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id: 23355
author: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
title: The Little Violinist
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words: 3003
sentence: 108
flesch: 72
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summary:
  I hardly dared glance at them, up there in the air, hanging by their feet from the swinging bar, twisting their fragile spines and distorting their poor little bodies, when they ought to have been nestled in soft blankets in a cosey chamber, with the angels that guard the sleep of little children hovering above them. Pitiful little children, whose tender limbs and minds are so torn and strained by thoughtless task-masters, that it seems scarcely a regrettable thing when the circus caravan halts awhile on its route to make a small grave by the wayside.


id: 35757
author: Anonymous
title: Our Katie
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words: 4286
sentence: 174
flesch: 73
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txt: txt/35757.txt
summary:
  As may already have been inferred, Katie's parents were extremely poor, with a large family of small children to support; and the father being out of employment much of the time, they often wanted even the necessaries of life, and it was no uncommon thing for Katie to go supperless and hungry to bed. The last Sabbath Katie ever passed on earth found her in her usual place; but her sad look attracted the attention of her teacher, who kindly inquired the cause.


id: 37981
author: Alcott, Louisa May
title: May Flowers
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 12894
sentence: 472
flesch: 81
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txt: txt/37981.txt
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: 20080
author: Dyer, Gertrude P.
title: Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18439
sentence: 807
flesch: 82
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summary:
  Poor little Pollie lies sick and ill at home, so pale and thin one would scarcely recognise in that wan little face the Pollie of last spring-time! Poor child, poor little child, murmured the lady compassionately.


id: 14762
author: Optic, Oliver
title: Now or Never; Or, The Adventures of Bobby Bright: A Story for Young Folks
extension: .txt
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words: 45934
sentence: 2722
flesch: 87
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summary:
  It is true Bobby did not think of any of these things; though, if he had, it would have made no difference with him. The book business is good just now, isn't it? continued Bobby, without clearly comprehending the meaning of the other's last remark.


id: 44396
author: Clopper, Edward Nicholas
title: Child Labor in City Streets
extension: .txt
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words: 61153
sentence: 2112
flesch: 62
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summary:
  This is shown in the following table:-- ============================================== AGES |BACKWARD | NORMAL | AHEAD | TOTAL -----------+---------+--------+-------+------- 10 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 12 11 | 22 | 11 | 1 | 34 12 | 42 | 16 | 1 | 59 13 | 48 | 24 | 0 | 72 +---------+--------+-------+------- Totals | 118 | 57 | 2 | 177 Percentages| 67% | 32% | 1% | 100% =============================================== This table shows that of the 177 newsboys ten to thirteen years of age, 67 per cent are backward and 32 per cent are normal, while only 1 per cent are ahead of their grades. +==============================+==========================================+ |School attended: | Location: | +-------------------------+----+----------+-------------------------------+ |Informant: | Grade: | Years in school: | +-------------------------+---------------+-------------------------------+ |Boy's standing in Good Fair Poor *| Conduct: Good Fair Poor *| |school work: Poor | |


id: 39291
author: Bray, Reginald Arthur
title: Boy Labour and Apprenticeship
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words: 66050
sentence: 2926
flesch: 63
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summary:
  | Manufacturing | Small Urban | | | | Districts. Below is given the summary for the two years: +----------------------------------------------------------+ | | Skilled.| Unskilled.| Higher | | | | |Education.| |-------------------------|---------|-----------|----------| | Number | 8,662 | 15,910 | 1,524 | | Percentage | 33·2 | 61·0 | 5·8 | | Percentage, 1906-07 | 28·5 | 67·9 | 3·6


id: 4296
author: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)
title: Friarswood Post Office
extension: .txt
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words: 68793
sentence: 2827
flesch: 83
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summary:
  And what's your name?' 'Alfred King, Sir,' was the answer. Where be'est going? says I. To doctor's, says he, arter some stuff for Alfred King.


id: 15218
author: Van Vorst, John, Mrs.
title: The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls
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words: 70167
sentence: 4207
flesch: 83
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txt: txt/15218.txt
summary:
  Despite Uncle Tom's opposition to mill work for women, despite his cognizance of the unhealthfulness of the mills, he knew a thing or two when he put his strapping innocent niece to work thirteen hours a day and pocketed himself the spoils. Groups of Italian women crooned to each other in their soft voices over the bargains for babies displayed at the spring opening; factory girls compared notes, chattered, calculated, tried to resist, and ended by an extravagant choice; the German women looked and priced and bought nothing; the Hungarians had evidently spent their money on arriving.


id: 20071
author: Meade, L. T.
title: Sue, A Little Heroine
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 76570
sentence: 5325
flesch: 92
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txt: txt/20071.txt
summary:
  If he's the son of my old friend, more than ever is he my care now; and you this evening, little Connie, shall tell me your story. Purty little Connie?


id: 21726
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
title: Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 94660
sentence: 3530
flesch: 72
cache: cache/21726.txt
txt: txt/21726.txt
summary:
  Do you hear, little man? Other men were in that part of the mine at the time, and the brothers found that a message had been sent to one of the captains requesting him to come and examine the place, as the men were becoming uneasy at the increasing flow of water from the walls.


id: 43111
author: Dickens, Charles
title: The Personal History of David Copperfield
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 364174
sentence: 17616
flesch: 81
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summary:
  I further proposed to interest Mr. Micawber in Mr. Peggotty, by confiding so much of Mr. Peggotty's story to him as I might feel justified in relating, or might think expedient; and to endeavour to bring each of them to bear upon the other, for the common advantage. I took Mr. Micawber aside that same night, and confided to him the task of standing between Mr. Peggotty and intelligence of the late catastrophe.


# ent

id: 44396
sid: 1917
eid: 1
type: ORG
entity:
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