        item: #1 of 12
          id: 12116
      author: Hoffmann, Heinrich
       title: Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures
        date: None
       words: 2448
      flesch: 99
     summary: In his way, Johnny never thought about; So that every one cried out Look at little Johnny there, Little Johnny Head-In-Air! Running just in Johnny's way Came a little dog one day; Johnny's eyes were still astray Up on high, In the sky; And he never heard them cry Johnny, mind, the dog is nigh! Bump! Dump! A horrid wicked boy was he; He caught the flies, poor little things, And then tore off their tiny wings, He killed the birds, and broke the chairs, And threw the kitten down the stairs;
    keywords: day; johnny; mamma; soup
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        item: #2 of 12
          id: 13004
      author: Burgess, Gelett
       title: More Goops and How Not to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Impolite Infants
        date: None
       words: 3618
      flesch: 91
     summary: [Illustration: Exaggeration] _EXAGGERATION_ Don't try to tell a story To beat the one you've heard; For if you try, you're apt to lie, And _that_ would be absurd! Don't try to be more funny Than any one in school; [Illustration: Don't be Bad] _DON'T BE BAD_ Just as long as you dare to be, Because your mother doesn't see.
    keywords: goop; illustration; mother; noise; seed
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        item: #3 of 12
          id: 18350
      author: Fabre, Jean-Henri
       title: Social Life in the Insect World
        date: None
       words: 92129
      flesch: 72
     summary: The hunting of such big game as I offer, which is full of danger, must form part of the creature's usual life, though it may be only an occasional pastime, perhaps to the great regret of the Mantis. Crickets of all kinds, butterflies, bees, large flies of many species, and other insects of moderate size: such is the prey that we habitually find in the embrace of the murderous arms of the Mantis. Although the Philanthus is skilled in forcing the bee to disgorge, in emptying the crop distended with honey, this diabolical skill cannot be merely an alimentary resource, above all when in common with other insects she has access to the refectory of the flowers.
    keywords: abdomen; acorn; air; antennæ; bean; bee; beetle; black; body; burrow; chapter; cigale; cover; creature; cricket; day; days; diet; earth; eggs; end; escape; eyes; family; female; find; fine; food; form; glass; green; grub; half; haricot; head; honey; hours; insect; larva; leaves; left; life; males; mantis; matter; means; moment; mother; nest; night; number; open; order; pea; peacock; philanthus; place; point; position; rest; result; room; search; skin; soil; sound; sun; surface; time; twig; victim; way; weevil; white; wing; winter; wire; work; world
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        item: #4 of 12
          id: 19915
      author: Hoffmann, Heinrich
       title: Slovenly Betsy
        date: None
       words: 2622
      flesch: 91
     summary: [Illustration] See how her brother bursts in tears, When told the dreadful story; And see how carefully he bears The limb all wet and gory. This one in neatness took a pride, And oft the brush and comb applied; [Illustration] Oft washed her face, and oft her hands; See, now, thus occupied she stands.
    keywords: betsy; illustration; mamma; mother
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        item: #5 of 12
          id: 32811
      author: Sinclair, Catherine
       title: Holiday House: A Series of Tales
        date: None
       words: 79745
      flesch: 73
     summary: On lifting up these mysterious plates, what did they see lying underneath, but two letters with large red seals, one directed to Master Harry Graham, and the other to Miss Laura Graham. When uncle David heard all the adventures at Ivy Lodge, he listened most attentively to the confessions of Master Harry Graham, and shook his head in a most serious manner after they were concluded, saying, I have always thought that boys are like cats, with nine lives at least!
    keywords: boy; boys; children; crabtree; david; day; door; eyes; face; frank; good; graham; grandmama; hand; harriet; harry; head; home; house; lady; laughing; laura; life; look; lord; major; master; master harry; miss; moment; morning; mrs; night; party; people; peter; poor; rockville; room; round; thing; thought; time; uncle; voice; way; wish; world
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        item: #6 of 12
          id: 37595
      author: Ream, Robert R.
       title: Ecological Studies of the Timber Wolf in Northeastern Minnesota
        date: None
       words: 30132
      flesch: 72
     summary: [Illustration: _Figure 4.--An important technique used in the study involved aerial tracking and observing of wolf packs. [3] Because wolf packs sometimes split temporarily, these figures may not strictly represent actual pack sizes; nevertheless they should provide reasonably accurate approximations.
    keywords: 1968; 1969; age; animals; area; conditions; courtesy; days; deer; february; figure; forest; hunter; illustration; kills; lake; mech; miles; minnesota; pack; percent; photo; population; snow; study; table; wolf; wolves
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        item: #7 of 12
          id: 38959
      author: Douglas, Charles L.
       title: Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
        date: None
       words: 36790
      flesch: 71
     summary: Because of its propensity to build nests under things, or in the ground, and because of its ability to use less water per gram of body weight, _P. maniculatus_ is better adapted to withstand harsh environments than is _P. truei_. P. maniculatus_ has a higher incidence of parasitism by these flies than has _P. truei_; possibly the adult flies concentrate in the open, grassy areas where _P. maniculatus_ is more abundant, rather than in the woodlands where _P. truei_ lives.
    keywords: + =; = +; = =; = |; adult; animals; area; drainage; end; feet; females; food; grid; ground; home; individuals; juniper; mesa; mice; n =; nest; p. maniculatus; p. truei; park; peromyscus; pinyon; plants; range; species; station; table; trapping; traps; verde; water; woodland; young; | +; | |
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        item: #8 of 12
          id: 40802
      author: Casteel, Dana Brackenridge
       title: The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collection
        date: None
       words: 13045
      flesch: 67
     summary: Brush of foreleg of worker bee, action and role in pollen collecting 13 figure 8 hind leg of worker bee, action and role in pollen collecting 16 middle leg of worker bee, action and role in pollen collecting 14-16 figure 9 Brushes of legs of worker bee, use in pollen collecting 8-9 Bumblebee, moistening of pollen, views of Sladen 23-21 Cheshire on process of loading pollen baskets by worker bee 17 Comb or pecten of hind tibia of worker bee, definition 9 figure 77 role and action in pollen collecting 16-19 Corbicula of worker bee, definition 9 figure 10 process of loading 15-22 Corn, sweet, pollen collecting therefrom by honey bee 11-13 Coxæ of worker bee, figures 8, 9 Dunbar, Dr. P. B., analyses of corn pollen from plant, from corbiculæ of bees, and from hive cells 28 Femora of worker bee, figures 8, 9, 10, 11 Fleischmann and Zander on process of loading pollen baskets by worker bee 15 Flowers, variable amounts of pollen from different plants 10-11 Franz on pollen moistening of worker bee 23 process of loading pollen baskets by worker bee 17 Hairs, branched, of honey bee, use in pollen collecting 7, 8 fringing pollen basket, function 20 unbranched, of honey bee, use in pollen collecting 7, 8 Hommell on pollen moistening of worker bee 23 process of loading pollen baskets by worker bee 18 Honey, use by worker bee for moistening pollen 24, 28-29 Leg, hind, of worker bee, loaded with pollen, figure 22 Legs, fore, of worker bee, action and role in pollen collecting 12, 33 hind, of worker bee, action and role in pollen collecting 13, 16-18 stages in basket-loading process, figure 19 middle, of worker bee, action and role in pollen collecting 13, 14-16 of worker bee, action in unloading pollen 30-31 structures used in pollen collecting 7-9 Mandibles of honey bee, action and role in pollen collecting 8, 13 worker bee, use in packing pollen in the cell 31 Maxilæ of honey bee, action and role in pollen collecting 8, 13 Moistening of pollen by bumblebee, views of Sladen 23-24 honey bee 13, 22-29 Mouthparts of honey bee, action and role in pollen collecting 8, 13 Nectar, supposed use by worker bee for moistening pollen 24-29 Palma of foreleg of worker bee, definition 8 Pecten of hind tibia of worker bee, definition 9 figure 11 role and action in pollen collecting 16-19 Planta of hind leg of worker bee, definition 3 figures 10, 11 structures concerned in pollen collecting 9 middle leg of worker bee, definition 8 Pollen, chemical composition 26 collecting by worker bee, bibliography 33 general statement regarding it 11-13 summary of process 31-32 corn, from plant, from corbiculæ of bees, and from hive cells, analyses to determine nature of moistening fluid 28-29 moistening by bumblebee, views of Sladen 23-24 honey bee 22-29 storage in the hive 29-31 structures of honey bee concerned in manipulation 7-9 supply of honey bee 10-11 unloading process by worker bee 30-31 Saliva, supposed use by worker bee in moistening pollen 23, 29 Sladen, observations on process of loading pollen baskets by worker bee 18, 20, 21 views as to pollen moistening by worker bee 23-24, 27 Spur of middle tibia of worker bee, figure 9 Storing pollen in the hive 29-31 Structures of honey bee concerned in manipulation of pollen 7-9 Sweat glands of Wolff within hind tibia and planta of worker bee, supposed function 24 Tibia of hind leg of worker bee, modifications and structures for pollen collecting 9 Tibiæ of worker bee, figures 8, 9, 10, 11 Tongue of worker bee, action and role in pollen collecting 8, 13 Trochanters of worker bee, figures 8, 9 Wax shears or pinchers, so-called, use in loading pollen by worker bee 7 Wolff on pollen moistening by worker bee 24 Zander, Fleischmann and. While working upon the problem of wax-scale manipulation during the summer of 1911 the writer became convinced that the so-called wax shears or pinchers of the worker honey bee have nothing whatever to do with the extraction of the wax scales from their pockets, but rather that they are organs used in loading the pollen from the pollen combs of the hind legs into the corbiculæ or pollen baskets (Cast eel, 1912).
    keywords: bee; brushes; hairs; hind; legs; middle; pollen; pollen baskets; pollen combs; pollen mass; worker bee
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        item: #9 of 12
          id: 42559
      author: Mills, Enos A.
       title: The Story of Scotch
        date: None
       words: 8516
      flesch: 84
     summary: I carried little Scotch all day long in my overcoat pocket as I rode through the mountains on the way to my cabin. I took him in my hands and assured him that the visitor was welcome, and in a moment little Scotch and the cowboy were side by side gazing at the fire.
    keywords: cabin; cold; feet; fire; long; night; scotch; snow; time; way; wind
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        item: #10 of 12
          id: 45496
      author: Rennie, James
       title: Insect Architecture
        date: None
       words: 136807
      flesch: 65
     summary: _c._ Another species of this large genus, _Crabro luteipalpis_, is fond of making its burrows in the mortar of old walls, preferring those spots where nails have been drawn, making the process of burrowing easier for the insect.
    keywords: air; ants; bees; black; body; branch; brown; building; case; caterpillars; cells; cocoon; colour; combs; cut; earth; eggs; end; feet; flies; fly; form; gall; glass; ground; grub; half; head; hive; honey; huber; illustration; inch; insect; interior; leaf; leaves; length; line; manner; mason; materials; means; moth; nature; nest; new; number; order; place; portion; purpose; rose; réaumur; sand; saw; silk; size; species; spider; state; structure; substance; surface; thread; time; tree; walls; wasp; wax; way; white; wood; work
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        item: #11 of 12
          id: 47028
      author: Bent, Arthur Cleveland
       title: Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2)
        date: None
       words: 197653
      flesch: 69
     summary: In the breeding season the male is pugnacious and quarrelsome against birds of its own kin as well as against other small birds, which appear within his domain. The cinnamon has nearly disappeared in September birds and all the buff edgings have faded or worn away.
    keywords: adults; alaska; american; april; arrival; august; bay; beach; bill; birds; black; body; breast; breeding; british; brown; buff; california; cape; carolina; cent; city; close; coast; color; columbia; common; county; coverts; dakota; dark; dates; day; days; distance; distribution; dowitcher; east; eastern; eggs; end; fall; feathers; february; feeding; feet; female; field; flats; flight; flocks; florida; fly; following; food; fort; godwit; grass; gray; great; ground; habits; half; head; high; inches; island; july; june; lake; leaves; legs; life; like; little; male; manitoba; march; markings; massachusetts; migration; molt; mud; near; neck; nest; nesting; new; north; northern; notes; november; numbers; october; olive; open; parts; phalarope; place; plumage; point; range; records; red; river; sandpiper; scapulars; season; september; set; shore birds; shot; siberia; snipe; song; sound; south; southern; species; spots; spring; stilt; summer; tail; texas; time; vol; washington; water; way; west; western; white; wilson; wings; winter; woodcock; yards; yellow; york; young
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        item: #12 of 12
          id: 9648
      author: Pansy
       title: Tip Lewis and His Lamp
        date: None
       words: 51253
      flesch: 90
     summary: So, when Ellis said, There goes Tip Lewis; father thinks we boys ought to notice him; he is trying real hard now-a-days to behave himself, you know, it was easy for Howard to mingle Tip in with his thoughts. And Tip Lewis was Tip no longer; no one knew him by that name; every one there said Edward, save the store clerks, and they called him Ed.
    keywords: bob; boys; burrows; day; edward; ellis; father; god; good; help; holbrook; howard; kitty; lewis; little; long; minturn; night; school; thought; time; tip; way
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