item: #1 of 15 id: 10380 author: Wells, Philip P. (Philip Patterson) title: Bible Stories and Religious Classics date: None words: 166726 flesch: 80 summary: Of whom Reuben said: Said not I to you, in no wise sin not ye in the child, and ye would not hear me? Tobias said: Lord God of our fathers, heaven and earth, sea, wells, and floods, and all creatures that be in them, bless thee. keywords: abraham; angel; anon; beasts; blessed; boy; brethren; brother; children; christian; city; come; david; day; days; dead; death; earth; egypt; eyes; face; fair; father; god; good; great; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; holy; home; house; israel; jacob; joseph; king; know; land; left; life; like; lord; lord god; love; man; men; moses; mother; night; people; peter; pharaoh; place; saul; saying; servants; set; son; sons; soul; stone; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tofore; unto; water; way; wife; woman; words; world; years cache: 10380.txt plain text: 10380.txt item: #2 of 15 id: 11148 author: Anonymous title: Aunt Harding's Keepsakes Or, The Two Bibles date: None words: 7999 flesch: 82 summary: I will leave you to guess the joy that was felt by all; and you must picture to yourself the pleasure of their meeting soon afterward: how thankful all were that they were spared to behold each other again; with uncle Harding's surprise at seeing two great girls instead of little Louisa and Emma; and aunt Harding's smiles, and her hopes that there would be found an equal improvement in matters of more importance. But it did not appear that she was under any concern for her own state; and this was a great trouble to poor Emma, who now felt more than ever the need of preparing for the world to come. keywords: aunt; bible; emma; god; harding; louisa; love cache: 11148.txt plain text: 11148.txt item: #3 of 15 id: 14101 author: Various title: Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 10, March 8, 1914 date: None words: 5030 flesch: 95 summary: What a sweet voice that little child in the red cloak has! said a visitor in Sunday-school to a teacher, as together they listened to the children raising their song of praise. Little Rafael was shy at first, but he soon got over it and was friendly as could be. keywords: betty; day; jack; little; mamma; mother cache: 14101.txt plain text: 14101.txt item: #4 of 15 id: 14111 author: Various title: Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 15, April 12, 1914 date: None words: 4724 flesch: 94 summary: The lady I told you about heard the cry, and looking up from her reading, saw the big umbrella go rolling past, followed by the frightened, crying little girl. little Emily called suddenly, as if answering her own thoughts aloud. keywords: day; illustration; jesus; joe; love; mabel; mother cache: 14111.txt plain text: 14111.txt item: #5 of 15 id: 14116 author: Various title: Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 07, February 15, 1914 date: None words: 4729 flesch: 97 summary: Arthur looked a long time at the row of little valentines and then he said, These two. My valentines used to be made of little pictures cut out and pasted on a card or a piece of note paper, when I was no older than you, said Davie's mother; and my mother used to write on them in her fine, copy-book hand, little verses like this: 'The rose is red, The violet's blue, Sugar's sweet, And so are you!' keywords: boy; day; harlis; mamma; mother; valentines cache: 14116.txt plain text: 14116.txt item: #6 of 15 id: 14138 author: Various title: Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 18, May 3, 1914 date: None words: 5228 flesch: 94 summary: Why, he said to me that little boys can't sing with their lips as sweetly as birds can, but they can sing with their hearts: are you sure you didn't hear him, mother? I'm sure as sure, said mother. What did he mean, mother? He meant that in spite of rain, little boys can be happy, just as the birds are, and can carry smiling faces to show they have singing hearts. keywords: donald; good; mamma; mother; mrs; time cache: 14138.txt plain text: 14138.txt item: #7 of 15 id: 14147 author: Various title: Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 34, August 23, 1914 date: None words: 5110 flesch: 94 summary: I am sorry to say that little Chalmers Ashton was afraid of things! Then the flowers dropped off and little green pods came in their places. keywords: day; doll; gilbert; grump; mother; rose; valley cache: 14147.txt plain text: 14147.txt item: #8 of 15 id: 14148 author: Various title: Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 08, February 22, 1914 date: None words: 5116 flesch: 95 summary: HOW THE DAY WAS CHANGED By MARY E. BAMFORD Ralph and Emma and little Paul were sitting in a big circle. Well, some of the big girls at Dorothy's school didn't like it either; but little Dorothy and most of her little mates thought it was a great honor, and they liked to have their turn come to sweep. keywords: baby; day; dorothy; emma; paul; school cache: 14148.txt plain text: 14148.txt item: #9 of 15 id: 14180 author: Various title: Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 17, April 26, 1914 date: None words: 5023 flesch: 95 summary: It is better to suggest good books than to censor bad ones. One day when papa and mamma and little Hal went in the launch across the river to see the new orange grove, and the children were left alone save for old Uncle Pomp who was hoeing in the truck patch, something happened that made quite a scare. keywords: boat; children; house; lena; nancy; pauline; thought cache: 14180.txt plain text: 14180.txt item: #10 of 15 id: 14283 author: Various title: Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 16, April 19, 1914 date: None words: 5073 flesch: 96 summary: Then he took off the cover and tipped the pail gently over in the middle of the kitchen table and out came ten of the fluffiest, downiest little chickens that any of them had ever seen. After dinner the oxen were yoked up, and in great spirits the pioneers scrambled to their places in the wagon, and the oxen started on at a good pace, and they had gone a mile or two before the fearful discovery was made that little Martha was missing! keywords: boy; day; dorothy; jesus; mother; night; papa; rex cache: 14283.txt plain text: 14283.txt item: #11 of 15 id: 15494 author: Various title: Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 09, March 1, 1914 date: None words: 5253 flesch: 95 summary: He had made snow men in the country, and he knew how. Little girls need to be good. keywords: bobby; earl; judy; man; mother; snow cache: 15494.txt plain text: 15494.txt item: #12 of 15 id: 23478 author: American Sunday-School Union title: Self-Denial; or, Alice Wood, and Her Missionary Society date: None words: 2997 flesch: 76 summary: One day a knot of little girls were so bold as to pass directly by the candy shop. How many will that be in a year, Susy? Three hundred and sixty-five, answered little Susy Barnes. keywords: alice; girls; mother cache: 23478.txt plain text: 23478.txt item: #13 of 15 id: 38745 author: Various title: The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young date: None words: 170563 flesch: 80 summary: And then, though in a human form, the Lord God came with strong hand, mighty to save. Colonel B---- told him of a debt he owed, which, if not discharged, might consign him to chains and darkness, not for a term of years, but for eternity; begged him earnestly to seek to escape that everlasting imprisonment in the dungeons of the unutterably miserable; prayed with him, and gave him a few tracts, which, like many good men, Colonel B---- is in the habit of taking with him wherever he goes. keywords: ago; answer; bible; blood; book; boy; children; christ; church; city; country; cross; day; days; dear; death; earth; england; evening; eyes; face; faith; father; feet; find; fire; following; friend; glory; god; going; good; grace; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; help; holy; home; hope; hour; house; jesus; john; joy; kind; know; left; length; life; little; living; london; look; lord; lord god; lord jesus; lost; love; man; means; meeting; memory; men; mercy; miles; mind; money; morning; mother; near; new; night; number; parents; people; place; poor; power; prayer; present; read; rest; saviour; saw; school; sea; set; sin; sins; sir; son; soul; spirit; state; street; subject; sunday; thee; things; thought; thy; time; truth; voice; water; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 38745.txt plain text: 38745.txt item: #14 of 15 id: 45327 author: Various title: Twenty Six Choice Poetical Extracts Selected from Celebrated Authors, and Printed from Copper Plates Engraved Expressly for the Work, Each Embellished with a Beautiful Vignette, Illustrative of the Subject date: None words: 4826 flesch: 90 summary: From day to day we humbly own The hand that feeds us still: Give us our bread, and let us rest Contented in thy will. Behold the blushing rose Her lovely tints display, The queen of ev'ry flow'r that blows Beneath the eye of day! keywords: commons; day; doctors; fish; illustration; london; miller; n^o; r. miller; street cache: 45327.txt plain text: 45327.txt item: #15 of 15 id: 6757 author: Bunbury, Selina title: Fanny, the Flower-Girl; or, Honesty Rewarded. To Which are Added Other Tales date: None words: 27707 flesch: 82 summary: Anne picked up the dead one from off the ground, and stroking it with her forefinger, Poor little thing! In short, that poor young woman was Fanny's mother, and when little Fanny was born, that poor sick mother died, and Fanny never saw a mother's smile. keywords: child; day; dear; fanny; father; frances; girl; god; good; know; lord; mary; mother; mrs; newton; poor; think; william cache: 6757.txt plain text: 6757.txt