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id: 15284
author: Potter, Beatrix
title: The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
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words: 1365
sentence: 88
flesch: 88
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summary:
  Timmy Willie was born in a garden. Timmy Willie was a little country mouse who went to town by mistake in a hamper.


id: 6438
author: Carryl, Guy Wetmore
title: Fables for the Frivolous
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words: 5991
sentence: 308
flesch: 82
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summary:
  This was unaffected kindness, But there was, to state the fact, Just a slight _soupcon_ of blindness In his charitable act. THE RUDE RAT AND THE UNOSTENTATIOUS OYSTER Upon the shore, a mile or more From traffic and confusion, An oyster dwelt, because he felt A longing for seclusion; Said he: I love the stillness of This spot.


id: 20718
author: Glyn, Elinor
title: The Damsel and the Sage: A Woman's Whimsies
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words: 7134
sentence: 597
flesch: 90
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summary:
  And tell me, Sage, what became of the ear? asked the Damsel. * * Please open the door, Sage, entreated the Damsel, and I will tell you a story.


id: 19892
author: Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
title: The Silver Crown: Another Book of Fables
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words: 13557
sentence: 937
flesch: 97
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summary:
  Said the eldest child to the Angel who was their guardian; Dear, there is one seeking a home; shall we call her in? Oh, hush! The Little Sister looked, and there came hastening toward her a lovely band, little children and older ones, with floating locks and starry eyes, and all the eyes fixed on her with looks of love, and all the arms stretched out to her with gestures of longing.


id: 16688
author: Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot
title: Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People
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words: 16600
sentence: 1263
flesch: 89
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summary:
  PAGE Suffer little children to come unto me 1 Hymn 2 Hymn for a Little Boy 3 The Lord is my Strength 5 Hymn 6 Thy Will be done 7 Sabbath Day 8 The Good Boy's Hymn on going to Bed 10 God is good 11 Evening 12 Robinson Crusoe's Hymn 13 Hymn 14 On Prayer 16 The Spirit giveth Life 17 Let little children come to me,--


id: 39499
author: Moore, Edward
title: Moores Fables for the Female Sex
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words: 15563
sentence: 650
flesch: 78
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summary:
  But list to what thy FATES declare, Tho' thou art WOMAN, frail as fair, If once thy sliding foot should stray, Once quit yon heav'n-appointed way, For thee, lost maid, for thee alone, Nor pray'rs shall plead, nor tears atone; Reproach, scorn, infamy, and hate, On thy returning steps shall wait.-- Thy form be loath'd by ev'ry eye, And ev'ry foot thy presence fly. In vain may death and time subdue, While nature mints her race anew, And holds some vital spark apart, Like virtue, hid in ev'ry heart; 'Tis hence, reviving warmth is seen, To clothe a naked world in green; No longer bared by winter's cold, Again the gates of life unfold; Again each insect tries his wing, And lifts fresh pinions on the spring; Again from ev'ry latent root The bladed stem and tendril shoot, Exhaling incense to the skies, Again to perish, and to rise.


id: 11930
author: Ade, George
title: More Fables
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words: 21539
sentence: 1130
flesch: 84
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summary:
  THE_ FABLE _OF THE_ HONEST MONEY-MAKER AND THE PARTNER OF HIS JOYS, _SUCH AS THEY WERE_ THE_ FABLE _OF THE_ COTILLON LEADER _


id: 33888
author: Mandeville, Bernard
title: Aesop Dress'd; Or, A Collection of Fables Writ in Familiar Verse
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words: 19064
sentence: 1031
flesch: 86
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summary:
  Volpone_ spies it, and it grieved him, To see that spoil'd which had deceiv'd him, Thinking his case was desperate: When on the third Night pretty late, A Wolf who could not sleep, because He felt an itching in his Jaws, Look'd into it; What are you there? Says Ren; pray see what I got here; It is a groaning Cheese, 'twas made From _Io's_ Milk, and _ THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY BERNARD MANDEVILLE ÆSOP DRESS'D OR A COLLECTION OF FABLES _WRIT IN FAMILIAR VERSE_ (1704) _INTRODUCTION_


id: 41921
author: Le Gallienne, Richard
title: The Maker of Rainbows, and Other Fairy-tales and Fables
extension: .txt
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words: 21141
sentence: 923
flesch: 81
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summary:
  The poet, in his grandiose carelessness, had forgotten to empty his pockets of various old dreams! One night, as he thus sat singing to himself in the solitude, he was startled by a deep sigh, as of some human creature near at hand, and looking around he was aware of a lovely form, half in and half out of the water, gazing at him with great moonlit eyes from beneath masses of golden hair.


id: 21943
author: Chamisso, Adelbert von
title: Peter Schlemihl
extension: .txt
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words: 22958
sentence: 1096
flesch: 78
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summary:
  To my Friend Wangner Come to the land of shadows for awhile, And seek for truth and wisdom! The flights of nineteen thousand days unmask ye, They have brought wisdom--in whose trains I basked, And while I gave to shadows, being--saw Being, as shadows, from life's scene withdraw.


id: 21189
author: Park, Marmaduke
title: Aesop, in Rhyme: Old Friends in a New Dress
extension: .txt
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words: 22568
sentence: 1357
flesch: 88
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summary:
  one is calling to you; He comes with a constable close in the rear! Said the other, Oh, what shall we do? Said they, 'Tis neither right nor fair, Nor is there any need, To labor with such toil and care, The greedy mouth to feed.


id: 19994
author: Aesop
title: The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 27667
sentence: 1902
flesch: 93
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summary:
  It happened to be a very lean and bony Dog, and Master Wolf would have turned up his nose at such meager fare had he not been more hungry than usual. A white paw, of course, is a feature few Wolves can show, and so Master Wolf had to go away as hungry as he had come.


id: 240
author: Harris, Robert A. (Robert Alan)
title: Stories from the Old Attic
extension: .txt
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words: 28576
sentence: 1557
flesch: 82
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summary:
  Hello, young man, he said, approaching. Said the professor, Oh, the book is already written; I just haven't put it down on paper yet.


id: 21446
title: Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse
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words: 28107
sentence: 1551
flesch: 84
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summary:
  The Sheep was feeble, and complained, His sides a load of wool sustained; Said he was slow; confessed his fears; For Hounds eat Sheep as well as Hares. I own my humble life, good friend; Snail was I born, and Snail shall end.


id: 19813
author: Ade, George
title: Ade's Fables
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words: 37915
sentence: 1767
flesch: 77
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summary:
  After she had seen nothing else but those Ears for many, many Days, it became evident to her that if Kenneth truly loved her, he would go and have them fixed. Having devoted many Days to the Annual Report of the Purity Brigade, he was due to turn in at 9 o'clock each evening, while recuperating in the Country.


id: 2329
author: Cooper, James Fenimore
title: Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
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words: 54651
sentence: 2147
flesch: 68
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summary:
  {bijou = jewel; mouchoir de poche = pocket handkerchief} Doucement--doucement, ma bonne, interrupted the other, observing that the woman was about to exhibit me on the open Boulevards, an expose for which he had no longings, you can bring it to my lodgings-- {doucement... = not so fast, my good woman; expose = public display} Rue de Clery, numero cent I was but a speck among a myriad of other things produced by the hand of the Creator, and all to conduce to his own wise ends and unequaled glory.


id: 12793
author: Bierce, Ambrose
title: Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
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words: 53783
sentence: 3025
flesch: 79
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summary:
  It was clear enough, however, that the subject of Tony's meditation was more than average inter_est_in', as his father phrased it; for sometimes he would give it so grave consideration that observers would double their anxiety about the safety of his head, which he seemed in danger of snapping off with solemn nods; and at other times he would laugh immoderately, smiting his thigh or holding his sides in uncontrollable merriment. Holding him up by the beard, he addressed him thus: You must try to forgive me for what I am about to do; and you might as well set about it at once, for you haven't much time.


id: 13815
title: The Talking Beasts: A Book of Fable Wisdom
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words: 73426
sentence: 3637
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Well, Reynard, Said he, and what scent do you discover here? The Tortoise rejoined; How can it be that ye should speak with a view to my advantage, and I fail to perform a compact which is for my own good? Said the Geese: The condition is that when we take thee up and fly through the air thou wilt not utter a single syllable, for any one who may happen to see us will be sure to throw in a word, and say something in reference to us directly or indirectly.


id: 19993
title: Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1
extension: .txt
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words: 173837
sentence: 9639
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Who Slew the Giant Cormoran 358 Connla and the Fairy Maiden 390 A Pheasant Also Came Flying and Said: Give Me a Dumpling 434 _(Many of the illustrations in this volume are reproduced by special permission of E. P. Dutton & Company, owners of the American rights.) * * * Little Robin Redbreast sat upon a tree, Up went pussy-cat, and down went he; Down came pussy-cat, and away Robin ran; Said little Robin Redbreast, Catch me if you can.


