forget the Indian dogs, ever ready by their snarl to recall their unwelcome existence to your mind. keywords: air; amy; aunt; beauty; charlie; child; children; cornelia; course; daughter; day; days; dear; door; earth; ellen; eyes; face; family; father; fellow; friends; george; girl; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; john; kind; king; lady; left; life; little; look; love; man; margaret; mary; men; mind; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; people; place; queen; room; rudolph; saw; son; spirit; story; tale; thing; thought; time; tom; uncle; water; way; woman; words; world; wyndham; years cache: 18907.txt plain text: 18907.txt item: #7 of 32 id: 22219 author: Howells, William Dean title: The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story date: None words: 43719 flesch: 86 summary: Pony was not his real name; it was what the boys called him, because there were so many fellows who had to be told apart, as Big Joe and Little Joe, and Big John and Little John, and Big Bill and Little Bill, that they got tired of telling boys apart that way; and after one of the boys called him Pony Baker, so that you could know him from his cousin Frank Baker, nobody ever called him anything else. But now, before I go the least bit further with the story of Pony Baker's running away, I have got to tell about Jim Leonard, and what kind of boy he was, and the scrape that he once got Pony and the other boys into, and a hair-breadth escape he had himself, when he came pretty near being drowned in a freshet; and I will begin with the hair-breadth escape, because it happened before the scrape. keywords: baker; boys; circus; dave; father; fellows; frank; good; home; house; jake; jim; jim leonard; leonard; mother; pony; run; thought; time; way cache: 22219.txt plain text: 22219.txt item: #8 of 32 id: 22422 author: Warner, Anna Bartlett title: Tired Church Members date: None words: 14594 flesch: 87 summary: This is recreation, true and sweet; for of all the refreshments from one's own toil and sorrow, I think ministering to other people is about the best. You bore yourselves and other people with much practising, and when you have learned, as you think, then you drop it all. keywords: christian; church; dancing; day; god; good; life; lord; men; music; people; rest; theatre; things; time; way; work; world cache: 22422.txt plain text: 22422.txt item: #9 of 32 id: 2603 author: Judy, J. M. title: Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes date: None words: 34604 flesch: 74 summary: In addition to love, without which a true home can not exist, we select four essential requisites to make home life useful and happy. Games of skill, innocent, instructive, and entertaining, may be used to make home life more attractive. keywords: books; children; christ; church; country; dance; dancing; day; drink; family; feet; friend; friendship; gambling; god; good; heart; history; home; life; love; man; men; mind; mother; nature; new; people; person; place; reading; saloon; social; soul; theater; thought; time; tobacco; way; work; world; years; young cache: 2603.txt plain text: 2603.txt item: #10 of 32 id: 26339 author: Clara title: Cupology: How to Be Entertaining date: None words: 17342 flesch: 84 summary: Houses_ of _smoke, news_ and _ Confusion is shown by the various objects in crooked and wavy lines, with those tiny _crosses_, many little cares, and yet the _tree_ shades the _house_. keywords: age; chapter; cup; death; eyes; family; form; friends; god; good; heart; home; human; lady; letters; life; light; lines; love; man; men; mind; need; new; people; reading; soul; things; time; woman; years cache: 26339.txt plain text: 26339.txt item: #11 of 32 id: 31186 author: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield title: What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes date: None words: 92939 flesch: 83 summary: It is not that they are not good games, but that, having to be bought, their rules do not need enumerating again. And among other good stories are-- Fairy Tales By Alexandre Dumas. keywords: 4to; animals; ball; birds; book; box; boys; cardboard; cards; case; chair; children; circle; cloth; color; company; country; course; cut; day; dog; dogs; dolls; end; family; fig; flowers; fun; game; garden; good; great; half; hands; home; house; illustrated; illustration; inches; left; line; making; man; middle; miss; need; number; paper; people; person; pictures; piece; place; plants; player; right; ring; room; round; run; stand; stick; stories; story; table; thing; time; turn; water; way; white; wool; word; | | cache: 31186.txt plain text: 31186.txt item: #12 of 32 id: 36010 author: Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) title: Ethel Morton at Chautauqua date: None words: 60124 flesch: 84 summary: 'If Miss Ethel Brown Morton and Miss Ethel Blue Morton will be at the hangar at six o'clock this evening Mr. Graham will redeem his offer.' Their schoolmates had nicknamed them from the color of their eyes, Ethel Brown and Ethel Blue. keywords: boys; chautauqua; children; class; club; day; dicky; dorothy; emerson; ethel; ethel blue; ethel brown; family; father; girls; good; grandfather; hall; helen; help; home; house; james; lake; look; man; margaret; men; miss; morton; mother; mrs; new; people; right; roger; room; saw; summer; things; thought; time; water; way; work cache: 36010.txt plain text: 36010.txt item: #13 of 32 id: 38977 author: Nesbit, E. (Edith) title: Wings and the Child; Or, The Building of Magic Cities date: None words: 38920 flesch: 75 summary: Education as it should be, the unfolding of a flower, not the distorting of it, is only possible to those who are willing and able themselves to become as little children. Because those things which must be now as they used to be, trees, leaves, rivers, and the laughter of little children, flowers, the sea at those points where piers are impracticable, and mountains--the ones stony and steep enough to resist the jerry-builder and the funicular railway--still hold all, and more than all, their old magic and delight. keywords: arches; beauty; boxes; bricks; building; chapter; child; children; cities; city; day; education; good; grown; house; illustration; imagination; let; life; look; love; magic; man; men; new; paper; people; place; play; red; silver; sort; things; think; time; toys; want; way; white; world; wrong cache: 38977.txt plain text: 38977.txt item: #14 of 32 id: 39663 author: Johnston, B. (Bertha) title: Home Occupations for Boys and Girls date: None words: 46128 flesch: 83 summary: NUTS =Boat= (_Walnut shell_, _pan of water_, _toothpicks_, _candle-wax_) SUN AND SHADOW =Blue-Prints= (_Leaf_, _blue-print paper_, _running water_, _small oblong of glass_) keywords: blue; book; box; cardboard; child; children; circle; color; cut; draw; edge; end; ends; fold; form; glue; good; hand; holes; inches; kindergarten; left; line; long; making; page; paint; paper; paste; pencil; picture; piece; place; red; ribbon; right; scissors; small; square; string; table; thread; time; toy; turn; use; water; way; white cache: 39663.txt plain text: 39663.txt item: #15 of 32 id: 40309 author: Bellew, Frank title: The Art of Amusing Being a Collection of Graceful Arts, Merry Games, Odd Tricks, Curious Puzzles, and New Charades. Together with Suggestions for Private Theatricals, Tableaux, and All Sorts of Parlor and Family Amusements. date: None words: 52847 flesch: 81 summary: _Mr. B._ Come on, Mac what's your name! _Mr. B._ Come to my arms, my long-lost niece! keywords: 12mo; artist; audience; aunty; boy; card; chapter; cloth; course; cut; day; delluvian; diagram; eyes; face; friend; gentleman; good; half; hand; head; house; illustration; kind; ladies; lady; life; light; look; making; new; nix; nose; paint; paper; party; people; person; picture; piece; place; play; pretty; punch; red; room; round; sir; things; time; water; way; white; work; young cache: 40309.txt plain text: 40309.txt item: #16 of 32 id: 42549 author: Beard, Lina title: Indoor and Outdoor Recreations for Girls date: None words: 65503 flesch: 84 summary: Bend forward the interior of the fireplace (Fig. 208) at dotted lines, and fit Fig. Lay Fig. 290 on top of Fig. 291; bend the flaps over and paste them on Fig. 290. keywords: basket; bend; black; board; centre; chapter; circle; cut; edge; end; ends; fig; finger; flowers; form; green; half; hand; head; illustration; inches; left; line; little; making; paper; piece; pin; place; red; right; rose; sides; stick; thread; tie; time; tissue; turn; way; weave; white; work cache: 42549.txt plain text: 42549.txt item: #17 of 32 id: 42650 author: Hall, A. Neely (Albert Neely) title: The Boy Craftsman Practical and Profitable Ideas for a Boy's Leisure Hours date: None words: 81736 flesch: 82 summary: To connect the points it is necessary to have a straight-edge--a steel framing-square (Fig. 42) for large boards and a small try-square (Fig. 38) for smaller pieces--and a pencil or knife. In the same way longer boards may be divided up by using two-and three-inch divisions on the rule instead of one-inch, and smaller pieces by using half-and quarter-inch divisions. keywords: boards; box; boy; boys; cabin; cardboard; centre; chapter; cut; cutting; doll; door; drawing; edge; end; ends; fasten; fastened; feet; fig; figs; form; frame; half; hand; head; holes; house; illustration; inches; inside; line; making; means; nail; number; opening; paper; piece; place; roof; room; set; sides; size; stick; strips; type; window; wood; work cache: 42650.txt plain text: 42650.txt item: #18 of 32 id: 42863 author: Linscott, Herbert B., Mrs. title: Bright Ideas for Entertaining date: None words: 64873 flesch: 85 summary: Then small white cards were passed tied with cherry-colored ribbon and vinter-gjaek, each card containing a verse and below this the initials of a name pricked out with a pin. To select partners for refreshments, give to each lady a flower of a different variety; if it is impossible to secure a sufficient quantity of natural blossoms, paper ones will do quite as well, and these may be made at home. keywords: answers; blue; book; boxes; boy; brown; cake; candy; cards; centre; children; coffee; color; contest; corn; corner; course; cream; cut; day; decorations; dining; dinner; eggs; end; entertainment; evening; flowers; following; form; game; girl; glass; good; green; guests; half; heart; home; hostess; hung; ice; invitations; japanese; ladies; lady; list; luncheon; man; menu; names; new; number; orange; paper; party; people; person; picture; pin; place; prize; questions; read; red; refreshments; ribbon; room; second; silver; sociable; state; supper; table; tea; time; tin; tree; water; way; wedding; white cache: 42863.txt plain text: 42863.txt item: #19 of 32 id: 43249 author: MacDonald, Elizabeth Roberts title: Our Little Canadian Cousin date: None words: 21158 flesch: 76 summary: It might, long ago, have been so arranged and protected as to make it a very pleasant summer residence, but, instead, it was now used only for a week or two in haying-time, when the haymakers slept and ate in its basement,--for this quaint little house had a basement, with a kitchen, dining-room, and storeroom. You see, mother dear, he said quite seriously, yours are a _little_ larger, so we won't be mixing them up! keywords: air; blue; camp; canadian; children; christmas; cousin=; day; dear; dora; family; father; grey; home; house; jackie; marjorie; merrithew; miss; mother; mrs; party; river; room; story; things; time; way; white cache: 43249.txt plain text: 43249.txt item: #20 of 32 id: 43636 author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title: Our Little Cuban Cousin date: None words: 19724 flesch: 88 summary: =Little Bermuda.= By MARIA LOUISE POOL. And Victory! cried little Isabella, who added with all her childish might, Long live Cuba. keywords: 12mo; boy; children; cloth; cuba; day; father; good; help; home; house; life; long; man; maria; men; new; people; ramon; spaniards; story; sugar; think; time cache: 43636.txt plain text: 43636.txt item: #21 of 32 id: 43720 author: White, Mary title: The Child's Rainy Day Book date: None words: 35042 flesch: 86 summary: Other pieces of the same size are cut from red, yellow and green gingham--three of each colour. Grog is baked clay pounded into small pieces--an old flower pot will do if you are using flower-pot clay. keywords: beads; clay; cut; edge; end; fig; half; illustration; inches; left; materials; needle; paper; piece; raffia; rattan; required:=; right; silk; string; thread; way; white cache: 43720.txt plain text: 43720.txt item: #22 of 32 id: 43832 author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title: Our Little German Cousin date: None words: 18415 flesch: 92 summary: Do little girls in Sonneberg help make the dolls, just as Bertha and I help you on the Santa Claus images? asked Gretchen. They looked like little old men. keywords: bertha; boy; children; cousin=; day; father; frederick; gretchen; hans; home; men; mother; people; siegfried; story; tell; time; village; way; work cache: 43832.txt plain text: 43832.txt item: #23 of 32 id: 44440 author: Beard, Lina title: Mother Nature's Toy-Shop date: None words: 33582 flesch: 87 summary: [Illustration: Fig.3 - Bring B around and in front of it's own upright.] [Illustration: Fig.8 - The Spike.] Cut off the lower, thin part of the spike to which the arrow points in Fig. 8 and, after puncturing a deep hole in the end, push in a very slender twig or grass-stem. keywords: clover; cut; design; end; ends; fig; flowers; grass; green; half; head; hold; house; illustration; leaf; leaves; legs; look; paper; pea; place; pod; push; stem; stick; water; way; white cache: 44440.txt plain text: 44440.txt item: #24 of 32 id: 45677 author: Crane, J. T. (Jonathan Townley) title: Popular Amusements date: None words: 32073 flesch: 70 summary: When young Church members become giddy and fond of worldly pleasure, the unconverted are encouraged to go on in their sins. Read the biographies of good men and women. keywords: amusements; chapter; christian; church; dancing; day; diversions; game; god; good; heart; horse; illustration; life; love; man; members; men; mind; need; novel; people; place; play; pleasure; power; reading; recreation; right; theater; thing; time; way; world cache: 45677.txt plain text: 45677.txt item: #25 of 32 id: 46445 author: Boone, Cheshire Lowton title: The Library of Work and Play: Guide and Index date: None words: 61618 flesch: 56 summary: _See_ Saws Bandy (Game), K 332 Bantams breeding and care, A 217-218 game bantams, A 217 Bar, Horizontal making a pull up bar, C 270* Bar pins silver metal work, M 171-174* Barberry characteristics, G 355 picking, A 16-17 jelly, receipt, A 17, 18 Barometer complex, how to make, B 258-261* construction of, B 231-232* inventors of, B 256 purpose of, B 261 simple, how to make, B 256-257 theory of, B 256 water barometer, how to make, B 257-258* Base ball, K 244-266*, 332-334 art of playing, K 262-263 balls, standard, K 262 base hit, K 333 bases, K 333 bats, K 262 batsmen left-handed, K 259 qualifications, K 260 training, K 250 batting, K 260 captain's duties, K 249-250 catcher, K 254-255 diamond, K 333 laying out, K 260-262* doubtful balls, providing for, K 258 fan, K 266 first baseman, K 255 gate receipts, K 264 ground rules, K 265 home run, K 333 innings, K 334 choice of, by contesting team, K 264 manager's duties, K 249 methods, old and modern, K 247-248 national game of America, K 244 nine, K 245, 332 opponent's methods, learning, K 259 outfielder, K 257-259 pitcher and pitching, K 246*, 247*, 251-254 positions, K 245, 333 scores, K 264, 333-334 second baseman, K 256 shoes, K 264 short-stop, K 256 signals, K 248 team, how to organize, K 249 third base, K 257 training rules, K 250 two-bagger, K 334 umpire, K 245 uniforms, K 263 visiting teams, expenses, K 264 what makes a game, K 264 Basket ball rules, K 334 Basket making materials for, N 242-243 porcupine quills for, A 69 raffia work, N 250-252, 255-261* rattan basketry, N 243-248* reed flower baskets, G 61-64* sweet grass baskets, A 64 Bass bait for, K 135 Basse-taille definition, M 208 Basswood characteristics, C 560 Basting meat, H 283, 357 Basting stitches, N 6* Bath tubs cleaning, H 155 sanitation, H 217 Bathroom care and cleaning, H 155-156 Baths electric shower baths in a summer camp, E 244-247 summer camp device, E 160-162 Bats usefulness of, K 149 Batteries, Electric. _See_ Electric lamps, Incandescent Inclined plane principle of, B 52-62* rule for power, B 64 Income allowances, management of, H 80 gifts, provisions for, H 81 how to divide for family needs, H 72-85 increasing, ways to avoid, H 73 management of, H 70-86 savings from, H 82 uncertain, management of, H 71 Incubators, K 197-199 electric, E 114 temperature regulator, E 124* Indian bracelet making, M 176-177* Indian proverb about home making, H 44 Indian's plume (Bee balm), G 333, 347 Induction (Electricity) current induced by interrupting the circuit, E 184 by moving the magnet, E 17-18 direction of induced currents, E 186 experiments, E 349-352 human voice as interrupter, E 282-283 piano strings as interrupter, E 281 telephone induction coil, E 279-281* tuning fork as an interrupter, E 280 wireless spark coil, E 321-322* Ink stains removing, H 359 Ink well holder copper work, M 117-121* gouge work, C 261-263* Inky caps, mushrooms, A 90 Inlaying, metal, M 362 Inlaying, wood, C 319-331* borders, designs and making, C 324-328* buhlwork, C 329 building up designs, C 320-322*, 323*, 329* checkerboard, design and making, C 326-327* curved designs, C 328 gluing process, C 323 marquetry work, C 328 placing the design, C 324 thickness of veneer, C 319 woods suitable for, C 319 Inoculation of soil, G 119 Insect pests, G 280-295, K 167-168, H 361-364 ants, G 283 asparagus beetle, remedy, G 287 bean anthracnose, G 288 bed bugs, H 363-364 book about, A 519 cabbage worm, G 125, 288 caterpillars, G 282, 285, 287, 290 cauliflower lice and maggots, G 289 celery caterpillar, G 287, 290 chestnut weevil, A 33 chicken lice, A 148, 149 cockroaches, H 362 cut worms, G 284, 292, 293 destruction of, by birds and toads, A 455-457, G 280-281 detecting, G 283-284 eggplants, G 305 gnawing class, remedy, G 281-282 grasshoppers, G 282 hornworm, G 292 house plant pests, G 199 household pests, H 361-364 leaf-hopper, G 293 moths, prevention and extermination of, H 362 plant lice, G 284, 291, 293 potato bug, G 287, 292 red spider, G 293 rose slug, G 284, 293 slugs, G 117, 284, 285, 293 squash bug, G 287, 291, 292 striped beetle, G 117, 285, 287, 292 sucking class, G 282 tomato worm, G 286 water bugs, H 362 _ keywords: age; animals; badge; ball; book; box; boy; boys; building; business; camp; care; characteristics; child; children; class; cleaning; clothes; color; construction; cooking; copper; cutting; decoration; definition; design; drawing; electric; embroidery; fire; flowers; food; forging; furniture; game; garden; gardening; germination; girl; good; hand; home; house; illustration; insect; iron; joints; kind; life; light; making; materials; metal; nature; oak; outdoor; pests; plant; planting; play; poultry; power; principle; process; purpose; qualifications; raising; room; school; seed; setting; silver; simple; soil; sowing; steel; stitch; table; taste; things; time; tools; training; trees; uses; value; varieties; versus; washing; water; white; wild; wood; work cache: 46445.txt plain text: 46445.txt item: #26 of 32 id: 46484 author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title: Our Little Eskimo Cousin date: None words: 19915 flesch: 89 summary: Yet as Mrs. Morrison's charming volume has long been a delight to me, I am only too happy to link my name with its new and enriched form in this slight way, and simply declare that it is to me the most bewitching book of songs for little people that I have ever known. You should see our stout little Etu riding the waves in his kayak, and balancing the throwing-stick on his shoulder to send the harpoon flying straight to the mark. keywords: baby; boat; boy; children; dogs; eskimo; etu; father; home; little; mother; people; place; reindeer; seal; snow; stories; story; time; water; work cache: 46484.txt plain text: 46484.txt item: #27 of 32 id: 46540 author: Finley, Martha title: Elsie's Winter Trip date: None words: 45265 flesch: 81 summary: cried little Elsie, with a shudder of disgust. Poor thing! sighed little Elsie, I don't know how men can have the heart to be so cruel to animals that are not dangerous. keywords: captain; chester; children; daughter; day; dear; deck; dinsmore; elsie; evelyn; father; good; grace; grandma; harold; home; hope; land; look; lucilla; max; men; mother; ned; papa; people; place; sea; smile; talk; tee; time; violet; water; way cache: 46540.txt plain text: 46540.txt item: #28 of 32 id: 47200 author: None title: Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room date: None words: 30000 flesch: 93 summary: For _haunts of men_, where'er they be, Awake your deepest sympathy. MARY HOWITT. When blue-eyed day Has yielded up her regency, and _night_, Exceeding beautiful, resumes her right As solemn watchman. keywords: beauty; blue; clouds; dark; day; doth; earth; eyes; face; fair; flowers; gold; green; half; hand; hath; heart; heaven; howitt; lady; leaves; life; light; like; look; love; man; merry; mind; miss; mrs; o'er; place; round; soft; soul; spring; summer; sun; thee; thou; thy; tis; white; winter; wordsworth; world; young cache: 47200.txt plain text: 47200.txt item: #29 of 32 id: 47760 author: None title: Three Hundred Things a Bright Boy Can Do date: None words: 128105 flesch: 79 summary: $Shadow Buff.$--A sheet or other large piece of white linen should be fastened at one end of the room, so that it hangs without wrinkles; Buff seats himself on a low stool with his face to the sheet, and a table, on which is a lighted candle, should be placed about four or five feet behind him, and the rest of the lights in the room extinguished. Next take a cane or other piece of light flexible wood, and bind the centre of it tightly at the point G an inch below A. Bend the cane into a semi-circle and connect C and D with string. keywords: = =; air; ball; bar; black; board; boat; body; box; boy; boys; candle; canoe; card; case; centre; club; colour; course; cross; cut; day; distance; draw; edge; end; feet; fig; fish; flame; following; food; foot; form; game; glass; good; half; hand; having; head; hole; illustration; inches; king; leaves; left; legs; length; line; making; man; means; men; need; open; paper; parts; pass; piece; place; play; player; point; position; right; room; round; run; set; size; small; square; table; time; turn; use; water; way; white; wood; work cache: 47760.txt plain text: 47760.txt item: #30 of 32 id: 57844 author: Alden, W. L. (William Livingston) title: The Adventures of Jimmy Brown date: None words: 43749 flesch: 85 summary: I said I wouldn't scalp him for nothing, for that would be cruelty; but if Mr. Travers was sure that Mr. Martin was the enemy of the red man, then Green Thunder's heart would ache for revenge, and I would scalp him with pleasure. Mr. Travers said that Mr. Martin was a notorious enemy and oppressor of the Indians, and he gave me ten cents, and said that as soon as Mr. Martin should come and be sitting comfortably on the piazza, I was to give the warwhoop and scalp him. keywords: baby; boy; day; dog; father; good; house; man; martin; mother; people; right; room; stairs; sue; time; tom; travers; way cache: 57844.txt plain text: 57844.txt item: #31 of 32 id: 6129 author: Calhoun, A. R. (Alfred Rochefort) title: Healthful Sports for Boys date: None words: 42503 flesch: 83 summary: On cricket, baseball, hand ball and other great games, many books have been written telling how to play scientifically. We fought quite naked, and--well, I licked the bully, and never after that did he try to frighten small boys in that swimming hole. keywords: ball; boat; box; boy; boys; cat; center; chapter; coin; end; feet; foot; game; goal; ground; half; hand; inches; left; legs; length; line; man; marbles; number; place; player; position; practice; rah; right; ring; second; sides; taw; time; use; water; way cache: 6129.txt plain text: 6129.txt item: #32 of 32 id: 6416 author: Seeger, Frederica title: Entertainments for Home, Church and School date: None words: 41102 flesch: 82 summary: He is not met with opposition in such endeavor, as in other ball games, his opponent having also a ball which he, too, is trying to put into the same spot with fewer strokes. TONGUE-TWISTERS--ANY NUMBER OF PLAYERS keywords: ball; box; center; chapter; children; circle; end; feet; figure; form; game; half; hand; head; lady; leader; left; line; man; men; number; paper; party; person; piece; place; players; right; ring; room; round; second; stand; sum; table; thought; time; turn; water; way; word cache: 6416.txt plain text: 6416.txt