item: #1 of 24 id: 13579 author: United States. Work Projects Administration title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume V, Indiana Narratives date: None words: 56709 flesch: 82 summary: Another tradition prevailed, that slave children should be presented to the master's young sons and daughters and become their special property even in childhood. According to the customary practice of raising slave children, Adah was left at the negro quarters of the McClain plantation, a large estate located in Henderson county, three and one half miles from the village of Henderson, Kentucky. keywords: age; away; boy; children; county; daughter; day; days; death; district; family; farm; father; folks; george; good; home; house; indiana; indianapolis; john; kentucky; left; life; little; man; married; master; men; mistress; mother; mrs; near; negro; negroes; new; night; north; people; place; plantation; remembers; river; slavery; slaves; soldiers; son; story; street; time; uncle; war; white; wife; woman; work; years; young cache: 13579.txt plain text: 13579.txt item: #2 of 24 id: 15099 author: Eggleston, Edward title: The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana date: None words: 60222 flesch: 84 summary: But poor Ralph could never satisfy his constituency in this regard. All this while poor Ralph was looking about the room for Bud. Bud's actions had of late been strangely contradictory. keywords: away; book; bud; chapter; court; creek; day; door; eyes; face; fer; god; good; hank; hannah; hartsook; hawkins; home; house; jones; life; look; man; martha; master; means; miss; mother; mrs; new; night; people; pete; place; poor; ralph; school; sense; shocky; small; spelling; squire; story; tell; think; thought; time; walter; way; white; word; young cache: 15099.txt plain text: 15099.txt item: #3 of 24 id: 15138 author: Nicholson, Meredith title: A Hoosier Chronicle date: None words: 162160 flesch: 80 summary: The few tried and trusted Bassett men who knew exactly Bassett's plans for the convention listened in silence to the hubbub occasioned by their chief's absence; silence was a distinguishing trait of Bassett's lieutenants. If Thatcher had knifed Bassett men or if Thatcher men had been knifed at Bassett's behest, evidence of such perfidy was difficult to adduce from the returns. keywords: allen; andrew; aunt; bassett; book; business; chair; college; coming; convention; county; courier; course; dan; dan harwood; daniel; day; deal; door; eyes; face; father; fitch; fraserville; friend; gentleman; girl; glad; going; good; grandfather; hand; harwood; head; heart; help; home; hope; house; idea; interested; kelton; kind; know; law; left; letter; life; like; look; lot; man; marian; marian bassett; matter; men; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; morton bassett; mother; mrs; need; new; office; old; owen; party; people; place; politics; pretty; professor; read; right; room; rose; sally; school; state; sylvia; table; talk; thatcher; things; thought; time; town; ware; waupegan; way; white; woman; work; world; years cache: 15138.txt plain text: 15138.txt item: #4 of 24 id: 16383 author: May, Sophie title: Dotty Dimple Out West date: None words: 24622 flesch: 92 summary: Don't I wish I was a Yankee--I mean a 'Publican? But you can't be, Horace, returned little Dotty, looking up at him with deep pity in her bright eyes; you weren't born there. Why, indeed, and indeed, it _is_ Dotty; and if here isn't Uncle Edward too! keywords: baby; child; clifford; dear; dimple; dotty; face; father; girl; good; grace; horace; katie; know; little; miss; mrs; papa; parlin; prudy; thought; time; west cache: 16383.txt plain text: 16383.txt item: #5 of 24 id: 17148 author: Royce, Charles C. title: Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States: Illustrated by Those in the State of Indiana First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 247-262 date: None words: 7172 flesch: 62 summary: An alphabetic list of all rivers, lakes, mountains, villages, and other objects or places mentioned in such treaties, together with their location and the names by which they are at present known. That body passed an act providing for the negotiation of a treaty or treaties, and making an appropriation for the purchase and extinguishment of the Indian claim to certain lands. keywords: cession; east; indian; lines; map; north; october; states; treaty; united cache: 17148.txt plain text: 17148.txt item: #6 of 24 id: 23771 author: Eggleston, Edward title: The Hoosier School-boy date: None words: 37706 flesch: 87 summary: Finding Jack in despair over some of his sums, he said: Why don't you ask Susan Lanham to show you? There was a touch of something in the tone of this reply that amused the school, and that made the master look up quickly and suspiciously at Jack Dudley, but the expression on Jack's face was as innocent as that of a cat who has just lapped the cream off the milk. CHAPTER II KING MILKMAID Pewee Rose, whose proper name was Peter Rose, had also the nickname of King Pewee. keywords: ball; ben; bob; boys; columbus; face; father; game; good; gray; great; holliday; home; house; jack; lanham; little; man; master; mother; new; pewee; riley; school; susan; time; way cache: 23771.txt plain text: 23771.txt item: #7 of 24 id: 28017 author: Nicholson, Meredith title: Otherwise Phyllis date: None words: 138296 flesch: 84 summary: You ought to know, without our telling you, Lois, said Mrs. Hastings, that your coming back will be the worst thing possible for dear Phil. They took care that every one should know how they felt about the transfer of poor, dear Phil (on whom they had lavished their love and care for years, to the end that she might grow up respectable, etc., etc.) to a roof that sheltered her Jezebel of a mother. keywords: amy; amzi; amzi montgomery; aunts; bank; brother; business; charles; charlie; college; coming; company; course; day; dear; door; eyes; face; fact; family; farm; father; fosdick; fred; girl; good; guess; hands; hastings; head; holton; home; house; indianapolis; jack; kind; kirkwood; left; life; little; lois; long; look; lot; main; man; matter; men; mind; moment; money; montgomery; mother; mrs; need; new; party; people; phil; phil kirkwood; place; return; right; room; rose; round; sisters; street; sycamore; table; talk; things; thought; thunder; time; tom; town; trouble; uncle; waterman; way; william; woman; world; years cache: 28017.txt plain text: 28017.txt item: #8 of 24 id: 286 author: Stratton-Porter, Gene title: Laddie: A True Blue Story date: None words: 160324 flesch: 91 summary: But when your time comes, if you said just those things to hers and won her, what a triumph, little mother! 'If!' answered mother. CHAPTER X Laddie Takes the Plunge This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, when he thinks, good, easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. keywords: amelia; ask; bed; big; children; coming; course; day; door; eyes; face; father; fence; fine; girl; god; good; hair; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; know; laddie; left; leon; life; little; long; look; lord; love; man; men; minute; miss; money; morning; mother; mrs; people; place; princess; pryor; red; right; road; room; sally; saw; school; shelley; straight; things; thought; time; want; water; way; white; woman; word; work cache: 286.txt plain text: 286.txt item: #9 of 24 id: 28820 author: Scott, Leroy title: Counsel for the Defense date: None words: 91070 flesch: 87 summary: I suppose we ought to consult Mr. Blake, said Kennedy. You mean Mr. Blake? Yes, Mr. Blake. I thought of him at first, of course. keywords: billy; blake; blind; bruce; case; charlie; city; come; course; court; day; doctor; door; elsie; express; eyes; face; father; good; half; hand; head; hosie; house; katherine; lawyer; little; look; man; mind; miss; moment; new; office; peck; people; right; room; sherman; talk; thought; time; town; voice; water; way; west; westville; woman; work cache: 28820.txt plain text: 28820.txt item: #10 of 24 id: 29486 author: Major, Charles title: A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties date: None words: 97235 flesch: 86 summary: Rita thought Billy was the most acute observer in Christendom, but she did not speak, save with her eyes. But what will your father and mother say and Tom? asked Dic. keywords: bays; billy; billy little; blue; course; day; dic; door; doug; evening; eyes; face; father; fear; friend; girl; god; going; good; hand; head; heart; help; home; hope; house; justice; know; letter; life; little; log; love; man; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; new; night; place; rita; river; room; story; sukey; thought; time; tom; tousy; way; williams; woman; words; world cache: 29486.txt plain text: 29486.txt item: #11 of 24 id: 31771 author: McElroy, John title: Si Klegg, Book 1 His Transformation from a Raw Recruit to a Veteran date: None words: 48929 flesch: 84 summary: At this moment a messenger came from the Captain to hurry up that team, and poor Si didn't know what to do. Si got a little red in the face, but said: Nothing could be nicer, Nell. keywords: 200th; army; bayonet; boys; camp; captain; chapter; co.; colonel; come; company; corporal; day; fire; git; good; great; ground; guard; gun; half; home; hour; illustration; ind; jest; know; left; line; man; mother; orderly; regiment; rest; right; shorty; si klegg; soldiers; tell; thing; thought; time; water; way; yer cache: 31771.txt plain text: 31771.txt item: #12 of 24 id: 31773 author: McElroy, John title: Si Klegg, Book 3 Si and Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, the Spy, Who Relates His Adventures date: None words: 63194 flesch: 89 summary: Said you wouldn't be back till termorrer. Said hit made men lazy. keywords: air; army; bin; bolster; boys; camp; chapter; co.; come; day; deacon; eyes; fire; general; git; good; great; guard; gun; hackberry; hain't; hand; head; headquarters; hit; home; house; jeff; jest; jew; kin; left; letter; look; man; men; mrs; read; rebel; regiment; rest; right; road; rosenbaum; run; shorty; squire; things; thought; time; unt; way; whisky; woman; wuz cache: 31773.txt plain text: 31773.txt item: #13 of 24 id: 34512 author: Nicholson, Meredith title: Rosalind at Red Gate date: None words: 81774 flesch: 86 summary: He was the unwelcome and annoying suitor of Miss Helen Holbrook, and I had caught him prowling about St. Agatha's in a manner that was indefensible. It was Miss Helen Holbrook that I saw here, Mr. Hartridge. keywords: agatha; annandale; arthur; aunt; boat; canoe; creek; day; donovan; door; eyes; face; father; gate; gillespie; girl; glenarm; good; hand; head; heart; helen; helen holbrook; henry; holbrook; house; ijima; italian; lake; lay; man; margaret; miss; miss holbrook; miss pat; moment; new; night; pat; pier; room; rosalind; shall; sister; thought; time; want; water; way; white; woman; world cache: 34512.txt plain text: 34512.txt item: #14 of 24 id: 36148 author: Thompson, Maurice title: Hoosier Mosaics date: None words: 40549 flesch: 85 summary: What sort of looking man was Blodgett? He saw persons pass in eagerly and come out calm and satisfied--men with their wives and children, young men with girls on their arms, prominent among whom were Bill and Minny, and one dapper sportsman even bought a ticket for his setter, and, patting the brute on the head, took him in. keywords: bill; blodgett; blue; boy; day; ere; eyes; face; fine; gal; girl; golding; good; half; hand; head; house; jack; jist; little; luke; man; medicine; money; mouth; new; old; pedagogue; red; right; room; rose; round; set; sir; sort; squire; sweet; time; voice; way; white; wind; young; zach cache: 36148.txt plain text: 36148.txt item: #15 of 24 id: 3722 author: Stratton-Porter, Gene title: A Daughter of the Land date: None words: 130015 flesch: 90 summary: Said Adam: Start a bank account! Said Kate: Kate Bates followed the narrow footpath rounding the corner of the small country church, as the old minister raised his voice slowly and impressively to repeat the command he had selected for his text. keywords: adam; agatha; baby; bates; bed; children; coming; course; day; ellen; eyes; face; family; father; fine; george; girl; going; good; hat; head; heart; help; holt; home; house; jardine; john; kate; land; life; long; look; man; money; morning; mother; mrs; nancy; nancy ellen; place; polly; right; robert; room; saw; school; thing; thought; time; way; woman; work; years cache: 3722.txt plain text: 3722.txt item: #16 of 24 id: 4097 author: Thompson, Maurice title: Alice of Old Vincennes date: None words: 108375 flesch: 80 summary: The marriage engagement of Miss Alice Beverley to a young Indiana officer, distinguished for his patriotism and military ardor, has been announced at the old Beverley homestead on the hill, and the high contracting parties have planned that the wedding ceremony shall take place under the famous little flag, on the anniversary of dark's capture of Post Vincennes. Electric cars in its streets, electric lights in its beautiful homes, the roar of railway trains coming and going in all directions, bicycles whirling hither and thither, the most fashionable styles of equipages, from brougham to pony-phaeton, make the days of flint-lock guns and buckskin trousers seem ages down the past; and yet we are looking back over but a little more than a hundred and twenty years to see Alice Roussillon standing under the cherry tree and holding high a tempting cluster of fruit, while a very short, hump-backed youth looks up with longing eyes and vainly reaches for it. keywords: adrienne; alice; alice roussillon; arms; beverley; captain; clark; colonel; course; day; english; eyes; face; farnsworth; father; father beret; flag; force; fort; french; gaspard; girl; good; governor; great; hair; half; hamilton; hand; head; heart; helm; home; house; indian; jazon; jean; kenton; left; lieutenant; life; look; love; madame; making; man; men; mind; moment; monsieur; oncle; oncle jazon; place; priest; rene; right; river; roussillon; run; set; shot; son; thing; thought; time; town; vincennes; voice; water; way; words cache: 4097.txt plain text: 4097.txt item: #17 of 24 id: 41702 author: Deam, Charles Clemon title: Trees of Indiana First Revised Edition (Publication No. 13, Department of Conservation, State of Indiana) date: None words: 75293 flesch: 78 summary: long and about 7 mm. in diameter; bracts of eastern trees differ from those of Indiana trees which are about 3-4 mm. In point of number it ranks as first of Indiana trees. keywords: apex; area; ash; bark; base; beneath; black; branches; brown; counties; county; dark; deam; diameter; flowers; fruit; glabrous; gray; green; hairy; illustration; inches; indiana; leaves; linnæus; lobes; oak; oblong; ovate; petioles; plate; pubescent; quercus; red; reddish; serrate; smooth; south; southern; species; specimens; state; thick; trees; twigs; variety =; west; white; wood; yellow; | | cache: 41702.txt plain text: 41702.txt item: #18 of 24 id: 45521 author: Riley, James Whitcomb title: Home Again with Me date: None words: 1921 flesch: 80 summary: [Illustration: 0031] ```_Women_ claimed I did, but I ```Alius helt I _didn't_ cry ```But wuz laughin',--and I _ And, says she, ```Troubled-like, How's Deedie--say? ```Sence pore child e-loped away ```And got back, and goin' to 'ply ```Fer school-license by and by-- ```And where's 'Lijy workin' at? ```And how's 'Aunt' and 'Uncle Jake'? ```How wuz 'Old Maje'--and the cat? ```And wuz Marthy's baby fat ```As his 'Humpty-Dumpty' ma!-- [Illustration: 0073] [Illustration: 0075] ```Sweetest thing she ever saw!-- ```Must run 'crosst and see 'em, too, ```Soon as she turned in and got ```Supper fer us--smokin'-hot-- ```And the 'dishes' all wuz through.-- ```_Sich_ a supper! keywords: home; illustration; jes; wuz cache: 45521.txt plain text: 45521.txt item: #19 of 24 id: 483 author: Tarkington, Booth title: The Conquest of Canaan date: None words: 85583 flesch: 84 summary: And so it came to pass that under the eyes of Canaan Joe Louden rode in Judge Pike's carriage at the bidding of Judge Pike's daughter. An' de good Man knows I 'membuh w'en you runnin' roun' back-yods an' up de alley rompin' 'ith Joe Louden, same you's a boy! Do you ever see Mr. Louden, nowadays? keywords: ariel; arp; canaan; colonel; cory; day; door; eskew; eugene; eyes; face; fear; fer; flitcroft; gate; good; half; hand; happy; head; home; house; joe; joe louden; judge; kind; left; life; little; look; louden; mamie; man; martin; mean; men; moment; morning; night; norbert; open; people; pike; place; room; street; tabor; things; thought; time; tocsin; town; voice; way; white; word; years; young cache: 483.txt plain text: 483.txt item: #20 of 24 id: 4907 author: Stratton-Porter, Gene title: Moths of the Limberlost: A Book About Limberlost Cabin date: None words: 50338 flesch: 76 summary: The fact is, that moths smell like other moths of the same species, and within a reasonable radius they undoubtedly attract each other. Examine the bodies of Sphinges and other moths for these same openings. keywords: abdomen; antennae; band; birds; black; body; box; brown; case; caterpillars; cecropia; chapter; close; cocoons; colour; day; days; eggs; female; fly; green; grey; half; head; inches; leaves; life; little; markings; moth; night; pair; pupa; red; species; time; white; wings; work; yellow cache: 4907.txt plain text: 4907.txt item: #21 of 24 id: 532 author: Stratton-Porter, Gene title: At the Foot of the Rainbow date: None words: 62458 flesch: 90 summary: On the strength of that statement Mary married Jimmy inside five weeks, and spent years in bitter repentance. Jimmy saw little around him, and there was little Dannie did not see. keywords: author; bass; bed; bird; black; book; cut; dannie; day; dinna; door; eyes; face; father; feet; fish; fra; god; good; hand; head; heart; home; jimmy; jimmy malone; lay; life; line; love; man; mary; men; mrs; nature; new; night; pail; porter; river; set; thing; thought; thread; time; town; water; way; woman; work; years cache: 532.txt plain text: 532.txt item: #22 of 24 id: 6013 author: McCutcheon, George Barr title: Viola Gwyn date: None words: 110812 flesch: 89 summary: Unless I am mistaken, sir, you are Mr. Kenneth Gwynne. Strange men appeared on the street, and other men slapped their backs and shook hands with them and shouted loudly and happily at them. keywords: barry; black; carter; day; door; end; eyes; face; father; fer; girl; good; guess; gwynne; half; hand; hawk; head; heart; home; house; kenneth; kenny; kitchen; know; lafayette; lapelle; left; lips; little; look; love; man; martin; matter; mean; men; mind; moll; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; place; rachel; river; road; room; sister; striker; suh; tell; thing; thought; time; town; viola; voice; want; way; wife; window; woman; word; wuz; years; zachariah cache: 6013.txt plain text: 6013.txt item: #23 of 24 id: 6044 author: McCutcheon, George Barr title: Quill's Window date: None words: 95240 flesch: 89 summary: Said I had a weak heart and a whole lot of rubbish like that. It wasn't so very long ago that women Said 'pshaw' when they wanted to let off steam. keywords: alix; blythe; boy; charlie; city; courtney; crown; david; day; dear; dog; door; eyes; face; father; feet; girl; good; half; hand; hatch; head; heart; home; house; know; left; letter; life; little; look; looking; love; man; men; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; night; people; place; pollock; quill; river; rock; room; rosabel; sort; strong; thane; think; thought; time; town; vick; voice; war; way; webster; windom; woman; word; years; young cache: 6044.txt plain text: 6044.txt item: #24 of 24 id: 9489 author: Stratton-Porter, Gene title: Michael O'Halloran date: None words: 151052 flesch: 93 summary: She went to a little room, and all alone she asked Mickey questions; with his eyes straight on hers, he answered. Oh Mickey, dear Mickey, hurry! keywords: bird; boy; boys; bruce; car; care; child; children; coming; course; day; door; douglas; eyes; face; father; find; girl; good; hand; harding; head; heart; help; home; james; job; junior; lady; leslie; life; lily; look; love; malcolm; man; men; mickey; minturn; miss; money; morning; mother; mrs; papers; peaches; peter; place; right; room; saw; tell; things; think; thought; time; water; way; winton; woman; work cache: 9489.txt plain text: 9489.txt