item: #1 of 27 id: 10234 author: Cable, George Washington title: Old Creole Days: A Story of Creole Life date: None words: 69677 flesch: 84 summary: You better take me in de notion, old man, I tell you,--yes! Don't you try to make no fool of me, old man, cried the planter. keywords: café; charlie; child; colonel; creole; dad; daughter; day; delphine; des; door; eyes; face; father; general; george; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; jean; jerome; john; jools; let; look; madame; madame delphine; man; mazaro; moment; money; monsieur; mossy; mother; new; night; parson; place; poquelin; poulette; priest; père; room; rose; saw; smile; son; street; tell; thing; thompson; thought; time; tite; vignevielle; want; way; white; window; years cache: 10234.txt plain text: 10234.txt item: #2 of 27 id: 11514 author: King, Grace Elizabeth title: Balcony Stories date: None words: 36084 flesch: 79 summary: Its pointed shingle roof covered it like the top of a chafing-dish, reaching down to the windows, which peeped out from under it like little eyes. Pupasse had not only the genius, but that which sometimes fails genius, the means for grimacing: little eyes, long nose, foolish mouth, and pointed tongue. keywords: black; children; convent; day; eyes; face; fact; girl; god; good; hands; head; heart; house; husband; joubert; jules; life; look; love; madame; marie; mother; negro; new; night; old; papa; place; pupasse; room; thought; time; voice; way; white; woman; world; years cache: 11514.txt plain text: 11514.txt item: #3 of 27 id: 12068 author: Knox, Thomas Wallace title: Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation date: None words: 131464 flesch: 72 summary: I fear there were many men in St. Louis whose conduct was no recommendation to the membership of a temperance society. There were many men of this class ready, no doubt, to swear allegiance to the victorious side, who joined our standard because they considered the Rebel cause a losing one. keywords: advance; arkansas; army; battle; boat; camp; capture; chapter; city; corn; cotton; country; day; days; end; enemy; field; flag; following; force; fort; general; good; government; grant; ground; gun; half; hands; house; labor; left; line; louis; lyon; man; memphis; men; miles; military; mississippi; missouri; morning; natchez; near; negroes; new; night; north; northern; number; officers; order; orleans; people; persons; place; plantation; point; portion; position; price; rebels; region; return; river; soldiers; south; southern; springfield; state; thing; thought; time; union; vicksburg; war; water; way; white; work; years cache: 12068.txt plain text: 12068.txt item: #4 of 27 id: 12577 author: Cable, George Washington title: Strange True Stories of Louisiana date: None words: 92199 flesch: 82 summary: of the old Black Code: Slaves who shall not be properly fed, clad, and provided for by their masters, may give information thereof to the attorney-general or the Superior Council, or to all the other officers of justice of an inferior jurisdiction, and may put the written exposition of their wrongs into their hands; upon which information, and even ex officio, should the information come from another quarter, the attorney-general shall prosecute said masters, etc. Let nothing remind me of other days. keywords: alix; annie; attalie; black; boat; camille; carpentier; case; children; city; court; daughter; day; days; door; dress; evening; eyes; family; father; flatboat; françoise; french; friend; girl; good; hair; hand; head; home; house; husband; joseph; lady; lalaurie; leave; left; little; madame; man; mario; max; men; miller; moment; morning; mother; new; night; orleans; papa; people; place; poor; room; rose; salome; saw; sister; story; street; suzanne; tell; things; thought; time; war; water; way; white; wife; woman; years; young cache: 12577.txt plain text: 12577.txt item: #5 of 27 id: 17200 author: Alexander, Charles Wesley title: Angel Agnes The Heroine of the Yellow Fever Plague in Shreveport date: None words: 13009 flesch: 81 summary: The Strangely Romantic History and Sad Death of Miss Agnes Arnold, the Adopted Daughter of the Late Samuel Arnold, of This City. Yes, replied Agnes; and, added she, my name is not what you call it, but Agnes Arnold. keywords: agnes; arnold; doctor; fever; god; good; letter; man; miss; mother; mrs; nurse; sick; sister; time cache: 17200.txt plain text: 17200.txt item: #6 of 27 id: 18817 author: Norton, Andre title: Ralestone Luck date: None words: 61308 flesch: 92 summary: I'm Val Ralestone. Val Ralestone! keywords: bed; black; boy; brother; charity; creighton; door; eyes; face; family; feet; find; good; half; hall; hand; haven; head; home; house; jeems; know; lefleur; left; look; luck; lucy; man; miss; morning; new; open; pirate; place; ralestone; red; ricky; right; room; rupert; sam; sort; swamp; thought; time; val; want; water; way; yo'all cache: 18817.txt plain text: 18817.txt item: #7 of 27 id: 20438 author: Stuart, Ruth McEnery title: Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches date: None words: 39439 flesch: 85 summary: An' dem chillen o' his'n, which ain't nuver is had no proper mo'nin' fur dey mammy--no mo' 'n what color Gord give 'em in dey skins--I gwine put 'em in special secon' mo'nin', 'cordin' to de time dey ought ter been wearin' it; an' when we walks up de island o' de chu'ch, dey got ter foller, two by two, keepin' time ter de fun'al march. Dey'd be a heap less fam'ly quar'lin on dis plantation ef de 'omans had cuds ter chaw--dat is ef dey'd be satisfied ter chaw dey own. keywords: black; church; co'se; dat; day; des; dey; dis; eyes; face; fur; git; gwine; hand; head; heah; house; jest; jordan; lady; life; lily; little; look; man; miss; new; pete; pitcher; plantation; right; set; sir; tell; ter; thet; thing; time; way; white; wid; wife; woman; word; yas; yer cache: 20438.txt plain text: 20438.txt item: #8 of 27 id: 26747 author: Addeman, Joshua M. (Joshua Melancthon) title: Reminiscences of two years with the colored troops Personal Narratives of events in the War of the Rebellion, being papers read before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society. No. 7, Second Series date: None words: 6752 flesch: 66 summary: With difficulty Governor Smith obtained permission to organize a company, and, as this rapidly filled, then a battalion, and finally a full regiment of twelve companies of colored men for heavy artillery duty. In the summer of 1863, white men were no longer eager to enlist for a war the end of which none could foresee; but nevertheless the war must be prosecuted with vigor; another draft was impending and the State's quota must be filled. keywords: company; country; day; days; duty; general; men; place; river; time; water; way; | | cache: 26747.txt plain text: 26747.txt item: #9 of 27 id: 27779 author: Stuart, Ruth McEnery title: Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales date: None words: 38923 flesch: 88 summary: I been a mighty poor mammy ter yer, but I blesses Gord to-night fur savin' dat little black baby ter me--_all in de win' an' de storm an' de dark dat night_. But now you won't hate 'er no mo', boy; an' ef you die fus'--some time, you know, baby, little boys _does die_--an' ef you go fus', I'll teck good keer o' yo' sheer in 'er; an' ef I go, you mus' look out fur my sheer. keywords: 'em; baby; black; blink; boy; christmas; crow; dat; day; des; dey; dinner; dis; duke; easter; evelyn; eyes; face; fur; good; great; gwine; half; heah; know; little; long; look; mammy; man; mother; new; night; ole; quackalina; story; tell; ter; thing; time; way; white; wid; yer cache: 27779.txt plain text: 27779.txt item: #10 of 27 id: 27913 author: Reid, Mayne title: The Quadroon: Adventures in the Far West date: None words: 119322 flesch: 83 summary: It was thought by some that their friendship had a little of the character of that which usually exists between _debtor_ and _creditor_. Old Gayarre-- Owns _thee_ plantation. keywords: aurore; besancon; black; blood; boat; captain; chapter; city; companion; course; creole; d'hauteville; dark; day; direction; doctor; dollars; doubt; eugenie; eyes; face; fear; find; forest; game; gave; gayarre; glance; good; ground; half; hand; head; heart; horses; hour; house; interest; lady; length; life; like; little; look; love; mademoiselle; man; mass; mass'r; mind; moment; monsieur; negro; new; night; orleans; place; plantation; poor; purpose; quadroon; red; river; road; room; scene; scipio; slave; tell; think; thought; time; tone; tree; voice; water; way; white; woods cache: 27913.txt plain text: 27913.txt item: #11 of 27 id: 31383 author: Dabney, Thomas Ewing title: The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce date: None words: 19864 flesch: 67 summary: This is the Canal that was finally built--nearly 70 per cent larger than the one that was begun and about 100 per cent larger than the one originally planned, when the newspapers and forward-looking told the people that the lack of such a canal had cost New Orleans millions of dollars in development. [Illustration: WILLIAM O. HUDSON President, Board of Commissioners of Port of New Orleans] FOREWORD. keywords: board; canal; capacity; channel; city; company; cost; development; dock; dock board; facilities; feet; foot; great; industrial; industrial canal; lake; lock; material; miles; mississippi; new orleans; pontchartrain; port; president; public; railroad; river; ships; steel; water; work cache: 31383.txt plain text: 31383.txt item: #12 of 27 id: 31889 author: Wiltz, Louis Alfred title: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1874: Its Extent, Duration, and Effects date: None words: 3023 flesch: 60 summary: Nothing but large increase of resources for relief can prevent the horrors of famine and great loss of life. The demand for relief will continue great and urgent for many weeks. keywords: barrels; flood; miles; mississippi; people; relief; river cache: 31889.txt plain text: 31889.txt item: #13 of 27 id: 32103 author: Finley, Martha title: Elsie in the South date: None words: 60056 flesch: 80 summary: And we do have good times here in the _Dolphin_. Anybody is pretty sure of good times when papa is at the head of affairs. keywords: brother; captain; chester; children; cousin; daughter; day; dear; dick; elsie; father; florida; good; grace; grandma; hand; harold; home; hope; look; love; lucilla; maud; max; moment; mother; mrs; ned; papa; raymond; rest; smile; spaniards; time; violet; voice; want; way cache: 32103.txt plain text: 32103.txt item: #14 of 27 id: 32225 author: Finley, Martha title: Elsie at Viamede date: None words: 64706 flesch: 76 summary: She signed herself Your penitent little daughter Lulu, folded the note, sealed it up in an envelope, and wrote her father's name on the outside. They are good little things though, and would not be any hindrance, returned the young mother laughingly. keywords: americans; british; captain; children; city; cousin; daughter; day; dear; elsie; eyes; face; father; fire; fort; general; god; good; grace; guns; half; hand; home; hope; jackson; left; look; love; lulu; max; men; morning; new; orleans; papa; river; rosie; sir; smile; time; troops; vessels; viamede; walter; war; way cache: 32225.txt plain text: 32225.txt item: #15 of 27 id: 32539 author: Pickett, Albert James title: Eight days in New-Orleans in February, 1847 date: None words: 10183 flesch: 66 summary: Never had the remark so often made to me before, been so entirely convincing, that New Orleans contained more handsome ladies and fine looking men than any city in the Union. And three hundred and thirty years ago these adventurers silently floated by the spot where New Orleans now stands! keywords: city; commerce; country; day; feet; french; levee; man; men; mississippi; new; orleans; place; population; river; streets; world; years cache: 32539.txt plain text: 32539.txt item: #16 of 27 id: 34546 author: Lowery, George H., Jr. title: Additions to the List of the Birds of Louisiana date: None words: 6676 flesch: 62 summary: #Branta canadensis hutchinsii# (Richardson), Hutchins Goose Oberholser (_op. #Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus# (Cassin), Western Snowy Plover #Charadrius alexandrinus tenuirostris# (Lawrence), Cuban Snowy Plover Oberholser (_op. keywords: cameron; december; louisiana; lowery; november; oberholser; october; records; species; specimens; state; university cache: 34546.txt plain text: 34546.txt item: #17 of 27 id: 35300 author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson title: Louisiana date: None words: 32545 flesch: 94 summary: It was of this class Miss Ferrol was thinking when she said: That is one of them, and a very interesting type it is, too. You will soon get used to them, returned Miss Ferrol. keywords: chapter; day; eyes; face; father; ferrol; girl; good; hev; house; look; louisiana; miss; new; olivia; room; tell; thar; thet; things; thought; time; way cache: 35300.txt plain text: 35300.txt item: #18 of 27 id: 35487 author: Kjelgaard, Jim title: Swamp Cat date: None words: 46751 flesch: 88 summary: He was happy to stay near Andy nights and to accompany him on Sunday patrols into the swamp. Andy Gates was the only human being who ever penetrated very deeply into the swamp, and Andy was confined to certain paths and trails which the fox did not have to travel. keywords: andy; buck; cat; coyote; day; deer; eyes; fox; frosty; grass; head; hills; house; jud; kitten; left; luke; man; muskrats; night; owl; owls; saw; second; slough; swamp; thought; time; town; trull; water; way; young cache: 35487.txt plain text: 35487.txt item: #19 of 27 id: 36645 author: Stubbs, William Carter title: Louisiana Beef Cattle date: None words: 3630 flesch: 53 summary: In a consideration of any branch of the live stock industry, a review of the world-wide conditions becomes necessary to establish a standard of comparison between the industry in a given locality as against all other localities, and such a review at the present time shows an international shortage of beef cattle that even threatens famine. According to official estimates of the United States Government, in 1910 there were 41,178,000 head of beef cattle in the United States, having a value of $785,261,000, while on January 1, 1917, there were 40,849,000 head of beef cattle, having a value of $1,465,786,000; a decrease in supply, but an increase in value, within seven years, of 86.66 per cent. keywords: cattle; herds; louisiana; pounds; states; united; year cache: 36645.txt plain text: 36645.txt item: #20 of 27 id: 40157 author: Elfer, William André title: Breeding minks in Louisiana for their fur: A profitable industry date: None words: 3056 flesch: 73 summary: Mink fur advanced about fifty per cent. And those who are so fortunate as to start in the industry now will, when minks will have become so rare that trapping will be unprofitable, and the demand so great that the prices for mink fur will soar higher and higher--those persons, I say, of foresight, who had the good fortune to start in the business early, will reap each year the steady advances in the price of mink fur, and be able, in a word, to command the fur market of both Europe and America. keywords: farm; feet; fur; minks cache: 40157.txt plain text: 40157.txt item: #21 of 27 id: 45507 author: Patchin, Frank Gee title: The Pony Rider Boys in Louisiana; or, Following the Game Trails in the Canebrake date: None words: 49584 flesch: 93 summary: Tad Butler Faced the Pack.] With the bush-knife in his left hand now, revolver in the right, the boy slashed and shot alternately. CHAPTER V MAROONED IN A SWAMP Hey, Tad! Yes, what is it? asked Tad Butler, wide awake in an instant in response to Stacy's quiet call. keywords: away; bear; boy; boys; butler; camp; chunky; dogs; eyes; going; ground; guide; horse; lilly; man; ned; pony; professor; rector; rider; stacy; tad; tad butler; time; trail; way; yes cache: 45507.txt plain text: 45507.txt item: #22 of 27 id: 45631 author: Northup, Solomon title: Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana date: None words: 84294 flesch: 74 summary: It was not unusual for slave women as well as slave men to endeavor to escape. From descriptions of such men as Burch and Freeman, and others hereinafter mentioned, they are led to despise and execrate the whole class of slaveholders, indiscriminately. keywords: arrival; bass; bayou; boeuf; burch; business; cabin; cane; chapter; children; cotton; county; day; days; eliza; epps; field; ford; freeman; ground; hand; having; heart; house; left; letter; life; man; manner; master; men; mistress; morning; new; night; northup; orleans; patsey; place; plantation; platt; return; slave; slavery; solomon; state; tibeats; time; washington; water; way; white; wife; work; years; york cache: 45631.txt plain text: 45631.txt item: #23 of 27 id: 46091 author: Boucicault, Dion title: The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana. A Play in Five acts date: None words: 17174 flesch: 102 summary: George _and_ Zoe, L. U. E. _Enter_ Zoe, _from house,_ L. _Zoe._ keywords: dat; dora; george; judge; love; m'closky; mrs; paul; pete; peyton; ratts; scud; scudder; sunny; wahnotee; zoe cache: 46091.txt plain text: 46091.txt item: #24 of 27 id: 53882 author: Washington, Amanda Alcenia Strickland title: How Beauty Was Saved, and Other Memories of the Sixties date: None words: 6372 flesch: 81 summary: But then it shows what Southern girls For Southern Rights will do. The schoolyard gate was wide open, and she dashed through it and up to the porch where an eager, startled bevy of girls were assembled. keywords: beauty; colonel; day; father; girls; home; horses; house; soldiers; time cache: 53882.txt plain text: 53882.txt item: #25 of 27 id: 6379 author: Beach, Rex title: The Net date: None words: 101212 flesch: 86 summary: It was not surprising, therefore, that Norvin Blake, as the hours dragged along, should remark less and less upon the beauties of the island and more and more upon the medieval condition of the rickety railroad coach in which he was shaken and buffeted about. It was considerably after dark when Norvin Blake alighted at San Sebastiano, to be greeted effusively by a young man of about his own age who came charging through the gloom and embraced him with a great hug. keywords: believe; bernie; blake; cardi; chief; city; course; day; donnelly; door; dreux; eyes; face; fear; friend; girl; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; hour; house; left; let; life; look; love; mafia; man; margherita; martel; maruffi; men; mind; miss; moment; myra; narcone; new; night; norvin; norvin blake; oliveta; people; place; room; set; sicilian; street; thought; time; vittoria; voice; way; woman; work cache: 6379.txt plain text: 6379.txt item: #26 of 27 id: 717 author: Hearn, Lafcadio title: Chita: A Memory of Last Island date: None words: 26221 flesch: 73 summary: She wanted to see the stars, which were the souls of good little children; and she knew that God would let her climb up. I. Carmen found that her little pet had been taught how to pray; for each night and morning when the devout woman began to make her orisons, the child would kneel beside her, with little hands joined, and in a voice sweet and clear murmur something she had learned by heart. keywords: bayou; beach; black; blue; brown; captain; carmen; child; day; days; dead; evening; eyes; face; feet; feliu; god; good; gray; green; gulf; head; island; julien; laroussel; life; man; morning; mother; new; night; place; rose; sand; sea; sky; sparicio; sun; time; voice; water; way; white; wind; world; years cache: 717.txt plain text: 717.txt item: #27 of 27 id: 9153 author: Le Page du Pratz title: The History of Louisiana, Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina Containing a Description of the Countries That Lie on Both Sides of the River Missisippi date: None words: 147708 flesch: 67 summary: There and then it was the succours from Canada arrived, consisting of French, Iroquois, Hurons, Episingles, Algonquins, and other nations: and soon after arrived the new Commandant of the Illinois, with the garrison, inhabitants, and neighbouring Indians, all that he could bring together, with a great number of horses. Being the first who were acquainted with its beauty and fertility, they {283} published them to other nations. keywords: account; america; banks; black; chief; coast; colony; come; commandant; country; cut; day; days; distance; earth; east; feet; fine; fire; fish; fort; france; french; general; good; ground; half; head; inches; indians; inhabitants; kind; lands; leagues; leaves; left; length; louisiana; manner; men; mexico; missisippi; natchez; nation; natives; new; north; number; order; orleans; parts; people; place; present; red; river; saw; sea; set; soil; spaniards; sun; thing; time; tobacco; trees; war; warriors; water; way; west; white; women; wood; years cache: 9153.txt plain text: 9153.txt