item: #1 of 12 id: 14814 author: Potter, Beatrix title: The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck date: None words: 1377 flesch: 84 summary: Where do you go every afternoon by yourself, Jemima Puddle-duck? Jemima was rather in awe of the collie; she told him the whole story. [Illustration] Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Rebeccah Puddle-duck, was perfectly willing to leave the hatching to some one else--I have not the patience to sit on a nest for twenty-eight days; and no more have you, Jemima. keywords: illustration; jemima cache: 14814.txt plain text: 14814.txt item: #2 of 12 id: 15684 author: Amerel title: The Summer Holidays: A Story for Children date: None words: 9187 flesch: 91 summary: See if you can tell it what Mr. Harvey told Samuel about bats, locusts, rivers, the rain, and sloths. Mr. Harvey said yes; and then John lifted it on a large sheet of paper, and threw it into the air. keywords: boys; father; harvey; house; john; samuel; thomas; water cache: 15684.txt plain text: 15684.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 19998 author: Allen, Lewis Falley title: Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings date: None words: 87269 flesch: 66 summary: He therefore determines to have a snug, _close_ house, where the cold cannot penetrate. As a _tenant_ house on a farm of three, four, or even five hundred acres, where all who live in it are laborers in the field or household, this design may be most conveniently adopted. keywords: accommodation; air; american; arrangement; barn; building; cattle; cellar; chamber; character; chimney; convenience; cottage; country; cts; design; door; dwelling; end; family; farm; farm house; farmer; feet; floor; garden; good; ground; half; hall; house; illustration; inches; kind; kitchen; life; line; open; passage; place; plan; posts; proper; purposes; rear; roof; room; size; stairs; stock; stone; style; subject; taste; trees; walls; water; way; window; wood; work cache: 19998.txt plain text: 19998.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 22561 author: Anonymous title: Tame Animals date: None words: 912 flesch: 89 summary: WILD ANIMALS 33. TAME ANIMALS 34. keywords: animals; illustration; sheep cache: 22561.txt plain text: 22561.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 28897 author: Darwin, Charles title: The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) date: None words: 225132 flesch: 59 summary: des Anomalies,' tom. i., 1832, pp. 435, 657; and tom. ii. des Anomalies,' 1832, tom. i. keywords: action; analogous; animals; appearance; b. ii; birds; black; body; breeding; breeds; bud; buds; captivity; cases; cattle; cause; cells; certain; change; chapter; characters; climate; close; colour; common; conditions; crossing; degree; development; difference; dogs; domestic; domestication; double; doubt; effects; facts; family; feathers; female; feral; fertility; flowers; form; fowls; fruit; gemmules; general; generations; good; growth; hand; horses; hybrids; i. 364; i. 387; i. p.; i. pp; individuals; inheritance; instance; interbreeding; journal; kinds; life; like; male; manner; nature; new; number; offspring; organs; origin; parent; parts; period; pigeons; pigs; plants; pollen; power; present; produce; production; rabbits; races; remarks; respect; result; reversion; seed; selection; self; sheep; single; size; soc; species; state; sterile; sterility; structure; subject; tendency; time; tom; trees; variability; variation; varieties; variety; view; vol; wheat; white; wild; years; young cache: 28897.txt plain text: 28897.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 34175 author: Allen, Richard Lamb title: Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. date: None words: 82764 flesch: 69 summary: He stood in different places in New Jersey, and in Dutchess, Westchester, and Queens counties in New York; and upon the mares derived from the foregoing and other good horses, he got a numerous progeny of illustrious descendants. Other large breeds_ deserving commendation in this country, are the large _Miami white_, the _Yorkshire white_, and the _Kenilworth_, each frequently attaining, when dressed, a weight of 600 to 800 lbs. keywords: animal; attention; blood; breeding; breeds; butter; cattle; cheese; cold; country; cow; cream; curd; day; disease; fed; feeding; fig; fine; fleece; flocks; food; form; general; good; grain; half; hay; head; horse; hours; illustration; improvement; inflammation; lbs; legs; little; management; merino; milk; oil; parts; qualities; quality; quantity; salt; sheep; size; states; stomach; time; use; water; weight; white; wool; work; years; young; | | cache: 34175.txt plain text: 34175.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 39656 author: Waugh, Arthur title: The Square Book of Animals date: None words: 618 flesch: 89 summary: But the kid is driven to work one day, And the hours of harness know little rest For the stiff goat-carriage round the bay. Good beasts are silent in their pens. keywords: farm; illustration cache: 39656.txt plain text: 39656.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 42230 author: Everett-Green, Evelyn title: Esther's Charge: A Story for Girls date: None words: 66547 flesch: 87 summary: Little Esther, do you think you could be a just and merciful ruler here some day? Little Esther, it is a great charge, and you are but a little girl now, but you will grow older every year; and I believe I shall be spared many years longer myself, though I do not expect ever to be the same man that I was before my accident. keywords: bertie; boat; boys; children; crag; day; dear; earle; esther; eyes; face; father; good; hand; head; home; house; look; mama; man; milly; mother; mrs; people; pickle; place; prissy; puck; right; round; sea; sort; story; things; think; thought; time; trelawny; way cache: 42230.txt plain text: 42230.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 51683 author: Anonymous title: The Surprising and Singular Adventures of a Hen as Related by Herself to Her Family of Chickens date: None words: 6401 flesch: 84 summary: Taking away the hen. Good morrow, little prince. keywords: arth; hen; hub; hubert; illustration; little; mother; time cache: 51683.txt plain text: 51683.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 58434 author: Tracy, Louis title: Minkie date: None words: 30488 flesch: 90 summary: And you are Miss Millicent, I suppose? Are you Mr. Schwartz? she asked, and Dan inspected his calf, because Minkie's tone told us she had taken a violent dislike to the visitor at first sight. You did not mention the exact period, Mr. Schwartz, said Minkie. keywords: black; course; dad; dan; day; dorothy; end; evangeline; father; good; guv'nor; house; jack; jim; john; mam; man; minkie; mongoose; prince; right; room; schwartz; tibbie; time; way cache: 58434.txt plain text: 58434.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 62315 author: Anonymous title: Domestic animals: a story book for children date: None words: 416 flesch: 84 summary: The finest species of domestic cats are those called Angora. DOMESTIC ANIMALS. keywords: illustration cache: 62315.txt plain text: 62315.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 62537 author: Morris, Charles title: Home Life in All Lands—Book III—Animal Friends and Helpers date: None words: 78694 flesch: 86 summary: There are many other animals made use of by man, but the dog, his faithful friend and companion, stands first of all. There are many other animals which are at times kept as pets by man, though the dog, cat, and rabbit are the most common. keywords: animals; away; bird; cage; camel; care; cat; color; comes; country; day; days; dog; dogs; elephant; europe; family; fine; fish; food; good; ground; head; home; horse; illustration; kind; legs; life; look; man; master; men; milk; monkey; people; pet; pig; place; sheep; story; tame; thing; time; use; water; way; ways; white; wild; wool; work; world; young cache: 62537.txt plain text: 62537.txt