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id: 17987
author: Bryce, George
title: The Mound Builders
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sentence: 397
flesch: 75
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summary:
  In Mexico, and further south in Nicaragua, as well as northward, large mounds remain which are traced to them. Mounds in our region vary from 6 to 50 feet in height, and from 60 to 130 feet in diameter.


id: 30040
author: Wood, Louis Aubrey
title: The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba
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words: 31262
sentence: 1578
flesch: 74
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  Coltman, Lieut.-Col., arbitrates between Lord Selkirk and the North-West Company, 131. Corcoran, Patrick, at Seven Oaks, 105, 119. Coureurs de bois, the, 25. Crees, and Red River Colony, 95, 102 n., 132; and the North-West Company, 106. Currie, Archibald, in the defence of Colony Gardens, 79. Daer, Lord Basil, and Robert Burns, 5. De Meuron regiment, provides recruits for Red River Colony, 109-10, 122, 130. D'Orsonnens, Captain, enlists with Lord Selkirk, 110; at Fort William, 120, 122, 123. Drummond, Sir Gordon, refuses Lord Selkirk armed assistance, 91-2, 93. He permitted several of the persons named in the letter to proceed at once to Selkirk's camp, and assured Lord Selkirk that they had never been prisoners.


id: 6732
author: Hall, M. G. C. (Mary Georgina Caroline)
title: A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba
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words: 34295
sentence: 1201
flesch: 73
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  These three last days are the only days we have had to grumble at the heat; and, I expect, if we bad been out at the farm, quietly doing our various works, we should not have felt it so much; but a tent on a hot day is like a stove-house, quite fearful. He, poor man, has given up his bed and dressing-room to us, and we find ourselves very comfortable.


id: 53576
author: Bryce, George
title: John Black, the Apostle of the Red River Or, How the Blue Banner Was Unfurled on Manitoba Prairies
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words: 41845
sentence: 1875
flesch: 70
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summary:
  MY DEAR SIR,--In the name of our Synod's Home Mission, and for behoof of our poor brethren at Red River in the Hudson's Bay Territory, I have to solicit your aid in obtaining for a time the services of Mr. John Black, whom we have fixed on as a fit person to make an exploratory visit to the settlement. Mr. John Black, as a member of the Relief Executive, took an active part in relieving the distress, and was in his element in comforting the discouraged and the suffering.


id: 10164
author: McClung, Nellie L.
title: The Black Creek Stopping-House, and Other Stories
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words: 44195
sentence: 2248
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Mrs. Corbett baked bread for them each week. The bread is yours, said Mrs. Corbett, sternly; you may have it, but I can't bake any more for you! W'y not? asked Reginald, feeling all at once hungrier than ever.


id: 22254
author: West, John
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sentence: 1582
flesch: 63
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title:
  The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823.

summary:
  It does not appear that cannibalism is practised by any of the North American Indians; on the contrary, the eating of human flesh is held in great abhorrence by them: and when they are driven to eat it, through dire necessity, they are generally shunned by other Indians who know it, and who often take their lives secretly. His two wives, sisters, accompanied him to the water's edge, and while they stood gazing on us, as the canoe was paddled from the shore, I considered that I bore a pledge from the Indian that many more children might be found, if an establishment were formed in British Christian sympathy, and British liberality for their education and support.


id: 7099
author: FitzGibbon, Mary Agnes
title: A Trip to Manitoba
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words: 51024
sentence: 1809
flesch: 71
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summary:
  But Mr. K---- had crossed it in safety a few hours before, so there was really little danger with good men and canoes. Poor old man!


id: 4376
author: McClung, Nellie L.
title: Sowing Seeds in Danny
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words: 57843
sentence: 3425
flesch: 87
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summary:
  What a treat it will be for poor little Pearl! Mrs. Motherwell would tell you of an English girl she had had to work for her that summer who had brought the seed with her from England, and of how one day when she sent the girl to weed the onions, she had found her blubbering and crying over what looked to Mrs. Motherwell nothing more than weeds.


id: 21697
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
title: The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood
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sentence: 3775
flesch: 81
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  The handsome youth at once stepped forward, and old Mr Ravenshaw watched him with an approving smile as he took aim. Don't look so crestfallen, man, said old Mr Ravenshaw heartily, as he shook hands; it's nobler work to teach the young idea how to shoot than to be able to hit a bull's-eye.


id: 28579
author: Stead, Robert J. C.
title: The Homesteaders: A Novel of the Canadian West
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sentence: 4415
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Well, my Land! if it ain't Beulah Harris!' As fate would have it, Riles selected as the base of his homestead operations the very foothill town to which Beulah Harris had come a few weeks before.


id: 10221
author: McClung, Nellie L.
title: Purple Springs
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sentence: 4502
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Pearl is an out and out believer in temperance and woman suffrage, and before she was through, she had every one with her--as one man put it, he'd like to see the woman vote, if for nothing else than to get Pearl Watson into parliament, for there would sure be hides on the barn door if she ever got there, and a rustling of dry bones. Bertie was anxious to talk, and volunteered the information that Pearl Watson was an awful pretty girl, but Mrs. Crocks had just met her on the street and been talkin' to her a little while, and she thought Pearl was gettin' pretty stuck up.


id: 22076
author: McClung, Nellie L.
title: The Second Chance
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flesch: 87
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  A field of fifteen acres farther up the river had been cleared and ploughed and would be in crop next year, and as he looked at his land in the sparkling morning sunshine something of Pearl's optimistic vision came to him, and in his fancy he saw all the roots and scrub cleared away and replaced by magnificent fields of grain, dappled with light and shade, his pasture full of cattle, a comfortable house instead of the weatherworn one before him, himself and the Missus enjoying peace and plenty; and the children growing up in wisdom's ways; and Pearlie--his heart's treasure, little Pearl, with the natest fut in the country, and the sparrow shins of her--Pearlie getting her chance. While Mrs. Cavers, in answer to his eager inquiry, was telling Bud all about Libby Anne's illness, and the great kindness of his father and mother and Martha Pearl Watson whispered to Mr. Perkins: Now's the time to clear up Bud's name about that wheat plugging.


