item: #1 of 28
          id: 17102
      author: Goldsmith, Oliver
       title: An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
        date: None
       words: 543
      flesch: 75
     summary: Each containing four different books, with their Coloured Pictures and innumerable Outline Sketches._ 1 R. Caldecott's Picture Book No. 1 2 R. Caldecott's Picture Book No. 2 3 Hey-Diddle-Diddle-Picture Book 4 The Panjandrum Picture Book RANDOLPH CALDECOTT'S Collection of Pictures and Songs No. 1 containing the first 8 books listed above with their Colour Pictures and numerous Outline Sketches RANDOLPH CALDECOTT'S Collection of Pictures and Songs No. 2 containing the second 8 books listed above with their Colour Pictures and numerous Outline Sketches Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. LONDON & NEW YORK. [Illustration] Randolph Caldecott's Picture Books The humour of Randolph Caldecott's drawings is simply irresistible, no healthy-minded man, woman, or child could look at them without laughing.
    keywords: books; caldecott; diddle; dog; illustration; mad; man; picture
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        item: #2 of 28
          id: 17104
      author: Newell, Peter
       title: The Rocket Book
        date: None
       words: 1170
      flesch: 85
     summary: [Illustration: EIGHTEENTH FLAT] NINETEENTH FLAT While Burt was on his hobby-horse And riding it like mad, The rocket on its fiery course Upset the startled lad. [Illustration: NINTH FLAT] TENTH FLAT The family dog, with frenzied mien, Was chasing Fluff, the mouser, When, poof!
    keywords: basement; book; bracket; brothers; bubble; catsup; ceiling; fifth; flat; floor; fourth; harper; head; illustration; playing; right; rocket; second; shot; thing
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        item: #3 of 28
          id: 17254
      author: Newell, Peter
       title: The Slant Book
        date: None
       words: 1112
      flesch: 77
     summary: HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK Copyright 1910, by Harper & Brothers Patented September 20, 1910 Published November, 1910 Printed in the United States of America THE SLANT BOOK Where Bobby lives there is a hill-- A hill so steep and high, 'Twould fill the bill for Jack and Jill Their famous act to try Once Bobby's Go-cart broke away And down this hill it kited. [Illustration] A farmer's wife, Miss' Angy Moore, Was trudging up the grade.
    keywords: air; bobby; book; cart; grade; hat; high; hill; illustration; lady; slant; speed; street; town; way; wild
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        item: #4 of 28
          id: 21676
      author: Herford, Oliver
       title: Confessions of a Caricaturist
        date: None
       words: 1574
      flesch: 78
     summary: [Illustration] John S. Sargent Here's Sargent doing the Duchess X In pink velours and pea-green checks. [Illustration] George Bernard Shaw The very name of Bernard Shaw Fills me with mingled Mirth and Awe. Mixture of Mephistopheles, Don Quixote, and Diogenes, The Devil's wit, the Don's Romance Joined to the Cynic's arrogance.
    keywords: belasco; bennett; bernard; charles; chesterton; day; dean; drew; george; great; hafiz; harp; howells; illustration; john; napoleon; picture; saint; sargent; shaw; sun; theodore; william
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        item: #5 of 28
          id: 23338
      author: Duff, J. L.
       title: The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam With Apologies to Omar
        date: None
       words: 695
      flesch: 85
     summary: X Yes, make the most of what we still may spend; The last Drop's lingering Taste may yet transcend Anticipation's Bliss--though we are left Sans Wine, Sans Song, Sans Singer, and--Sans End. With Apologies to_ OMAR [Illustration] _Illustrated by_ BENJAMIN FRANKLIN [_Not of Philadelphia_] _
    keywords: bill; coffee; dryyam; franklin; illustration; indite; new; ohow; philadelphia; sans; thou
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        item: #6 of 28
          id: 23611
      author: Flagg, James Montgomery
       title: Why They Married
        date: None
       words: 1941
      flesch: 82
     summary: [Illustration] [Illustration] WANTED A CHANGE. THE AUTHOR [Illustration: Yellow Dog] [Illustration] STUNG!
    keywords: gentle; good; hair; husband; illustration; john; kind; life; man; married; matter; mayme; mind; miss; mother; mrs; old; people; poor; reason; thought; way; wife; young
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        item: #7 of 28
          id: 23614
      author: Herford, Oliver
       title: Happy Days
        date: None
       words: 1050
      flesch: 90
     summary: And may you be preserved From old age, gout, or sudden death!-- At least till supper's served. [Illustration] _To Stern Critics_
    keywords: clock; critics; day; editor; fashion; floor; health; illustration; long; music; neptune; stern; sweethearts; typewriter
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        item: #8 of 28
          id: 23749
      author: Herford, Oliver
       title: The Mythological Zoo
        date: None
       words: 2053
      flesch: 84
     summary: The horse was sure to cast his vote Unswervingly for _table d'OAT_. Though having neither gills nor scales, His title _should be_ Prince of Whales.
    keywords: beast; cerberus; cockatrice; day; dolphin; gargoyle; goat; gryphon; hair; half; heads; horse; hydra; hyppogriff; illustration; jinn; king; lady; like; lion; man; medusa; net; pegasus; salamander; satyr; sea; siren; sphinx; thing; zoo
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        item: #9 of 28
          id: 23792
      author: Wells, Carolyn
       title: The Rubáiyát of Bridge
        date: None
       words: 693
      flesch: 88
     summary: [Illustration] Oh, Threats of Loss, and Hopes of Golden Store, One thing in Bridge is Certain,--'tis not Lore! [Illustration] Ah, make the Most of what We yet may Take, Before we lose the Lead, and let Them make =Trick after Trick!
    keywords: bridge; card; hand; illustration; lead; new; sans; score; trump
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        item: #10 of 28
          id: 26388
      author: Harrison, Charles
       title: A Humorous History of England
        date: None
       words: 8791
      flesch: 84
     summary: Yes; 1215 In twelve-fifteen, but we may guess With much ill grace and many a twist; For King John wrote an awful fist. With efforts many men most able Lay the great Atlantic Cable.
    keywords: a.d; act; age; anæmia; awful; bacon; barons; battle; becket; bess; best; bill; black; bold; book; cause; charles; church; commons; conqueror; course; court; cromwell; crown; danes; date; day; days; debt; early; edward; england; english; exertion; fact; fate; fine; folks; force; france; fray; french; george; good; great; great tonic; hand; head; heavy; henry; history; home; house; iii; illustration; ireland; iron; iron jelloids; james; jelloids; john; king; knights; late; law; laws; learning; life; like; line; little; lollards; london; lord; lots; man; mary; men; money; nation; new; noble; note; nought; number; old; parliament; pay; plain; poor; pope; power; price; progress; queen; red; reign; richard; right; roman; run; saxon; scotch; sea; second; seven; simple; sixteen; son; state; steam; tax; taxes; thomas; thought; throne; time; tis; tonic; town; treatment; twas; viii; wars; way; ways; weakness; westminster; william; women; years
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        item: #11 of 28
          id: 26437
      author: Little, Mary Wallace Bundy
       title: The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband
        date: None
       words: 1029
      flesch: 89
     summary: But Wife says, Omar's reckoning proves it As Impotently moves as You or I. XIV At least that is the Doctrine he presents, Although to Me it is Devoid of Sense. V She soon possessed the dreadful Omar Fad, Which other Husbands, I have learned, think Bad.
    keywords: book; dead; dear; fate; little; long; mary; omar; rubaiyat; time; way; wife; years
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        item: #12 of 28
          id: 27182
      author: Belloc, Hilaire
       title: More Peers : Verses
        date: None
       words: 1476
      flesch: 82
     summary: [Illustration] drowned in tears, On opening but confirms his fears: [Illustration] And _argued_
    keywords: ali; baba; baron; brand; calvin; chase; county; day; earl; epsom; finchley; heir; henry; heygate; hippo; horse; illustration; lord; lucky; new; peers; roehampton; son; specialist; years
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        item: #13 of 28
          id: 28184
      author: Burgess, Gelett
       title: The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne
        date: None
       words: 3301
      flesch: 82
     summary: LXXXV Then said a Second--Ne'er a Girl or Boy Such Stuff as I am really could enjoy: Yet He who wrote me, when I am return'd, Will me with Curse and bitter Wrath destroy! LXXXVI After a literary Silence spake A Manuscript of Henry James's make; They sneer at me for being so occult: But Kipling's found such Stuff is going to Take! LXXXVII Whereat some one of the typewritten Lot-- I think it was Cy Brady's--waxing hot-- All this of Shop and Patter--Tell me then, Who buys--Who reads--the Stuff that boils _my_
    keywords: art; author; best; books; critic; day; editions; editor; fiction; girls; good; heed; like; literary; literature; little; long; manuscripts; miss; modern; morrow; names; new; night; nonsense; old; page; pay; people; poet; poor; prose; public; publisher; rot; royalties; set; shame; song; stories; stuff; tale; taste; thing; turn; way; year; yesterday
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        item: #14 of 28
          id: 31467
      author: Rowland, Helen
       title: The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor
        date: None
       words: 2389
      flesch: 88
     summary: The bitter seeds of _Alimony_ sowing! Better be jocund with them, one and all, And loving _many_, thus your love dilute.
    keywords: bills; cozy; day; door; girl; hair; half; heart; idle; illustration; kiss; life; light; like; lip; little; love; maiden; man; married; morrow; new; old; paradise; sigh; spring; sweet; thou; wedding; winter; woman
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        item: #15 of 28
          id: 31486
      author: Anonymous
       title: The Monkey's Frolic: A Humorous Tale, in Verse
        date: None
       words: 1363
      flesch: 88
     summary: Cat_ thought as bad; A knife made of ivory, in use to cut paper, With which Barber _Pug_ now proceeded to scrape her. Pug_ could not find either razor or knife, So _Puss_ ran no hazard of losing her life;-- Yet razor or knife though they could not be had, _
    keywords: cat; chatter'd; chimney; ditto; face; frolic; gout; history; illustration; knife; ladder; little; london; master; miss; monkey; patient; pug; puss; room; stories; susan; tale
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        item: #16 of 28
          id: 34790
      author: Graham, Harry
       title: Perverted Proverbs: A Manual of Immorals for the Many
        date: None
       words: 4696
      flesch: 86
     summary: Who knows how rich a mental meal The covers of _this_ book conceal? _Learn to Take Things Easily. Copyright, 1903, by Robert Howard Russell_ Published May, 1903.
    keywords: bad; bard; best; bit; book; certain; course; day; dinner; easy; ev'ry; fact; fortune; friend; gifthorse; glad; good; half; hand; heart; human; late; life; little; man; mean; mind; moss; need; new; pen; people; perverted; pigs; poet; pokes; praise; proverbs; public; rhyme; right; russell; saint; sea; second; sit; smile; stone; style; things; tho; time; tis; touch; trust; verses; virtue; waste; way; wit; young
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        item: #17 of 28
          id: 36321
      author: Graham, Harry
       title: Misrepresentative Men
        date: None
       words: 5083
      flesch: 82
     summary: While other men of note have had A certain local reputation, They never could compare with Pad,-- (Forgive this terse abbreviation),-- Loot: Orpheus may have been All Right; Cap: Paderewski's Out of Sight! (He was an Emperor, but then He had his faults like other men.)
    keywords: adam; altho; arc; author; bacon; bear; best; bit; book; charlotte; child; concert; country; course; day; easy; ends; eve; face; fact; good; grip; hair; head; house; illustration; joan; kind; ladies; life; lipton; little; man; marat; men; mind; moral; nation; new; old; paderewski; page; people; persons; place; platforms; politician; poor; pow'rs; public; right; rude; scene; simple; sir; steel; sufficient; tell; things; tho; thomas; time; tis; twas; verses; view; voice; way; weather; william; wit; work; world; wrong
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        item: #18 of 28
          id: 36782
      author: Graham, Harry
       title: More Misrepresentative Men
        date: None
       words: 6716
      flesch: 76
     summary: Yes, _autre temps_ and _autre moeurs_, _Où sont_ indeed _les neiges d'antan_? Insisting, when he got a quorum, On _Pons_ (he called it) _
    keywords: andrew; astor; author; bards; barrie; best; book; brain; bride; burns; carnegie; children; cold; comin; content; cophetua; country; day; days; deep; doon; duty; euclid; ev'ry; eye; eyes; face; fatherland; feet; fellow; french; ganging; good; grateful; great; hame; hand; hard; henry; hero; holmes; home; honour; human; jamie; kind; king; lad; lang; lay; like; little; lo'e; local; lofty; lot; love; magic; man; marriage; meet; men; mind; modern; moral; need; new; old; omar; parker; partner; perfect; place; poets; poor; position; proud; public; publishers; rhyme; roman; sae; scotch; ses; shakespeare; sherlock; simple; smith; soul; state; story; street; sweet; thing; tho; times; tiny; tout; true; turn; twas; vain; verse; views; virtues; watson; way; wealth; wha; wide; wife; william; win; wit; work; world; years; york; young
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        item: #19 of 28
          id: 38572
      author: Kiser, Samuel E. (Samuel Ellsworth)
       title: Love Sonnets of an Office Boy
        date: None
       words: 4269
      flesch: 91
     summary: Last night I heard Jones astin' you to go To see the opery next Thursday night, And you said yes--and he'll be settin' right Beside you there all through the whole blamed show, And you'll be touchin' him with your elbow, And mebby he'll say things that tickle you And buy a box of chock'luts for you, too, I can't see why ma give her such a roast, And I could hardly eat my lunch next day,
    keywords: ben; boss; boston; boy; care; chair; chicago; clerk; company; day; dear; forbes; girl; glad; head; illustration; kind; king; legged; little; long; look; man; morning; night; office; old; poor; price; sad; sweet; things; time; way; work
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        item: #20 of 28
          id: 39784
      author: None
       title: Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes A Collection of Alphabets, Rhymes, Tales, and Jingles
        date: None
       words: 18652
      flesch: 93
     summary: [Illustration] MOTHER GOOSE'S NURSERY RHYMES A collection of _Alphabets, Rhymes, Tales, and Jingles_ With Illustrations BY SIR JOHN GILBERT, R.A., JOHN TENNIEL, HARRISON WEIR, WALTER CRANE, W. McCONNELL, J. B. ZWECKER AND OTHERS [Illustration: O was an Organ-Boy, who played for his bread.]
    keywords: baa; baby; beat; bed; bell; bird; bite; blue; bow; boy; bread; butcher; cat; cherry; cock; come; cow; crow; cry; dame; dance; day; dickery; ding; dog; drink; duck; fair; farmer; fat; fine; fire; frog; gilpin; good; goose; great; grey; hay; head; heigho; hen; high; hill; home; horn; house; illustration; jack; jenny; john; king; lady; legs; little; long; love; maid; market; mary; moon; mother; music; nest; night; old; peep; pie; pig; piggy; play; poor; pray; pretty; pussy; queen; rain; riddle; robin; rope; round; rowley; saw; sheep; shoe; simon; simple; sir; sky; song; stick; stile; sun; tom; tommy; town; tree; walrus; water; way; white; wife; wind; woman; young
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        item: #21 of 28
          id: 40124
      author: None
       title: Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities
        date: None
       words: 46968
      flesch: 81
     summary: He _lambda_ man almost to death the other evening, but he got his match--the other man _cutis nos_ off for him and _noctem_ flat _urna_ flounder. The piper he piped on the hill-top high (_Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese_); Till the cow said, 'I die,' and the goose said, 'Why?'
    keywords: accident; acrostic; address; addresses; age; alas; alice; alliterative; alphabet; american; amusement; amusing; anagram; answer; arab; arms; ascidian; ass; author; bacchus; bad; ballad; bandit; bar; battle; bayard; bear; beautiful; beauty; bed; beer; beginning; bend; best; better; beware; bid; big; bit; black; blazing; bliss; blood; blow; blue; body; bold; bonus; book; bore; bow; box; brain; brave; break; breast; bright; bring; broken; brothers; brow; brownrigg; burlesque; burns; byrom; cane; canis; captain; caput; care; carol; carroll; case; cat; century; certain; change; charles; charming; chatto; cheek; cheese; chief; child; children; chin; chinese; chop; clay; clever; clock; close; club; cold; collection; college; comic; coming; common; composition; country; course; court; creature; credit; cross; cry; cum; curious; cut; dance; dans; dark; daughter; davies; day; days; dead; deal; dean; dear; death; decline; deep; delight; delightful; devil; dialogues; dictum; die; different; difficult; dim; distance; divine; dobson; doctor; dog; donkey; doom; door; doth; doubt; dragon; drink; drury; dul; dulman; dum; duo; dye; earth; ease; echo; edition; eggs; ein; elderly; elessdé; end; england; english; epitaph; ere; est; eve; evening; examples; excellent; extracts; eyes; face; faict; fair; fall; familiar; far; farewell; fashion; fate; father; fear; feet; felis; fellow; felt; field; fill; finding; fine; fire; fish; fit; flames; flies; flow; flowers; fly; following; folly; fond; fonseca; foot; footman; form; free; french; fresh; friend; frivolities; fun; future; gain; gallery; galow; gay; gaze; general; gentle; gentleman; george; girl; gladness; glass; glory; god; gods; gold; golden; good; grace; great; greatest; green; grief; guide; hair; half; hand; happy; hard; harte; hast; hat; hath; head; heart; heaven; heed; henry; hero; hic; high; hill; hoc; hold; hole; hollow; home; honour; hood; hope; horace; hour; house; ich; idea; igno; ignoramus; ille; imitation; inside; instance; inter; jack; jam; jane; jennings; jill; joe; johannes; john; joy; kate; kind; kindly; king; kiss; know; knowledge; lady; lamb; land; lane; language; late; latin; laugh; laureate; law; laws; lay; lead; leave; left; legal; leigh; length; lesson; letters; lewis; lie; life; like; lines; lips; literary; literature; little; live; living; london; long; longer; look; lord; loss; loud; love; lovely; lydia; macaronic; mad; magazine; maginn; maid; man; march; mare; mark; married; mary; maskee; mason; master; mayfair; meaning; meet; mein; meme; memory; men; mere; mice; midas; midnight; mighty; milton; mind; mirth; miss; modern; moment; money; moore; moral; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; muchee; muse; music; musical; names; nassan; nation; native; nature; ne'er; near; new; night; noble; non; nonsense; north; nose; note; nought; number; nunc; nunquam; nursery; o'er; occasion; old; omnes; order; original; oxford; page; palmer; paper; paradise; parodies; parody; partum; pass-; past; pat; pay; peep; perchance; peredecentum; perfect; perrimerri; person; piccadilly; pidgin; pieces; pipe; place; plain; play; pleasant; pleasure; plenty; poem; poet; poetry; point; pole; poor; popular; portion; portuguese; possum; post; pour; power; pray; present; pretty; printer; private; prize; pro; professor; proud; public; pueri; punch; quartum; que; queen; question; qui; quick; quid; quod; quum; radenovitch; rare; reader; reason; red; regard; remains; reply; rest; review; rex; rhyme; rich; riding; rise; river; robert; rock; roof; room; rose; rough; round; sad; scene; sea; second; sed; self; serenade; series; serpent; set; share; shep; shilling; ship; short; shows; sic; sie; sighs; silence; silent; sing; sir; skipper; sleep; slidell; slow; small; smith; smoke; snail; society; soft; song; soul; soup; source; southey; span; specimens; spirit; spring; star; state; stephen; stone; story; stout; stratum; stream; street; strong; style; sublime; suit; summer; sunt; super; sure; sweet; swell; swift; system; tail; tale; talk; talkee; tall; taylor; tell; tempus; tennyson; terrible; terry; text; theatre; thee; thick; thine; things; thomas; thou; thought; thy; tide; time; tis; tongue; topside; town; track; traveller; trees; true; trunk; truth; tunc; turn; twas; twinkle; ubi; und; vain; variety; verse; version; voice; volume; vous; walk; walls; want; war; watch; water; waves; way; ways; white; wide; wife; wig; wild; william; wilson; wind; windus; wine; wise; wish; wit; wits; woe; woman; words; wordsworth; work; world; wretched; writers; writing; years; young; youth
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        item: #22 of 28
          id: 45288
      author: Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson, Baron
       title: Jack and the Bean-Stalk: English Hexameters
        date: None
       words: 2638
      flesch: 78
     summary: `Quickly the monster awoke, and wielding a cudgel,-- ```an oak tree,-- `Chased little Jack with a shout of mighty, maniacal ```anger; `Jack to the beanpod sprang with a leap, and desperate ```hurl'd his `Limbs in a downward, furious, headlong pre-cipitation, `But for a wink up-glanced; his foeman's ponderous ```hob-nails `Shone from aloft: down crash'd big pods, and bean ```avalanches. `Where an' O where, * he shrill'd; she beheld his boots ```disappearing; * <i>Where an' O where is my Highland laddie gone?</i> `Pod by pod Jack arose, till he came to a pod that alarm'd ```him.
    keywords: bean; cow; fairy; giant; harp; haste; heavy; huge; illustration; island; jack; man; master; mother; pod; poor; rascal; stalk; thro; wife
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        item: #23 of 28
          id: 45391
      author: Gibson, George Herbert
       title: Southerly Busters
        date: None
       words: 26805
      flesch: 61
     summary: But, sure as ever eggs is eggs, `I cannot think so now.= For, an a shepherd thou should'st be, `Then very sure am I The man who wrote mythology `Was guilty of a lie.= But never mind, old man, I said, `To sorrow we are born, So tell us why thine aged head `Is bended and forlorn?= With face as hard as Silas Wegg's `He said, Young man, here goes. But economical he was `With his melodious voice; I think the reason was because `His epithets were choice.= I said--Old man, I fain would know `The cause of thy distress; What sorrows cloud thine aged brow `I cannot even guess.= There's anguish on thy wrinkled face, `And passion in thine eye, Expressing anything but grace, `But why, old man, oh! why?= A sympathising friend you'll find `In me, old man, d'ye see?
    keywords: aged; ancient; ants; arms; aunt; author; be.=; beat; bed; beer; best; bill; billows; bird; bitter; black; blast; blow; blue; body; bosom; boy; breast; bright; brow; bull; bush; calm; camp; care; cast; cat; cattle; certain; chaff; chest; child; christmas; chum; close; coat; cold; common; country; course; creek; cursed; cutting; d'ye; damper; dark; daughter; day; days; deadly; death; deep; demon; door; dread; drunk; early; echo; ere; evening; evil; eyes; face; fact; fain; fair; fall; fancy; far; fast; fate; father; fear; feeling; feet; fell; fish; folks; fond; foot; form; foul; free; fresh; friend; frown; general; generous; ghastly; ghost; giant; glass; gleaming; gloomy; golden; good; grave; great; grey; grief; grim; gum; hair; half; hand; happy; hard; hast; hat; hath; head; heart; heavy; hold; home; hope; horse; hour; hut; illustration; joe; joseph; joy; justice; kind; land; late; lead; lean; left; length; life; light; like; literary; little; lonely; long; look; lot; loud; love; man; manly; means; men; mighty; mind; miss; mob; moment; more.=; mother; mulga; muttered; mutton; nature; ne'er; near; need; new; nic; north; o'er; ocean; old; order; pair; paper; party; pass; past; peeler; person; pic; piece; place; plains; polly; power; pride; public; rays; reader; rest; restore; ring; rise; road; roar; rough; round; rum; salt; scrub; sea; selector; set; shed; sheep; shepherd; shore; sinner; smile; snow; social; sorrow; sort; soul; southern; space; species; speech; spelling; spirit; spread; squatters; state; stately; station; stay; summer; sun; sure; swamp; sweet; sydney; tea; tender; thee; thine; things; thinking; thought; thy; till; time; tis; track; trap; traveller; tree; true; truth; turn; twas; use; vain; vast; voice; watch; water; way; weary; wheels; white; wild; wind; withered; word; work; worn; years; young
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        item: #24 of 28
          id: 46691
      author: None
       title: Biography for Beginners Being a Collection of Miscellaneous Examples for the Use of Upper Forms
        date: None
       words: 1945
      flesch: 66
     summary: [Illustration] OTTO THE GREAT The great Emperor Otto Could not decide upon a motto. [Illustration] THE DUKE OF FIFE K.T., P.C., G.C.V.O. It looked bad when the Duke of Fife Left off using a knife; But people began to talk When he left off using a fork.
    keywords: acland; austen; author; beit; belloc; besant; biography; bunyan; chapman; cimabue; clifford; confessor; david; davy; dewar; duke; edward; erasmus; eyck; fife; george; great; hall; harley; hirst; hood; illustration; jane; job; john; laurie; liszt; mahomet; mallory; marconi; odo; pizarro; roosevelt; shaw; sir; van; wellington; wren
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        item: #25 of 28
          id: 5408
      author: Irwin, Wallace
       title: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr.
        date: None
       words: 6277
      flesch: 71
     summary: Due doubtless to the preservative influence of smoke Omar Khayyam, Jr., was enabled to live to the hale age of one hundred and seven, and to go to an apotheosis fully worthy his greatness. While all this was going on, the present Editor was forced to conclude that the burning literary need was not for more translators, but for more Omars to translate; and what was his surprise to note that the work of a later and superior Omar Khayyam was lying undiscovered in the wilds of Borneo!
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        item: #26 of 28
          id: 61968
      author: Bond, Nelson S.
       title: The Ballad of Blaster Bill
        date: None
       words: 1761
      flesch: 91
     summary: But McNeer's deserved objection Was--Bill practiced vivisection Every time he placed his thumbs (which numbered five) On a section of machinery. III Two months out of Io City Everything was running pretty, The asteroids were thirty hours away, When McNeer, to whom perfection Was a sort of predilection, Said, Bill, we'll take the hypos down today.
    keywords: asteroids; better; bill; blaster; chief; clear; dotty; good; gray; head; hypatomic; mate; mcneer; moment; motors; night; rankey; rogue; ship; skipper; spaceship; sue; sun; tons; voice; wheel
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        item: #27 of 28
          id: 62096
      author: Bond, Nelson S.
       title: The Ballad of Venus Nell
        date: None
       words: 2912
      flesch: 93
     summary: The Ballad of Venus Nell By Nelson S. Bond [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Planet Stories Spring 1942. The attendant said, with a nod of the head, You amble to Venus Nell's.
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        item: #28 of 28
          id: 6438
      author: Carryl, Guy Wetmore
       title: Fables for the Frivolous
        date: None
       words: 5991
      flesch: 82
     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.
    keywords: acorn; ant; ass; bear; bird; breeze; bull; bulrush; chap; country; course; cousin; day; dinner; eagle; fact; farmer; fine; fisherman; fox; friends; frog; frugal; gnat; goose; grapes; hare; illustration; jay; kind; lamb; lap; life; little; love; men; mind; moral; nose; oak; old; oyster; paused; peacocks; peasant; people; piper; plumage; race; rat; raven; rush; saw; smile; sun; things; time; town; tree; trout; turtle; ulster; use; wall; way; wind; wolf; woodcutter; words
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