item: #1 of 35 id: 10212 author: Peck, George W. (George Wilbur) title: Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus date: None words: 56317 flesch: 71 summary: First they offered pa dog to eat, but he had swore off on dog, and passed on it, and that made the cannibals mad, and they got ready to roast pa, and I guess they would have eaten him half cooked, if it hadn't been for the performers and freaks who had missed their pet dogs, and the circus hands told them the cannibals had just gone to the woods with a mess of dogs to roast for a dog feast. The boy and I played all the forenoon, and when the man started with the ground horseradish for the tent, we went along, and I introduced the man to pa, and pa O. K.'d the bill, and sent him to the treasurer after the money. keywords: animals; audience; bolivar; boy; boys; business; cage; car; chapter; circus; crowd; day; elephants; fat; good; hands; head; hold; horse; illustration; indians; lion; look; lot; man; men; money; old; people; performance; right; ring; run; tent; time; town; train; way; woman cache: 10212.txt plain text: 10212.txt item: #2 of 35 id: 10396 author: Harkness, Peter T. title: Andy the Acrobat Or, Out with the Greatest Show on Earth date: None words: 47690 flesch: 92 summary: Andy Wildwood? I'm a mere speck in the show, said Andy, but I'll stick if there isn't a cent of salary. Dangling in mid air sixty feet above the saw-dust ring, Andy swung in space dizzy-headed, his first appearance before the circus public. keywords: andy; andy wildwood; aunt; benares; big; billy; blow; boy; circus; clown; dale; day; eyes; face; fairview; feet; fellow; good; half; hand; head; horse; lavinia; little; luke; man; manager; marco; men; miss; new; right; ring; road; saw; starr; tapp; tent; time; wagon; want; way cache: 10396.txt plain text: 10396.txt item: #3 of 35 id: 10749 author: Unknown title: The Circus Procession date: None words: 565 flesch: 86 summary: Speeding o'er the sand and gravel, Bearing heavy burdens too, Which in our land they could not do. Close behind her two enormous Elephants, first-rate performers, Stalk along with heavy tread, Sending on their trunks ahead. keywords: clown; procession cache: 10749.txt plain text: 10749.txt item: #4 of 35 id: 11069 author: Barnum, Richard title: Squinty the Comical Pig: His Many Adventures date: None words: 24100 flesch: 100 summary: Squinty, wondering what happened to little pigs when they were lost, and if they ever got home again, stretched out on the dirt between two rows of corn. I guess that little pig must be hungry, said the farmer looking down in the pen, after he had put some more stones and a board over the hole where Squinty had gotten out. keywords: boy; dog; don; farmer; good; pen; pig; pigs; squinty; thought cache: 11069.txt plain text: 11069.txt item: #5 of 35 id: 16956 author: Hope, Laura Lee title: Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus date: None words: 46370 flesch: 101 summary: Bunny and Sue went on another journey, and you may read all about it in the next book in this series, which will be named: Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home. Leaving Bunny and Sue under the tree he had showed them, where they might pick their own peaches, Grandpa Brown walked on a little farther, looking for a place where he might fill his basket. keywords: ben; blue; boy; boys; brown; bunker; bunny; bunny brown; children; circus; grandpa; little; look; man; mother; right; splash; sue; tent; time cache: 16956.txt plain text: 16956.txt item: #6 of 35 id: 16991 author: Mitchell, Lebbeus title: The Circus Comes to Town date: None words: 36628 flesch: 92 summary: From the corner of his eye, Jerry saw Danny and Chris walking slowly behind her. Jerry Elbow, replied Jerry, hot within at this making fun of his name which always seemed to give Danny so much enjoyment. keywords: celia; celia jane; chris; circus; clown; danny; darn; elephant; eyes; got; jane; jerry; know; man; mother; mrs; mullarkey; nora; time; whiteface cache: 16991.txt plain text: 16991.txt item: #7 of 35 id: 20384 author: Harney, George S. title: David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story date: None words: 69315 flesch: 85 summary: Heretofore, she had welcomed old Landy as a visitor to the B-line for the reason that Grandaddy liked him, wanted to confab and badger about the old days. And Adine's other conferee was old Landy Spencer, a notorious resister of progress, who spoke in the language of other days, whose appearance--from battered hat to narrow bootheels--simply pictured the undesirable past; his associates, when he came to town, were of the rabble--the lower stratum. keywords: adine; adot; away; bank; bar; big; business; car; cattle; circus; davy; day; days; fer; find; fine; friend; gillis; git; good; hand; hit; home; house; hulls; jim; jist; landy; lannarck; left; life; line; logan; lot; maizie; man; men; midget; mister; money; morning; mrs; new; party; pay; people; place; public; ranch; right; shirley; story; talk; tell; things; thought; time; ugly; way; welborn; wells; work; years; yer; young; | | cache: 20384.txt plain text: 20384.txt item: #8 of 35 id: 21232 author: Walton, Amy title: The Hawthorns A Story about Children date: None words: 31795 flesch: 82 summary: On the whole Miss Unity liked to have the grave little David with her better than the other children, though she sometimes felt when she found his solemn and disapproving gaze fixed upon her. And you look mournful; what's the matter? I think Miss Pennie frets after her brother, ma'am, observed Nurse. keywords: ambrose; andrew; children; david; dickie; ethelwyn; eyes; face; father; good; grey; hawthorn; head; miss; mother; mrs; nancy; nurse; pennie; pig; round; time; unity cache: 21232.txt plain text: 21232.txt item: #9 of 35 id: 21546 author: Barnum, Richard title: Nero, the Circus Lion: His Many Adventures date: None words: 24991 flesch: 97 summary: But I'm not going to tell you, just now, about the circus men who stayed behind to hunt Nero. All night long Nero slept in the cave. keywords: cage; cave; circus; jungle; lion; little; man; nero; saw; switchie; thought; tum cache: 21546.txt plain text: 21546.txt item: #10 of 35 id: 21599 author: Barnum, Richard title: Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant: His Many Adventures date: None words: 23263 flesch: 98 summary: Oh, it's some of your little elephant friends, said Mr. Tum Tum, to the little boy elephant. It served you right, for giving Tum Tum lemons, said a keeper. keywords: cage; circus; elephant; good; jungle; man; mappo; tiger; trunk; tum tum; wagon cache: 21599.txt plain text: 21599.txt item: #11 of 35 id: 22521 author: Alger, Horatio, Jr. title: The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus date: None words: 50430 flesch: 91 summary: Well? He says that boy Kit is coming home in a few days. But some of the friends of Kit amended the suggestion by crying, Hurrah for Kit Watson! keywords: aaron; achilles; barlow; bickford; blacksmith; boy; circus; dick; dollars; father; friend; giant; good; hayden; home; kit; man; men; money; ralph; stubbs; thought; time; uncle; watson; way; william; work cache: 22521.txt plain text: 22521.txt item: #12 of 35 id: 23758 author: Optic, Oliver title: Work and Win; Or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise date: None words: 50461 flesch: 86 summary: Night came on again, with a hopeless prospect for the future; and poor Noddy began to question the wisdom of the course he had taken. You will not send poor Noddy to prison--will you? interposed Mollie. keywords: ben; bertha; boat; boy; cabin; captain; day; deck; fanny; father; fire; good; grant; house; man; mcclintock; miss; mollie; noddy; sir; time; vessel; want; water; way; woodville; work cache: 23758.txt plain text: 23758.txt item: #13 of 35 id: 27702 author: Otis, James title: Mr. Stubbs's Brother A Sequel to 'Toby Tyler' date: None words: 39743 flesch: 69 summary: It was fully an hour before sunrise when Uncle Daniel awakened Toby, and cautioned him to eat as much of the lunch Aunt Olive had set out as possible, insisting that what he could not eat he should put into his pocket, as it would be a long while before he would get his dinner. It was in vain Toby begged him to stop, and Bob shouted that such a course was not the proper one for a ring-master to pursue. keywords: abner; aunt; ben; bob; boy; boys; brother; circus; daniel; good; joe; monkey; olive; reddy; stubbs; tent; time; toby; uncle; uncle daniel; way cache: 27702.txt plain text: 27702.txt item: #14 of 35 id: 28642 author: Barnum, Vance title: Joe Strong on the Trapeze; Or, The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer date: None words: 49029 flesch: 92 summary: In the first volume of this series, entitled Joe Strong, the Boy Wizard; Or, The Secrets of Magic Exposed, Joe was introduced as a youth of about seventeen years, living in the country town of Bedford. Joe inquired, as he was leaving the office. keywords: act; bill; circus; day; good; helen; jim; joe; joe strong; look; man; men; money; new; night; performer; place; professor; ring; stock; tent; time; tonzo; tracy; trapeze; trick; way; work cache: 28642.txt plain text: 28642.txt item: #15 of 35 id: 28805 author: Raymond, Evelyn title: Dorothy's House Party date: None words: 57947 flesch: 88 summary: There, Miss Dorothy Calvert, that don't begin to show how tickled I am 'bout your good fortune! Next? Dorothy Calvert. So far so good. keywords: alfaretta; alfy; aunt; betty; boy; calvert; course; day; dear; dinah; dorothy; eyes; face; girl; good; helena; herbert; home; house; jane; jim; know; little; luna; mabel; man; master; molly; money; morning; mrs; oliver; party; place; poor; right; room; seth; thee; thing; thought; time; twins; way; winters; young cache: 28805.txt plain text: 28805.txt item: #16 of 35 id: 31371 author: Cobb, Thomas title: The Little Clown date: None words: 19170 flesch: 94 summary: And men and women gradually came out of the other vans, which stood about anyhow, and they all looked very sleepy and rather dirty, especially the children who soon began to collect round Jimmy as if he were the most extraordinary thing in the caravan. Her hand was on his arm, and her eyes wore a very curious expression, almost as if she were going to cry also, just to keep Jimmy company. keywords: aunt; clown; door; jimmy; miss; morton; mother; roberts; selina; time; train cache: 31371.txt plain text: 31371.txt item: #17 of 35 id: 32393 author: Otis, James title: Toby Tyler; Or, Ten Weeks with a Circus date: None words: 52556 flesch: 75 summary: Poor little Toby! My friends, he began, as he looked down upon his audience of three, who were listening in the following attitudes: Ella and Toby were standing upon the ground at the foot of the platform, looking up with wide-open, staring eyes; and his fleshy wife was seated on a bench which had evidently been placed in such a position below the speaker's stand that she could hear and see all that was going on without the fatigue of standing up, which, for one of her size, was really very hard work--My friends, repeated the skeleton, as he held his bundle in front of him with one hand and gesticulated with the other, we all of us know that to-morrow our esteemed and worthy friend Mr. Toby Tyler makes his first appearance in any ring, and we all of us believe that he will soon become a bright and shining light in the profession which he is so soon to enter. keywords: ben; boy; castle; circus; day; face; good; hand; head; home; job; lord; man; monkey; night; ride; run; skeleton; stubbs; tent; thought; time; toby; treat; uncle; way; work cache: 32393.txt plain text: 32393.txt item: #18 of 35 id: 36219 author: Coup, W. C. (William Cameron) title: Sawdust & Spangles: Stories & Secrets of the Circus date: None words: 55730 flesch: 70 summary: The year 1884 is a memorable one in the annals of circus history, and circus men remember it as the White Elephant Year. He was often a man of ability--many men who were circus criers have attained substantial success in the world of affairs. keywords: advance; advertising; animals; aquarium; barnum; business; cage; cars; circus; circus man; city; cost; country; course; creature; dan; day; days; dollars; elephant; experience; fact; fire; half; horses; kind; life; line; man; men; money; new; night; opposition; people; place; public; ring; season; showmen; shows; thought; time; town; train; trainer; wagon; way; white; wild; work; years; york cache: 36219.txt plain text: 36219.txt item: #19 of 35 id: 3795 author: Alcott, Louisa May title: Under the Lilacs date: None words: 83954 flesch: 81 summary: The interest taken in the father was owing to the son at first; but, by the time the story was told, old Ben had won friends for himself not only because of the misfortunes which he had evidently borne in a manly way, but because of his delight in the boy's improvement, and the desire he felt to turn his hand to any honest work, that he might keep Ben happy and contented in this good home. Old Ben carried the bag in one hand while young Ben held the other fast, looking a little shame-faced at his own emotion now, for there were marks of tears on his cheeks, but too glad to repress the delight he felt that he had really found Daddy this side heaven. keywords: bab; ben; betty; big; billy; boy; boys; brown; celia; children; come; day; dog; eyes; face; father; find; fun; gate; girls; good; great; half; hand; head; help; home; house; lita; little; look; man; mind; miss; miss celia; moss; mother; mrs; new; place; poor; pretty; red; right; round; sam; sancho; squire; tell; thing; thorny; thought; time; want; way; white cache: 3795.txt plain text: 3795.txt item: #20 of 35 id: 41721 author: Snell, Roy J. (Roy Judson) title: The Crimson Flash date: None words: 38457 flesch: 95 summary: Little by little Johnny came to himself, and began to fumble at his fetters. queried Johnny, forgetting his aching eyes. keywords: air; away; bear; black; bonds; cat; cats; circus; dark; day; eyes; face; feet; flash; girl; gwen; half; hand; johnny; man; moment; pant; red; right; ring; second; tent; thought; tiger; time; way cache: 41721.txt plain text: 41721.txt item: #21 of 35 id: 45108 author: Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor) title: P. T. Barnum's Menagerie date: None words: 2991 flesch: 88 summary: My dear children, unless you have been fortunate enough to be taken to the menagerie by some grown-up friend, somebody who would patiently answer all your questions, and tell you all about the bewitchingly horrible animals in the cages, and into whose arms you might run when they growled and looked fierce, I do not think you can know the joy of Tom, Trixie and Gay as they entered the menagerie with Mr. Barnum. [Illustration] Killed off, said Mr. Barnum; and Tom thought that a much better way of saying it. keywords: barnum; illustration; tom; trixie cache: 45108.txt plain text: 45108.txt item: #22 of 35 id: 45239 author: Riley, James Whitcomb title: Little Orphan Annie, and Billy Miller's Circus-Show date: None words: 791 flesch: 81 summary: [Illustration: 028] An' {028}sometimes--an' the best of all!-- He's The Old Clown, an' got on clo'es All stripud,--an' white hat, all tall An' peakud--like in shore-'nuff shows,-- An' got three-cornered red-marks, too, [Illustration: 022] An' {022}little Orphant Annie says, when the blaze is blue, An' the lamp-wick sputters, an' the wind goes _woo-oo!_ keywords: illustration; ones cache: 45239.txt plain text: 45239.txt item: #23 of 35 id: 46793 author: Vimar, A. (Auguste) title: Clown, the Circus Dog date: None words: 11072 flesch: 82 summary: [Illustration: Weeping animals] After this Bertha departed in haste, hardly giving Clown time to say good-bye to his best friends and comrades, all of whom wept at the parting. [Illustration: Clown in Marie's arms] You would _=never=_ have known it was poor Clown, so terrified, his eyes almost bursting from his head, his tongue hanging. keywords: animals; bertha; circus; clown; dog; dogs; dolls; illustration; marie; mistress; mother; paris; time cache: 46793.txt plain text: 46793.txt item: #24 of 35 id: 52138 author: Matthews, Stanley R. title: Motor Matt's Engagement; or, On the Road with a Show date: None words: 33056 flesch: 89 summary: A good chum to tie to--a point Motor Matt is quick to perceive. =Ping=, a Chinese boy who insists on working for Motor Matt, and who contrives to make himself valuable, perhaps invaluable. keywords: ali; aëroplane; ben; ben ali; boys; burton; carl; chapter; come; cowboy; der; dot; eyes; girl; haidee; hindoo; horse; joe; look; machine; manners; matt; mcglory; motor; motor matt; pard; ping; rajah; road; runabout; tell; tent; time; trapeze; und; vas; wagon; way cache: 52138.txt plain text: 52138.txt item: #25 of 35 id: 52397 author: Matthews, Stanley R. title: Motor Matt's Short Circuit; or, The Mahout's Vow date: None words: 33823 flesch: 89 summary: Had Motor Matt the power to do this when he saved Haidee? He had. The huge beast towered above Motor Matt like a mountain, but the king of the motor boys held his ground. keywords: ali; away; aëroplane; ben; bon; boy; boys; burton; carl; carter; cobra; come; der; dhondaram; dot; elephant; ground; head; hindoo; look; machine; man; matt; mcglory; money; motor; motor matt; ping; rajah; sahib; snake; tent; time; way cache: 52397.txt plain text: 52397.txt item: #26 of 35 id: 52891 author: Matthews, Stanley R. title: Motor Matt's Make Up; or, Playing a New Rôle date: None words: 33587 flesch: 89 summary: [Illustration: _Maskee! cried the astounded Hindoo as Motor Matt leaped at him_] MOTOR STORIES THRILLING ADVENTURE MOTOR FICTION _Issued Weekly. =Matt King=, otherwise Motor Matt. keywords: ali; away; aëroplane; ben; bill; boy; boys; burton; carl; chapter; come; der; dhondaram; door; good; hindoo; house; letter; machine; man; manners; matt; mcglory; motor; motor matt; ping; place; right; road; tent; time; twomley; way; wily cache: 52891.txt plain text: 52891.txt item: #27 of 35 id: 59072 author: Leblanc, Maurice title: The Secret Tomb date: None words: 73485 flesch: 88 summary: At last Dorothy smiled with an indescribable sensation of joy and deliverance. Dorothy! keywords: air; captain; caravan; chagny; château; count; countess; d'estreicher; day; delarue; diamonds; door; dorothy; end; eyes; face; father; girl; going; good; hand; head; look; mademoiselle; man; marquis; maître; medal; men; moment; place; quentin; raoul; right; roborey; room; round; saint; set; time; wall; way; webster; word cache: 59072.txt plain text: 59072.txt item: #28 of 35 id: 59853 author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester title: A Young Hero; Or, Fighting to Win date: None words: 68534 flesch: 77 summary: It may well be asked what young Fred Sheldon expected to do with such a useless musket, should emergency arise demanding a weapon. As he did so he placed his hand on the top rail of the fence and with one bound leaped over, dropping upon his feet within a few steps of poor Fred Sheldon, who, with every reason for believing he had been seen, sprang to his feet and ran for dear life. keywords: archie; boy; boys; bud; bud heyland; carter; constable; cyrus; day; door; fred; fred sheldon; good; hand; head; heyland; home; house; kincade; lad; ladies; lion; man; minute; money; mother; night; place; road; room; sutton; thought; time; tramp; voice; way; work; young cache: 59853.txt plain text: 59853.txt item: #29 of 35 id: 59982 author: Kelley, Leo P. title: The Human Element date: None words: 2865 flesch: 87 summary: Kevin nodded but didn't look at his questioner. thought Kevin as the speeding, robot driven monorail transport rocketed past the brilliant pastel buildings shining slimly in the sunlight filtering through the plastic dome covering New New York. keywords: arena; circus; kevin; man; people cache: 59982.txt plain text: 59982.txt item: #30 of 35 id: 60209 author: Wilbur, Curtis Dwight title: The Bear Family at Home, and How the Circus Came to Visit Them date: None words: 36195 flesch: 90 summary: When the big brown bear heard them come in, he jumped up quickly and looked at little Cub Bear, and little Cub Bear looked at him. When this story about the Little-Cub-Bear-that-would-not-mind-his-papa was finished, _our_ little Cub Bear, who lived away up in the cave in the mountain, said, I should think that every little bear ought to mind his papa and do just as he says, else they might get drowned, you know. keywords: animals; cave; circus bear; cub bear; foot; papa bear; saw; story; time; water; way cache: 60209.txt plain text: 60209.txt item: #31 of 35 id: 6118 author: McCutcheon, George Barr title: The Rose in the Ring date: None words: 129916 flesch: 90 summary: 'Said the spider to the fly,' quoth Dick, shifting his foot. Why should it not be so for one who is innocent? Let me tell you all about it, madam, began David Jenison, the hunted. keywords: boy; braddock; business; christine; circus; clown; colonel; cronk; david; david jenison; day; days; dick; door; end; ernie; eyes; face; father; girl; good; grand; great; grinaldi; half; hand; head; heart; jenison; joey; kid; left; life; lips; look; love; man; mary; mean; men; mind; moment; money; mother; mrs; new; night; old; place; ring; room; ruby; smile; tell; tent; thing; thought; time; tom; town; understand; voice; want; way; wife; woman; world; wot; years cache: 6118.txt plain text: 6118.txt item: #32 of 35 id: 62349 author: Brackett, Leigh title: The Blue Behemoth date: None words: 11242 flesch: 100 summary: ] Bucky Shannon leaned forward across the little hexagonal table. Bucky Shannon settled his shoulders and hips like a dancer. keywords: beamish; bucky; cansins; eyes; gertrude; gow; green; guy; kapper; melak; mud; shannon cache: 62349.txt plain text: 62349.txt item: #33 of 35 id: 7434 author: Sidney, Margaret title: The Adventures of Joel Pepper date: None words: 84158 flesch: 92 summary: Joel Pepper! cried Polly, a little red spot coming in either cheek as she flung down her work on the floor by Phronsie's calico bit, that's twice you've made a most awful noise; now you'll wake Davie up again, you bad, naughty boy, and without stopping to think, she dashed out doors, and before Joel could hardly breathe, she seized his shoulders and shook him smartly. Oh, yes--beautiful ones--trained to do anything, Joel Pepper, cried Polly Oh, your show wouldn't be anything without a bird! Then I'll have one, and Dave shall be it, decided Joel, veering around. keywords: beebe; ben; big; boy; brown; come; david; dear; eyes; face; good; hand; head; house; joel; joel pepper; little; look; mamsie; man; mother; mrs; pepper; phronsie; polly; polly pepper; tell; time; tisbett; want cache: 7434.txt plain text: 7434.txt item: #34 of 35 id: 7938 author: Clark, Felicia Buttz title: Virgilia; or, Out of the Lion's Mouth date: None words: 23676 flesch: 84 summary: It shone upon the young Virgilia and Martius, standing before her, and upon the heavier figure of the lawyer, Aurelius Lucanus, just behind them. And though I am only a kitchen maid, I can see sometimes sweet Lady Virgilia whom I love. keywords: alyrus; aurelius; christians; claudia; daughter; day; eyes; face; father; god; gods; lawyer; lidia; lycias; man; martius; mother; octavia; rome; thou; thy; virgilia; white cache: 7938.txt plain text: 7938.txt item: #35 of 35 id: 8430 author: Locke, William John title: The Mountebank date: None words: 96333 flesch: 83 summary: Said Bakkus coolly sipping his absinthe, I have no desire to make my fortune. In the month of June, 1919, I received a long letter from Brigadier-General Andrew Lackaday together with a bulky manuscript. keywords: air; andrew; andrew lackaday; arm; audience; auriol; bakkus; ben; business; circus; come; course; days; dear; devil; dog; elodie; end; english; eyes; face; fellow; flint; france; french; friend; general; god; good; half; hand; hat; head; heart; hotel; human; kind; lackaday; lady; lady auriol; letter; life; like; love; madame; man; matter; men; mind; monsieur; morning; music; new; night; paris; patou; people; petit; place; prépimpin; room; rose; round; second; set; soul; stage; table; talk; things; think; thought; time; want; war; way; white; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 8430.txt plain text: 8430.txt