item: #1 of 7
          id: 1850
      author: Irving, Washington
       title: Old Christmas
        date: None
       words: 18746
      flesch: 61
     summary: I have called it a hall, for so it had certainly been in old times, and the Squire had evidently endeavoured to restore it to something of its primitive state. The table was abundantly spread with substantial fare; but the Squire made his supper of frumenty, a dish made of wheat cakes boiled in milk with rich spices, being a standing dish in old times for Christmas eve.
    keywords: air; ale; ancient; antique; appearance; bantam; beautiful; beef; black; book; bosom; bracebridge; branches; bright; broad; carol; chaise; chamber; charm; cheer; children; choir; christmas; christmas day; church; clog; coach; coachman; cold; college; company; complete; countenance; country; crusader; curious; customs; dance; dark; day; days; deep; delight; delightful; dinner; dish; distance; distant; door; effect; end; england; english; enjoyment; evening; eye; eyed; eyes; face; family; father; favourite; feast; feeling; fellow; fine; fire; fireplace; floor; fond; footnote; frank; frosty; gallery; games; general; gentleman; girl; glow; good; good old; gravity; great; green; hair; half; hall; hands; happy; head; heart; heavy; high; holiday; holly; home; honest; horses; hospitality; host; house; household; humour; idea; ivy; john; jokes; kind; kitchen; ladies; landscape; large; laughing; laughter; life; like; little; long; look; looking; lord; love; manor; mansion; master; master simon; meeting; merriment; merry; mind; mirth; modern; moment; morning; music; nature; neighbourhood; night; note; occasion; odd; old; old christmas; old english; old family; old gentleman; old times; open; oxonian; parson; particular; peacock; peasantry; peculiar; picture; pie; pleasing; pleasure; poor; present; pretty; rich; robin; room; round; rural; scene; school; season; servants; silver; simon; small; social; song; spirit; squire; stage; strong; style; summer; supper; table; tail; talk; thee; time; trees; true; village; warm; way; welcome; window; winter; wit; world; worthy; years; young; yule
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        item: #2 of 7
          id: 19014
      author: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
       title: Nibsy's Christmas
        date: None
       words: 8639
      flesch: 87
     summary: Very gently they lifted poor little Nibsy--for it was he, caught in his berth by a worse enemy than the cop or the watchman of the hay-barge--into the ambulance that bore him off to the hospital cot, too late. More than one of the passers-by who came within range was taken with an extra shiver in which the vision of wife and little ones waiting at home for his coming was snuffed out, as he dropped in to brace up.
    keywords: alley; baby; bad; bare; barracks; bed; beer; better; big; block; boys; cakes; cellar; cheer; children; christmas; city; claus; cold; corner; dark; day; dirty; doll; door; dust; eve; face; feet; floor; gang; girl; gold; good; great; half; hand; hard; head; home; house; jim; late; left; light; little; long; man; mind; mother; new; nibsy; open; papers; pennies; pipe; police; poor; poverty; ray; room; round; run; saloon; santa; scrabble; set; shawl; silent; skippy; snow; store; street; sun; sunbeam; tenements; thinking; thought; time; wall; way; wind; window; woman; york; young
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        item: #3 of 7
          id: 20656
      author: Irving, Washington
       title: Old Christmas: from the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
        date: None
       words: 19712
      flesch: 62
     summary: I have called it a hall, for so it had certainly been in old times, and the Squire had evidently endeavoured to restore it to something of its primitive state. The table was abundantly spread with substantial fare; but the Squire made his supper of frumenty, a dish made of wheat cakes boiled in milk with rich spices, being a standing dish in old times for Christmas eve.
    keywords: air; ale; ancient; antique; appearance; bantam; beautiful; beef; black; boar; book; bosom; bracebridge; bright; broad; carol; chaise; chamber; charm; cheer; children; choir; christmas; christmas day; church; clog; coach; coachman; cold; college; company; countenance; country; crusader; curious; customs; dame; dance; dark; day; days; deep; delight; delightful; dinner; dish; distance; distant; dogs; door; effect; end; england; english; enjoyment; evening; eye; eyed; eyes; face; family; father; favourite; feast; feelings; fellow; fine; fire; fireplace; flowers; fond; frank; frosty; gallery; games; gate; general; gentleman; girl; glow; good; good old; gravity; great; green; half; hall; hands; happy; head; heart; heavy; high; holiday; holly; home; honest; horses; hospitality; host; house; household; humour; idea; illustration; john; jokes; kind; kitchen; ladies; landscape; large; laughter; life; like; little; log; long; look; looking; lord; love; manor; mansion; master; master simon; meeting; merriment; merry; mind; mirth; modern; moment; morning; music; nature; neighbourhood; night; nose; note; occasion; odd; old; old christmas; old english; old family; old gentleman; old times; open; oxonian; page; parson; particular; peacock; peasantry; peculiar; picture; pie; poor; post; present; pretty; public; rich; robin; room; round; rural; scene; school; season; servants; sexton; silver; simon; small; social; song; spirit; squire; stage; strong; style; summer; supper; table; tail; talk; thee; time; trees; true; village; warrior; wassail; way; welcome; window; winter; wit; world; worthy; years; young; yule
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        item: #4 of 7
          id: 28125
      author: Various
       title: Dear Santa Claus
        date: None
       words: 3645
      flesch: 90
     summary: [Illustration] Did you? asked little Susy, breathlessly. [Illustration] Another of their favorite stories is about the flower fairies who come and dance and sing for little children in the forest when it is very still and the sun is shining brightly.
    keywords: bessie; big; children; chimney; christmas; claus; day; dog; fairies; fairy; good; grandma; great; happy; head; house; illustration; little; long; nelly; night; nose; philip; pretty; santa; stockings; stories; time
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        item: #5 of 7
          id: 32455
      author: Hale, Edward Everett
       title: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day: Ten Christmas stories
        date: None
       words: 65122
      flesch: 86
     summary: Christmas day is born!-- And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh. O child, I said, it is only for thirty-six hours of the three hundred and sixty-five days, that all people remember that they are all brothers and sisters, and those are the hours that we call, therefore, Christmas eve and Christmas day.
    keywords: 16mo; afraid; afternoon; alice; aloud; ambassador; arms; army; author; babies; baby; bad; bade; bank; bark; barn; barthow; bartlett; beautiful; bed; beer; beginning; bela; believe; bell; bertha; best; bethlehem; better; big; bill; black; blatchford; blood; blue; board; boat; book; boston; bottle; box; boys; brave; bridget; bring; broken; brothers; burning; cabin; cadenet; cans; care; carol; carriage; carver; case; census; certain; chapel; charles; children; christian; christmas; christmas day; christmas eve; church; city; clear; cloth; colonel; come; coming; company; coram; corbet; corner; country; courage; course; court; cove; cross; cry; crying; cutts; daily; darling; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; december; deep; determined; dick; die; different; difficulty; dinner; dix; doctor; dollars; door; double; duty; eager; early; east; easy; empire; england; english; evening; eyes; face; family; fanny; father; fear; fellow; fighting; fire; fish; fit; flagg; flight; floor; floyd; foot; french; fresh; friends; frightened; general; gentlemen; george; gilt; girls; glad; god; gold; good; grace; great; hale; half; hand; happy; hard; harry; head; heart; heaven; heavy; help; high; hill; history; home; hope; horace; horses; hosanna; hospital; hour; house; huldah; hung; husband; illustrations; james; jem; john; key; kind; king; kitchen; ladies; ladislaus; lady; language; lantern; large; lark; laughing; laura; lay; leave; left; letters; life; lights; like; line; little; long; look; lord; lost; louis; love; lovejoy; lovely; luck; lycidas; ma'am; madame; major; mamma; man; married; marvel; mary; master; mean; men; merry; midnight; milk; mind; minutes; mipples; miss; moment; monday; money; month; morning; morrow; morton; moses; mother; mrs; mulligan; nay; near; need; new; news; nice; night; north; note; o'clock; oello; office; oil; old; ones; open; opening; order; oxen; page; paper; parlor; parson; particular; party; pat; people; perfect; picture; piece; place; plan; plymouth; point; poor; possible; post; potatoes; present; pretty; price; quarter; queen; rang; rat; read; reader; real; red; relief; rest; reuben; river; road; robert; rome; room; root; round; run; saints; samuel; sarah; satisfied; saw; school; sea; second; service; set; seventh; ship; shoes; shore; shovel; sick; silas; sir; sister; sitting; sky; sleep; sleigh; snow; sorry; south; spaulding; square; stairs; star; state; station; stay; steps; stories; story; street; style; sun; sunday; supper; sure; sweet; table; tea; tell; tender; thing; thought; time; todd; tom; tommy; town; train; tree; tripp; true; truth; turn; voice; volume; wait; walk; want; war; washington; watch; water; way; week; welcome; west; white; wife; wild; wind; window; winter; wives; wolfgang; women; wood; words; work; world; wretched; writing; years; york; young; younger
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        item: #6 of 7
          id: 5662
      author: Woodbury, Lucia Prudence Hall
       title: The Potato Child & Others
        date: None
       words: 7101
      flesch: 96
     summary: When Miss Amanda had selected her from among the girls at The Home, the motherly matron felt sorry. Miss Amanda looked at the matron as if she were speaking Greek, and said nothing.
    keywords: amanda; arms; bed; bob; boy; brother; candle; child; children; christmas; cold; day; dear; door; elsie; eyes; face; father; gifts; good; hands; home; house; kind; little; long; love; low; miss; mother; night; place; play; potato; queer; room; sorry; story; thought; thy; time; tommy; town; way; white; words; work; young
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        item: #7 of 7
          id: 61300
      author: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
       title: Christmas Stories
        date: None
       words: 46671
      flesch: 85
     summary: Before they had finished the first verse of America as their good night, standing up like little men, half of them were down and asleep with their heads pillowed upon their arms. Christmas trees are rather rarer over here than on the East Side, where the German leavens the lump with his loyalty to home traditions.
    keywords: alley; ammella; answer; apples; arms; attic; avenue; away; babies; baby; bad; ball; bare; beautiful; bed; beer; bell; bent; best; big; bill; black; book; box; boys; branches; breathing; brief; bright; broken; brow; burgomaster; business; busy; cakes; candles; candy; captain; care; cellar; cents; chair; chance; charity; cheer; children; christmas; christmas eve; christmas tree; church; city; claus; clear; clock; closed; clothes; cold; colored; comes; coming; company; conductor; congregation; corner; coupon; court; crogan; cross; crowd; dark; darkness; day; days; deacon; dead; death; deep; desk; dinner; doctor; dog; dollar; door; early; east; end; eve; evening; eyed; eyes; face; fact; family; far; farm; father; feet; fellow; fighting; find; fire; floor; foot; friend; game; gang; general; gift; gimpy; girl; glad; glimpse; god; gold; good; gray; great; green; grocer; guess; half; hall; hand; hans; happy; hard; head; heart; heavy; help; high; hills; holiday; holly; home; hope; hospital; hour; house; hungry; hurrying; husband; iron; italy; jack; jennie; jens; jim; journey; joy; kid; kind; kitchen; known; lad; lamp; land; late; laughter; lay; left; letter; life; lights; like; line; little; little dollar; long; longer; look; love; making; man; matter; memory; men; merry; merry christmas; message; middle; midnight; mike; mind; moment; money; months; morning; mother; mountain; mrs; music; neighbor; new; nibsy; night; nisse; north; note; office; official; old; ones; open; outside; pane; papa; paper; passengers; passing; past; pay; people; picture; pipe; place; pocket; police; policeman; poor; portoghese; poverty; pratt; president; prisoner; professor; purpose; railroad; ready; real; red; rest; river; road; room; round; run; safe; santa; santa claus; saw; school; sea; season; seat; second; sergeant; sermon; set; shawl; shop; shoulder; sick; sign; silence; silver; sky; sleep; slum; small; snow; song; special; spirit; spot; square; stairs; stand; step; stocking; story; stove; straight; strange; street; stretch; sudden; sun; sunday; sure; table; teacher; tears; tenements; thief; things; thomas; thought; till; time; tom; touch; town; toys; track; train; trees; trouble; true; turn; voice; wagon; wall; want; warm; watch; wax; way; week; white; wide; wife; window; winter; woman; words; work; world; year; yer; york; young; yule
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