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id: 38564
author: Isle, June
title: Happy Hearts
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words: 4080
sentence: 202
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Little children went in a great company, when he was buried, and threw flowers into his grave. It was when I was a young girl that I attended the funeral of little Fritz.


id: 21901
author: Optic, Oliver
title: The Birthday Party: A Story for Little Folks
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words: 5433
sentence: 337
flesch: 92
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summary:
  _Miss Flora Lee presents her compliments to Miss Nellie Green, and requests the pleasure of her company on Wednesday afternoon, July 20._ _ When you buy the book, you pay the printer, the paper maker, the bookseller, the type founder, the miner who dug the lead and the iron from the earth, the machinist who made the press, and a great many other persons whose labor enters into the making of a book--you pay all these men for their labor; you give them money to help take care of their wives and children, their fathers and mothers.


id: 43390
author: Leslie, Madeline
title: The Factory Boy
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words: 7558
sentence: 456
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Poor little Johnny! In the evening Johnny and his mother were eagerly talking over the various events and scenes of the day when Mrs. Miles opened the door and presented herself before them.


id: 33523
author: Leslie, Madeline
title: Little Frankie at School
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words: 7867
sentence: 482
flesch: 92
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summary:
  WHEN little Frankie Gray was nearly seven years old, a lady came to reside in the town where he lived, hoping to collect a small school. Why, Frankie Gray, called out the lady at the window, is that you?


id: 11007
title: Jemmy Stubbins, or the Nailer Boy Illustrations of the Law of Kindness
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words: 9020
sentence: 380
flesch: 80
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summary:
  Those are the souls of little children, who have suffered in their bodies and in their affections, and who have yet complained not. Little Josiah, the hero of my story, came forward timidly with a sunny token of recognition brightening up his black, sharp eyes.


id: 23195
author: Vaders, Henrietta
title: Wikkey A Scrap
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words: 10678
sentence: 410
flesch: 78
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summary:
  There was a touch of injured innocence in the tone; it was simply the statement of a fact which might easily have been otherwise, and the entire matter-of-factness of the assertion inspired Lawrence with a good deal of confidence, together with the cough which returned on the slightest movement, and would effectually prevent a noiseless evasion on the part of poor Wikkey. It was a winter's morning in 1869, bright as it is possible for such a morning to be in London, but piercingly cold, and Wikkey had brushed and re-brushed the pathway--which scarcely needed it, the east wind having already done half the work--just to put some feeling of warmth into his thin frame before seating himself in his usual place beneath the lamp-post.


id: 33701
author: Valuy, Benôit
title: Fraternal Charity
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words: 12004
sentence: 508
flesch: 66
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summary:
  With great charity and affability they bear with the faults and shortcomings of others, careful to fulfil the law of Christ, which tells us to bear one another's burdens. With the exception of extraordinary cases, or when it refers to a bad habit or something otherwise irremediable, there is generally little charity and less prudence in telling the Superior-General of something blameable which has occurred.


id: 37981
author: Alcott, Louisa May
title: May Flowers
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words: 12894
sentence: 472
flesch: 81
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summary:
  It was all new and charming to us young ones, but poor old Joe had a hard time, and was very ill. I shall probably have a class of dirty little girls, and teach them how to sew, as I can't do anything else.


id: 38279
author: Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison)
title: How John Norton the Trapper Kept His Christmas
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words: 18877
sentence: 710
flesch: 78
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summary:
  The shanty sartinly looked open enough the last time I fetched the trail past the clearin', and though with the help of the moss and the clay in the bank she might make it comfortable, yit, ef the vagabond that be her husband has forgot his own, and desarted them, as Wild Bill said he had, I doubt ef there be victuals enough in the shanty to keep them from starvin'. What is it, Wild Bill?


id: 43697
author: Franklin, Josephine
title: Nelly's First Schooldays
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words: 21610
sentence: 1208
flesch: 88
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summary:
  The sight of his pleasant face saddened, did not tend to make little Nell feel happier. Are you afraid _now_, Nell? God takes care of us, always, said little Nell, solemnly, still leaning on her branch and crossing her feet.


id: 9402
author: Maxwell, M. H. (Mary H.)
title: Be Courteous, or, Religion, the True Refiner
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words: 23213
sentence: 934
flesch: 78
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summary:
  They have always taken care of themselves, and can do this still without any help from little Emma Lindsay. If it be your minds, said Henry, rising to his feet, that we call at Appledale, and invite Miss Martha and Miss Emma Lindsay to be of our company, please manifest it by raising the right hand.


id: 43765
author: Old Sleuth
title: The Twin Ventriloquists; or, Nimble Ike and Jack the Juggler A Tale of Strategy and Jugglery
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words: 28290
sentence: 1885
flesch: 88
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summary:
  Old man, see here; do you want to be locked up? Say, young man, what is it you are trying to accomplish?


id: 28098
author: Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison)
title: Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks
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words: 29948
sentence: 1180
flesch: 79
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summary:
  It was a wonderful shot, John Norton, and I would take just such another tramp as I have had, to see you do it again, old man. Do you think there is any chance, old man? queried Bill, earnestly.


id: 42961
author: Child, Frank Samuel
title: The House With Sixty Closets: A Christmas Story for Young Folks and Old Children
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words: 31858
sentence: 2172
flesch: 92
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summary:
  But it occurred to Mr. Judge at this point that his wife was not prepared for winter. She was simply thoughtless like many other children.


id: 59654
author: Hill, Octavia
title: Our Common Land (and Other Short Essays)
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words: 35427
sentence: 1144
flesch: 65
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summary:
  The same kind of far-sighted policy might be adopted with all smaller gifts, making them either radically beneficial in themselves, as when they train an orphan for service-work in life, or give rest to an invalid whose savings are exhausted; or they may be gifts of things which no one is bound to provide for himself, but which give joy--as if you helped to put coloured decoration outside our schools or houses in dingy streets, or invited a company of poor people whom you know to tea in your garden during the fair June weather, or even sent some shells from your home by the sea to small children in one of our few London playgrounds. Can we wonder if the eyes of poor men are often fixed rather on the immediate money value to themselves than on the effect of changes for their descendants?


id: 10859
author: Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de
title: Paul and Virginia from the French of J.B.H. de Saint Pierre
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words: 34653
sentence: 1437
flesch: 72
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summary:
  That Providence, which lends its support when we ask but the supply of our necessary wants, had a blessing in reserve for Madame de la Tour, which neither riches nor greatness can purchase; this blessing was a friend. The spot to which Madame de la Tour fled had already been inhabited a year by a young woman of a lively, good natured, and affectionate disposition.


id: 17090
author: Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison)
title: Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
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words: 37887
sentence: 1372
flesch: 64
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summary:
  To Mr. Morgan's real and effective help I should join with other business men and give great praise. It gives me pleasure to state that the confidence which I have freely given to business men with whom I have been associated has been so fully justified.


id: 14630
author: Emerson, Alice B.
title: Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island; Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box
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words: 41907
sentence: 3205
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Other girls were walking up and down the Cedar Walk, and sometimes they cast more than glances at the eight juniors who were already such friends. Then, when other girls laugh at my crooked back and weak legs, I'll shame 'em by knowing more out of books.


id: 60581
author: Moulton, Louise Chandler
title: More Bed-Time Stories
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words: 44373
sentence: 2260
flesch: 86
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summary:
  Her lips, which had never cooed over babies, or soothed the sorrows of little children, or talked nonsense to any listener, were thin, as to such seldom-used lips seemed natural. Her father and aunt had learned that little hearts need something more than to be clothed and fed; and Agatha had learned, by their care for her, their love for her, and never doubted again that she had her own place in their hearts.


id: 2127
author: Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de
title: Paul and Virginia
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words: 47076
sentence: 1896
flesch: 70
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summary:
  Madame de la Tour desired me to perform the same office for her child also, together with her friend, who gave her the name of Virginia. He was much attached to Margaret, and not less to Madame de la Tour, whose negro woman, Mary, he had married on the birth of Virginia; and he was passionately fond of his wife.


id: 34218
author: Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
title: Hildegarde's Home
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words: 44003
sentence: 3203
flesch: 90
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summary:
  Miss Hildegarde, he added, in a very kind voice, you probably thought me an ogre this morning. cried poor Hildegarde, an abyss opening at her feet.


id: 21725
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
title: The Coxswain's Bride; also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
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words: 52292
sentence: 2294
flesch: 78
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summary:
  The end of it was that, three weeks later, these four, with many other men and women of all ranks and conditions, found themselves on board the good ship _ One Christmas morning, at the time we write of, Jack and his two sons went careering, in a happy-go-lucky sort of way, along the London streets towards the west end, blinding people's eyes as they went, reversing umbrellas, overturning old women, causing young men to stagger, and treating hats in general as if they had been black footballs.


id: 43144
author: Meade, L. T.
title: Scamp and I: A Story of City By-Ways
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words: 53408
sentence: 2364
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Come here, Scamp, poor fellow, and you, little Flo, you come also; I have a great deal to say to you and your dog. And little Flo had said in her letter that God loved him, God and Jesus loved him.


id: 46762
author: Mathews, Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe)
title: Bessie and Her Friends
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words: 63962
sentence: 2783
flesch: 84
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summary:
  No; she's 'most a stranger to me, and the scared girl didn't mention no names, only said little Bessie was missin'. They talked a while longer of little Bessie and her pretty ways and her friend, the colonel; and then Mrs. Granby carried Willie and Jennie off to bed.


id: 34551
author: Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)
title: Witch Winnie: The Story of a "King's Daughter"
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words: 69115
sentence: 3268
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Go ahead, my dear, he said to Milly, and if you don't come to me to shoulder a lot of bad debts before the summer is over, I shall be greatly surprised, and have a far higher respect for what little girls can do than I now possess. An hour later, as we came down the front stairs to take our hansom, Cerberus popped his head from his office to tell us that a package had just been received for Miss Adelaide Armstrong.


id: 61804
author: A. L. O. E.
title: Sheer Off: A Tale
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sentence: 3018
flesch: 79
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summary:
  And, as for these pious ways of his, which made me so mad against him, I only wish I could follow them myself, and have the same lookout for another world as honest Ned Franks and his wife. One might fancy that our new young baronet was a-coming home, or bringing a bride, or that the queen and all the royal family were a-visiting Colme, instead of this fuss being for nothing but the christening of a school-master's brat! Ned Franks is a prime favorite with all the village, observed the stout, good-humored carpenter, as he went on with his occupation of planing a bit of mahogany, which his visitor wanted for a shelf in her cottage.


id: 13234
author: Pansy
title: Ester Ried
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words: 73679
sentence: 3617
flesch: 81
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summary:
  Long looked for, come at last! and Sadie's clear voice rang through the dining-room, and a moment after that young lady herself reached the pump-room, holding up for Ester's view a dainty envelope, directed in a yet more dainty hand to Miss Ester Ried. _How_ Ester laughed!


id: 36313
author: Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)
title: Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter
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words: 80380
sentence: 4290
flesch: 81
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summary:
  And you never suspected what it was that occurred at the dressmaker's which displeased Miss Winnie? Never, until this moment. Can you tell me the exact time at which Miss Winnie visited the parlor last night?


id: 13997
author: Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)
title: Real Folks
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words: 90318
sentence: 4768
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Dorris kept her little room, and was neighborly as heretofore; but she was busy with her music, and had little time but her evenings; and now there was nobody to walk home with Desire to Shubarton Place, if she stayed in Aspen Street to tea. Do you remember the story Luclarion used to tell us of when she and her brother Mark were little children and used to play that the looking-glass-things were real, and that two children lived in them, in the other room, and how we used to make believe too in the slanting chimney glass?


