item: #1 of 8 id: 10579 author: Barnum, Vance title: Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater; Or, The Most Dangerous Performance on Record date: None words: 47265 flesch: 90 summary: But, after a daring run across the slender support, following some risky side swinging, Helen saw Joe lower from the high platform where he stood a flexible wire. In the first book of the series, entitled Joe Strong, the Boy Wizard; Or, the Mysteries of Magic Exposed, is told how Joe got on in life after his first start. keywords: act; big; bill; box; cat; circus; fire; good; ham; helen; jim; joe; joe strong; man; men; paper; place; right; stage; tell; tent; tickets; time; trick; way; wire cache: 10579.txt plain text: 10579.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 20375 author: Field, Al. G. (Alfred Griffith) title: Watch Yourself Go By date: None words: 172450 flesch: 82 summary: Lin said: Ye'll be so tired ye can't enjoy the show ef ye walk out thar an' back so early in the mornin'. Go Alfred would. Uncle Ned Snowden assisted Alfred home, where he remained in doors several days with two parti-hued eyes. keywords: 'em; air; alfred; alfred griffith; assured; audience; aunt; bed; big; bill; black; book; boy; boys; brownsville; business; charley; children; church; circus; city; clothes; colonel; columbus; company; country; cousin; day; days; doctor; dollars; door; eli; eyes; face; fact; family; farm; father; feet; field; folks; friends; fur; gideon; git; going; good; half; hand; harrison; head; high; hill; hit; hold; home; hope; hotel; house; illustration; jake; jes; joe; john; leave; left; life; like; lin; little; long; look; looking; man; manager; matter; men; mind; minstrel; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; night alfred; node; office; old; palmer; panorama; paper; pay; people; place; public; read; river; room; run; school; stage; street; talk; tell; thet; thing; thought; time; tom; town; turn; uncle; voice; wagon; walk; want; water; way; white; wife; words; work; world; wus; years; yer; young cache: 20375.txt plain text: 20375.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 23727 author: Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) title: The Lost Girl date: None words: 140209 flesch: 91 summary: Alvina Houghton, said Alvina. Poor Alvina! said every member of the Woodhouse middle class: Poor Alvina Houghton, said every collier's wife. keywords: alvina; bear; bed; big; black; blue; ciccio; cold; come; dark; day; dear; door; eyes; face; father; feel; find; fire; frost; geoffrey; good; grey; hair; half; hand; head; heart; home; houghton; house; italian; james; kishwégin; left; let; life; look; looking; louis; love; madame; man; manchester; max; men; mind; miss; miss pinnegar; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; nurse; pale; pancrazio; people; pinnegar; place; poor; red; right; room; rose; round; shop; smile; sort; tea; things; thought; time; train; voice; way; white; woman; woodhouse; work; world; yellow; young cache: 23727.txt plain text: 23727.txt item: #4 of 8 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: #5 of 8 id: 38609 author: Hill, Grace Brooks title: The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat How they sailed away, what happened on the voyage, and what was discovered date: None words: 53212 flesch: 93 summary: Is it in--er--his official capacity? I asked Mr. Howbridge to come to advise us about forming the society, Ruth said. The lunch was over and the Civic Betterment League was in process of embryo formation, under the advice of Mr. Howbridge, and Ruth was earnestly presiding over the session of her girl friends in the library of the Corner House, when, from the ample yard in the rear of the old mansion, came a series of startled cries. keywords: agnes; bluebird; boat; canal; corner; deck; doll; dot; father; girls; hank; house; howbridge; lake; lawyer; little; look; maccall; man; men; motor; mrs; mule; neale; ruth; sammy; tess; time; trip; uncle cache: 38609.txt plain text: 38609.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 39122 author: None title: Memoirs of a Midget date: None words: 153833 flesch: 85 summary: I thought Mrs Bowater might be anxious if she knew. Don't you think, Mrs Bowater, I returned zealously, there is just the faintest tinge of _Mr_ Bowater in the _chin_? keywords: adam; afternoon; air; away; bed; believe; black; blue; body; book; chair; chapter; child; close; cold; come; company; course; creature; crimble; dark; day; days; dead; dear; door; doubt; evening; eyes; face; fanny; fanny bowater; father; fine; friend; garden; glance; glass; god; good; great; green; half; hand; head; heart; high; hill; hope; house; human; kind; lady; left; letter; life; little; look; looking; love; low; man; mean; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mr crimble; mrs; mrs bowater; mrs monnerie; new; night; past; people; pollacke; pollie; poor; quiet; rest; room; rose; round; self; set; smile; stone; susan; talk; thing; thought; time; voice; white; window; woman; words; world cache: 39122.txt plain text: 39122.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 39383 author: Barry, John D. (John Daniel) title: Mademoiselle Blanche: A Novel date: None words: 59941 flesch: 86 summary: When at last Mademoiselle Blanche ran into the arena, he was thrilled with joy. The more he thought of the ordeal, the more nervous Jules felt. keywords: blanche; child; circus; day; eyes; face; good; husband; jeanne; jules; life; little; love; madame; madeleine; mademoiselle; mademoiselle blanche; moment; monsieur; mother; mrs; night; perrault; room; tate; thought; time; way; wife; woman cache: 39383.txt plain text: 39383.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 55891 author: Oxley, J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) title: The Family on Wheels date: None words: 43216 flesch: 80 summary: As they watched them pass, looking very imposing indeed in all their martial splendor, little Cæsar Tamby said to Nadine his sister: The soldiers! Many a time had poor little Nadine, upon whom the chief burden of responsibility rested, found it hard to keep back the tears when, as Lydia set out with her bowl, the majority of those who had been watching the performance turned their backs upon the children who had been doing their best to amuse them. keywords: abel; children; course; cæsar; day; elephant; eyes; good; head; kind; lydia; madame; magistrate; moment; money; nadine; nalla; performance; place; pradère; right; sister; snow; steady; time; trunk; van; vigilant; way cache: 55891.txt plain text: 55891.txt