item: #1 of 7 id: 11556 author: Verne, Jules title: Facing the Flag date: None words: 57265 flesch: 76 summary: I indite the following message: On June 15 last Thomas Roch and his keeper Gaydon, or rather Simon Hart, the French engineer who occupied Pavilion No. 17, at Healthful House, near New-Berne, North Carolina, United States of America, were kidnapped and carried on board the schooner _ At last Thomas Roch embarks in the boat used for crossing the lake and is rowed over to his laboratory. keywords: boat; captain; captain spade; cavern; count; count d'artigas; cup; d'artigas; day; door; ebba; engineer; engineer serko; gaydon; hart; healthful; house; island; karraje; ker; ker karraje; lagoon; man; men; new; place; schooner; sea; secret; serko; spade; thomas roch; time; tug; tunnel; water; way cache: 11556.txt plain text: 11556.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 20524 author: Gaylord, Glance title: Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught date: None words: 58303 flesch: 87 summary: _To Noll Trafford_: Come; you are welcome. Noll Trafford stood leaning against a great post and looking after the lawyer's carriage with a slight choking in his throat, till the skipper's gruff Get aboard here, lad! warned him that the Gull was about to cast off. keywords: boy; culm; day; dirk; eyes; face; fur; good; gull; hagar; heart; house; know; lad; life; look; lord; man; ned; night; noll; noll trafford; papa; richard; rock; sand; sea; skipper; thought; time; trafford; uncle; uncle richard; way; work; yer cache: 20524.txt plain text: 20524.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 37330 author: Stables, Gordon title: Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites date: None words: 109275 flesch: 82 summary: There was a great number of other little dogs in the village besides himself--poodles, Pomeranians, and Skyes, doggies of every denomination and all shades of colour, and many of these got up early too. A poor, persecuted little bird is this same yellow bunting; and schoolboys often, when they find the nest, scatter it and its precious contents to the four winds of heaven. keywords: aileen; away; bird; bit; black; blue; boy; cage; captain; cat; country; day; days; dear; dog; dogs; dolls; door; evening; eyes; face; feet; food; frank; friend; good; green; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; ida; kind; left; life; little; look; love; man; mary; master; mind; mirram; mistress; morning; nero; nest; new; night; peggy; pet; place; pompey; poor; pretty; room; round; sea; ship; song; story; summer; tell; thing; thought; time; toby; trees; water; white; wife; world; years cache: 37330.txt plain text: 37330.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 43806 author: Otis, James title: Sarah Dillard's Ride: A Story of the Carolinas in 1780 date: None words: 48500 flesch: 74 summary: When this command had been obeyed, and the animals tied with their heads together in groups of five, it was found that the man who held Evan prisoner was thus detailed to care for the animals, while his comrade belonged to the force which would advance. I do not mean that you are to go blindly ahead without taking due precautions; but it seldom pays at such times to map out an elaborate plan, for much depends upon accident. keywords: 12mo; boys; britishers; captain; cloth; colonel; dillard; ephraim; escape; evan; ferguson; force; hour; king; lads; life; major; men; moment; nathan; price; prisoners; ride; sarah; soldiers; sowers; spy; time; tory; trail; way; work; young cache: 43806.txt plain text: 43806.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 45573 author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) title: Out with Garibaldi: A story of the liberation of Italy date: None words: 105799 flesch: 74 summary: No doubt it is mean and ungracious in the extreme, but Garibaldi will not feel it as other men would; he is human, and therefore he would like to present the Kingdom of Naples and the States of Rome, free from the foreigner, to Victor Emmanuel. Rubini's loss is a grievous one; he was a good officer, and was greatly liked and trusted by us all; there were good men, too, among his company. keywords: attack; brigands; captain; course; day; days; door; doubt; enemy; father; fire; force; forli; frank; french; friends; garibaldi; garibaldians; general; good; government; guns; hand; having; hope; house; italy; left; man; men; morning; mother; naples; neapolitan; news; order; party; people; percival; place; prisoners; professor; rubini; signor; time; town; troops; way; work cache: 45573.txt plain text: 45573.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 55966 author: Everett-Green, Evelyn title: In Taunton town : a story of the rebellion of James Duke of Monmouth in 1685 date: None words: 139889 flesch: 77 summary: So whilst all Taunton slept after the excitement of that day, and in prospect of the near excitements of the coming executions, Mistress Mary and I slipped from the town on foot, and by unfrequented routes; and before the first streak of coming day appeared in the east, I had piloted her through the marshy tract of ground nigh to Bishop's Hull, and had left her, exhausted but in peace, with the kindly cottage folks, who had had their instructions from their well-loved foster-child, and who received this other Mistress Mary with open arms. In the after-part of the day I generally read other things to the Earl: history, poetry, learned writings of great men whose names I had never heard--nothing came amiss to Lord Lonsdale, who was a very learned man; and he was exceedingly kind in pausing from time to time to make some explanation which rendered the theme under discussion more intelligible to me. keywords: army; blake; blewer; cause; city; coming; country; day; days; dicon; duke; evil; eyes; face; father; fear; forth; friends; good; hand; head; heart; house; judge; king; know; life; little; look; lord; love; man; mary; master; men; miss; mistress mary; moment; monmouth; news; people; place; right; save; saw; set; soldiers; son; speak; taunton; tell; thee; things; think; thou; thought; time; town; uncle; viscount; way; words; young cache: 55966.txt plain text: 55966.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 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: bank; brinton; ear; edith; father; head; horse; hostiles; indian; jack; kingsland; left; moment; pony; saddle; time; way; wolf; youth cache: 60633.txt plain text: 60633.txt