item: #1 of 22 id: 10618 author: Unknown title: "Jesus Says So" Or, a Memorial of Little Sarah G-- date: None words: 2595 flesch: 82 summary: JESUS SAYS SO. [Illustration: Frontispiece.] JESUS SAYS SO. keywords: heaven; jesus; sarah cache: 10618.txt plain text: 10618.txt item: #2 of 22 id: 10888 author: Anonymous title: Arthur Hamilton, and His Dog date: None words: 12069 flesch: 80 summary: But now, after long years have passed away, with the memory of little Arthur Hamilton is associated that of the faithful Rover; and an allusion to the dear child so early called away, is sure to bring up the remembrance of Rover, and of his mysterious end. The day little Arthur was laid in the grave, Rover was seen to stand in Mr. Martin's yard, as the body of his young master was carried out; and when Mr. and Mrs. Martin returned home and found Rover was not there, they supposed he had gone with the procession, and had remained behind at his old home, and therefore they felt no anxiety about him. keywords: arthur; boy; child; hamilton; heart; home; little; martin; mother; mrs; night; rover cache: 10888.txt plain text: 10888.txt item: #3 of 22 id: 14488 author: Finley, Martha title: Elsie's Kith and Kin date: None words: 75384 flesch: 85 summary: Perhaps they may, said the captain, if she is good: good children are not apt to be forgotten or neglected, and I hope mine are all going to be such. Jes' pow'ful cross dis hyar mawnin', Miss Zoe, was the reply, in a tone of disgust. keywords: baby; captain; child; children; day; dear; edward; elsie; eyes; face; father; good; gracie; hand; head; home; hope; house; husband; look; love; lulu; mamma; max; miss; night; papa; room; thing; thought; time; violet; want; zoe cache: 14488.txt plain text: 14488.txt item: #4 of 22 id: 15541 author: Chittenden, Charlotte E. (Charlotte Elizabeth) title: What Two Children Did date: None words: 28460 flesch: 86 summary: Then they sang what they called Precious Julias, Little children who love Mary Deemer. They went up-stairs to the nursery where their own small desks were and taking some of their beloved Kate Green a way paper with pictures of quaint little children on it, after much trouble, ink, and many sheets of paper, as well as consultations with Bobby and Nan, they finished and posted a very small envelope to Bobby's grandfather, whose address they obtained from Bobby. keywords: aunty; away; beth; bobby; boy; children; day; dear; dick; doll; elizabeth; ethelwyn; father; good; grandmother; home; house; life; miss; money; mother; mrs; new; rayburn; sister; stevens; things; think; thought; time cache: 15541.txt plain text: 15541.txt item: #5 of 22 id: 16472 author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester title: Through Forest and Fire Wild-Woods Series No. 1 date: None words: 55929 flesch: 79 summary: In box ==$7 50== ==Frank, the Young Naturalist== ==1 25== ==Frank in the Woods== ==1 25== ==Frank on the Prairie== ==1 25== ==Frank on a Gunboat== ==1 25== ==Frank before Vicksburg== ==1 25== ==Frank on the Lower Mississippi== ==1 25== ==GO AHEAD SERIES.== In box ==$3 75== ==Frank at Don Carlos' Rancho== ==1 25== ==Frank among the Rancheros== ==1 25== ==Frank in the Mountains== ==1 25== ==SPORTSMAN'S CLUB SERIES.== keywords: 00== =; 12mo; 50== =; 75== =; = =; animal; bear; box =; boy; boys; brother; cloth; day; distance; edges =; father; feet; fire; good; ground; half; hand; head; herbert; home; illustrated; lad; mother; nellie; nick; nick ribsam; ribsam; sam; set =; sight; sister; time; tree; water; way; woods cache: 16472.txt plain text: 16472.txt item: #6 of 22 id: 18226 author: Anonymous title: My Young Days date: None words: 16312 flesch: 90 summary: It was in the middle of the long summer days, and we rambled about through the gardens, and orchards, and shrubberies where we had played as little children, and laughed over the remembrance of our childish tricks and troubles. Cross enough to eat you up at one mouthful, and little Sissy after you! keywords: alick; cloth; day; grandmamma; harry; home; hugh; jane; look; lottie; papa; thought; time; uncle; way cache: 18226.txt plain text: 18226.txt item: #7 of 22 id: 20260 author: Sitwell, Florence Alice title: Daybreak: A Story for Girls date: None words: 8409 flesch: 88 summary: Mother Agnes' tenderness to poor Kate almost exceeded her tenderness to the dying child, but Kate made no response to it. The days had seemed months since poor Kate was missed, and this first news of a girl who might possibly turn out to be Kate, had made Mother Agnes hurry up to town by the night train, quite forgetting that she could not disturb St. Thomas' Hospital with inquiries at such an early hour. keywords: agnes; bed; children; day; face; frances; great; kate; mother cache: 20260.txt plain text: 20260.txt item: #8 of 22 id: 21042 author: Reed, Talbot Baines title: Roger Ingleton, Minor date: None words: 92011 flesch: 85 summary: Or was it the complacent man with the expansive presence and leonine head, who smoked a big cigar and was exchanging a few effusive farewells with a small group of fellow- voyagers? Roger accosted one of the stewards-- Will you please tell Captain Oliphant that Mr Roger Ingleton is on board, with Mr Armstrong, and would like to see him? Mr Armstrong was inclined to compliment Raffles on his Latin, but on second thoughts (the tutor's second thoughts murdered a great number of his good sayings) keywords: boy; brandram; brother; business; captain; day; dear; doctor; door; eye; eyes; face; father; fellow; friend; gentleman; glass; good; half; hand; head; help; home; hope; ingleton; jill; letter; london; look; maxfield; mind; miss; moment; mr armstrong; mr ratman; mrs; oliphant; place; poor; ratman; right; roger; roger ingleton; room; rosalind; sir; till; time; tom; tutor; way; years cache: 21042.txt plain text: 21042.txt item: #9 of 22 id: 21228 author: Walton, Amy title: White Lilac; or the Queen of the May date: None words: 62739 flesch: 87 summary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Not that it matters, said Mrs Greenways on her way home afterwards, what they call the poor little thing--Lilac White, or White Lilac, or what you will, for she'll never rear it, never. There's little White Lilac, as we used to call her,--you find her a handy sort of lass, don't you? She's well enough in her way, said Mrs Greenways. keywords: agnetta; bella; bit; butter; child; day; eyes; face; farm; good; greenways; hand; head; joshua; leigh; lilac; lilac white; look; mind; mother; mrs; mrs greenways; mrs white; peter; queen; round; things; think; thought; time; uncle; white; wishing; work cache: 21228.txt plain text: 21228.txt item: #10 of 22 id: 21636 author: Cupples, George, Mrs. title: Bluff Crag; or, A Good Word Costs Nothing date: None words: 11482 flesch: 85 summary: 'And what do you do when you are alone?' said Uncle John, evidently amused with the precise though sweet tone of voice of little Vea. 'Oh dear, who has done this?' cried little Vea, while Patrick turned away with blushing face. keywords: aunt; dick; good; john; patrick; polly; uncle; vea cache: 21636.txt plain text: 21636.txt item: #11 of 22 id: 22944 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: The History of Little Peter, the Ship Boy date: None words: 26066 flesch: 84 summary: Are you better, mother, to-day? asked little Peter, as he went up to the bed on which Widow Gray lay, in a small chamber of their humble abode. She had known Mary Gray from her childhood, and came every day, without fee or reward, to assist her during the grievous illness from which she had long been suffering, while little Peter was away tending Farmer Ashton's sheep on the neighbouring downs. keywords: bible; boy; captain; crew; day; deck; god; hixon; man; mate; men; old; peter; sea; ship; sir; time cache: 22944.txt plain text: 22944.txt item: #12 of 22 id: 28179 author: Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) title: The Inglises; Or, How the Way Opened date: None words: 86718 flesch: 88 summary: They are good little things in general, as children go. If any one had suddenly asked David Inglis to tell him what had been the very happiest moments during all the fourteen happy years of his life, he would probably have gone back in thought to the day, when on the banks of a clear stream among the hills, his very first success as a fisherman had come to him. keywords: bethia; caldwell; children; david; day; father; frank; good; home; house; inglis; jem; life; like; mamma; miss; mother; mrs; night; oswald; papa; people; philip; tell; thing; thought; time; violet; way cache: 28179.txt plain text: 28179.txt item: #13 of 22 id: 31521 author: Anonymous title: Little Frida: A Tale of the Black Forest date: None words: 40921 flesch: 85 summary: Do you not remember the first time when Pastor Langen brought you here a shy, trembling little child, and asked me to see you from time to time? She understood, and answered in her sweet babyish accents, 'Fader come back soon, he told little Frida. keywords: child; day; dear; drechsler; elsie; ere; face; father; forest; frida; friends; girl; god; gower; hans; heart; heinz; like; little; man; miss; mother; mrs; reginald; room; time; wilhelm; willoughby; wood; words cache: 31521.txt plain text: 31521.txt item: #14 of 22 id: 35773 author: Guild, C. S. (Caroline Snowden) title: Violet: A Fairy Story date: None words: 19711 flesch: 79 summary: She would stand on tiptoe, and laugh aloud when she saw the shadows fly away, like frightened birds, before the sunshine, which flooded all the valley now, and which lay upon the beautiful wreaths of mist that went curling up to meet it from the ponds and brooks, brightening them to dazzling whiteness--so like the clouds in heaven that Violet half believed the earth about her was beautiful as that far-off blue sky. The kitten went fast asleep in her lap, and Violet, folding her hands, looked up among the leaves, and across where the boughs parted a little into the wood, and down at her feet, where the grass grew so long and fine, and was sprinkled over with such pretty little leaves--as tiny, some of them, as Violet's finger nails, and yet as beautifully scolloped or pointed, and as perfectly finished, as the stoutest laurel or broadest oak leaf in the wood; and, noticing this, Violet wondered if God, who had taken as much pains in making little leaves as big ones, had not taken as much pains with, and didn't care as much for, little _people_ as big ones. keywords: birds; brook; chapter; day; fairies; fairy; flowers; girl; good; home; leaves; love; mabel; mother; narcissa; time; violet cache: 35773.txt plain text: 35773.txt item: #15 of 22 id: 36759 author: Guild, C. S. (Caroline Snowden) title: Daisy; or, The Fairy Spectacles date: None words: 26088 flesch: 82 summary: The truth was, Maud had a feeling that, if poor little Daisy had an angel to watch over her, she, who was so much more beautiful, could not be left to perish. When any of these things happened, of course poor Daisy had to be scolded, as if it were her fault. keywords: daisy; dame; face; fairy; father; girl; heart; home; look; maud; mother; peter; sister; spectacles; susan; thought cache: 36759.txt plain text: 36759.txt item: #16 of 22 id: 39567 author: Molesworth, Mrs. title: Two Little Waifs date: None words: 56181 flesch: 92 summary: Mast, corrected Mrs. Lacy; yes, it's taller than you, little Gladys, though you are beginning to grow very fast! Something in the words, simple as they were, or more perhaps in the tone, made little Gladys suddenly turn away. keywords: 8vo; anna; aunt; author; children; come; crown 8vo; day; dear; edition; english; extra; face; fcap; françoise; gladys; globe; globe 8vo; going; good; illustrated; illustrations; kind; lacy; little; léonie; m.a; madame; marton; miss; mrs; nestor; new; papa; people; poor; roger; room; susan; things; thought; time; walter; way; young cache: 39567.txt plain text: 39567.txt item: #17 of 22 id: 4040 author: Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot title: The Pedler of Dust Sticks date: None words: 11477 flesch: 83 summary: He had only a few pence in his pocket, and he offered them for the use of a pair of skates for a little while; but the person who had skates to let could get more for them, and so he refused poor Henry. There, in that best of books, stand these little messengers, as I call them, still speaking the very words of the blessed Saviour; ready to comfort the poor and sorrowful; to teach patience and hope to the sick; to instruct the ignorant; to reprove the wicked; and inviting little children to come to his arms and receive his blessing. keywords: canes; children; day; father; friend; good; henry; love; man; money; time; work cache: 4040.txt plain text: 4040.txt item: #18 of 22 id: 43807 author: Franklin, Josephine title: Little Bessie, the Careless Girl, or, Squirrels, Nuts, and Water-Cresses date: None words: 20655 flesch: 90 summary: Yes, sir, said Bessie, this house and the garden and the wet meadow where the watercresses grow, mother owns them all. Eat 'em, replied Bessie, promptly; mother says rich folks buy them to make into salads,--mustard, pepper, salt, vinegar, and all that sort of thing, you know. keywords: basket; bessie; cresses; day; dolly; farmer; girl; home; house; martin; mother; nelly; time; way cache: 43807.txt plain text: 43807.txt item: #19 of 22 id: 44658 author: American Sunday-School Union title: History of Orrin Pierce date: None words: 3066 flesch: 82 summary: [Illustration] Sometimes Mrs. Pierce would walk out with little Orrin, and she always used to talk with him, so as to improve his mind. [Illustration] The cottage where Orrin Pierce was born stood by the side of a clear bright stream not far from the sea-shore. keywords: illustration; mother; orrin; school cache: 44658.txt plain text: 44658.txt item: #20 of 22 id: 45389 author: Anonymous title: Two Yellow-Birds date: None words: 3000 flesch: 89 summary: It is very wicked to let little birds want seeds, or water, either to drink, or wash themselves in. She used to go to school in the morning, and when she came home, would often bring flowers to dress his cage with, or chickweed, and the long seed vessels of the plantain, which little birds love very much; and he always repaid her with a song. keywords: cage; lucy; mother cache: 45389.txt plain text: 45389.txt item: #21 of 22 id: 59967 author: Greene, Mrs. (Louisa Lilias) title: On Angels' Wings date: None words: 60158 flesch: 84 summary: Little Violet_ 9 _II._ _ Every one knew little Violet. keywords: arms; aunt; bed; child; day; ella; evelina; eyes; face; father; fritz; girl; good; hand; head; heart; little; lizzie; mother; poor; room; street; thee; thou; thy; time; violet; window; wings cache: 59967.txt plain text: 59967.txt item: #22 of 22 id: 61803 author: Bingley, Thomas title: Tales of Shipwrecks and Other Disasters at Sea date: None words: 29364 flesch: 66 summary: They that go down to the sea in ships, says the Psalmist, that do business in great waters--these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. This continued until midnight, the vessel rolling dreadfully, and every wave that struck her causing her to dip so deeply, that she shipped several seas. keywords: board; boat; captain; crew; day; days; deck; falconer; length; men; morning; night; passengers; rock; sea; ship; shore; storm; thomas; time; uncle; vessel; water; wind; wreck cache: 61803.txt plain text: 61803.txt