item: #1 of 4
          id: 2376
      author: Washington, Booker T.
       title: Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
        date: None
       words: 77345
      flesch: 70
     summary: Many white people who had had no contact with the school, and perhaps no sympathy with it, came to us to buy bricks because they found out that ours were good bricks. I had been told, while I had been in Atlanta, that while many white people were going to be present to hear me speak, simply out of curiosity, and that others who would be present would be in full sympathy with me, there was a still larger element of the audience which would consist of those who were going to be present for the purpose of hearing me make a fool of myself, or, at least, of hearing me say some foolish thing so that they could say to the officials who had invited me to speak, I told you so!
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        item: #2 of 4
          id: 33860
      author: Platter, Thomas
       title: The Autobiography of Thomas Platter, a schoolmaster of the sixteenth century.
        date: None
       words: 20989
      flesch: 81
     summary: In this service I have often ventured my life with joy, that the doctrine of the truth might be spread, and several times narrowly escaped. As three of us little fags had no lodging, we intended to go at night to the corn-market, and sleep upon the corn sacks.
    keywords: able; account; anthony; aunt; bacchants; basle; bed; bread; business; captain; chapter; children; church; city; cloth; coat; country; day; days; dear; determined; drink; fags; father; feet; fellow; gall; goats; god; good; goose; great; greek; grenchen; hand; head; hebrew; home; house; learned; left; life; like; little; lodging; long; longer; lost; making; man; mass; master; mean; men; money; morning; mother; mountain; munich; myconius; native; night; office; old; oporinus; paul; peasants; people; place; platter; poor; preacher; priest; professor; road; rock; room; rope; scholars; school; schoolmaster; set; shoes; son; stove; study; summer; swiss; teacher; thing; thomas; thou; time; town; trade; ulm; village; visp; water; way; weeks; wife; wine; winter; woman; wood; work; years; young; zuinglius; zurich
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        item: #3 of 4
          id: 36761
      author: Charles E. Putney Memorial Association
       title: Charles Edward Putney: An Appreciation
        date: None
       words: 19004
      flesch: 76
     summary: In coming years some of you will be thinking and saying about Mr. Putney with growing appreciation what some who are now in the thick of life are already saying in the words of Scripture Demetrius hath good report of all men and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record. Let us then take the life of Mr. Putney and see what a lesson it teaches us in preparedness.
    keywords: able; academy; age; ago; appreciation; army; best; big; birthday; boy; boys; brother; burlington; character; charles; christian; church; class; clear; close; college; coming; course; daily; days; desire; devotion; district; duty; e. putney; early; education; experience; face; faith; faithful; far; father; february; fifth; fine; friend; gentleman; gift; girls; glad; god; good; gratitude; great; greek; happy; heart; help; high; home; honor; hope; human; impression; influence; inspiring; interest; johnsbury; johnsbury academy; joy; kindly; kindness; large; latin; letter; life; like; little; lives; living; long; look; love; man; manner; master; means; measure; memorial; memory; men; mind; nature; new; occasion; old; people; personality; place; pleasure; power; presence; principal; privilege; pupils; putney; quiet; real; respect; school; self; sense; service; sheaves; soul; strength; students; sure; task; teacher; teaching; things; thought; time; treasures; tribute; true; truth; vermont; vineyard; vision; voice; war; way; weeks; white; wise; wish; wishes; women; words; work; world; years; young; youth
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        item: #4 of 4
          id: 60581
      author: Moulton, Louise Chandler
       title: More Bed-Time Stories
        date: None
       words: 44373
      flesch: 86
     summary: Her lips, which had never cooed over babies, or soothed the sorrows of little children, or talked nonsense to any listener, were thin, as to such seldom-used lips seemed natural. Her father and aunt had learned that little hearts need something more than to be clothed and fed; and Agatha had learned, by their care for her, their love for her, and never doubted again that she had her own place in their hearts.
    keywords: afraid; afternoon; agatha; alice; amy; answer; arms; atkinson; aunt; away; baby; bad; beauty; bed; bent; best; better; black; blue; boston; boy; boys; brierly; bright; brother; care; carriage; cheeks; child; children; christmas; clothes; cold; comfort; comforter; coming; country; course; cousin; cry; daily; dark; darling; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; delicate; doctor; dollars; door; dressed; evil; eyes; face; family; fast; father; fellow; fever; fine; flowers; folks; fond; fresh; friend; garrison; gay; gentleman; girl; glad; god; golden; good; gown; gracie; grant; grave; gray; great; grenoble; hair; half; hand; happy; hard; haygarth; head; heart; heaven; help; high; hill; home; hope; hour; house; hurlburt; husband; interest; irene; jack; jamie; kathie; kind; lady; leave; life; like; lill; lily; lips; little; long; longer; look; looking; love; lovely; loving; ma'am; mamma; man; master; max; mind; miss; moment; money; months; morning; mother; mrs; nanty; nature; near; need; nelly; new; night; nurse; old; olive; pain; pale; papa; path; patient; people; picture; pinky; place; poor; president; pretty; question; quick; quiet; ralph; ready; real; rest; room; rose; rosenburgh; round; ruthy; saw; school; self; set; shaftsbury; sick; silent; silk; simmonds; sister; sitting; sky; slow; small; smalley; smile; smith; soft; somers; son; sort; soul; stay; stories; story; strange; strangely; street; strength; strong; summer; sun; sure; sweet; talk; teacher; tell; tender; thing; thinking; thought; time; town; uncle; usual; voice; want; warm; watch; week; westbrook; white; wife; wind; window; winter; wish; woman; wood; words; work; world; years; young
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