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- 12170
- author: Curwood, James Oliver
- title: The Wolf Hunters: A Tale of Adventure in the Wilderness
- date: None
- words: 53893
- flesch: 85
- summary: With bated breath and eagerly beating heart Rod pursued his search. They hastened to the dwelling of the factor, and while Wabi rushed in to meet his mother and father Rod cut across to the Company's store.
- keywords: afternoon; air; animal; arm; attack; attention; babeesh; bad; bark; bay; believe; better; birch; black; blankets; blood; body; bones; boy; boys; breakfast; breath; broke; buck; bull; cabin; camp; canoe; caribou; cedars; chapter; chasm; city; close; coffee; cold; coming; companion; country; creek; cry; cut; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; death; deep; deer; desolation; dip; direction; distance; dollars; door; dozen; dream; drew; early; edge; effort; end; enthusiasm; excitement; eyes; face; fact; factor; fall; fallen; far; farther; fear; feast; feet; find; fingers; fire; following; foot; forest; fox; frozen; game; gloom; glow; gold; good; great; ground; gun; half; hand; hard; head; heap; heart; heavy; heem; high; hill; hold; home; hour; house; huge; human; hunters; hunting; hurried; indian; indian youth; instant; interest; joy; kill; knees; knife; lake; laugh; left; life; like; line; lips; little; log; long; longer; look; looking; lost; lynx; making; man; map; meal; meat; miles; mind; mink; minnetaki; minutes; moment; moose; morning; mother; mountain; mukoki; muky; mysterious; near; nearer; new; night; north; object; old; old indian; open; opening; opposite; outlaws; pack; paused; people; place; plains; possible; post; pretty; quick; race; ready; red; ridge; rifle; river; rock; rod; roderick; running; second; shelter; shoes; shot; shoulder; signs; silence; silent; silver; single; skeleton; sleep; small; snow; sound; spruce; start; step; stop; storm; stove; straight; strange; sudden; sun; supper; sure; swamp; table; terrible; thick; things; thought; thrilling; throat; time; tracks; trail; traps; travel; traveling; treasure; tree; trembling; turn; vast; voice; wabi; wabigoon; wabinosh; wall; warrior; watch; way; week; white; wilderness; window; winter; wolf; wolves; woongas; words; work; world; wounded; yards; years; young; youth
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- 12405
- author: Castlemon, Harry
- title: Frank, the Young Naturalist
- date: None
- words: 53663
- flesch: 83
- summary: Now, Master Frank, said Mike, if you will take hold and steady her, I'll wheel her up to the shop for you. Frank was a handsome, high-spirited boy, about sixteen years of age.
- keywords: afraid; air; alert; animal; answer; archie; bank; basket; bed; ben; best; better; bill; boat; boys; brave; buck; bushes; butler; cat; champion; chance; chapter; charles; chase; close; coast; companions; company; continued; conversation; coon; corner; cottage; course; cousin; creek; cut; dark; day; deal; direction; distance; dogs; door; dozen; ducks; end; fast; father; feet; fellow; fence; fine; fire; fish; fishing; flock; foot; fox; frank; game; geese; george; gone; good; great; ground; guards; gun; guns; half; hand; hard; harry; head; heavy; high; hillers; hold; hole; home; hour; house; hunt; hunting; instant; island; james; julia; knew; lake; large; laugh; lee; left; length; life; lightfoot; like; line; little; long; look; loud; making; man; manner; mile; mind; moment; morgan; morning; mother; mouth; museum; naturalist; nelson; night; noise; o'clock; oars; ones; open; opposite; order; owl; perch; place; point; pole; possible; provisions; quick; race; rangers; reach; ready; regulators; ridge; rifle; river; road; rods; room; run; sailing; sails; saw; set; sharp; shop; shore; shot; shoulder; skiff; small; smugglers; speedwell; sport; stand; start; strong; stump; sure; thing; thought; time; trap; tree; trout; uncle; village; voice; watch; water; way; wharf; wild; william; wind; winter; wish; wonder; woods; work; young
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- 13905
- author: Brown, Abbie Farwell
- title: John of the Woods
- date: None
- words: 33819
- flesch: 96
- summary: Presently the young man began to weaken, and at last John felt the stranger's body grow limp in his clutch. Behind mewed the tired Blanche, whose kittens John carried in his arms, while the carrier pigeon and the raven perched on his shoulder.
- keywords: animals; arms; bear; beasts; beat; bed; beppo; better; big; birds; black; body; book; boy; boys; breath; brother; brown; brutus; bushes; care; carrier; cart; cat; cecco; children; circle; city; close; company; creature; cross; crowd; cruel; cry; day; days; dear; death; deer; dog; door; eyes; face; far; father; feet; fellow; forest; forward; friends; gentle; giant; gigi; giuseppe; good; gray; great; green; ground; group; hand; happy; hard; head; healing; heart; help; hermit; holy; home; hope; hunt; hurrah; hut; illustration; john; kind; king; kingdom; kittens; lad; land; left; life; like; lips; little; live; long; look; lord; love; man; margherita; market; men; moment; mother; near; neck; new; night; old; open; pale; people; pets; piece; pigeon; place; poor; prince; princess; raven; road; rose; safe; shoulder; silver; sleep; smile; soft; son; sound; spot; strange; supper; things; thought; time; tired; tom; tonio; tree; trembling; tricks; tumblers; village; voice; way; white; wicked; wild; wise; wolf; woman; wonder; woods; word; years; young
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- 21241
- author: Reid, Mayne
- title: The Rifle Rangers
- date: None
- words: 88027
- flesch: 85
- summary: The cage-looking structure had disappeared, and a house with walls of yellow _petate_ stood in its place. He had never ceased to remember _that_ dinner.
- keywords: adieu; advance; adventure; air; american; animal; answer; anxiety; appearance; arms; army; aspect; attempt; attention; bad; band; bank; battle; bayonet; beautiful; bed; behold; bell; bent; best; better; birds; black; blood; blossom; blow; blue; bob; bodies; body; boy; branches; brave; breath; breeze; bright; brilliant; broken; brother; bugle; bull; bullet; burst; bushes; calling; camp; cap'n; capitan; captain; carry; cause; cayman; cenobio; centre; chain; chane; chaparral; chapter; character; cheer; city; clayley; clear; cliff; close; cold; colonel; coming; companions; company; comrades; cool; corner; corral; cosme; country; couple; course; crack; cross; crossing; cruz; cry; cut; dance; danger; dark; dashing; day; days; dead; death; deep; determined; dinner; direction; distance; distant; dogs; don; dona; door; dozen; drawing; dream; dry; dubrosc; early; ears; earth; edge; effect; enemy; escape; exclamation; expression; eyes; face; fact; fallen; family; far; farther; favour; fear; fearful; features; feeling; feet; fellow; female; fields; fierce; figure; fingers; fire; firing; flag; flanks; flask; floor; flowers; following; foot; foremost; forest; forms; free; frenchman; friend; gallop; gentlemen; girls; glance; glass; glistening; gold; golden; gone; good; gorge; great; green; grove; guadalupe; guard; guerilla; guerilleros; guide; gulf; gun; guns; hacienda; hair; half; haller; halt; hand; handed; hang; hanging; happy; head; heart; heaven; heavy; help; hennessy; hercules; hideous; high; hill; hold; hole; hoofs; hope; horse; horsemen; host; hour; howitzer; huge; human; hung; hunter; hyur; idea; impulse; inclosure; indian; instant; intention; interest; intervals; irishman; iron; island; jack; jarauta; jarochos; joaquina; jove; juan; jungle; kind; knife; known; ladies; land; language; large; late; laughing; laughter; lazos; lead; leader; leather; leaves; left; length; level; lieutenant; life; light; like; likely; limbs; lincoln; line; lips; little; living; long; look; looking; lopez; loud; love; low; luz; major; making; man; manner; matter; mean; men; mexican; mexico; mighty; mile; mind; minutes; moment; monsieur; monster; moon; morning; mother; motionless; mountains; movement; mules; music; mustang; naked; narcisso; near; neck; need; new; note; number; object; observed; och; officer; old; onward; open; opening; opposite; orange; order; orizava; paces; padre; painful; pair; palm; papa; paper; parapet; party; pass; passing; past; path; peculiar; people; pickets; picture; picturesque; piece; place; plain; plunge; point; poor; position; possible; power; prairie; precipice; present; pressed; prisoners; pursuers; pursuit; quarter; question; quick; rancho; rank; raoul; reach; ready; rear; red; reply; report; result; return; rich; ridge; rifle; river; road; rocks; roll; roof; room; rose; round; route; rowl; run; rushing; sabre; saddle; safe; sand; santiago; savage; scarlet; scene; sea; second; seed; senor; senores; sergeant; servant; service; set; sharp; shell; shelter; ships; shores; shot; shoulders; shouts; sides; sign; silence; silent; silver; similar; single; sir; skin; sky; sleep; small; smoke; snake; soft; soldiers; sounds; south; sowl; spanish; species; spot; spring; spurs; standing; stockade; straggling; strange; stream; strike; striking; strong; struggle; sudden; sun; supper; sure; surface; surprise; sweet; table; tall; teeth; terrified; terror; thank; thar; thick; thicket; thim; things; thong; thorny; thought; thousands; throat; thunder; tierra; timber; time; tone; torn; town; trees; tropical; true; trunk; twing; uttered; vain; vaqueros; vera; visible; voice; walls; want; war; water; waves; way; whisper; white; wild; wind; wish; woman; woods; word; work; wur; yankee; yards; yell; yelling; yer; yez; young
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- 21728
- author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
- title: The Dog Crusoe and his Master
- date: None
- words: 87670
- flesch: 79
- summary: It was now agreed that Jim Scraggs and Dick Varley, being the two best shots, should try over again; and it was also agreed that Dick should have the use of Blunt's rifle. Just as the word was given to resume the march, Dick Varley rode up to Cameron, and said in a somewhat anxious tone--D'ye obsarve, sir, that one o' the Red-skins has gone off ahead o' his comrades? I see that, Master Dick, and it was a mistake of mine not to have stopped him, but he was gone too far before I observed it, and I thought it better to appear unconcerned.
- keywords: advance; alarm; animal; antelope; anxiety; appearance; approach; arms; arrows; attack; attempt; bad; ball; band; bank; bear; beautiful; beaver; belt; best; better; big; bin; bit; black; blood; blue; bluff; blunt; body; bold; bones; bow; boy; break; breast; broad; broken; buffalo; buffaloes; bull; burst; bushes; cameron; camp; care; case; chance; chapter; charlie; chief; children; clear; close; clump; coat; comfort; companions; comrades; considerable; continued; cottage; council; countenance; country; course; creatures; creek; crusoe; cut; danger; dark; dat; day; day dick; days; dead; deal; death; deep; deer; delight; dick; dick varley; direction; distance; distant; dog; dog crusoe; dogs; door; doubt; dry; ears; earth; easy; edge; effect; efforts; enemies; escape; evident; excitement; expected; expression; eyes; face; fact; fallen; fan; far; fast; fat; fear; feeling; feet; fire; fly; flying; food; foot; forest; form; friends; fur; gallop; game; general; git; glad; glance; god; gone; good; grass; grave; great; green; grizzly; grumps; guard; gun; guns; hair; half; hand; hard; having; head; headlong; heart; heels; help; henri; herd; high; hold; hole; home; hope; horizon; horse; horsemen; hot; hour; human; hundreds; hunters; hunting; idea; immense; indians; injuns; instant; intense; jim; joe; joe blunt; journey; kind; knife; know; lad; lads; lake; language; large; laugh; lay; leave; left; legs; length; life; like; line; little; long; look; looking; lost; love; low; magnificent; mahtawa; major; man; manner; marston; master; means; meat; medicine; meet; men; midst; miles; mind; minutes; mitten; moment; morning; mother; mountains; mouth; mrs; mustang; nail; nature; near; neck; need; new; night; nose; nothin'; notice; numerous; object; occasion; old; open; order; oui; pack; pale; particular; party; past; pawnee; peculiar; peigans; piece; pierre; pipe; place; plain; point; pointing; poor; position; possible; powder; prairie; present; pup; purpose; question; quiet; race; reader; ready; red; remark; remarkable; rest; return; rifle; rish; river; roar; rocky; round; run; rush; saddle; safe; said; san; savages; scalps; scarce; scene; seconds; set; settlement; sharp; shook; shooting; short; shoulder; sides; silence; size; skins; sky; sleep; slight; small; smile; snow; soft; soon; species; speed; spirit; spot; spring; state; steeds; straight; strange; stream; strength; strong; sudden; sun; supper; sure; surprise; tail; teeth; tent; terrible; terror; thick; things; thought; thousands; throat; time; tone; traders; trappers; traps; travellers; trees; tribes; trouble; true; try; turning; use; usual; valley; view; village; voice; want; war; watch; water; way; west; western; white; wide; widow; wild; willows; wind; wish; wolves; woman; wonder; wood; word; work; worth; wos; wounded; yards; yell; yer; young
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- 21734
- author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
- title: The Golden Dream: Adventures in the Far West
- date: None
- words: 100925
- flesch: 76
- summary: Few men are so lucky their first day, I assure you, unless, as has been the case once or twice they should hit upon a nugget or two. That being the case, we shall have supper, cried Ned Sinton; and while we are about it, do you go, Larry, to mine host of the hotel, and pay for the dinner for which he gave us credit. Ned Sinton gazed at the scene before him with indescribable amazement!
- keywords: account; admiration; advanced; adventurers; advice; affairs; air; amazement; answer; anxious; appearance; arms; attention; aware; bad; bag; banks; bear; beautiful; bed; bess; best; better; big; bill; bit; black; blue; boat; body; boots; box; boy; boys; branches; brandy; brass; breakfast; broad; broken; brother; bunting; burst; bushes; business; cabin; california; camp; canvas; captain; captain bunting; care; cargo; cart; cast; cause; cave; centre; certain; change; chapter; chief; child; chinaman; circumstances; cities; city; claim; clear; close; coat; collins; colony; comfort; companion; company; comrades; consequence; considerable; continued; conversation; couch; countenance; country; course; creatures; creek; croft; crowded; curious; cut; d'ye; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; deck; deep; delight; diggers; diggings; dinner; direction; dirt; discovery; disposed; distance; dollars; door; doubt; drawing; dream; dust; early; earnest; earth; easy; edge; edward; effect; efforts; england; enormous; entrance; ere; evening; excitement; expression; extent; eyes; face; fact; fair; faix; fall; fancy; far; farm; fear; feelings; feet; fellow; felt; fields; fine; fire; fit; following; foot; forest; form; fortune; francisco; free; fresh; friend; future; gambling; gaze; general; gentleman; girl; git; glad; god; gold; golden; gone; good; grave; great; green; grizzly; guess; hair; half; halloo; hand; happy; hard; hat; head; heart; heavy; height; help; hero; high; hills; hold; hole; home; hope; horses; hotel; hour; house; huge; human; hundreds; hunter; hut; idea; immense; indians; information; interesting; irishman; iron; jim; jist; jolly; jones; journey; judge; kate; kind; knife; know; labour; lad; land; large; larry; larry o'neil; late; laugh; law; lay; leave; left; legs; length; lie; life; like; line; lips; little; live; lizette; log; long; look; looking; love; lower; luck; lump; lynch; making; man; manner; mate; matter; maxton; mcleod; meal; mean; men; mere; mexican; miles; mind; miners; minutes; moment; money; months; morgan; morning; morrow; mother; mountains; mouth; mud; murderer; nature; near; neck; ned; ned sinton; need; nelly; nephew; new; nose; nothin'; nugget; o'neil; oak; object; observing; och; office; open; order; pair; paper; particular; party; pass; past; pay; peculiar; people; pick; piece; pipe; place; plain; plans; pleasant; pocket; point; pointing; poor; pork; portion; position; possible; pounds; powerful; present; pretty; prices; provisions; purpose; quarter; question; ranche; rate; ravine; reader; ready; red; reference; regions; remark; remarkable; reply; rest; result; return; rich; rifle; right; river; rock; room; rough; round; rugged; run; sabbath; sacramento; saddle; said; san; saying; scene; scenery; sea; search; season; second; set; settlement; shew; ship; shirley; short; shoulder; shovel; sick; sides; silence; sir; sister; sit; size; sky; sleep; small; smile; smith; smoke; soft; space; spectacles; spirits; spot; square; stand; standing; state; steady; stern; stones; stood; store; stranger; stream; strong; subject; successful; sudden; sum; sun; supper; sure; surprise; table; talk; tall; tent; thick; things; thompson; thought; thousands; time; tom; tom collins; tone; town; trap; travellers; tree; true; truth; turn; uncle; uttered; valley; view; visage; voice; wall; want; washing; watch; water; way; week; white; wide; wife; wild; wind; wooden; words; work; world; worse; worth; wot; wow; wrong; yankee; yards; ye'll; years; yer; young
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- 23499
- author: Reid, Mayne
- title: The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire
- date: None
- words: 115548
- flesch: 79
- summary: It loves the roots of several species of _nymphae_, but its favourite is _calamus_ root (_calamus_ or _acorus aromaticus_). This is discouraging; but at other times he is rewarded for his patient watching.
- keywords: abe; account; adventure; aim; alarm; america; animal; antlers; appearance; approach; armed; arms; arter; attack; attempt; attention; attitude; autumn; axe; backs; bag; bank; bar; bark; barrel; bay; bear; beautiful; beaver; besancon; best; better; big; birds; black; blanket; blood; blue; boat; bodies; body; branches; breakfast; bright; broke; brown; brute; buck; buffalo; buffaloes; bull; bullet; bushes; calf; camp; canoe; canvas; capture; care; cat; cattle; cause; cave; celebrated; certain; cervus; chacu; chance; chapter; character; chase; chief; circle; circumstances; claws; clear; close; coat; cold; colour; coming; common; companion; company; condition; considerable; continent; continued; contrary; conversation; coon; corn; cotton; cougar; countries; country; course; covered; cow; cows; craft; creatures; creek; critter; curious; current; cut; danger; dangerous; dark; day; days; dead; deal; death; deep; deeper; deer; determined; dick; different; difficult; direction; distance; distant; doctor; dog; dogs; double; doubt; dozen; drove; dry; dug; early; ears; earth; easy; edge; effect; elk; enemies; enemy; english; entrance; equal; escape; exception; expedition; expression; extreme; eyes; fact; fall; family; far; farther; fast; favourite; fear; feeding; feet; female; fence; field; fierce; fine; fire; flock; follow; following; fond; food; foot; forest; form; forward; fox; free; fresh; friend; frightened; frozen; fur; fust; gallop; game; general; gentlemen; git; glance; good; grass; great; greater; green; grey; grizzly; ground; guanacos; guides; gun; guns; habits; hair; half; halt; hand; hard; haunts; head; hear; heavy; help; herd; hev; hide; high; hills; history; hogs; hold; hole; home; hoofs; hopes; horns; horse; hounds; hours; hue; huge; hundreds; hung; hunter; hunting; hyur; ibis; ice; idea; inches; incident; indians; instant; instinct; intention; interest; interesting; intervals; island; islet; jake; jaws; jest; journey; kentuckian; killing; kim; kind; knife; known; lake; land; lanty; large; largest; late; lay; leap; leaves; leetle; left; legs; length; level; life; like; likely; line; little; lives; loaded; log; logs; long; longer; look; looking; loud; louis; making; man; manner; mar; matter; means; meat; middle; midst; miles; mind; minutes; mississippi; mode; moment; moose; morning; morrow; mosquitoes; mother; mountains; mout; mud; muskrat; naturalist; near; nearer; necessary; neck; negro; neighbourhood; nest; new; night; noise; north; northern; number; numerous; object; odd; old; ones; open; opposite; order; pack; padre; painter; pair; parairy; parties; party; pass; path; peccaries; peccary; peculiar; people; peril; period; piece; pigeons; pine; place; plain; plants; pleasant; plenty; point; pointed; poor; position; possible; practised; prairie; presence; present; prey; produce; purpose; pursuit; question; quick; raccoon; race; range; rare; reach; ready; red; redwood; regions; regular; related; rest; result; return; ribs; ridge; rifle; river; road; rocky; roots; rope; rose; route; run; running; rush; safe; saint; satisfied; savage; scene; search; season; second; seed; set; settlement; shanty; shape; sharp; shelter; shooting; shores; shot; shoulders; shy; sides; sign; silent; similar; single; singular; situation; size; skiff; skin; sleep; slight; small; smaller; smoke; snake; snow; solitary; somewhat; sound; south; southern; species; sport; spring; squirrel; stand; standing; start; states; stock; strange; stream; strengers; strike; strong; subject; success; sufficient; summer; sun; supper; sure; surface; surprise; swamp; swans; swim; tail; tapir; teeth; tents; terrible; thar; thick; thicket; thing; thompson; thort; thought; thur; timber; time; torch; tracks; trappers; traveller; tree; tribes; true; trumpeter; trunk; tuk; underwood; united; unlike; upright; upward; use; usual; valley; varmint; vast; vicuna; view; voice; waggon; wal; wan't; watching; water; way; weight; western; white; whur; wild; wind; winter; wolf; wolves; women; woods; work; world; wur; yards; year; yellow; young
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- 34495
- author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
- title: Rob Nixon, the Old White Trader: A Tale of Central British North America
- date: None
- words: 25107
- flesch: 80
- summary: The young especially are surprised to hear that old men have forgotten what they learned in their youth, that they neglect to pray, to read the Bible, to think about God and their own souls; but let them be assured that if once they give up the habit of praying, of studying God's holy Word, of obeying His commands, there is one ever ready to persuade them that there is no harm in this neglect; that it will save them much trouble; and that it is far more manly to neglect prayers, to be irreligious and profane, than to love, serve, and obey their Maker. Outside the enclosure were numerous persons, chiefly women and old men and boys, the latter armed with bows and arrows, and the former having cloaks or boughs.
- keywords: approach; arms; better; boat; buffalo; buffaloes; camp; canoe; captain; care; chance; chief; children; christian; close; companion; country; countrymen; course; dakotahs; danger; dark; daughter; day; days; death; desire; direction; distance; doubt; east; enemies; eyes; faces; far; father; fear; feet; fire; foes; food; friend; god; good; great; ground; hand; head; herd; home; hope; horse; hunter; hunting; indian; instant; journey; land; large; lay; left; length; life; line; little; load; long; longer; look; love; man; mate; matter; men; miles; mind; near; new; night; nixon; north; number; numerous; old; old hunter; old man; pale; party; people; peter; place; poor; prairie; ready; redskin; rest; rifle; river; rob; robert; ship; shore; sioux; sound; speak; spot; strange; stream; sun; talk; territory; things; thought; time; tom; trees; tribe; true; use; war; water; way; ways; west; white; wild; wish; wolves; women; wood; words; work; young
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- 42307
- author: Castlemon, Harry
- title: Frank in the Woods
- date: None
- words: 51607
- flesch: 85
- summary: By the glare o' the camp-fires, which the Comanches had started agin, I seed the cause of the yell, for there war ole Bill on foot, an' makin' tracks for the gully, with a dozen yellin' varlets clost at his heels. I war safe--but ole Bill war dead.
- keywords: 'bout; a'most; afore; agin; allers; animal; archie; arter; bank; bar; bear; beaver; bed; best; better; big; bill; black; blankets; blood; body; boys; brave; breakfast; buck; bushes; cabin; camp; cap'n; care; cave; chapter; close; coffee; cold; comanches; comin; commenced; companion; continued; corner; country; course; cousin; covered; creek; cubs; cut; danger; dark; day; days; dead; deer; dick; dinner; distance; dog; dogs; door; ears; easy; eyes; fast; feet; feller; fellow; fire; foot; fox; frank; game; gen'ral; george; goin'; good; greaser; great; grizzly; ground; guide; gully; gun; guns; half; hand; hard; harry; head; hold; hole; home; horse; hoss; hosses; hour; hunters; hunting; hut; ice; indians; injun; instant; jest; joe; ketched; kind; knife; kurnel; large; lay; left; legs; length; life; like; little; log; long; look; looking; lost; loud; man; matter; midnight; mighty; mile; mind; minit; moment; moose; more'n; morning; mountains; mustang; new; night; noise; nothin'; ole; onct; panther; pipe; place; plenty; prairy; purty; quick; rascal; reach; ready; rifle; road; room; run; saddle; safe; seed; set; settler; shot; shoulder; skin; sled; sleep; small; snow; sot; sound; sport; start; supper; sure; tell; thing; thought; time; tracks; trail; trapper; traps; tree; tuk; ugly; uncle; useless; varmint; wal; war; warn't; water; way; white; wild; wolves; wonder; woods; work; yell; young; youngsters
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- 45265
- author: Potter, Beatrix
- title: The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit
- date: None
- words: 227
- flesch: 78
- summary: Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, etc._ [Illustration] THE STORY OF A FIERCE BAD RABBIT BY BEATRIX POTTER _
- keywords: bad; fierce; illustration; rabbit
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- 59853
- author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester
- title: A Young Hero; Or, Fighting to Win
- date: None
- words: 68534
- flesch: 77
- summary: It may well be asked what young Fred Sheldon expected to do with such a useless musket, should emergency arise demanding a weapon. As he did so he placed his hand on the top rail of the fence and with one bound leaped over, dropping upon his feet within a few steps of poor Fred Sheldon, who, with every reason for believing he had been seen, sprang to his feet and ran for dear life.
- keywords: afraid; afternoon; animal; annie; answer; anxious; archie; aunt; bad; bandman; bed; best; better; big; bill; blow; boots; boy; boys; brave; break; brick; bud; bud heyland; bully; business; cage; capture; care; carl; carter; case; catch; cattle; certain; chair; chance; chapter; chest; child; children; circus; clear; close; colonel; coming; constable; continued; country; couple; courage; course; cyrus; danger; dark; darkness; day; days; deal; dear; detective; direction; distance; dollars; door; doubt; dozen; early; easy; effort; emery; escape; evening; evil; excitement; eyes; face; fact; faint; family; father; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; fence; figure; fire; floor; folks; foot; forest; fox; fred; fred sheldon; friends; gate; gentleman; girls; glad; gloom; good; great; ground; half; halloo; hand; hanschen; happy; hard; hare; hat; head; heart; help; hero; heyland; high; highway; hold; home; hope; hotel; hour; house; huge; hunt; hunter; hurt; important; inside; instant; interest; jackson; jacob; joe; kincade; kind; knife; known; lad; ladies; lane; lantern; large; leave; left; legs; life; like; likely; lion; little; lizzie; lock; long; look; making; man; manner; mansion; matter; mccurtis; mean; meat; menagerie; michael; mind; minute; misses; mistake; moment; monday; money; morning; morrow; mother; mouth; mrs; natural; near; necessary; neighborhood; neighbors; new; night; noise; number; officer; old; older; open; outside; parties; party; path; peculiar; people; perkinpine; person; piece; pipe; place; pocket; point; poor; porch; position; possible; pretty; question; quick; reach; ready; rear; reason; remark; return; reward; road; robbery; room; run; safe; scared; school; scrapton; seat; second; shoemaker; short; silver; silverware; sir; sisters; sleep; small; smoke; sound; spot; stairs; standing; story; stranger; strong; sun; supper; sure; sutton; talking; teacher; tell; telling; thing; thought; throat; time; tottenville; tramp; trees; trouble; trousers; turn; vehicle; view; village; voice; wagon; walk; way; week; whip; wife; window; wish; wonder; wood; words; work; world; wrong; years; york; young
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- 60633
- author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester
- title: Wolf Ear the Indian: A story of the great uprising of 1890-91
- date: None
- words: 27833
- flesch: 81
- summary: How do you do? asked the Ogalalla, extending his hand, which Brinton took with a smile, and the reproving remark-- I did not expect such a welcome from you, Wolf Ear. I did not know it was you, good friend Brinton. Brinton said-- You know where we live, Wolf Ear; I have set out to ride to the reservation to learn whether it is safe to stay where we are: what is your judgment in the matter? An indefinable expression passed over the broad face before him.
- keywords: agency; animal; arms; arroya; bad; bank; best; better; big; brave; brinton; brinton kingsland; bucks; camp; captain; certain; chance; chapter; cheyenne; close; coming; course; creek; danger; darkness; death; direction; distance; doubt; dozen; ear; earth; edith; eyes; face; family; father; feet; fire; foot; friends; general; gloom; good; great; ground; gully; gun; guns; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; hope; horse; horsemen; hostiles; husband; indian; instant; jack; jackson; kingsland; knee; left; like; little; long; look; man; matter; meet; miles; minutes; moment; mother; near; neck; night; ogalalla; ones; parents; party; people; peril; pine; place; point; ponies; pony; prairie; question; race; rapid; reach; ready; red; rein; rest; ridge; rifle; river; saddle; scout; shot; situation; sky; speed; stay; stream; sure; thing; thought; time; trail; trouble; turn; view; water; way; white; wife; winchester; wind; wolf; wolf ear; work; wounded; young; youth
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- 60655
- author: Wall, Bernard
- title: Star of Rebirth
- date: None
- words: 3884
- flesch: 93
- summary: They were magic caves, and these were magic men. Fully a dozen, always empty, except for the scattered bones of bears and men.
- keywords: atanta; bird; cave; children; cross; eyes; god; gods; great; head; hunt; ice; long; magic; man; men; mountains; mouth; night; old; people; sky; snow; son; star; sun; wind; woman
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- 61334
- author: Banta, Frank
- title: When Whirlybirds Call
- date: None
- words: 2177
- flesch: 85
- summary: As Five-gun Charles DeCrabbe leaped back into his craft and started off, the mayor's son called after him, Aren't you scared, going out exposed like that? DeCrabbe turned. Feathertonians cheered and waved from their windows that morning, not daring to come out for fear of the whirlybirds, and admiring Five-gun Charles DeCrabbe all the more for riding down the main stem of the town with the bubble of his convertible space coupe slid back--ignoring the menace from the skies.
- keywords: bandstand; charles; city; coo; days; decrabbe; feathers; featherton; gas; gun; man; mannequin; mayor; planet; ray; ready; son; stun; time; town; whirlybirds; wind
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- 62866
- author: Castlemon, Harry
- title: The Young Game-Warden
- date: None
- words: 76043
- flesch: 85
- summary: I'd leave Joe and Dan to run the ferry, and then I'd put a shovel on to my shoulder and come up here, and never leave off digging till I'd turned some of these mountings t'other side up. Some day I'll get mad and sink it so deep that it can't never be found again--I will so! Now, Dan, what's the use of talking that way? exclaimed Joe, impatiently.
- keywords: afraid; air; angry; answer; attention; bad; bank; beach; best; birds; bob; boys; breath; bridge; brierly; brother; brown; bushes; business; cabin; camp; care; case; cave; cent; chance; chapter; close; clothes; corner; country; course; cut; dan; danger; dannie; dark; day; deep; dogs; dollars; door; double; doubt; easy; emerson; employer; english; eyes; face; fact; father; feet; feller; fellows; ferryman; fine; fire; flat; folks; fortune; friend; frightened; fun; game; ghost; glad; good; gorge; great; grip; ground; grub; guide; gulf; guns; half; hallet; hand; hant; hard; head; heavy; heels; help; hiding; hills; hobson; hold; home; hope; hour; house; hunt; idea; joe; joe morgan; joey; kind; know; law; leave; left; letter; life; like; little; living; log; long; longer; look; looking; lot; luck; making; man; man warren; matter; mean; men; mighty; miles; mind; minute; moment; money; morgan; morning; mother; mountain; near; need; new; old; open; order; our'n; pap; particular; party; path; pay; piece; pile; place; pocket; point; quick; ready; reason; reply; rest; reward; rich; rifle; right; river; road; robbers; run; safe; saying; school; share; sheriff; shooting; shot; silas; silas morgan; sort; sound; squad; start; stick; stop; story; sure; surprised; table; talk; talking; tell; thing; thinking; thought; time; tom; trick; trouble; true; turn; uncle; valise; voice; wagon; want; wardens; warren; watch; way; wide; window; winter; wish; wonder; wood; word; work; worth; year; yesterday; young
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