item: #1 of 11 id: 10449 author: Greene, Homer title: Burnham Breaker date: None words: 106644 flesch: 87 summary: Mr. Bummerton, turning to the bar-tender, allow me to introduce my esteemed young friend, Mr. Ralph Craft, the worthy grandson of an old acquaintance. I'm Ralph Burnham; I'm Mrs. Burnham's son! keywords: air; bachelor; billy; boy; boy ralph; breaker; burnham; case; child; court; craft; day; door; eyes; face; good; goodlaw; hands; heart; home; joe; lad; lawyer; life; like; look; man; matter; mind; moment; money; mother; mrs; night; place; ralph; robert; room; sharpman; simon; sir; son; think; thought; time; uncle; way; work cache: 10449.txt plain text: 10449.txt item: #2 of 11 id: 15503 author: Welsh, James C. title: The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner date: None words: 93556 flesch: 85 summary: We ha'e heard of how other men in other places ha'e managed to start a union, and how it has been a guid thing in risin' wages. At last in came a number of other men to relieve them--men equally anxious and desperate as they, burning with the desire to get to grips with this calamity which had come upon two of their comrades. keywords: aboot; andrew; awfu; bed; bit; black; boy; day; dinna; eyes; face; fine; folk; gang; gaun; geordie; god; guid; ha'e; hae; hard; head; heart; help; home; house; jock; ken; life; little; look; man; matthew; men; mind; moor; mother; mrs; mysie; nellie; night; noo; peter; pit; place; robert; rundell; sinclair; smillie; tam; tell; things; thought; time; voice; wad; walker; want; way; weel; wife; work; young cache: 15503.txt plain text: 15503.txt item: #3 of 11 id: 20040 author: Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey) title: The Call of the Beaver Patrol; Or, A Break in the Glacier date: None words: 79031 flesch: 90 summary: And now, Will said as they settled down in their old room on Washington boulevard, we're going to be good boys from this time on and remain in Chicago and stay at home nights! What'd you say about other boys being hungry? asked Sandy. keywords: bert; boat; boys; cabin; cameron; canfield; caretaker; carson; course; detective; elmer; frank; gangway; george; going; good; guess; jamison; jimmie; left; look; man; moment; money; place; plans; reply; right; sam; sandy; saw; shaft; time; tommy; want; water; way cache: 20040.txt plain text: 20040.txt item: #4 of 11 id: 21382 author: Fenn, George Manville title: Son Philip date: None words: 13035 flesch: 81 summary: Well, why not be a soldier? Philip Hexton shook his head. No, dear; I shall not be a sailor, said Philip Hexton; and leaving his chair at the breakfast table he went round to his mother's side, sank down on one knee, passed his arm around her, and drew her to his broad breast. keywords: boy; coal; father; hexton; lamp; life; man; men; philip; pit; way; work cache: 21382.txt plain text: 21382.txt item: #5 of 11 id: 21726 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines date: None words: 94660 flesch: 72 summary: Do you hear, little man? Other men were in that part of the mine at the time, and the brothers found that a message had been sent to one of the captains requesting him to come and examine the place, as the men were becoming uneasy at the increasing flow of water from the walls. keywords: air; baby; botallack; boy; captain; clearemout; cornish; course; cuttance; dan; day; deep; donnithorne; end; eyes; face; feet; gentleman; good; half; hand; head; house; john; land; left; let; level; life; look; maggot; man; men; miner; moment; mrs; night; oliver; place; point; rock; rose; round; sea; shaft; sur; tell; time; tin; tregarthen; trembath; uncle; water; way; went; work; youth; zackey cache: 21726.txt plain text: 21726.txt item: #6 of 11 id: 21863 author: Munroe, Kirk title: Derrick Sterling: A Story of the Mines date: None words: 56928 flesch: 80 summary: Taking Derrick a little to one side, he said, They tell me, lad, thou'rt to drive Bill Tooley's mule. As softly as he could, and yet make himself heard, Derrick answered, It is I, sir, Derrick Sterling, and I have got something important to tell you. keywords: bill; boss; boy; boys; breaker; car; coal; come; day; derrick; derrick sterling; door; evert; gangway; jones; lad; left; little; man; men; miners; mother; mule; paul; place; slope; thought; time; tooley; way; work; yer cache: 21863.txt plain text: 21863.txt item: #7 of 11 id: 28697 author: Otis, James title: Down the Slope date: None words: 72352 flesch: 85 summary: When Fred left Sam to defend the breach in the wall he fully realized the necessity of giving the alarm quickly, and did not stop to light his lamp until after scrambling over the barrier of coal. Looking around quickly Fred saw Sam Thorpe, who had just come up the slope with Bill Thomas. keywords: bill; billings; boy; boys; brace; chance; chapter; company; day; drift; farley; find; fred; good; gus; half; help; home; joe; left; men; money; night; party; place; sam; skip; slope; store; tell; time; want; way; work; wright cache: 28697.txt plain text: 28697.txt item: #8 of 11 id: 31128 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: Facing Death; Or, The Hero of the Vaughan Pit: A Tale of the Coal Mines date: None words: 73999 flesch: 84 summary: In a short time I hope that the Vaughan pit will be pumped out and at work again, and when it is, Mr. Jack Simpson will be its manager! So young Jack Simpson led a dual life, spending twenty-six days of each month as a pit lad, speaking a dialect nearly as broad as that of his fellows, and two as a quiet and unobtrusive young student in the pleasant home of Mr. Merton. keywords: 'em; bill; boy; brook; day; girls; good; haden; harry; head; house; jack; jack simpson; know; lad; lads; life; look; man; men; merton; mother; mrs; nelly; night; pit; place; round; school; shaft; sir; stokebridge; thou; thought; time; vaughan; water; way; work; years cache: 31128.txt plain text: 31128.txt item: #9 of 11 id: 4240 author: Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) title: Women in Love date: None words: 222674 flesch: 87 summary: â��Let us draw Looloo,â�� said Gudrun, â��and see if we can get his Looliness, shall we?â�� â��Darling!â�� cried Winifred, rushing to the dog, that sat with contemplative sadness on the hearth, and kissing its bulging brow. â��No, I have not worked for hunger,â�� she replied, â��but I have worked!â�� â��_Travailléâ��lavorato?_â�� he asked. keywords: about?â �; againâ �; angelâ �; arenâ �; away!â �; back?â �; beetleâ �; beâ �; birkinâ �; brandy.â �; brangwenâ �; brother?â �; butâ �; bye!â �; canâ �; careâ �; children.â �; courseâ �; crichâ �; curiousâ �; daughtersâ �; death.â �; desire.â �; didâ �; dissolutionâ �; do!â �; doesnâ �; donâ �; down.â �; eh?â �; else.â �; enough.â �; fatherâ �; finalâ �; flat?â �; fool?â �; for?â �; frenchâ �; gate.â �; gudrunâ �; hadnâ �; hallidayâ �; happyâ �; havenâ �; haâ �; he!â �; here?â �; hermioneâ �; herselfâ �; heâ �; himâ �; i?â �; isnâ �; isâ �; itâ �; iâ �; know.â �; knowledgeâ �; life.â �; lightâ �; loerkeâ �; love.â �; lovely!â �; lâ �; m!â �; marriage.â �; me.â �; mean?â �; monthâ �; motherâ �; nature.â �; not?â �; nothing.â �; noâ �; professorâ �; pussum?â �; quite!â �; rabbitâ �; reallyâ �; right?â �; rupert!â �; secondâ �; sheâ �; shouldnâ �; sideâ �; soulâ �; t.â �; thatâ �; then?â �; thereâ �; theyâ �; thingsâ �; tooâ �; upâ �; ursula?â �; usâ �; wasnâ �; weâ �; what?â �; winifredâ �; womanâ �; wouldnâ �; yesâ �; yourself.â �; youâ �; â �; � anâ; � clock; � d; � gerald; � god; � hello!â; � inhuman; � length; � ll; � lord; � non; � s; � t; � ursula; � william; � wonâ; � � cache: 4240.txt plain text: 4240.txt item: #10 of 11 id: 56528 author: Zola, Émile title: Germinal date: None words: 180819 flesch: 83 summary: That's it, old man, isn't it? Fists were stretched towards him, mothers spitefully pointed him out to their boys, old men spat as they looked at him. keywords: air; arms; bed; bread; captain; catherine; chaval; children; coal; company; darkness; day; door; earth; end; eyes; face; father; fear; fire; girl; god; good; hands; head; hennebeau; hour; house; idea; jeanlin; left; levaque; like; little; look; madame; maheu; maheude; man; mates; men; midst; miners; moment; montsou; morning; mother; night; pale; people; pit; place; rasseneur; road; room; saw; settlement; silence; spite; strike; things; thought; time; turn; voice; voreux; water; way; wife; woman; work; years; zacharie; étienne cache: 56528.txt plain text: 56528.txt item: #11 of 11 id: 6338 author: Fletcher, Archibald Lee title: Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns; Or, The Light in Tunnel Six date: None words: 38576 flesch: 91 summary: And now, Will said as they settled down in their old room on Washington boulevard, we going to be good boys from this time on and remain in Chicago and stay at home nights! What'd you say about other boys being hungry? asked Sandy. keywords: boys; canfield; caretaker; carson; chamber; detective; dick; elmer; gangway; george; good; jimmie; look; money; place; right; sandy; shaft; time; tommy; way cache: 6338.txt plain text: 6338.txt