item: #1 of 21
          id: 12417
      author: Slosson, Annie Trumbull
       title: Fishin' Jimmy
        date: None
       words: 6730
      flesch: 81
     summary: He wanted to be a fisher of men. Across the road, slowly, carefully, came strong men, bearing on a rough hastily made litter of boughs the dear old man.
    keywords: boys; day; fishin; good; jest; jimmy; man; men; story; water
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        item: #2 of 21
          id: 14432
      author: Runciman, James
       title: A Dream of the North Sea
        date: None
       words: 54214
      flesch: 83
     summary: the thousands of good men and women whose sacred impulses lead them to aim at bettering this blind and struggling world; spiritual enthusiasm must be backed by material force, and the material force can only be gained when the great, well-meaning, puzzled masses are enlightened. Scarcely one of the North Sea converts has turned out badly, for they usually have the stern stuff of good men in them; they have that manly and passionate gratitude which only the true and honest professor, free from taint of humbug or hypocrisy, can maintain, and I say deliberately that every man of them who is brought to lead a pure, sober, religious life, represents a distinct gain to our best national wealth--a wealth that is far above money.
    keywords: away; blair; board; boat; cassall; day; dearsley; deck; doctor; fellow; ferrier; fishermen; fullerton; gale; god; going; good; half; hand; help; home; kind; lennard; lewis; life; look; man; marion; men; mind; mission; money; night; north; people; round; sea; sir; skipper; smack; things; thought; time; tom; vessel; water; wind; work; world; young
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        item: #3 of 21
          id: 21713
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: The Young Trawler
        date: None
       words: 91385
      flesch: 82
     summary: Such were the conditions, one lovely morning about the end of summer, which gladdened the heart of little Billy Bright as he leaned over the side of the _Evening Star_, and made faces at his own reflected image in the sea, while he softly whistled a slow melody to which the gentle swell beat time. It is probable that there never sailed out of Yarmouth a lad who was prouder of his position than little Billy of the _
    keywords: billy; boat; boy; bream; bright; captain; captain bream; come; course; david; day; dear; deck; evening; eyes; face; father; fish; fleet; good; gunter; hand; jessie; joe; kate; left; like; look; luke; man; men; mind; miss; mission; moment; mother; mrs; night; north; poor; round; ruth; sea; sir; skipper; smack; star; think; time; vessel; want; way; work
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        item: #4 of 21
          id: 21745
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: The Life of a Ship
        date: None
       words: 6876
      flesch: 88
     summary: You may be sure that Davy did not refuse such a good offer; so the man and the boy went hand in hand to the yard where ships were built. Ships are always built on sloping stocks near to the water's edge; for you can fancy how difficult it would be to drag such a great thing into the water by main force.
    keywords: ben; captain; davy; men; sea; ship; water
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        item: #5 of 21
          id: 21797
      author: Leslie, Emma
       title: A Sailor's Lass
        date: None
       words: 22985
      flesch: 85
     summary: Coomber meekly fetched a cupful from the pan outside, and Mrs. Coomber dipped her apron in it, and bathed Tiny's face; and in a minute or two Dick saw, to his great delight, that she drew a faint, fluttering breath. A sudden lurch of the boat almost pitched the old man forward, and the children's screams redoubled, while Mrs. Coomber hastily scrambled out of bed and lighted the lantern that hung against the wall.
    keywords: boat; bob; child; coomber; dick; fisherman; girl; god; home; mother; mrs; thought; time; tiny; yer
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        item: #6 of 21
          id: 2186
      author: Kipling, Rudyard
       title: "Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks
        date: None
       words: 55583
      flesch: 92
     summary: Dan lit the candle because he had bought the belt, and the cook grunted and muttered charms as long as he could see the ducking point of flame. Said Harvey to Dan, as they turned in after watch: Slowly he remembered that he was Harvey Cheyne, drowned and dead in mid-ocean, but was too weak to fit things together.
    keywords: 'em; anchor; away; boat; boy; boys; cheyne; cod; cook; dad; dan; day; days; deck; disko; dollars; dories; dory; end; eyes; father; fer; fish; fleet; fog; gloucester; good; half; hand; harvey; head; hev; hold; jack; jest; line; look; man; manuel; men; mrs; new; penn; platt; right; round; salters; schooner; sea; things; time; tom; troop; uncle; water; way; young
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        item: #7 of 21
          id: 2225
      author: Kipling, Rudyard
       title: "Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks
        date: None
       words: 55571
      flesch: 91
     summary: Dan lit the candle because he had bought the belt, and the cook grunted and muttered charms as long as he could see the ducking point of flame. Said Harvey to Dan, as they turned in after watch: How about progress and Catholic superstitions? Huh! Slowly he remembered that he was Harvey Cheyne, drowned and dead in mid-ocean, but was too weak to fit things together.
    keywords: anchor; away; boat; boy; boys; cheyne; cod; cook; dad; dan; day; days; deck; disko; dollars; dory; end; eyes; father; fer; fish; fleet; fog; gloucester; good; half; hand; harvey; head; hev; hold; jack; jest; line; look; man; manuel; men; mrs; naow; new; penn; platt; right; round; salters; schooner; sea; thet; things; time; tom; troop; uncle; water; way; young
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        item: #8 of 21
          id: 23188
      author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
       title: Michael Penguyne; Or, Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast
        date: None
       words: 32545
      flesch: 83
     summary: Dead! exclaimed poor Michael, grasping the arm of the man who had brought him on shore, and who was still standing by him, and overcome by the strain on his nerves, which he had hitherto so manfully endured, and the sad news so abruptly given him, he would have fallen to the ground had not the fisherman supported him. Can he be young Michael Penguyne, of whom we have just heard! exclaimed Mrs Tremayne.
    keywords: boat; dame; day; eban; father; fish; god; good; granny; home; lanreath; michael; nelly; paul; reuben; sea; shore; time; way
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        item: #9 of 21
          id: 23269
      author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
       title: The Heir of Kilfinnan: A Tale of the Shore and Ocean
        date: None
       words: 73675
      flesch: 80
     summary: There are many worse pilots than I am, and often in girlhood's days have I sailed with my father on yonder sea, sometimes, as now, tossed with waves, at other times calm and blue, like a young maiden's eye, void of guile and treachery. You know him, you know young Dermot O'Neil?
    keywords: barry; board; boat; boy; captain; castle; crew; day; denham; dermot; earl; father; frigate; good; know; lady; length; lieutenant; lord; man; men; mother; nora; sea; ship; shore; son; sophy; time; way; widow; young
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        item: #10 of 21
          id: 23373
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: The Eagle Cliff
        date: None
       words: 72962
      flesch: 80
     summary: Great men from all parts of the country assembled at this hunt, some of them bringing troops of tame elephants and followers with them. And you have been in the mud, young man, said the fisher, in a tone of good-humoured sarcasm.
    keywords: archie; away; barret; boy; cliff; close; course; day; donald; eagle; elephants; eyes; face; flo; friend; good; gordon; hand; head; house; ian; iss; ivor; jackman; junkie; lady; laird; lay; look; mabberly; macrummle; man; men; milly; mind; moment; morning; moss; mother; mrs; place; point; poor; quin; right; room; sea; sir; time; voice; water; way; young
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        item: #11 of 21
          id: 23377
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: The Lively Poll: A Tale of the North Sea
        date: None
       words: 33767
      flesch: 81
     summary: I think you'll admit that sharp men o' bussiness are pretty good judges o' hypocrites as well as of good men. And you'll be glad to hear, said Fred, still addressing Fox, that the _Sunbeam_ is a new mission ship, and has been appointed to do service for God in _this_ fleet and no other; so you'll always be able to have books and baccy, mitts, helmets, comforters, medicines, and, best of all, Bibles and advice for body and soul, free gratis when you want 'em.
    keywords: boat; bob; boy; day; deck; dick; eve; fish; fleet; fox; fred; friend; good; hand; lockley; look; man; martin; mate; men; mission; mrs; north; pat; poor; sea; skipper; time; vessel; way
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        item: #12 of 21
          id: 23577
      author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
       title: Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading
        date: None
       words: 103227
      flesch: 90
     summary: He hoped, he said, that many other young men in the regiment would follow my example, and he could assure them that if they did, the same rewards were in store for them. Miners, though their faces look black on week-days, and their hands are rough, have hearts like other men, and all felt for little David.
    keywords: ben; bill; black; children; country; david; day; dick; farmer; find; fire; god; good; grey; head; help; home; house; james; joseph; life; look; man; mary; men; mill; night; page; people; place; poor; rob; round; sam; saw; sea; set; ship; things; thought; time; tony; water; way; work
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        item: #13 of 21
          id: 28022
      author: Norton, Brayton
       title: El Diablo
        date: None
       words: 86855
      flesch: 93
     summary: Curlew_ Gregory encountered Hawkins. UNDER ORDERS 315 XXX THE FIGHT IN THE CAVE 325 XXXI BENEATH THE WATERS 340 XXXII FOR ALL THE WORLD TO KNOW 352 EL DIABLO CHAPTER I FORBIDDEN WATERS Richard Gregory stirred restlessly in his sleep vaguely aware of an unfamiliar sound, a faint tapping, insistent, disturbing.
    keywords: away; bandrist; boats; business; cannery; chance; close; come; craft; day; diablo; dickie; dickie lang; direction; eyes; face; fish; fishermen; fishing; fleet; fog; girl; gregory; hand; hawkins; head; island; kenneth gregory; lang; look; man; mascola; mccoy; men; richard; right; rock; saw; sea; speed; time; water; way; words; work
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        item: #14 of 21
          id: 28693
      author: London, Jack
       title: Tales of the Fish Patrol
        date: None
       words: 32330
      flesch: 84
     summary: By the time we arrived in Oakland I was as limber and strong as ever,--though Charley and Neil Partington were afraid I was going to have pneumonia, and Mrs. Partington, for my first six months of school, kept an anxious eye upon me to discover the first symptoms of consumption. Charley Le Grant
    keywords: alec; big; boat; charley; demetrios; feet; fish; fishermen; good; half; hand; handkerchief; head; line; man; men; net; reindeer; sail; skiff; time; water; way; wharf; wind; yellow
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        item: #15 of 21
          id: 29817
      author: Sullivan, Francis William
       title: The Harbor of Doubt
        date: None
       words: 68456
      flesch: 87
     summary: And now the fire on top of all! Captain Code Schofield thought of all these things as he ran along the King's Road toward the fire. Any one aboard the _Rosan_ seen or heard anything of Captain Code Schofield, of the Grande Mignon schooner _Charming Lass?_ Code rose out of his chair, took off his hat ironically, and swung it before him as he made a low bow.
    keywords: aboard; bijonah; burns; captain; code; code schofield; day; dory; ellinwood; elsa; eyes; face; fish; freekirk; girl; good; half; hand; head; home; hour; house; island; lass; left; let; life; little; look; mallaby; man; men; mind; moment; mother; nat; nellie; night; pete; saw; schofield; schooner; sea; skipper; tanner; thing; thought; time; voice; water; way; wind
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        item: #16 of 21
          id: 32085
      author: Barr, Amelia E.
       title: Christine: A Fife Fisher Girl
        date: None
       words: 93180
      flesch: 89
     summary: I canna expect you to know how love feels when it is scorned, and made little o'. I think little o' paying bairns to learn their lessons.
    keywords: anent; angus; ballister; christine; cluny; culraine; day; days; dear; dinna; domine; face; father; feyther; god; good; hae; hand; heart; help; home; house; james; jamie; lad; left; letter; life; like; love; man; margot; men; mither; money; morning; nae; neil; new; norman; place; right; roberta; room; ruleson; sae; saw; school; sea; sir; tell; think; thought; time; vera; village; want; way; weel; wife; women; words
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        item: #17 of 21
          id: 41662
      author: Kjelgaard, Jim
       title: The Spell of the White Sturgeon
        date: None
       words: 53192
      flesch: 92
     summary: Hans Van Doorst still worked with a broken oar to free his boat, and as soon as he came near enough Ramsay knew that he had been right. He is...? Ramsay Cartou, Ramsay supplied. Yaah!
    keywords: beach; black; boat; boy; chad; devil; eyes; fish; fisherman; fishing; good; half; hand; hans; holter; horse; lake; man; marta; men; net; pieter; points; pound; ramsay; right; saw; spray; sturgeon; time; van; water; way; white
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        item: #18 of 21
          id: 58473
      author: Heijermans, Herman
       title: The Good Hope (In "The Drama: A Quarterly Review of Dramatic Literature")
        date: None
       words: 26603
      flesch: 97
     summary: Every year old child knows that. But the Hope is an old ship, and old ships are the last to go down.
    keywords: bar; barend; bos; boy; clementine; cob; come; day; door; father; geert; god; good; kaps; kneir; kneirtje; look; man; marietje; meneer; mother; saart; sea; ship; simon; time; truus
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        item: #19 of 21
          id: 6334
      author: Newberry, Fannie E. (Fannie Ellsworth)
       title: Sara, a Princess: The Story of a Noble Girl
        date: None
       words: 72381
      flesch: 83
     summary: Who would ever have thought that Sara, little Princess Sara, would stoop to quote, and run around with, some fool of a singing student, an ill-natured one at that! I shall never again quite dare to think of Miss Sara as a little girl; she has crossed the brook, she has entered into woman's kingdom, and all because of a long white gown!
    keywords: baby; boy; care; child; children; day; dear; door; eyes; face; father; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; jasper; killamet; life; little; look; looking; macon; madame; man; miss; molly; morning; morton; mother; mrs; new; olmstead; pretty; professor; prue; right; robert; room; sairay; sara; sister; tell; things; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; woman; work
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        item: #20 of 21
          id: 7127
      author: MacDonald, George
       title: Malcolm
        date: None
       words: 195054
      flesch: 83
     summary: Noo, my lord, said Malcolm again, as he concluded, what think ye o' the jeedgment passed? Really I have no opinion to give about it, answered the marquis. Yer freen's i' the Seaton, an' ower at Scaurnose, hae feelin's, an' that's hoo nane o' them a' has pluck it up hert to tell ye o' the waggin' o' slanderous tongues against ye.
    keywords: aboot; ain; ane o; auld; bed; blue; body; cam; canna; catanach; cave; chapter; child; come; courthope; cud; daddy; day; dinna; doon; door; duncan; end; eneuch; eyes; face; far; father; father o; feet; florimel; fowk; frae; gait; gang; gien; gien ye; god; good; graham; grandfather; guid; half; hand; hard; haud; head; heart; help; home; horn; house; ither; jean; jist; know; lady; lady florimel; laird; lang; lat; leddy; left; length; life; like; little; look; lord; lordship; lossie; low; luik; macphail; mair; mak; malcolm; man; marquis; master; maun; mean; mem; mind; miss; mistress; moment; morning; mother; mrs; muckle; nae; naething; night; noo; old; ony; onything; oot o; ower; phemy; pipes; place; puir; richt; room; rose; sae; saw; sea; set; sic; silence; sir; son; sound; stewart; tak; tat; tell; things; think; thought; till; time; tone; town; turn; upo; verra; voice; wad; wad hae; wadna; want; way; weel; whan; whaur; white; wind; woman; word; ye dinna; ye hae; ye ken; ye maun; ye wad; yer; young
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        item: #21 of 21
          id: 9374
      author: Barr, Amelia E.
       title: A Knight of the Nets
        date: None
       words: 70312
      flesch: 86
     summary: You may take my word, that he will break no commandment for any lass; and Sophy Braelands will now have to vacate his very thoughts. I tell you McFinlay and Co. were kept busy day and night for Sophy Braelands.
    keywords: andrew; archie; binnie; braelands; christina; day; door; face; girl; god; good; hands; heart; home; house; jamie; janet; kilgour; letter; life; like; look; love; madame; man; marion; mistress; money; morning; mother; night; sea; sophy; tell; thing; thought; time; way; wife; woman; words; wrong
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