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id: 22347
author: Hughes, Vincent
title: Through Canal-Land in a Canadian Canoe
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flesch: 61
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summary:
  Getting through in our turn, after a short delay caused by a string of canal barges coming through to catch the morning tide, we entered upon the Grand Junction Canal, which extends form here to Braunston, a distance of some hundred and six miles. We did not relish the situation at all, I can assure you, especially as we could not take stock of our whereabouts; but after a deal of rocking and shoving (during which we had a narrow escape from capsizing), we managed to get the canoe clear of the walls, and worked our way backwards, hand-over-hand, to the mouth of the tunnel.


id: 34990
author: Thoreau, Henry David
title: Canoeing in the wilderness
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words: 35113
sentence: 1367
flesch: 77
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summary:
  I heard of one who, being asked by a white man going into the woods what he would say if he killed a moose, answered, â��If you bring me a quarter of it I guess you wonâ��t be troubled.â�� His duty being, as he said, only to prevent the â��indiscriminateâ�� slaughter of them for their hides. â��Oh, yer,â�� he replied, â��good many do so.â�� I asked how long he thought it would take.


id: 30840
author: Morrison, Gertrude W.
title: The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna; Or, The Crew That Won
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words: 43387
sentence: 3053
flesch: 90
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summary:
  Hester and Lily were older girls, and heavier; but they hadn't the lithe strength and skill of the twins. They are good girls--and loving girls.


id: 19489
author: Rathborne, St. George
title: Canoe Mates in Canada; Or, Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan
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words: 49236
sentence: 1420
flesch: 67
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summary:
  Owen's little cousin had accompanied grandpa to town, since a woman's judgment was considered essential in choosing some of the household effects; and the last glimpse our twain had of dear old Owen, the erstwhile lad, was standing with his arm about Jessie, while the proud factor beamed upon them both, and waved his hat with just as much enthusiasm as the youngsters. Cuthbert halted in his explanations; he did not hint at such a thing, but evidently it was up to Owen to tell something at least in connection with his presence in the neighborhood, and how he came to be rushing down the dangerous rapids at the time the storm broke, when it would appear the part of wisdom for one who knew the peril involved as well as he did, to land and portage around the troubled water.


id: 12728
author: Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
title: The High School Boys' Canoe Club
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words: 48795
sentence: 3669
flesch: 92
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summary:
  I heard Mr. Driggs tell Dick Prescott that, as nearly as they could guess, you opened your mouth a trifle just before Dick and Dave reached you and freed you from that awful trap. Why, if anyone were to kill Dick Prescott, Dick would insist on the fellow coming around the next day and proving his death.


id: 26345
author: Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
title: Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks
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words: 53498
sentence: 3080
flesch: 87
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summary:
  Then she read: 'At a recent fire that destroyed Dickens' Hotel at Raquette Lake, Adirondacks, a group of girl scouts known as the Dandelion Troop saved many lives and did heroic work in saving property. Then during the winter, other girls who had heard of the good times the scouts had had in camp that past summer became so insistent to mothers at home that permission to join the organization was granted them.


id: 38556
author: Thwaites, Reuben Gold
title: Historic Waterways—Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers
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words: 58332
sentence: 2115
flesch: 69
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summary:
  This coming in at the back door of river towns reveals many a secret of sham. Of the three, the Rock river route, through the great prairies of Illinois, perhaps presents the greatest variety of life and scenery.


id: 21888
author: Graydon, William Murray
title: Canoe Boys and Campfires; Or, Adventures on Winding Waters
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sentence: 4054
flesch: 88
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summary:
  Such implicit faith did Ned place in his map that he shunned the roads, and did not think it worth while to stop at any of the farmhouses to ask information. Just when the worst seemed to be over the Pioneer ran broadside on a submerged rock, tipped instantly, and out went Ned head over heels.


id: 62301
author: Munroe, Kirk
title: Canoemates: A Story of the Florida Reef and Everglades
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words: 69024
sentence: 3088
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Right you are, Mr. Sumner, said the sailor. Then, as Sumner, with a flushed face, but disdaining any reply, sheered off and sailed away, he added, I'd jest naturally hate myself if I was as mean as you be, Sumner Rankin, and I won't forget your disobligingness in a hurry, neither!


id: 6818
author: Seton, Ernest Thompson
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sentence: 3198
flesch: 82
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title:
  The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake

summary:
  In attempting to analyse this I was confronted by the fact that among themselves they are kind and hospitable, and at length discovered that their attitude toward us is founded on the ideas that all white men are very rich, that the Indian has made them so by allowing them to come into this country, that the Indian is very poor because he never was properly compensated, and that therefore all he can get out of said white man is much less than the white man owes him. The mania for killing that is seen in many white men is evidently a relic of savagery, for all of these Indians and half-breeds are full of it.


id: 42623
author: Tomlinson, Everett T. (Everett Titsworth)
title: Camping on the St. Lawrence; Or, On the Trail of the Early Discoverers
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words: 81101
sentence: 4414
flesch: 86
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summary:
  It is a thorough-going boy's book of the right sort,--full of life, bubbling over with high spirits and noble ambition; a most intelligent interpretation of boy life and character. Well, the way that same Ethan looks at us, and sniffs at our rods, and treats us as if we were boys, just scares me; it does, for a fact.


id: 40238
author: MacGregor, John
title: A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe
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sentence: 3745
flesch: 78
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summary:
  The absence of other boats showed me (now experienced in such omens) that some great difficulty was at hand, but I also remarked that by far the greater number of observers had collected over one particular arch, where at first there seemed to be the very worst chance for getting through. I saw one raft in course of preparation, though there were not many boats, for as the men there said, How could we get boats _up_ that stream?


id: 21245
author: Young, Egerton Ryerson
title: Three Boys in the Wild North Land
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words: 86681
sentence: 3382
flesch: 76
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summary:
  Yes, said Roddy, I had great times with them, but they always wanted to wrestle with me more than any other kind of sport. A little after midnight he abruptly sprang up, and speaking to Big Tom and a couple of other Indians they all withdrew some distance back into the darkness of the forest.


id: 32333
author: Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes)
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sentence: 3256
flesch: 71
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title:
  Voyage of the Paper Canoe A Geographical Journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5.

summary:
  [Illustration: A CAPSIZE IN DELAWARE BAY.] At such a moment do not stop to make vows as to how you will treat your neighbor in future if once safely landed, but strike out, fight as you never fought before, swallowing as little water as possible, and never relaxing an energy or yielding a hope. The ebb-tide had left but little water around the rough pier abreast of the town, and heaps of oyster-shells rose from the mud flats and threatened the safety of my canoe.


id: 46289
author: Grinnell, George Bird
title: Jack the Young Canoeman: An Eastern Boy's Voyage in a Chinook Canoe
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sentence: 3764
flesch: 81
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summary:
  Said Jack to his companion: We have had lots of surprises on this trip, Hugh, and this camp is one of the greatest of them. The rush of this great mass of water Jack thought enough to frighten one.


id: 21246
author: Young, Egerton Ryerson
title: Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land
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words: 102382
sentence: 4435
flesch: 80
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summary:
  To the great delight of Frank, Alec, and Sam, Mr Ross was able to inform them that the number of young dogs of the right age to break into work was so large that he would be able to furnish each of them with a capital train, which they should have charge of and call their own as long as they remained in the country. Several methods are used in breaking in young dogs.


id: 23371
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
title: Blown to Bits: The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago
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words: 97105
sentence: 4464
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Leaving this village immediately after the slaying of the tiger, the party continued to journey almost by forced marches, for not only was Nigel Roy very anxious to keep tryst with his father, and to settle the question of Kathleen's identity by bringing father and daughter together, but Van der Kemp himself, strange to say, was filled with intense and unaccountable anxiety to get back to his island-home. After eating for some time in silence, and having tried to draw out his host without success, Nigel changed his tactics and said-- You were so kind as to speak of me as your guest, Mr--Mr--I beg pardon, may I-- My name is Van der Kemp, said the hermit quietly.


id: 15348
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
title: Blown to Bits; or, The Lonely Man of Rakata
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words: 111712
sentence: 7250
flesch: 83
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summary:
  Mr.---- Mr.---- I beg pardon, may I-- My name is Van der Kemp, said the hermit quietly. He saw that Van der Kemp, returning to the other end of the cave, sat down beside the lamp, the blaze of which fell full on his fine calm countenance.


