item: #1 of 90
          id: 10347
      author: Alvares, Rahul
       title: Free from School
        date: None
       words: 35359
      flesch: 80
     summary: At other times I would be pestering the staff to answer more complicated and detailed questions about the habits of snakes. Sometimes the spider would immediately catch the prey and eat it; at other times the fly would buzz around in the bottle for days till the spider was ready to eat it.
    keywords: ashok; bank; bus; chapter; croc; dad; day; days; earthworms; experience; female; fish; goa; home; house; morning; mushrooms; night; parents; park; people; pit; place; plants; school; set; shop; snake; soil; species; spiders; stay; students; tank; time; uncle; water; way; work; year
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        item: #2 of 90
          id: 10389
      author: Long, William J. (William Joseph)
       title: Northern Trails, Book I.
        date: None
       words: 30324
      flesch: 72
     summary: For wolf cubs are like collies in this, that they seem to have a natural interest, perhaps a natural kinship with man, and next to their own kind nothing arouses their interest like a group of children playing. Here on the edge of the vast, untrodden barren, far from human eyes, in an ordinary family of wolf cubs playing wild and free, eager, headstrong, hungry, yet always under control and instantly subject to a wiser head and a stronger will than their own, was the explanation of it all.
    keywords: away; caribou; cubs; deep; deer; den; eyes; find; game; great; hunting; long; mooka; mother; mother wolf; night; noel; snow; trail; watching; white; wild; wolf; wolf cubs; wolves; woods
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        item: #3 of 90
          id: 11506
      author: Watson, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
       title: The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776
        date: None
       words: 44001
      flesch: 73
     summary: Jackson may think of his bookish notions sometimes; but he knows what kind of old men we are. As they marched through the Jerseys, driving our poor 'rebel' army before them, they committed all kinds of outrages on helpless women and old men; but this conduct was destined to recoil upon the heads of the foe.
    keywords: army; barton; battle; body; british; captain; country; day; death; enemy; fire; friend; general; harmar; head; higgins; house; jackson; john; like; major; man; men; morton; mrs; night; party; people; place; smith; soldiers; story; thought; time; tories; war; washington; wilson; young
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        item: #4 of 90
          id: 11679
      author: Burke, Kathleen
       title: The White Road to Verdun
        date: None
       words: 16913
      flesch: 73
     summary: A white city of desolation, scorched and battered, yet the brightest jewel in the crown of France's glory; a shining example to the world of the triumph of human resistance and the courage of men. She is indeed a General, saving men for France.
    keywords: army; children; comrades; day; france; french; general; german; good; home; hospital; men; officer; pas; petain; soldiers; time; trenches; verdun; village; war; white; women; wounded
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        item: #5 of 90
          id: 14226
      author: Seton, Ernest Thompson
       title: Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen
        date: None
       words: 30071
      flesch: 84
     summary: This large and regular levy of provisions wholly carried off could mean but one thing, a family of little foxes at home; and to find them I now was bound. So after a little search at the other side of a knoll, I found the real entry and good proof that there was a nest of little foxes inside.
    keywords: away; day; dog; feet; fox; good; ground; head; know; life; lobo; log; molly; mother; new; night; ones; place; rag; redruff; saw; snow; swamp; time; trail; water; wolf; woods
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        item: #6 of 90
          id: 15413
      author: Various
       title: The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection
        date: None
       words: 49889
      flesch: 68
     summary: Men saw with admiration this unfortunate chieftain under all the terrors of death, and the strongest temptations man could be under, bravely attesting the king's innocence, and sealing the truth of his testimony with his blood. Because, answered he, good men are won by justice; the bad by clemency.
    keywords: admiral; boy; cause; charles; company; day; days; death; dinner; doctor; duke; family; father; following; france; french; friend; general; gentleman; good; great; head; honour; house; king; life; long; lord; lordship; majesty; man; master; men; mind; money; night; occasion; officer; order; place; poor; room; servant; sir; soldier; time; war; way; wife; woman; years
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        item: #7 of 90
          id: 15544
      author: Stone, Barney
       title: Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie
        date: None
       words: 10850
      flesch: 87
     summary: Serves Skinny right about losing the tip for he's such a tight wad that when the company sings Old Hundred at chapel Skinny sings the Ninety and Nine just to save a cent. Say Julie, I'm not fur this country down here a-tall.
    keywords: barney; big; camp; day; dere; fer; fur; good; guy; home; illustration; julie; man; ol'; rite; skinny; think; time; way; wuz
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        item: #8 of 90
          id: 15667
      author: None
       title: Best Short Stories
        date: None
       words: 45708
      flesch: 83
     summary: At least that was the intention of Charles L. Zoll, justice of the peace of Broad Run district, Loudoun County, who delivered into the hands of the Sheriff this warrant: Commonwealth of Virginia, County of Loudoun, to wit: To the Sheriff of the said county: Wheras, Woodrow Wilson has this day made oath before me, a justice of said court, that William Hohan Zollern, alias Wilhelm, has at various times and places between July, 1914, and November, 1917, committed murder, assault, and arson upon the bodies of various people and sundry properties, against the peace and dignity of the Government of the United States, the State of Virginia and Broad Run district in particular. These are therefore in the name of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Government of the United States to command you to forthwith apprehend the said William Hohan Zollern, alias Kaiser Wilhelm, and bring his body before me at my office in Aushburn, Va., to answer said charges, and there and then be dealt with according to law.
    keywords: american; away; bill; boy; business; come; country; dat; day; days; dear; doctor; door; face; father; following; friend; gentleman; german; girl; hand; head; home; house; husband; judge; kaiser; lady; life; look; man; matter; mind; moment; morning; mother; new; officer; place; reply; right; room; sir; son; story; thing; thought; time; town; train; want; war; way; wife; woman; work; world; years
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        item: #9 of 90
          id: 15938
      author: Watson, Henry C. (Henry Clay)
       title: The Yankee Tea-party; Or, Boston in 1773
        date: None
       words: 44833
      flesch: 77
     summary: You see, young men, after they recovered from the confusion of the first attack, they found they had no ammunition save what they had in their cartouch-boxes. If you had seen the way that the militia walked up to the enemy's cannon, and fought with regulars, you'd have said at once, there was no use of Great Britain trying to subdue such men.
    keywords: army; arnold; battle; boston; british; captain; colonel; company; country; davenport; day; enemy; fire; general; good; hand; house; kinnison; lee; life; man; march; men; night; officers; party; pitts; river; road; saw; stark; tarleton; tell; time; troops; war; washington; way; young
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        item: #10 of 90
          id: 16349
      author: Dunderdale, George
       title: The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the Early Colonial Life of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, and Others Who Left Their Native Land and Never Returned
        date: None
       words: 118847
      flesch: 80
     summary: Other men, both clerical and lay, followed the lead of the Rev. Mr. Marsden. Other men from the Highlands failed to win the smiles of fortune in Gippsland.
    keywords: albert; bay; black; board; boat; bush; captain; cattle; come; country; course; court; davy; day; days; dead; death; door; end; england; feet; fire; gippsland; gold; good; government; great; half; hand; head; hole; home; horse; hut; island; jack; land; law; left; life; little; long; look; man; master; mate; melbourne; men; mind; money; morning; native; new; night; nosey; number; nyalong; order; pay; philip; place; police; port; pounds; river; round; saw; school; schooner; sea; sheep; ship; shot; south; station; sydney; tea; think; thought; time; tree; use; want; water; way; white; work; years; young
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        item: #11 of 90
          id: 16926
      author: Cumming, R. D. (Robert Dalziel)
       title: Skookum Chuck Fables: Bits of History, Through the Microscope
        date: None
       words: 37631
      flesch: 78
     summary: But at home men saw nothing in her but 'a good girl,' simple and pleasant in her way, spinning and sewing by her mother's side while the other girls went to the fields--tender to the poor and sick. He had known men of a few weeks standing only, rise to the very apex of popularity, while he, with his ten years initiation, had not yet developed brains enough, in the estimation of the Ashcroft people, that would justify them in placing in his charge the management of the most trivial social affair.
    keywords: ashcroft; children; course; creek; day; days; dollars; earth; eskimo; family; girl; home; house; human; husband; ice; indian; johnny; life; local; love; man; men; mind; money; morning; new; people; peter; place; river; saw; society; south; things; time; trail; water; way; white; wife; woman; world; years
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        item: #12 of 90
          id: 16945
      author: Burke, Kathleen
       title: The White Road to Verdun
        date: None
       words: 16738
      flesch: 73
     summary: The French made no attempt to command the prisoners themselves, but always chose men from amongst the prisoners who were placed in authority over their comrades. Outside the prison-camp of Cannantre stood a circle of French soldiers learning the bugle calls for the French Army.
    keywords: army; children; comrades; day; france; french; general; german; good; hospital; men; new; officer; pas; soldiers; time; trenches; verdun; village; war; white; women; wounded
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        item: #13 of 90
          id: 17185
      author: Bingley, Thomas
       title: Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits
        date: None
       words: 34573
      flesch: 68
     summary: It is, however, principally for its fur that it is hunted; the skin, even, is of little value, being coarser and looser in texture, and of course less applicable to general uses, than that of many other animals. But, Uncle Thomas, what can be the use of such animals as white ants?
    keywords: animal; appearance; body; cat; day; dog; dogs; elephant; feet; good; ground; horse; instinct; kees; length; lion; little; man; manner; master; nest; place; stories; story; thomas; time; tree; uncle; uncle thomas; water; way
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        item: #14 of 90
          id: 17567
      author: St. Mars, F.
       title: The Way of the Wild
        date: None
       words: 94079
      flesch: 80
     summary: At times he nearly fell backwards, when the meat gave way; at times he bolted, and gulped, and choked horribly; at times he was nearly standing upon his head, and at other times upon his tail; and, in case the others should find the woolly outside, where they alone could feed, too easy, he was continually breaking off, to rush--a red-headed demon from hell now--at the raven, or glare at the crows and remove them yards, as if his eyes could kill. At times these giddy phenomena were among the rafters, at other times they were on the floor, and yet again they were going up or coming down the walls; but all the while both men and dogs seemed to be everlastingly too late, and hunting them where, half-a-second before, they had been.
    keywords: air; away; bank; beak; beast; bird; black; blackie; blood; cat; cold; dark; day; death; end; eyes; face; fact; feet; going; good; gull; gulo; half; head; hedgehog; hole; jaws; king; left; life; low; man; moment; night; old; owl; place; polecat; rat; ratel; red; round; saw; shot; silence; skua; snow; sun; tail; thing; thrush; time; tree; vole; water; way; white; wild; wings; wolf
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        item: #15 of 90
          id: 18383
      author: Spooner, Shearjashub
       title: Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3)
        date: None
       words: 83322
      flesch: 60
     summary: Among other works, says Vasari, Donato received an order for a crucifix in wood, for the church of Santa Croce at Florence, on which he bestowed extraordinary labor. According to Cassiodorus (lib. ii.
    keywords: account; age; angelo; art; artists; arts; base; building; charles; church; city; collection; country; cupola; day; death; donatello; drawings; egypt; egyptian; end; england; feet; figures; filippo; fine; florence; form; french; gallery; genius; hand; head; height; high; house; iii; inches; italy; king; life; lorenzo; love; manner; masters; means; men; method; modern; napoleon; number; order; painter; painting; palace; paris; peter; pictures; portrait; poussin; public; pyramid; raffaelle; return; rome; royal; set; sir; statue; study; style; success; temple; time; tubes; van; visit; water; works; years
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        item: #16 of 90
          id: 1864
      author: Lodge, Henry Cabot
       title: Hero Tales from American History
        date: None
       words: 53005
      flesch: 70
     summary: No one knew better than Washington--no one, indeed, so well--the exact state of affairs; for he, conspicuously among great men, always looked facts fearlessly in the face, and never deceived himself. Once when he and a party of other men were making salt at a lick, they were surprised and carried off by the Indians.
    keywords: american; army; attack; battle; british; command; confederates; country; day; enemy; fight; fighting; fire; flag; force; fort; general; guns; hand; heavy; indians; jackson; left; life; line; little; man; men; moment; new; north; people; place; ram; regiment; river; ships; shot; soldiers; states; time; troops; union; united; war; washington; way; work; years
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        item: #17 of 90
          id: 1890
      author: Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
       title: "Speaking of Operations--"
        date: None
       words: 10466
      flesch: 76
     summary: He sat at his desk, surrounded by freewill offerings from grateful patients and by glass cases containing other things he had taken away from them when they were not in a condition to object. And a little later on I was to find out a lot of other things; in fact, that whole week was of immense educational value to me.
    keywords: day; doctor; good; hospital; look; man; matter; nurse; operation; place; surgeon; thing; time; way
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        item: #18 of 90
          id: 18934
      author: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
       title: My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke
        date: None
       words: 52137
      flesch: 83
     summary: At other times Pettigrew steals along the curb-stone, dropping his skeletons one by one. They are the cigars his wife gives him as birthday presents, on the anniversary of his marriage, and at other times, and such a model wife is she that he would do anything for her except smoke them.
    keywords: arcadia; boat; boy; chap; cigar; course; day; door; face; gilray; good; hand; headpiece; henry; house; illustration; jimmy; john; lady; like; love; man; mixture; night; paper; pettigrew; pipe; room; scrymgeour; smoke; smoking; table; tailpiece; thing; thought; time; tobacco; way; wife
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        item: #19 of 90
          id: 19220
      author: Anonymous
       title: Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell
        date: None
       words: 45010
      flesch: 67
     summary: Old Mr. O'Connell of Derrynane, pitched upon an oak tree to make his own coffin, and mentioned his purpose to a carpenter. By virtue of your oath was he alive, said Mr. O'Connell.
    keywords: attorney; case; catholic; character; company; cork; country; court; curran; day; dean; dean swift; dinner; doctor; dublin; english; father; fellow; following; friend; gentlemen; good; head; honor; house; ireland; irish; judge; justice; letter; life; lord; lordship; man; o'connell; o'leary; people; person; place; present; public; religion; sir; swift; thought; time; way; witness; woman
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        item: #20 of 90
          id: 20001
      author: Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy)
       title: The English Spy: An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
        date: None
       words: 218919
      flesch: 60
     summary: him as effectually as on the other evening, when Echo and myself were snugly enjoying a _tête-a-tête_ with Maria B----and little Agnes S----{31}; we accidentally caught a glimpse of _old Morality_ cautiously toddling after the pious Mrs. A--ms, _vide-licet_ of arts,{32} a lady who has been regularly matriculated at this university, and taken up her degrees some years since. A Frenchman who came down to bathe with his wife and sister insisted upon using the same machine with the ladies; the bathing-women remonstrated, but _monsieur_ retorted very fairly thus--_Mon dieu I vat is dat vat you tell me about décence.
    keywords: account; age; alderman; amusement; appearance; author; ball; bath; bernard; black; blackmantle; blue; board; bob; book; boy; boys; brother; bull; business; captain; care; castle; character; cheltenham; church; city; club; coach; college; colonel; common; company; countenance; country; course; court; crony; cut; day; days; delight; delightful; dinner; door; doubt; duke; earl; eccentric; echo; effect; eglantine; english; esq; eton; evening; eye; eyes; face; fair; fame; family; fancy; fashion; fashionable; father; favourite; fellow; female; find; fine; following; form; fortune; fresh; friend; gay; general; gentleman; george; glass; good; grand; great; green; group; half; hall; hand; head; heart; home; honour; honourable; hope; horace; horatio; host; hour; house; humour; illustration; jack; john; joke; kind; king; knowledge; ladies; lady; land; late; left; life; like; little; london; long; looking; lord; love; making; man; manners; mark; market; master; means; meet; men; merry; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mrs; nature; new; night; note; notice; number; o'er; order; oxford; park; party; pass; pay; person; place; play; pleasure; poet; point; poor; portraits; present; principal; public; return; road; room; round; royal; run; scene; scholars; school; sea; set; sir; sketches; society; son; spirit; sporting; spot; spy; state; stock; street; style; subject; table; taste; thing; thought; thy; time; tis; tom; town; transit; truth; turn; university; variety; view; visit; water; way; white; wife; wine; wit; work; world; worthy; years; young
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        item: #21 of 90
          id: 20352
      author: Lemon, Mark
       title: The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
        date: None
       words: 113742
      flesch: 78
     summary: A MAD Quaker (wrote Sydney Smith) belongs to a small and rich sect; and is, therefore, of _greater_ importance than any other _mad person_ of the same degree in life. MCDLXX.--PROOF POSITIVE. WHEN Mr. Canning was about giving up Gloucester Lodge, Brompton, he said to his gardener, as he took a farewell look of the grounds, I am sorry, Fraser, to leave this _old_ place.
    keywords: actor; answer; bill; bishop; boy; brother; case; charles; church; come; company; counsel; country; court; curran; day; dear; death; dinner; doctor; door; duke; english; evening; face; family; father; fellow; fire; following; foote; friend; general; gentleman; george; good; half; hand; head; hear; home; honor; house; irish; jerrold; john; joke; judge; justice; king; know; lady; late; law; lawyer; letter; life; long; looking; lord; lordship; love; madam; majesty; man; master; men; mind; minister; money; morning; mrs; new; night; occasion; opinion; party; pay; people; person; place; poet; poor; pray; present; question; reason; reply; room; round; saw; saying; servant; sheridan; sir; smith; subject; table; thing; thought; time; truth; want; way; wife; wine; wish; wit; woman; word; years; yes; young
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        item: #22 of 90
          id: 21111
      author: Brightwen, Mrs. (Eliza Elder)
       title: Wild Nature Won By Kindness
        date: None
       words: 45424
      flesch: 79
     summary: If I once begin to speak about these winning, confiding little birds, I shall hardly know when to stop. They became very amusing, tame little creatures, ready to take dandelions, nuts, or any little dainty, from one's hand.
    keywords: 8vo; author; beak; bird; book; box; cage; care; cloth; creature; crown; day; days; edition; feathers; food; friend; garden; good; hand; head; home; illustration; kind; life; live; looking; morning; nature; nest; pet; place; richard; room; round; second; sight; spider; thought; time; tree; water; way; window; wings; years; young
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        item: #23 of 90
          id: 21198
      author: Spooner, Shearjashub
       title: Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)
        date: None
       words: 76210
      flesch: 61
     summary: The great talents of Domenichino did not develop themselves so early as in many other great painters. On the evening of the fifteenth of March, 1673, all that remained of the author of Regulus, of Catiline, and the Satires--the gay Formica, the witty Coviello--of the elegant composer, and greatest painter of his time and country--of Salvator Rosa! was conveyed to the tomb, in the church of Santa Maria degli Angioli alle Terme--that magnificent temple, unrivalled even at Rome in interest and grandeur, which now stands as it stood when it formed the Pinacotheca of the Thermæ of Dioclesian.
    keywords: academy; age; art; artist; arts; beauty; buffalmacco; buonamico; character; charles; church; city; day; death; domenichino; fame; father; feet; figures; florence; friend; fuseli; gallery; genius; giordano; giotto; good; hand; head; high; house; italy; king; left; life; man; manner; master; men; mind; morland; naples; nature; new; order; original; painter; painting; pencil; picture; place; pope; portrait; public; rome; rosa; royal; salvator; salvator rosa; says; school; sculpture; sir; statue; style; subject; temple; time; titian; vasari; vernet; walls; way; works; years; young
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        item: #24 of 90
          id: 21267
      author: None
       title: Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings
        date: None
       words: 85951
      flesch: 70
     summary: Great men appear in groups, and in groups they disappear from the vision of the world; but we do not love or hate men in groups. While living in this place, Mr. Lincoln served in the Black Hawk War, in 1832, as captain and private.
    keywords: abraham lincoln; address; american; captain; cause; character; constitution; country; day; dead; death; douglas; face; faith; father; freedom; friends; glory; god; good; government; great; hand; head; heart; history; home; house; illinois; justice; land; law; left; liberty; life; lincoln; little; long; love; man; men; nation; national; nature; new; party; people; place; power; president; public; question; race; reason; republic; right; saw; sense; slavery; soul; south; speech; stand; states; thee; thought; time; truth; union; united; war; washington; way; wisdom; words; work; world; years
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        item: #25 of 90
          id: 21615
      author: Disraeli, Isaac
       title: Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1
        date: None
       words: 202700
      flesch: 64
     summary: Hugh Broughton, a writer of controversy in the reign of James the First, shows us, in a tedious discussion on Scripture chronology, that Rahab was a harlot at _ten_ years of age; and enters into many grave discussions concerning the _colour_ of Aaron's _ephod_, and the language which _Eve_ first spoke. Thus he called the revenue which his compositions produced, and _Quinet_ was his bookseller.
    keywords: account; age; ages; anecdote; appears; aristotle; art; author; bayle; bishop; body; books; cardinal; cause; century; character; charles; children; christ; church; cicero; circumstance; city; collection; common; composition; country; court; criticism; critics; custom; day; days; death; des; duke; edition; elizabeth; england; english; europe; eyes; face; family; fashion; father; favourite; find; fine; fire; following; folly; footnote; form; france; french; friend; general; genius; gloves; god; gold; good; great; hand; head; heart; henry; history; holy; honour; house; imagination; instance; james; john; kind; king; knowledge; labour; lady; language; late; latin; law; learning; length; letters; library; life; literary; literature; little; lord; love; majesty; man; manner; manuscripts; mary; master; means; men; milton; mind; modern; mother; nature; new; night; number; observes; occasion; opinion; order; original; paris; passion; people; person; philosopher; place; play; pleasure; poem; poet; poetry; poor; pope; portraits; power; present; prince; public; queen; reader; reading; reason; reign; religion; roman; rome; royal; saint; second; singular; sir; society; spirit; state; studies; study; style; subject; taste; things; thought; thy; time; title; treatise; truth; use; verses; virgin; volumes; want; wife; wit; words; work; world; writers; writing; years
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        item: #26 of 90
          id: 21755
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: Personal Reminiscences in Book Making, and Some Short Stories
        date: None
       words: 53289
      flesch: 78
     summary: Gamblers use their free-wills, often to their own great damage and ruin; just as good men use their free-wills to their great advantage and happiness. Hence devolves upon every one the responsibility of putting and finding an answer to the question--How shall I make the best of life? And let me say here in passing that I venture to address young men on this subject, not because I conceive myself to be gifted with superior wisdom, but because, being an old man, I stand on the heights and vantage ground of Experience, and looking back, can see the rocks and shoals and quicksands in life's ocean, which have damaged and well-nigh wrecked myself.
    keywords: bell; boat; boy; captain; course; day; deep; dick; end; eyes; father; feet; fire; fish; god; good; half; hand; head; home; house; jan; jim; land; life; lifeboat; london; long; look; man; men; mind; moment; money; north; place; right; rock; room; round; sea; sir; thought; time; water; way; work; young
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        item: #27 of 90
          id: 2284
      author: Seton, Ernest Thompson
       title: Animal Heroes
        date: None
       words: 57752
      flesch: 85
     summary: Thor might be away all day, but at night, when they again assembled at the table, he would come from lake or distant ridge and eat a supper like the dinner and breakfast, for meals as well as days were exact repeats: pork, bread, potatoes, and tea, with occasionally eggs supplied by a dozen hens around the little log stable, with, rarely, a variation of wild meat, for Thor was not a hunter and Corney had little time for anything but the farm. They wore no uniform, but each and all of the chosen remnant had the brilliant eye and the bulging ears of the finest Homer blood; and, best and choicest of all, nearly always first among them was little Arnaux.
    keywords: arnaux; big; billy; bird; black; blue; box; cat; country; day; days; dogs; eyes; feet; food; good; gray; ground; half; head; home; jack; kitty; left; life; like; little; low; man; men; morning; mother; near; new; night; open; place; rabbit; set; snow; storbuk; tail; thor; time; warhorse; way; white; wolf; yellow
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        item: #28 of 90
          id: 23733
      author: Burnett, Alfred
       title: Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
        date: None
       words: 79124
      flesch: 74
     summary: Samuel Lover, the Irish poet, describes, in his poem of Shamus O'Brien, a hanging, thus: And fasther and fasther the crowd gathered there, Boys, horses, and gingerbread, _just like a fair_; And whisky was sellin', and 'cosamuck' too, And old men and young women enjoying the view; And thousands were gathered there, if there was one, Lieutenant Osgood certainly did more business in one day than many men, who are called fast, could do in a week.
    keywords: -the; army; battle; boys; brigade; camp; captain; cavalry; chapter; children; cincinnati; colonel; command; company; country; davis; day; days; dead; death; division; doctor; enemy; eyes; field; fire; flag; following; gallant; general; god; good; hand; head; home; house; indiana; john; left; lieutenant; life; line; major; man; men; miles; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nelson; new; night; officers; ohio; order; place; rebel; regiment; river; saw; service; shot; sir; soldier; south; tell; tennessee; thought; time; union; war; way; white; wife; woman; wounded; years; young
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        item: #29 of 90
          id: 25918
      author: None
       title: Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
        date: None
       words: 93618
      flesch: 74
     summary: Yet, my pretty, sporting friend, Little is 't to such an end That I praise thy rareness; Other dogs may be thy peers Haply in these drooping ears And this glossy fairness. Other dogs of loyal cheer Bounded at the whistle clear, Up the woodside hieing; This dog only watch'd in reach Of a faintly-utter'd speech, Or a louder sighing.
    keywords: account; anecdote; animals; arctic; ass; bats; bear; black; book; captain; cat; cats; charles; close; country; cowper; creature; day; days; death; dog; dogs; duke; elephant; eye; face; family; father; favourite; feet; fine; following; fox; friend; gardens; general; george; good; great; ground; habits; hand; head; history; home; horse; hunter; james; john; kind; king; lady; left; legs; letter; life; lion; london; lord; man; mark; master; men; monkey; mrs; nature; near; north; pet; pig; pigs; place; poet; rats; rev; room; set; sheep; shepherd; shot; sir; small; smith; species; subject; sydney; tail; thomas; tiger; time; vol; water; way; white; wild; william; wolf; years; young; zoological
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        item: #30 of 90
          id: 27785
      author: Jeaffreson, John Cordy
       title: A Book About Lawyers
        date: None
       words: 136253
      flesch: 57
     summary: No sooner was the call made than Chief Baron Hale resolved to place his reputation for judicial honesty above suspicion, and the following scene occurred:-- _Lord Chief Baron._--'Is this plaintiff the gentleman of the same name who hath sent me the venison?' _Lord Chief
    keywords: age; annum; attorney; bacon; bar; barrister; bench; brother; business; case; century; chambers; chancery; chapter; charles; chief; church; circuit; close; come; common; counsel; country; course; court; day; days; death; dinner; edward; eldon; england; english; erskine; father; fees; francis; french; friend; general; gentlemen; george; good; great; hall; hand; henry; high; house; iii; inn; inns; james; john; judge; judicial; justice; king; lady; law; lawyers; legal; life; lincoln; little; london; lord; lord chancellor; lord chief; lord eldon; lord keeper; lordship; man; marriage; master; members; men; middle; money; new; north; number; occasion; office; old; opinion; order; period; personal; persons; place; poor; practice; present; profession; public; queen; reign; right; scott; sergeant; sir; sir john; society; son; special; square; story; street; students; table; temple; thomas; thurlow; time; town; way; westminster; wife; william; wine; words; writer; years
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        item: #31 of 90
          id: 27887
      author: Seton, Ernest Thompson
       title: Wild Animals at Home
        date: None
       words: 45500
      flesch: 82
     summary: She had little ones to care for. And here the Otters will meet, old and young, male and female, without any thought but the joy of fun together, and shoot down one after the other, swiftly, and swifter still, as the hill grows smooth with use, and plump into the water and out again; and chase each other with little animal gasps of glee, each striving to make the shoot more often and more quickly than the others.
    keywords: animal; badger; bear; camera; coyote; creature; day; deer; den; dog; elk; feet; food; fox; good; great; ground; half; home; house; illustration; josh; life; man; mother; mountain; near; night; park; prairie; rabbit; seton; skunk; snow; squirrel; tail; time; way; wild; winter; woods; yards; yellowstone; young; | |
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        item: #32 of 90
          id: 27933
      author: Hulbert, William Davenport
       title: Forest Neighbors: Life Stories of Wild Animals
        date: None
       words: 54536
      flesch: 80
     summary: When the world below is steeped in the shadows of coming night, we shall still watch the sunset trailing its glories over the western woods and mountains; and when morning breaks we shall be the first to welcome the sunrise as it comes rushing up from the east a thousand miles an hour. At other times there were from one to half a dozen porkies in the trees close by, and when they happened to feel like it they would call back and forth to each other in queer, harsh, and often querulous voices.
    keywords: beaver; body; buck; course; day; deer; end; eyes; friend; glimmerglass; great; half; head; home; left; life; man; mother; new; night; pond; porcupine; saw; snow; spring; stream; summer; tail; time; tree; trout; water; way; winter; woods; work
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        item: #33 of 90
          id: 28101
      author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
       title: The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a Home
        date: None
       words: 26620
      flesch: 80
     summary: The latter suggested a business enterprise for the Little Woman, while the Precious Ones, who were with us at this stage, seemed delighted at my proposition of keeping store. We had brought nothing with us that could not be packed into our trunks, except my fishing rod, some inherited bedding and pictures which the Little Woman declined to part with, and two jaded and overworked dolls belonging to the Precious Ones.
    keywords: apartment; course; day; days; fact; flat; floor; good; home; house; janitor; kitchen; life; matter; morning; new; night; ones; people; place; room; rosa; stock; sum; things; time; way; woman
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        item: #34 of 90
          id: 28530
      author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
       title: Kings in Exile
        date: None
       words: 60353
      flesch: 79
     summary: Then his twinkling little eyes began to blaze, and he trumpeted shrilly with anger. Clouds gathered heavily, and there was the sense of coming snow in the air.
    keywords: air; bear; beast; black; bull; cage; dark; dog; eagle; eyes; face; feet; fer; fish; good; gray; great; half; head; herd; horner; jest; kane; kind; king; ledge; life; lone; look; man; master; moment; moose; new; place; puma; pup; right; rock; saw; snow; straight; tail; time; tomaso; water; way; white; wild; wolf; young
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        item: #35 of 90
          id: 29020
      author: Hutton, Laurence
       title: A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs
        date: None
       words: 21594
      flesch: 74
     summary: He does not recommend it as the exclusive literature of their boyhood to other boys; but out of it The Boy knows that he got nothing but what was healthful and helping. Warm and constant friends--as men--for upwards of a quarter of a century, it is rather a curious coincidence that the boys--as boys--should have been near neighbors, although they did not know each other then, nor do they remember the fact.
    keywords: bob; boy; boys; cat; day; dog; dogs; family; father; head; home; house; illustration; jack; john; life; little; long; master; mop; mother; new; punch; roy; school; street; time; way; years; | |
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        item: #36 of 90
          id: 29022
      author: None
       title: Mr. Punch Awheel: The Humours of Motoring and Cycling
        date: None
       words: 17061
      flesch: 88
     summary: * * * Illustration: _Winny_ (_one mile an hour_) _to Annie_ (_two miles an hour_). On to the bike beside my porch I'll spring, like falcon on its prey, And Lucy, on _her_ wheel shall scorch, And coast with me the livelong day.
    keywords: bicycle; bike; car; cycling; cyclist; day; dust; fellow; home; hour; illustration; lady; let; life; machine; man; miles; motor; motorist; pip; punch; right; road; round; scorcher; second; speed; time; way; wheel; wonder
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        item: #37 of 90
          id: 29349
      author: Rees, Alfred Wellesley
       title: Creatures of the Night: A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain
        date: None
       words: 83121
      flesch: 65
     summary: Now a kingfisher, then a dipper, sped like an arrow past the near corner of the pool; and the whiz of swift wings--unheard by all except little creatures living in frequent danger, and listening with beating hearts to sounds unperceived by our drowsy senses dulled by long immunity from fear--caused momentary terror to the water-vole. On the outskirts of the wood, in a rough, ivy-grown ridge where, years ago, some trees had been felled, a flourishing colony of bank-voles--little creatures nearly akin, and almost similar in shape and size, to the field-voles--dwelt among the roots and the undergrowth.
    keywords: badger; bank; beneath; brighteye; brock; burrow; chamber; close; creature; cubs; day; dog; earth; family; fear; field; food; fox; grass; hare; hedge; home; hounds; lay; leaves; life; little; lutra; mother; near; nest; night; otter; path; place; pool; rabbit; river; scent; set; spot; stream; summer; time; trout; village; vixen; vole; water; way; wild; winter; wood
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        item: #38 of 90
          id: 29419
      author: Various
       title: The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists.
        date: None
       words: 78785
      flesch: 81
     summary: _Just_ as I was about to lift my hand to shoot him, _thinks I_, would it be _just_ to kill _this here_ man, without _one_ were sure he came with an _unjust_ intention? Said I, 'Well, tell him I am a fighting fowl.
    keywords: bill; board; box; boy; brother; case; church; come; company; counsel; country; course; court; day; dear; dinner; doctor; dog; dollars; door; father; fellow; fine; following; friend; general; gentleman; girl; good; half; hand; head; home; honor; house; husband; john; judge; kind; king; know; lady; life; look; lord; lordship; making; man; master; mind; money; morning; mrs; new; occasion; party; pay; people; person; place; present; question; reply; right; room; round; saying; sir; son; story; table; thing; thought; time; town; want; way; wife; woman; work; yankee; years
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        item: #39 of 90
          id: 29839
      author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
       title: The House in the Water: A Book of Animal Stories
        date: None
       words: 52076
      flesch: 81
     summary: There were plenty of other beaver ponds in that neighbourhood. With two or three exceptions--probably the work of young beavers unskilled in their art--the trees were felled unerringly in the direction of the water, so as to minimize the labour of dragging down the cuttings.
    keywords: bear; beaver; big; black; boy; bull; camp; close; dam; edge; eyes; face; feet; good; gray; half; head; house; hunter; jabe; joe; kid; left; little; lynx; man; moment; moose; open; pond; right; sonny; sound; time; trail; tree; water; way; white; wild; woodsman; work
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        item: #40 of 90
          id: 3031
      author: Seton, Ernest Thompson
       title: Wild Animals I Have Known
        date: None
       words: 52526
      flesch: 83
     summary: This large and regular levy of provisions wholly carried off could mean but one thing, a family of little foxes at home; and to find them I now was bound. So after a little search at the other side of a knoll, I found the real entry and good proof that there was a nest of little foxes inside.
    keywords: away; bingo; black; cow; day; dog; dogs; feet; find; fox; good; ground; head; home; horse; know; lay; left; life; lobo; low; man; molly; morning; mother; new; night; ones; place; rag; redruff; saw; set; sheep; snow; time; trail; water; wild; wind; wolf; woods; wully
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        item: #41 of 90
          id: 30396
      author: Anonymous
       title: Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches
        date: None
       words: 45139
      flesch: 74
     summary: Lamb lies buried in Edmonton churchyard, and the stone bears the following lines to his memory, written by his friend, the Rev. H. F. Cary, the erudite translator of _Dante_ and _Pindar_:-- Farewell, dear friend!--that smile, that harmless mirth, No more shall gladden our domestic hearth; That rising tear, with pain forbid to flow-- Better than words--no more assuage our woe. Sir, replied Hastings, it is the _dirtiest_ book in my library; then proceeding, he added: I knew Boswell intimately; and I well remember, when his book first made its appearance, Boswell was so full of it, that he could neither think nor talk of anything else; so much so, that meeting Lord Thurlow hurrying through Parliament-street to get to the House of Lords, where an important debate was expected, for which he was already too late, Boswell had the temerity to stop and accost him with Have you read my book?
    keywords: 8vo; age; author; book; burke; byron; captain; cloth; coleridge; country; crown; day; death; edition; england; extra; father; french; friend; genius; gentleman; good; head; heaven; hill; history; house; illustrated; james; johnson; junius; lady; letters; life; london; lord; man; men; mrs; new; nimmo; paper; place; poems; poet; price; public; review; room; sir; small; smith; street; thought; time; volume; way; wit; work; world; years; young
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        item: #42 of 90
          id: 31078
      author: Disraeli, Isaac
       title: Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3
        date: None
       words: 232322
      flesch: 58
     summary: Amidst perplexities of state necessity, and of our common humanity, the notion of _toleration_ had not entered into the views of the statesman. And in this manner, adds the secretary with great _naïveté_, did the _sieur_, strengthened by good arguments, divulge his opinions, which were received by many, and run from hand to hand.
    keywords: account; age; anecdotes; article; author; bacon; bishop; books; buckingham; cause; century; character; charles; church; circumstance; civil; collection; collins; commons; concerning; conduct; country; court; day; days; death; des; dictionary; domestic; duke; earl; edition; elizabeth; england; english; europe; events; expression; extraordinary; fact; family; fate; father; favourite; feelings; find; fine; footnotes; form; france; french; friend; future; general; genius; george; god; good; government; great; half; hand; head; heart; henry; historian; history; honest; honour; house; human; iii; invention; italian; james; john; king; kingdom; knowledge; lady; language; late; law; left; length; letter; liberty; library; life; literary; literature; london; lord; love; majesty; man; manner; manuscript; master; means; men; mind; modern; moment; monarch; money; montluc; nation; national; nature; new; note; number; occasion; oldys; opinions; order; origin; original; papers; parliament; parties; party; passage; pen; people; period; persons; philosophy; picture; place; poet; point; pope; power; present; prince; principle; proverbs; public; queen; rawleigh; reader; reason; reign; religion; return; revolution; right; royal; scene; second; secret; secretary; set; shenstone; singular; sir; society; sort; speech; spirit; state; stucley; study; style; subject; taste; term; things; thought; time; title; toleration; truth; volume; way; words; work; world; writer; writing; years; young
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        item: #43 of 90
          id: 31880
      author: Scrici
       title: Physiology of the Opera
        date: None
       words: 18830
      flesch: 59
     summary: The last-named person wears an air of great reluctance at thus being detained on the stage, instead of being permitted to go home to his _patés_ and _fricasées_. The sister begins to assure her brother of the inestimable amount of pleasure he has lost by loitering at the horrid club, instead of accompanying her to the _delicious_ opera.
    keywords: audience; basso; brown; donna; gentlemen; good; harry; head; illustration; king; ladies; lady; man; miss; moment; night; opera; outlaw; place; smith; stage; tenor; time; tyrant; voice; way; young
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        item: #44 of 90
          id: 32227
      author: Field, Chester
       title: The Cynic's Rules of Conduct
        date: None
       words: 2481
      flesch: 79
     summary: [Illustration] Don't forget to tell her that she's not like other girls. [Illustration] Remember, too, that perhaps you are not the sort of husband that Father used to make.
    keywords: gentleman; girl; illustration; lady; man; money
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        item: #45 of 90
          id: 32545
      author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
       title: The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life
        date: None
       words: 70390
      flesch: 78
     summary: And as the moments dragged by, out on the bright surface of the pond small heads appeared, with little bright eyes watching curiously. The ground beneath the stiff branches and between the gray, ragged, twisted trunks was grotesquely humped with moss-grown roots and pitted with pools of black water.
    keywords: air; bear; big; black; blue; body; buck; close; current; dark; day; deep; eyes; feet; fish; green; half; head; heart; heavy; ice; illustration; instant; jan; lake; left; life; light; little; mahoney; man; moment; mother; new; open; point; pool; red; river; rock; run; salmon; saw; sea; shore; snow; sound; story; surface; time; water; way; white; wild; wind; wings; woods
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        item: #46 of 90
          id: 33687
      author: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
       title: Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom
        date: None
       words: 94158
      flesch: 70
     summary: It is of an extremely predacious nature, and feeds on the various species of small worms, and other water animals, that happen to approach. The ape possesses a peculiar property, wherein he differs greatly from other animals, and resembles man--namely, that he is by nature equally gluttonous and inquisitive.
    keywords: account; animal; bear; bird; black; body; cat; close; common; country; creature; day; days; distance; dog; dogs; door; elephant; end; england; escape; eyes; family; favorite; feet; fish; following; food; gentleman; ground; half; hand; head; home; horse; lay; left; legs; length; life; lion; man; manner; master; moment; morning; mouth; nest; night; number; order; place; poor; prey; saw; sea; set; size; species; spot; tiger; time; tree; water; way; work; years; young
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        item: #47 of 90
          id: 34038
      author: Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
       title: Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician
        date: None
       words: 123682
      flesch: 73
     summary: Our power to protect life, both in the case of consumption and many more diseases, is in proportion to our power to withhold the igniting spark. But I was much less successful in preventing the torrent of medicine from producing its wonted ---- upon this family, at other times and seasons; for which Mr. L.'s business furnished such facilities.
    keywords: age; air; care; case; chapter; child; circumstances; cold; condition; course; cure; day; days; disease; family; father; fever; food; friends; general; good; half; health; house; left; length; life; man; means; medical; medicine; mind; months; mrs; nature; new; patient; people; physician; place; practice; present; sick; subject; system; tendency; thing; thought; time; treatment; use; water; way; work; world; years; young
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        item: #48 of 90
          id: 34454
      author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
       title: The Secret Trails
        date: None
       words: 39628
      flesch: 81
     summary: The inexorable rock-face bounced her off, and with an agonised bleat, legs sprawling and great eyes starting from their sockets, she went sailing down into the abyss. If one of them slick old bears 'd take a notion to h'ist it into the water an' make off in it, I guess we'd be in the porridge.
    keywords: air; bear; black; boar; brannigan; buck; bull; cabin; cock; dark; eyes; face; feet; fluellyn; fox; half; head; jackson; left; long; man; moment; moose; neck; peddler; place; rabbits; red; right; rock; time; trail; tree; water; way; wild; wilderness; young
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        item: #49 of 90
          id: 34946
      author: Worthington, Frank
       title: The Witch Doctor and other Rhodesian Studies
        date: None
       words: 60022
      flesch: 89
     summary: From that day forward this witch doctor, once powerful in hypnotic suggestion, was as other men. He mentally contrasted his gifts with those brought by other men--mostly to the disadvantage of the others.
    keywords: black; boy; camp; cattle; chief; chiromo; come; commissioner; course; day; days; doctor; fernie; fire; going; good; hand; head; house; hut; left; lion; man; master; men; mokorongo; morena; native; night; people; rifle; river; round; set; shot; thing; time; village; waggon; warner; water; way; white; wrenshaw
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        item: #50 of 90
          id: 35513
      author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
       title: The Ledge on Bald Face
        date: None
       words: 46097
      flesch: 85
     summary: At last Blackstock rose to his feet, and gave a hitch to his belt. To Tug Blackstock, for some unfathomed reason, the name of Jim stood for self-contained efficiency.
    keywords: air; andy; bear; billy; blackstock; brine; canoe; child; cock; dan; deputy; dog; eyes; face; feet; git; good; half; hand; head; jackson; jim; long; man; mary; peddler; right; rip; stranger; time; trail; tree; tug; tug blackstock; water; way; white; wings; woolly
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        item: #51 of 90
          id: 36879
      author: Meller, Henry James
       title: Nicotiana; Or, The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion
        date: None
       words: 25919
      flesch: 66
     summary: _Pipes._--In reference to these essentials to smoking tobacco, a great variety of tastes are displayed, while that of each country forms an amusing contrast to that of its neighbour. By the 49 Geo. III. c. 25, unmanufactured tobacco may be imported from any place in British vessels navigated according to law, or in foreign ships navigated in any manner whatever belonging to any state in amity with Great Britain; and such tobacco shall be liable to the same regulations as tobacco from the British plantations.
    keywords: america; box; country; day; england; europe; fact; good; half; hand; herb; influence; leaves; light; love; man; men; nicotiana; pipe; place; plant; quantity; sir; smoke; smoking; snuff; subject; taking; thee; thou; time; tobacco; use; way; weed; world; year
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        item: #52 of 90
          id: 36969
      author: Underwood, J. L. (John Levi)
       title: The Women of the Confederacy
        date: None
       words: 106023
      flesch: 73
     summary: But this much I want to say of them--they were war women of the most daring and devoted type. Women whose husbands were at home, who never had been in the army, young girls and old women came in droves--all railroad cars and steamboats were filled with corn women.
    keywords: army; battle; brave; captain; care; carolina; cause; children; city; confederate; country; daughters; davis; day; days; dead; eyes; face; family; father; fire; food; general; georgia; girl; god; good; government; great; hands; head; heart; history; home; hospital; house; husband; john; ladies; lady; lee; left; letter; life; little; love; man; miss; monument; morning; mother; mrs; negro; negroes; new; night; north; northern; officers; pages; party; people; place; poor; president; richmond; sherman; sick; slavery; soldiers; southern; states; tell; thought; time; union; united; virginia; war; way; white; wife; women; work; world; wounded; years; young
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        item: #53 of 90
          id: 37328
      author: Stables, Gordon
       title: Medical Life in the Navy
        date: None
       words: 26580
      flesch: 70
     summary: About six o'clock on a beautiful Wednesday evening, early in the month of May, our gallant and saucy frigate turned her bows seaward and slowly steamed away from amidst the fleet of little boats that--crowded with the unhappy wives and sweethearts of the sailors--had hung around us all the afternoon. A moving picture, a living panorama; a bright sky sprinkled with a few fleecy cloudlets, over a blue sea all in motion before a fresh breeze of wind; a fleet of little boats astern, filled with picturesquely dressed seamen and women waving handkerchiefs; the long breakwater lined with a dense crowd of sorrowing friends, each anxious to gain one last look of the dear face he may never see more.
    keywords: assistant; away; blue; board; boat; cabin; commander; day; deck; doctor; eyes; gentleman; good; half; head; hour; life; like; man; men; morning; navy; night; officer; round; sea; service; ship; sick; sir; surgeon; table; time; town; water; way
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        item: #54 of 90
          id: 38208
      author: None
       title: The Animal Story Book
        date: None
       words: 99995
      flesch: 79
     summary: This was good news, and the little dog started home gaily, running, as little dogs will, ten miles, at least, to every one of the road, and tired enough when home was reached at last. There was no hearty handshake from waiting friend, no rejoicing bay of big dog or extravagant excitement of little dog to welcome him.
    keywords: animals; baron; bear; bed; birds; book; cage; cat; creature; day; days; dead; dinner; dog; dogs; door; eyes; feet; fish; food; friend; good; great; half; hand; head; home; house; illustration; jacko; left; life; lion; look; love; man; master; men; michel; moment; monkey; morning; mouth; night; people; place; poor; pritchard; room; round; set; sir; stories; tail; thought; time; tom; tree; water; way; years; young
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        item: #55 of 90
          id: 38423
      author: Conwell, Russell H.
       title: Why Lincoln Laughed
        date: None
       words: 25243
      flesch: 78
     summary: It was in connection with a death sentence that I first went to call upon President Lincoln. Even at the height of the war President Lincoln did not surround himself by the barriers which later Executives have found necessary.
    keywords: abe; abraham; air; artemus; brown; cheer; day; door; fact; father; good; honest; house; humor; john; laugh; life; lincoln; man; men; mind; new; old; people; place; president; room; sed; sez; story; thought; time; ward; way; white; years; young
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        item: #56 of 90
          id: 38675
      author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
       title: Hoof and Claw
        date: None
       words: 57870
      flesch: 80
     summary: Gradually the host quickened its march, leaving itself little time for feeding and only enough rest for the vitally essential process of rumination. But when that dark, awful torrent of rolling manes, wild eyes, keen horns, and shattering hoofs drew close upon the waiting groups of men, these lifted their guns and fired, one after the other, straight in the faces of the nearest bulls.
    keywords: air; bear; black; blue; brannigan; brown; bull; dark; day; door; eyes; face; feet; fire; fish; fox; good; gray; half; hatch; head; heart; host; jackson; long; man; mary; mclaggan; moment; new; night; open; pool; red; saw; snow; thought; time; trail; tree; trout; way; white; wild; wind; wings; wolf; woods; woof
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        item: #57 of 90
          id: 38752
      author: Firebaugh, Ellen M.
       title: The Story of a Doctor's Telephone—Told by His Wife
        date: None
       words: 52763
      flesch: 96
     summary: Good patrons should be held and not escape To other doctors that may lie in wait; For in this voice so brusque and straight and clear Well, where is the _doctor_?
    keywords: baby; blank; boy; doctor; door; eyes; good; hello; home; house; husband; john; ling; man; mary; minutes; morning; mrs; office; phone; receiver; right; thought; time; ting; voice; wait; way; wife; woman; yes
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        item: #58 of 90
          id: 39777
      author: Benton, Frank
       title: Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack Being an Extremely Humorous & Sarcastic Story of the Trials & Tribulations Endured by a Party of Stockmen Making a Shipment from the West to the East.
        date: None
       words: 36112
      flesch: 74
     summary: Daylight began to appear while I was thinking about these things, and I could see other stock trains near me, and on every train I could see one or more miserable wretches like myself huddled down on top of a car in the snow and cold rain, and the only sign of life you could detect was when they took spells of shivering. He lay on the sidetrack, poor honest Chuckwagon, The pallor of death creeping fast o'er his brow; Said he to the cowboys, My rope is a dragging, I'm going o'er the divide and going right now.
    keywords: bill; black; bull; car; cattle; chapter; cowboys; day; death; dillbery; good; head; herd; home; hosses; ike; injuns; jackdo; jake; left; man; miles; night; packsaddle; people; place; railroad; ranch; river; sheepmen; sidetrack; stock; thought; time; train; way
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        item: #59 of 90
          id: 40758
      author: Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray)
       title: Genius in Sunshine and Shadow
        date: None
       words: 83493
      flesch: 69
     summary: [Footnote 166: Like Milton, Swift, and other great geniuses, Scott was, as Swift says of himself at school, very justly celebrated for his stupidity. He says: Temperance, meaning both in eating and drinking, is a necessary virtue to great men, since it is the parent of the mind, which philosophy allows to be one of the greatest felicities in life.
    keywords: age; art; artist; author; best; book; boy; byron; character; charles; child; children; coleridge; composition; day; death; english; fame; family; father; favorite; footnote; french; friend; genius; george; goldsmith; good; great; half; hand; heart; history; home; hours; house; james; johnson; king; know; lamb; life; like; literature; london; lord; love; man; men; mind; money; nature; note; pages; painter; paper; pen; people; poems; poet; poetry; poor; pope; poverty; power; productions; public; read; robert; says; self; shakespeare; sir; thomas; thought; time; vanity; way; william; wit; words; work; world; writer; writing; years; youth
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        item: #60 of 90
          id: 41036
      author: Scoville, Samuel
       title: Brave Deeds of Union Soldiers
        date: None
       words: 72133
      flesch: 78
     summary: In this chronicle have been included not alone the great deeds of great men, but also the brave deeds of commonplace people. At the beginning of the Civil War, the eastern part of Tennessee was held by the Confederates although the mountaineers were for the most part Union men.
    keywords: army; attack; away; battle; captain; chance; charge; close; colonel; confederate; corporal; cut; day; days; dead; enemy; engine; feet; field; fighting; fire; forces; general; good; guns; half; hand; head; horse; lay; lee; left; life; line; man; men; minute; moment; morford; night; place; regiment; river; saw; shot; soldiers; time; union; union army; union men; war; water; way
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        item: #61 of 90
          id: 41595
      author: Crabtre, Addison Darre
       title: The Funny Side of Physic Or, The Mysteries of Medicine, Presenting the Humorous and Serious Sides of Medical Practice. An Exposé of Medical Humbugs, Quacks, and Charlatans in All Ages and All Countries.
        date: None
       words: 199735
      flesch: 75
     summary: Old man lifts his signal finger, Car slacks up, but not a linger; He's jerked aboard by sleeve or shoulder, Shoved inside to sweat and moulder. Shakspeare, Scott, Goldsmith, Bacon, Sir Francis Drake, Napoleon, and many other great men, were pretty thoroughly tinged with superstition; the latter, it is said, believed in luck, or destiny.
    keywords: abernethy; age; animal; apothecary; article; bed; black; blood; body; book; boston; boy; boys; bread; business; case; cat; child; children; city; class; cold; college; come; consumption; country; course; cure; day; days; dead; dear; death; die; disease; doctor; dollars; door; dress; england; english; eyes; face; fact; fair; family; father; fee; feet; fellow; female; following; fortune; friend; general; gentleman; george; girl; god; good; great; hair; half; hand; head; health; heart; home; house; husband; illustration; job; john; kind; knowledge; ladies; lady; left; life; like; london; looking; lord; love; man; matter; means; medical; medicine; men; milk; mind; miss; money; morning; mother; mrs; music; nature; near; new; night; office; order; patient; people; person; physician; place; poor; power; practice; prescription; present; professor; public; reader; reply; room; saw; saying; school; second; set; sir; state; stomach; story; street; subject; sugar; surgeon; table; tell; thing; thought; till; time; tobacco; town; visit; want; water; way; white; wife; wine; woman; work; world; writer; years; york; young
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        item: #62 of 90
          id: 41880
      author: Scoville, Samuel
       title: Wild Folk
        date: None
       words: 49827
      flesch: 81
     summary: [Illustration: THE FOX FAMILY] Then the trio of little heads disappeared, and Mother Fox came out and winnowed the air through the marvelous mesh of her nostrils. Little bears that fall behind often disappear.
    keywords: air; away; bear; black; body; burrow; chipmunk; coon; dark; day; death; deep; eyes; family; feet; folk; fox; gray; green; ground; head; jaws; leaves; life; man; mother; night; otter; red; sea; shrew; skunk; sky; snow; spring; tail; teeth; time; tree; water; weasel; white; wild; woods
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        item: #63 of 90
          id: 42228
      author: Hamilton-Browne, G.
       title: Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion
        date: None
       words: 86579
      flesch: 72
     summary: Old men and women would crawl out of their huts, stragglers would hurry up to join the throng, until every man, woman and child belonging to the tribe would be rocking and wailing as if their very heart-strings had been wrung with woe by the most personal disaster. They had plenty of good men, both friendly natives and volunteers, with a sufficiency of Armed Constabulary (the Colonial Regulars) to give them backbone, but the officers (unfortunately) considered discretion to be the better part of valour and mistook timidity for prudence, so much so that they missed their chance and covered themselves with something like disgrace.
    keywords: bank; blood; bush; camp; case; chief; colonel; conway; country; course; cut; day; days; end; enemy; feet; fighting; fire; food; good; half; hand; hau; haus; head; hill; horse; island; kooti; lake; left; line; little; look; man; maori; men; miles; moment; morning; natives; new; night; number; open; pah; party; people; place; river; road; round; run; shot; soldiers; south; thought; time; tribe; use; war; water; way; white; women; yarn; years; zealand
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        item: #64 of 90
          id: 42247
      author: Gooch, Richard
       title: Nuts to crack; or Quips, quirks, anecdote and facete of Oxford and Cambridge Scholars
        date: None
       words: 72921
      flesch: 71
     summary: (_Lort_ was his Christian name.) The finances of the latter obliged him to leave Cambridge _without_ a degree; after he had been assistant at Harrow, had a school at Stanmore, and been head master of the grammar school at Colchester, and had become head master of that of Norwich, they remained so low that once looking upon a small library, says Mr. Field, in his Life of the Doctor, his eye was caught by the title, 'Stephani Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ,' turning suddenly about, and striking violently the arm of the person whom he addressed, in a manner very unusual with him, 'Ah!
    keywords: account; author; bishop; book; cambridge; cantab; chancellor; character; christ; church; college; come; court; custom; day; days; dean; degree; dinner; divine; doctor; english; fact; famous; fellow; following; friend; gentleman; george; god; good; grace; great; greek; half; hall; hand; head; high; house; humour; james; jemmy; john; king; late; latin; learning; letter; library; life; like; london; long; lord; majesty; mallard; man; master; men; mind; morning; murder; new; night; occasion; oxford; party; place; porson; present; professor; public; queen; read; room; scholar; school; second; sir; society; son; student; subject; table; thing; thomas; thought; time; tom; trinity; trinity college; university; vice; volume; wag; way; william; wit; wood; work; writer; year; young
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        item: #65 of 90
          id: 42270
      author: Cambridge, Ada
       title: The Retrospect
        date: None
       words: 87859
      flesch: 71
     summary: When I have told this story to my present family, who never knew Taffy, tolerant and superior smiles have accused me of drawing the long bow; so I was pleased when a sister of mine, lately arrived from England after a thirty years' separation from me, was happily inspired to say at table before them all (we were speaking of old times), Oh, do you remember Taffy and the pump? Down that inexpressible village street we drove, past those dreams of old houses--labourers' cottages, as likely as not--which made my mouth water in envy of the labourers, who doubtless scorned them as out of fashion; and then there opened to us the Weald of Kent.
    keywords: afternoon; australia; beautiful; bed; black; carriage; children; church; country; course; dark; day; days; dear; door; end; england; english; evening; eyes; face; family; father; fine; friend; garden; good; green; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; lady; left; life; little; london; look; love; man; matter; memory; mind; moment; morning; mother; new; night; open; past; picture; place; return; road; room; round; school; sea; second; set; sort; stone; summer; sunday; table; tea; things; thought; time; trees; village; wall; water; way; white; window; work; world; years
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        item: #66 of 90
          id: 42398
      author: Holland, Rupert Sargent
       title: Historic Adventures: Tales from American History
        date: None
       words: 71185
      flesch: 78
     summary: There were many other men in the United States bent on destroying slavery, but few so impulsive as John Brown. He traveled through the North, talking with other men who felt as he did, and trying to work out a plan which should force the country to decide this question of negro slavery.
    keywords: american; boats; brown; burr; camp; captain; city; company; country; crew; day; days; decatur; find; fire; flag; fleet; fort; friends; gold; house; indians; john; journey; land; left; lewis; lovejoy; man; march; men; miles; missouri; mountains; near; new; night; party; people; place; press; river; san; ships; shore; spanish; states; time; town; united; united states; wagons; war; way; west; white; whitman; years
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        item: #67 of 90
          id: 43355
      author: None
       title: Mr. Punch's Book of Sport The Humour of Cricket, Football, Tennis, Polo, Croquet, Hockey, Racing, &c
        date: None
       words: 13881
      flesch: 89
     summary: Oh, we think it is a _ripping_ game. [Illustration: HARE AND HOUNDS--AND DONKEY Seen two men with bags of paper pass this way?--No!
    keywords: ball; cricket; cricketer; croquet; football; game; hockey; illustration; jones; ladies; lawn; leg; little; man; match; miss; play; punch; right; tennis; time; wet; willow
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        item: #68 of 90
          id: 43419
      author: Jones, Walter
       title: Jiglets: A series of sidesplitting gyrations reeled off—
        date: None
       words: 15875
      flesch: 92
     summary: Said a young and tactless husband To his inexperienced wife: If you would but give up leading Such a fashionable life, And devote more time to cooking-- How to mix and when to bake-- Then, perhaps you might make pastry Such as mother used to make. I'm sorry for you, old man, said the collector, but your tailor has put your account into my hands for collection.
    keywords: day; fellow; friend; girl; good; home; house; illustration; maid; man; money; percy; right; thing; time; tom; way; wife
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        item: #69 of 90
          id: 44263
      author: Various
       title: 500 of the Best Cockney War Stories
        date: None
       words: 78078
      flesch: 82
     summary: A dull thud in the distance--the familiar scream--and _plomp_ came one from Bill, a few yards from the Ritz. And I suppose the other bloke's Robin 'ood, aint 'e.--_G. Holloway (late London Regt.
    keywords: 1916; attack; ave; battalion; battery; bill; blimey; blinkin; boat; brigade; burst; cockney; company; corporal; day; days; division; driver; dug; end; enemy; ere; face; feet; fire; fritz; general; german; going; good; gun; guns; half; hand; head; heavy; high; hit; hole; illustration; jerry; late; left; line; little; london; looking; machine; man; mate; men; middlesex; morning; mud; nah; near; new; night; number; officer; order; pal; party; place; platoon; position; regiment; regt; reply; rest; rifle; road; round; royal; sergeant; shell; ship; sir; somme; street; stretcher; things; time; trench; trenches; voice; war; water; way; wire; wood; wot; wounded; yards; yer
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        item: #70 of 90
          id: 44422
      author: Timbs, John
       title: Eccentricities of the Animal Creation.
        date: None
       words: 89570
      flesch: 66
     summary: Antoninus exhibited Hippopotami, with lions and other animals; Commodus no less than five, some of which he slew with his own hand. Whatever this electric state of the air preceding a shower may be, it seems to be the same that causes in other animals some peculiar sensations, which makes the peacock squall, the pintado call come back, &c. An expressive adage says:-- When that the ass begins to bray, Be sure we shall have rain that day.
    keywords: account; air; animal; ant; bat; bear; birds; black; body; chameleon; colour; country; crab; creature; day; deep; described; distance; eggs; england; feathers; feet; female; fine; fish; fishes; fly; food; form; gardens; green; habits; half; head; hedgehog; hippopotamus; history; horn; insects; kind; leaves; length; life; lion; living; man; means; mermaid; mole; mouth; nature; nest; new; night; owl; parts; place; prey; rain; rhinoceros; river; round; saw; sea; sir; size; skin; society; species; specimen; surface; tail; time; tongue; tree; unicorn; water; weather; white; wings; years; young; zoological
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        item: #71 of 90
          id: 44517
      author: None
       title: Points of Humour, Part 1 (of 2)
        date: None
       words: 9867
      flesch: 76
     summary: At length the Cardinal, finding that his visits, attentions, _cadeaux_, and fine speeches had no effect, determined upon seeking an opportunity of making the lady sensible of the excess of his passion. This _point of duty_ gave occasion to _a point of humour_ which clearly displayed the brilliant _points_ of the officer's character, and exposed the weak ones of his brothers in the service in a very _pointed_ manner.
    keywords: bed; cardinal; general; highlandman; holy; humour; illustration; john; lady; love; man; miller; night; point; poor; prince; wife
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        item: #72 of 90
          id: 44518
      author: None
       title: Points of Humour, Part 2 (of 2)
        date: None
       words: 15316
      flesch: 63
     summary: The governor, instead of answering his expectation, in expressing fear and concern, and breaking forth into exclamations of, 'Good God! gentlemen! Some old, some young; some the skeletons of fat old men; some gigantic frames of gaunt fellows; some little puling infants and squalling women; all joined in menaces and threats against the house of the physician--the den of their destroyer--who however peacefully marched through them with his cane to his chin, and a grave and solemn air.
    keywords: backbac; baron; brandt; company; day; doctor; door; gentlemen; god; good; house; illustration; man; master; painter; pallet; peregrine; physician; pickle; place; robber; second; time
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        item: #73 of 90
          id: 45386
      author: Adderup, Andrew
       title: Lincolniana; Or, The Humors of Uncle Abe
        date: None
       words: 20783
      flesch: 79
     summary: Said Uncle Abe when he had the small-pox, I now can give something to every one who calls. If the accusation be made, try Uncle Abe first, for he is used to trials.
    keywords: case; county; court; day; fellow; gentlemen; good; house; illinois; joe; joke; judge; law; lincoln; long; man; master; mrs; new; president; room; springfield; state; story; thought; thump; time; uncle abe; way
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        item: #74 of 90
          id: 45748
      author: None
       title: Mr. Punch with Rod and Gun: The Humours of Fishing and Shooting
        date: None
       words: 12902
      flesch: 94
     summary: [Illustration: DAMAGED GOODS.--_Sportsman_ (_invited to help shoot some bucks in Mr. Meanman's park, and has just knocked one over_). [Illustration: _Sportsman_ (_to Snobson, who hasn't brought down a single bird all day_).
    keywords: angler; birds; day; fish; fishing; fly; fools; friend; gun; illustration; keeper; know; line; man; partridge; shooting; shot; sir; sport; water; yer
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        item: #75 of 90
          id: 46400
      author: Foster, Sophie Lee
       title: Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends
        date: None
       words: 118508
      flesch: 70
     summary: Perhaps many other men have served the public for as long a term, but I challenge history to find another who has accomplished so much for his country. Helpless women, children, and old men were forced to seek safety in damp cellars, and even then, many were killed by shots intended for the enemy.
    keywords: act; american; arms; army; battle; brave; british; captain; carolina; cause; chapter; chief; children; clarke; colonel; colonies; colony; congress; country; creek; day; days; death; declaration; early; enemy; england; english; family; father; feet; fire; flag; fort; general; george; georgia; god; good; governor; great; hall; hand; head; heart; henry; hill; history; home; house; husband; independence; indians; island; james; jefferson; john; king; lee; left; liberty; life; little; long; love; major; man; marion; married; mary; mcintosh; men; miles; morning; mother; mrs; nancy; near; new; night; north; officer; old; party; patriots; people; place; revolution; revolutionary; river; savannah; soldiers; son; south; spring; state; thomas; time; tories; town; troops; united; virginia; war; washington; water; way; west; white; wife; william; women; world; wounded; years; young
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        item: #76 of 90
          id: 46933
      author: Pearson, Edmund Lester
       title: The Librarian at Play
        date: None
       words: 38560
      flesch: 85
     summary: on the fly-leaves of library books. Should this stock fail her she could send the stenographer, Miss Parkinson, on a hurry call to the reading-room, where Miss Bixby, the head reference librarian, would be able to draw on a larger collection of books to find the necessary information.
    keywords: bird; books; boy; boys; card; children; copy; course; day; desk; fernald; gauge; gooch; good; grant; great; guide; half; hand; head; interest; jane; librarian; library; little; look; man; men; miss; mrs; place; public; reading; red; right; room; small; telephone; thing; thought; time; tom; way; woman; work; years; yer
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        item: #77 of 90
          id: 47811
      author: None
       title: "Abe" Lincoln's Anecdotes and Stories A Collection of the Best Stories Told by Lincoln Which Made Him Famous as America's Best Story Teller
        date: None
       words: 28461
      flesch: 74
     summary: One day in discussing Fremont's case with George W. Julian, President Lincoln said he did not know where to place him, and that it reminded him of the old man who advised his son to take a wife, to which the young man responded: All right; whose wife shall I take? =A SLOW HORSE= On one occasion when Mr. Lincoln was going to attend a political convention one of his rivals, a liveryman, provided him with a slow horse, hoping that he would not reach his destination in time. =A VAIN GENERAL= In an interview between President Lincoln and Petroleum V. Nasby, the name came up of a recently deceased politician of Illinois whose merit was blemished by great vanity.
    keywords: abe; army; case; court; day; fellow; friends; general; good; governor; hand; house; illinois; judge; life; lincoln; long; man; men; new; people; place; president; president lincoln; right; speech; story; time; war; way; white; young
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        item: #78 of 90
          id: 48273
      author: None
       title: Lincoln Day Entertainments Recitations, Plays, Dialogues, Drills, Tableaux, Pantomimes, Quotations, Songs, Tributes, Stories, Facts
        date: None
       words: 38480
      flesch: 89
     summary: Mr. Lincoln (_goes to_ Mrs. Lincoln _and lays hand on her shoulder_): The flags are now held in right hands, out in front of bodies: A flag for the sailor, skimming the sea, A flag for the soldier, guarding the lea, A flag for the patriot, proud to be free, A flag for YOU, (_flags extended to audience_) and a flag for ME!
    keywords: abe; abraham; abraham lincoln; albert; blue; boys; captain; center; chorus; come; country; day; face; flag; girls; good; great; hand; heart; john; left; liberty; life; lincoln; line; man; march; men; mrs; music; nation; people; red; right; sally; stage; stand; tell; time; way; white
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        item: #79 of 90
          id: 48343
      author: Anonymous
       title: Clergymen and Doctors: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches.
        date: None
       words: 44727
      flesch: 70
     summary: Said Dr. Schomberg: I always have a couple of guineas before me, as an example, or broad hint, what they (the patients who consulted him) ought to give. 'To that portion of the public which cares about knowing such things, it has not been unknown for some time that Mr. David Smith, brother of the poet Alexander, is likewise in possession of the literary faculty, and even of the gift of song; but this beautiful little book, which will be the delight of all boys and the admiration of many men, so for as we are aware, is the first substantive work from his pen.
    keywords: 8vo; author; bishop; blood; book; church; cloth; crown; day; days; dean; doctor; duke; edition; england; father; fee; friend; god; good; guineas; heaven; house; hunter; john; king; lady; life; london; long; lord; majesty; man; men; money; new; nimmo; occasion; patient; people; physician; practice; preacher; preaching; present; price; pulpit; room; sermon; sir; surgeon; time; way; works; year
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        item: #80 of 90
          id: 48636
      author: Various
       title: Stories and Letters from the Trenches
        date: None
       words: 33701
      flesch: 80
     summary: He entered the battle line at the beginning of the war and after ten weeks of continuous fighting has not seen a single German. KILLED FOR INSULT TO WOMAN. Proof that high German officers will not tolerate insults to women by their men is furnished in the following cable from a correspondent in Antwerp: Gen. von Beseler is a pleasant-looking old gentleman with a white mustache. With other wounded men and officers I was taken away to a house that had been converted into a temporary hospital after nightfall.
    keywords: army; battle; british; cross; day; days; dead; english; fighting; fire; following; france; french; frenchman; general; german; guns; hours; kaiser; left; letter; line; men; near; new; night; officer; paris; place; prince; regiment; russians; shells; soldiers; thought; time; trenches; troops; von; war; way; yards
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        item: #81 of 90
          id: 53691
      author: Bagot, A. G.
       title: Men We Meet in the Field; or, The Bullshire Hounds
        date: None
       words: 53832
      flesch: 76
     summary: Eu leu, Minstrel, old boy; ay, Harbinger, good old man, says Sir John, a word for each by name; and back they go to the rule of Tom, who cannot for the life of him help feeling a twinge of jealousy, that the hounds should be so 'nation fond of t' young Master, most as much as they are o' me, I'll be blessed if they ain't. The horses gruelled and the score paid by the Huntsman, they are again on the road, having been joined by a couple of farmers going their way as far as the cross-roads, and with whom old Tom is soon in close confabulation.
    keywords: away; bit; bullshire; colonel; country; day; field; find; fox; gate; good; half; head; home; horse; hounds; hunting; jack; james; john; look; man; master; meet; men; morning; mrs; pack; place; ride; riding; right; road; round; run; simpson; sir; thing; time; tom; turn; way; yer; young
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        item: #82 of 90
          id: 53882
      author: Washington, Amanda Alcenia Strickland
       title: How Beauty Was Saved, and Other Memories of the Sixties
        date: None
       words: 6372
      flesch: 81
     summary: But then it shows what Southern girls For Southern Rights will do. The schoolyard gate was wide open, and she dashed through it and up to the porch where an eager, startled bevy of girls were assembled.
    keywords: beauty; colonel; day; father; girls; home; horses; house; soldiers; time
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        item: #83 of 90
          id: 5407
      author: Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison
       title: The Recreations of a Country Parson
        date: None
       words: 136022
      flesch: 70
     summary: Think of that great lawyer and great man, Sir Samuel Romilly. A farmer tells you that there never were such turnips as his turnips; a schoolboy thinks that the world cannot show boys so clever as those with whom he is competing for the first place in his class; a clever student at college tells you what magnificent fellows are certain of his compeers--how sure they are to become great men in life.
    keywords: author; body; book; case; chapter; children; church; country; course; day; days; dead; deal; death; disappointment; doubt; effect; essay; fact; feeling; friend; general; glasgow; god; good; green; half; hand; head; heart; home; hour; house; human; interest; kind; life; living; look; looking; man; manner; matter; mean; men; miles; milverton; mind; nature; new; people; physical; place; present; quiet; reader; right; scotch; sea; sense; sermon; set; shall; success; summer; system; things; think; thinking; thought; time; trees; truth; turn; views; walk; water; way; words; work; world; wrong; years
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        item: #84 of 90
          id: 58781
      author: Wood, Norman B. (Norman Barton)
       title: Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs From Cofachiqui, the Indian Princess, and Powhatan; down to and including Chief Joseph and Geronimo. Also an answer, from the latest research, of the query, Whence came the Indian? Together with a number of thrillingly interesting Indian stories and anecdotes from history
        date: None
       words: 223146
      flesch: 72
     summary: But at length an appeal to his vanity availed, and on being assured that his picture was wanted to hang with those of Washington and Jefferson, and other great men in the National Galleries, he consented; and having once broken his resolution, no longer resisted, and was painted by several artists. He was courted by that celebrated worshiper of great men, Boswell; and sat for his picture twice during the visit, once at Boswell's request, and once for the Earl of Warwick, who caused Romney, the eminent painter, to make a portrait of him for his collection.
    keywords: account; afterward; american; arms; army; attack; band; battle; black; blood; body; brant; british; brother; bull; camp; captain; chief; children; civilization; command; council; country; day; days; dead; death; enemy; english; face; fact; family; father; feet; fire; following; force; fort; friends; general; geronimo; good; government; governor; great; ground; half; hand; hawk; head; heart; history; home; hope; horses; house; illustration; indians; influence; interpreter; jacket; john; joseph; king; land; language; left; life; like; little; look; major; man; men; miles; morning; mother; nation; near; new; night; north; number; order; party; people; philip; place; point; pontiac; power; powhatan; present; president; prophet; quanah; race; red; return; river; sachem; savages; shabbona; sioux; sitting; smith; soldiers; son; spirit; states; tecumseh; thought; time; treaty; tribes; united; village; visit; war; warriors; washington; water; way; west; white; wife; wild; women; words; wounded; years; young
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        item: #85 of 90
          id: 7347
      author: None
       title: The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form
        date: None
       words: 73924
      flesch: 77
     summary: (Related by Frank B. Carpenter, the portrait-painter, as given out by President Lincoln to a party of friends in the White House executive chamber, Secretary Seward, notably, being among them.) Superintendent Tinker, of the W. U. T., says he heard Secretary Seward say to President Lincoln: Mr. President, I hear that you turned out for a colored woman on a muddy crossing the other day?
    keywords: abe; abraham lincoln; army; away; boy; boys; cabinet; capital; captain; case; chief; city; congress; country; court; day; douglas; face; father; fellow; friend; general; gentleman; good; government; grant; hand; head; home; house; illinois; john; judge; law; life; lincoln; little; man; matter; men; military; mrs; new; office; paper; party; people; place; point; president; president lincoln; presidential; public; right; river; room; saw; saying; secretary; senator; set; soldier; son; speech; springfield; stanton; state; story; thought; time; union; united; want; war; washington; way; west; white; wife; woman; work; years; york; young
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        item: #86 of 90
          id: 7427
      author: Pittenger, William
       title: Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way
        date: None
       words: 31755
      flesch: 77
     summary: The following speech and response for a wooden (fifth) wedding anniversary is taken from a volume of ready made speeches. Good speakers are secured in advance.
    keywords: address; character; country; day; dinner; following; friends; general; good; home; kind; love; making; man; men; nation; new; outline; people; place; present; response; sir; speaker; speech; speeches; story; things; thought; time; toast; war; way; wish; words; work; world; years
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        item: #87 of 90
          id: 858
      author: Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
       title: Stage-Land
        date: None
       words: 19395
      flesch: 84
     summary: The result of a long course of acquaintanceship with stage heroes has been, so far as we are concerned, to create a yearning for a new kind of stage hero. Some folks like to die in bed, but stage people don't.
    keywords: child; comic; girl; hero; heroine; house; lawyer; life; love; man; people; stage; stage child; thing; time; villain; way; wife
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        item: #88 of 90
          id: 889
      author: Der Ling, Princess
       title: Two Years in the Forbidden City
        date: None
       words: 92920
      flesch: 81
     summary: Whenever Her Majesty gives an order it is considered an Imperial Edict or command and all servants are required to kneel when any command is transmitted to them the same as they would if in Her Majesty's presence, Then they told us to follow them and we went through another left gate to another courtyard laid out exactly the same as the former, except that the Ren Shou Dien (audience hall) is situated on the north side and the other buildings were a little larger. In a little while two servant girls came and waited on us and told us that Her Majesty was dressing and that we were to wait a little time.
    keywords: audience; carl; chair; china; chinese; course; court; court ladies; day; days; emperor; empress; eunuchs; father; foreign; good; hall; head; kind; ladies; lady; look; majesty; miss; moon; morning; mrs; order; palace; people; portrait; rest; right; room; things; thought; time; way; work
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        item: #89 of 90
          id: 9249
      author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
       title: Dr. Bullivant (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")
        date: None
       words: 2972
      flesch: 46
     summary: A vivid and rather a pleasant idea of New England manners, when this change had become decided, is given in the journal of John Dunton, a cockney bookseller, who visited Boston and other towns of Massachusetts with a cargo of pious publications, suited to the Puritan market. Gain being now the allurement, and almost the only one, since dissenters no longer dreaded persecution at home, the people of New England could not remain entirely uncontaminated by an extensive intermixture with worldly men.
    keywords: bullivant; country; door; england; new; people; years
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        item: #90 of 90
          id: 9250
      author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
       title: A Book of Autographs
        date: None
       words: 6035
      flesch: 55
     summary: THE DOLIVER ROMANCE AND OTHER PIECES TALES AND SKETCHES By Nathaniel Hawthorne A BOOK OF AUTOGRAPHS We have before us a volume of autograph letters, chiefly of soldiers and statesmen of the Revolution, and addressed to a good and brave man, General Palmer, who himself drew his sword in the cause. But if there be such sympathies as we have alluded to, in how many instances would History be put to the blush by a volume of autograph letters, like this which we now close!
    keywords: adams; autograph; country; general; hand; letter; man; men; new; paper; signature; washington
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