item: #1 of 23 id: 10987 author: Anonymous title: The Extraordinary Adventures of Poor Little Bewildered Henry, Who was shut up in an Old Abbey for Three Weeks A Story Founded on Fact date: None words: 2046 flesch: 90 summary: sobbed little Henry, a sweet child of three years old, as he stood in the lawn, opposite the door, with the wind blowing his pretty hair and clothes all about him: Oh, mamma! Poor little Henry, much more alarmed for his mamma than for himself, flew into the wood with the hope of saving her; and having run a good way without stopping, calling all the time for his dear mamma, he tripped against a tree and fell: but quickly recovering, he stood up and continued his race, till, quite exhausted, he sat down on the grass, and there continued panting and crying bitterly. keywords: abbey; baby; birds; child; day; fidelle; god; good; heart; henry; illustration; length; little; mamma; night; old; papa; poor; price; wood cache: 10987.txt plain text: 10987.txt item: #2 of 23 id: 11660 author: Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) title: Ethel Morton's Enterprise date: None words: 58819 flesch: 84 summary: Tell us, begged Ethel Blue, who was expending special care on digging up this contribution to the garden as if to make amends for the unkindness of the scientific world, and Ethel Brown repeated the poem beginning When beechen buds begin to swell, And woods the blue-bird's warble know, The yellow violet's modest bell Peeps from last year's leaves below. murmured Ethel Brown to Ethel Blue. keywords: afternoon; air; animals; answer; arrangement; attention; aunt; autumn; bad; beautiful; beauty; bed; beds; beginning; believe; best; better; big; birthday; bit; blossom; blue; boil; boiling; border; bowl; box; boxes; brook; brother; brown; bulbs; business; care; catalogues; cave; chapter; chestnut; children; city; clark; clear; club; coal; color; coming; cook; corner; country; course; cousin; cover; cut; damp; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; decided; deep; delicate; della; dicky; different; distance; dorothy; dress; early; earth; edge; effect; emerson; emily; end; english; ethel; ethel blue; ethel brown; eyes; fair; family; feet; fence; ferns; field; fine; fire; flat; flowers; food; foot; fort; foster; french; fresh; fruit; fun; garden; gardening; gay; girls; glad; glass; glen; good; grandfather; grapefruit; great; green; ground; half; hall; hand; handsome; hapgood; hard; head; heart; heavy; helen; help; hepatica; high; hold; home; hope; hot; house; huge; idea; illustration; inn; inside; interest; james; kinds; kitchen; know; ladies; land; large; late; leaf; leaves; left; leonard; life; like; lily; list; little; live; long; look; lot; louise; lovely; making; man; margaret; maria; married; mary; matter; meadow; mean; meeting; members; men; mind; miss; montgomery; morning; morton; mother; motor; mrs; murmured; nature; need; new; notice; number; oak; old; ones; open; outside; paper; park; party; people; person; pick; piece; pink; pittsburg; place; planting; plants; pleased; plenty; point; poor; position; present; pretty; purpose; putting; queer; ready; real; red; right; road; rocks; roger; room; rose; rosemont; saw; scheme; school; season; seeds; service; set; shrubs; sides; single; sister; size; small; smith; snow; soil; sort; space; spot; spring; stanley; start; stem; stick; story; stove; success; summer; sun; superintendent; supply; sure; sweetpeas; table; talk; tall; tea; things; thought; time; tiny; title; tom; town; train; trees; trouble; true; turn; u.s.c; uncle; united; vase; vegetables; veining; violet; visit; voice; warm; washington; water; watkins; way; week; white; wide; wild; willing; window; winter; wire; women; wonder; woods; work; working; world; yard; year; yellow; york; young; younger cache: 11660.txt plain text: 11660.txt item: #3 of 23 id: 14475 author: Abbott, Jacob title: Mary Erskine date: None words: 39323 flesch: 84 summary: Thus the baby was never called Mary, but always Mary Bell, and the little nursery maid was always known as Mary Erskine. When Mary Bell became old enough to run about and play, Mary Erskine became her playmate and companion, as well as her protector. keywords: afraid; albert; baby; barn; beautiful; bed; beechnut; bella; best; better; board; breakfast; brook; bushes; care; case; chapter; children; corner; countenance; course; cows; day; days; deal; desk; distance; dollars; door; end; evening; fact; fall; farm; father; fire; floor; foot; furniture; glad; good; gordon; grass; great; ground; half; hand; happy; hay; head; help; high; home; hour; house; interest; jemmy; judge; know; land; large; law; left; length; letters; little; log; long; malleville; man; manner; mary bell; mary erskine; means; mind; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; near; necessary; new; night; old; open; order; pail; paper; party; path; phonny; picture; place; plan; play; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; pretty; probate; property; ready; respect; road; room; school; seat; short; sitting; small; sophia; spring; stock; stoop; story; table; thing; thomas; thought; time; tired; trees; village; visit; wagon; walk; want; water; way; wife; window; winter; wish; woods; word; work; yard; years; young cache: 14475.txt plain text: 14475.txt item: #4 of 23 id: 21363 author: Fenn, George Manville title: Quicksilver: The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel date: None words: 119713 flesch: 90 summary: She nodded pleasantly, and went down the steps, leaving Dexter face to face with the footman, who had become possessed of the news of the young guest's quality from no less a personage than Master Edgar himself. Oh, my name, cried Dexter, Obed Cole--I mean Dexter Grayson. keywords: afraid; air; angry; answer; appearance; arm; arms; astonishment; bad; bank; beautiful; bed; bees; beginning; bell; beneath; bent; best; better; big; bit; bite; black; blow; boat; bob; book; boots; box; boy; boys; branch; bread; breakfast; breast; broken; bullocks; busy; butcher; bye; cake; cane; cap; care; case; catch; catching; chain; change; chapter; child; clear; close; clothes; cold; coleby; coming; companion; copestake; corner; countenance; couple; course; cray; creek; cross; cry; cut; d'yer; dan'l; danby; danger; dark; daughter; day; dead; deal; dear; deep; dengate; dexter; dexter grayson; dimsted; dinner; direction; distance; doctor; dog; door; dozen; drawing; drop; drove; dry; easy; eddy; edgar; edge; effect; end; enemy; escape; evening; excitement; eyes; face; fact; fair; far; fast; father; fault; feeling; feet; fellow; fine; fingers; fire; fish; fishing; float; floor; flower; foot; forehead; frank; free; fresh; friend; frog; fruit; game; garden; gardener; gentleman; gig; glad; glanced; glass; good; good boy; grayson; great; green; growled; hair; half; hall; hand; happy; hard; hat; head; heart; heavy; helen; help; high; hippetts; hold; home; hook; hope; horror; hot; hour; house; humph; hung; hungry; hurried; hurt; hush; idea; jacket; james; kind; kindly; knees; knife; ladder; lady; large; laugh; laughing; lawn; leave; left; legs; lessons; life; like; limpney; line; lips; listening; little; live; loft; long; look; looking; loud; lunch; making; man; manner; maria; master; master dexter; mean; millett; mind; minutes; mischief; miserable; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mouth; movement; mrs; muddy; nature; near; neck; new; nice; noise; nonsense; oar; old; open; opposite; pain; papa; paper; pardon; past; peculiar; peter; piece; place; play; pleasant; pleased; plenty; pocket; pointed; poor; position; pretty; promise; prop; pull; quick; reach; ready; red; reeds; regular; reply; rest; result; right; ring; river; rod; roof; room; rough; round; row; rowing; run; running; safe; said; satisfied; saw; school; scull; sea; search; seat; second; set; shabby; shake; sharp; short; shoulder; sibery; silence; silent; simple; sir; sir james; sleep; small; smile; soft; sorry; speak; spirit; spite; splash; squirrel; stand; standing; stealing; step; stern; sternly; stick; stood; stop; strange; stream; strong; study; stupid; sun; sure; swim; table; tail; talk; talking; task; teeth; terrible; things; thought; throwing; thrust; tide; time; tired; toad; tone; touch; town; tramp; tree; trouble; trousers; true; truth; turn; turning; tut; tutor; union; vinery; voice; walk; wall; want; warm; water; way; week; wet; white; wild; willow; window; wish; woman; wonder; wood; words; work; workhouse; worse; writing; wrong; yah; yards; years; yer; yes; young cache: 21363.txt plain text: 21363.txt item: #5 of 23 id: 21371 author: Fenn, George Manville title: Our Soldier Boy date: None words: 12235 flesch: 87 summary: Said he knowed there'd be a house up somewheres there. He asked for water often, and then all at once the boy felt frightened, for the wounded man began to talk and mutter wildly: then he began to shout to his men to come on and charge, and at last poor Dick broke down. keywords: 200th; beane; bit; boy; brave; bugle; bushes; camp; close; colonel; corporal; darkness; dead; dear; dick; doctor; enemy; eyes; face; faint; father; fellow; fire; french; good; great; half; hand; head; help; hungry; joe; jones; knees; life; lips; little; long; look; man; men; mind; minutes; mother; mrs; mrs corporal; mule; night; officers; old; place; poor; regiment; round; sir; soldier; terrible; thought; time; tin; tom; trevor; uniform; water; way; wife; woman; wounded cache: 21371.txt plain text: 21371.txt item: #6 of 23 id: 21703 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Silver Lake date: None words: 38439 flesch: 81 summary: Well, it may be as you say, friend, observed Roy, as he sat down before the fire and pulled off his hunting mocassins and socks, which he replaced by lighter foot-gear more suited to the hut; but I don't much like the notion o' givin' them a chance to come up and cut all our throats at once. A variety of questions were now put to poor Roy, who, not understanding, of course could not answer them. keywords: advanced; air; anxiety; anxious; arms; arrow; asleep; axe; bear; belt; better; big; bird; black; blanket; bow; boy; branches; breakfast; broken; brother; bundle; camp; care; chance; chapter; children; close; clouds; cold; comrades; country; course; cut; dark; day; days; dead; dear; deep; deer; dinner; doubt; drift; dry; ducks; encampment; enterprise; evening; eyes; face; fact; far; father; feast; feeling; feet; fire; firewood; fish; foot; forest; fort; friends; game; girl; god; good; gore; great; gun; half; hand; hard; hawk; head; heart; high; hold; hole; home; hope; hour; hunter; hut; indian; jeff; journey; lad; lake; land; large; larry; lass; leave; left; life; like; line; little; long; look; lost; low; macdonell; man; march; matter; means; meat; men; miles; mind; minutes; moment; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; nelly; new; night; nothin'; number; o'dowd; order; party; pine; pipe; place; plain; point; poor; precipice; provisions; rabbits; ready; red; redskins; rendered; reptiles; rest; return; robin; rose; round; roy; scene; search; shoes; short; silence; silver; sister; sledge; slope; slugs; small; snow; spirits; spot; start; state; step; stiff; strong; sun; supper; sure; surprise; swan; tea; things; thought; time; tone; track; tree; true; use; usual; uttered; walter; wapaw; way; white; wife; wild; wilderness; winter; woods; work; year; yer; young cache: 21703.txt plain text: 21703.txt item: #7 of 23 id: 22124 author: Keyworth, J. W. title: The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn date: None words: 80313 flesch: 83 summary: Miss Jemima Horn was sufficiently curious as to the result of her brother's visit to the lawyers, to render her restlessly eager for his return. But what had brought Mr. Horn out so soon? keywords: able; abode; account; accustomed; actual; advice; afraid; afternoon; agent; ago; america; announcement; answer; anxious; appearance; arms; attention; aunt; aunt jemima; aware; ball; bed; bedside; beginning; best; better; bit; black; bonnet; boots; bore; bounder; breakfast; breast; brief; brother; brown; burton; business; care; carriage; caske; certain; chair; change; chapter; child; children; christian; church; circumstances; class; client; close; clothes; coachman; cobbler; comfort; coming; complete; continued; cottage; country; course; cousin; crowd; cry; daddy; daisy; dark; daughter; day; days; deal; dear; death; deep; degree; desire; difficulty; dinner; discovery; door; doorway; doubt; downstairs; dreadful; drive; dudgeon; durnford; duty; early; employer; evening; evident; expression; eyes; face; fact; family; father; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; field; finished; fire; following; foot; fortune; forward; free; frequent; friend; froud; gentlemen; girl; glad; god; golden; good; gray; great; half; hall; hand; happy; hard; head; heart; help; home; honest; hope; horn; hour; house; humble; husband; idea; intention; interest; jack; jemima; jemima horn; john; joy; kershaw; kind; kindly; kitchen; lady; lane; large; lawyers; leave; left; length; letters; life; like; likely; lips; little; little man; little marian; london; long; look; lord; lost; love; loving; making; mammy; man; manner; marian; marian horn; mary; matter; means; members; messrs; mind; minister; minutes; miss; miss horn; miss jemima; miss owen; mistake; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; necessary; need; new; news; occasion; office; open; opening; opportunity; order; owen; paper; pardon; parents; past; pay; people; person; place; pleasure; pocket; point; poor; position; possession; possible; poverty; prayer; presence; present; previous; property; public; purpose; question; quiet; rate; ready; real; reason; regard; reply; response; result; return; rich; right; road; room; sad; safe; saying; seat; sec'tary; secretary; self; service; set; shake; shoemaker; shoes; shop; short; sick; silence; similar; simple; sir; sister; sitting; sleep; slight; small; smile; somewhat; sound; startled; state; station; step; story; strange; street; strong; subject; sudden; sun; sure; surprise; talk; task; thankful; things; think; thinking; thomas; thought; time; tiny; tommy; tones; town; tramp; trouble; true; trust; truth; twin; uncle; usual; vague; village; visit; visitor; voice; want; way; ways; wealth; wife; window; wish; woman; wonder; wood; words; work; workshop; world; years; young cache: 22124.txt plain text: 22124.txt item: #8 of 23 id: 23577 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading date: None words: 103227 flesch: 90 summary: He hoped, he said, that many other young men in the regiment would follow my example, and he could assure them that if they did, the same rewards were in store for them. Miners, though their faces look black on week-days, and their hands are rough, have hearts like other men, and all felt for little David. keywords: able; adams; afraid; air; alive; answer; arms; army; attack; bad; bear; bed; ben; best; better; bible; big; bill; black; blow; board; boat; body; boy; boys; breakfast; british; brother; bush; canoe; captain; care; cattle; certain; chance; chapter; charge; chief; children; clear; close; clothes; coal; cold; coming; company; comrades; cottage; country; course; crew; cry; curious; cut; damp; danger; dark; david; day; days; dead; deal; death; deck; deep; dick; different; distance; doctor; door; dry; duty; end; enemy; england; english; evening; eyes; face; fallen; family; farmer; fast; father; fear; fearful; feet; fellow; fields; find; fine; fire; fish; food; foot; forest; fresh; friend; girl; glad; god; good; great; green; grey; gun; guns; hale; half; hands; happy; hard; harlow; harm; head; hearing; heart; heavy; help; high; hill; hold; hole; home; hope; hours; house; hut; island; james; john; joseph; kempson; kind; known; lad; lads; lake; lamp; land; landon; large; leave; left; leg; legs; life; like; likely; line; little; log; long; longer; look; looking; lost; loud; love; making; man; mark; marshall; mary; master; mate; men; michael; miles; mill; miller; mind; missionary; moment; money; morning; mother; mouth; mrs; nancy; natives; near; nearer; new; night; number; officers; old; ones; open; order; page; party; passage; pat; paul; peach; people; pick; pieces; pit; place; pleased; plenty; pony; poor; pretty; quiet; ramsay; ready; reason; regiment; rest; return; river; road; rob; roof; room; rough; round; rudge; run; russians; sad; sail; sally; sam; samuel; sarah; saw; sea; search; second; sergeant; set; shaft; sheep; ship; shore; shot; sides; sir; sisters; sky; sleigh; small; snow; soldier; son; sorts; spirits; spot; stand; station; stop; story; strong; sun; sure; susan; talk; tea; thankful; thick; things; thinking; thought; time; tiny; tired; toby; tom; tommy; tony; town; trees; troloo; true; trust; turn; uncle; voice; wages; want; watch; water; way; weak; weather; wells; white; wife; wild; wind; winter; wish; women; wood; words; work; working; world; worse; wounded; wrong; yards; years; young cache: 23577.txt plain text: 23577.txt item: #9 of 23 id: 29683 author: Raper, Eleanor title: The Little Girl Lost A Tale for Little Girls date: None words: 21392 flesch: 91 summary: But would Little Yi consent? She was more like little Nelly Grey of the British Legation than she had been since that unlucky day on which she wandered from home. keywords: able; afraid; arthur; baby; barber; bob; boy; cart; chang nai; chapter; children; chinese; ching; christian; chu; clothes; compound; court; day; door; english; family; father; feet; foreign; girl; glad; good; great; grey; hair; hand; hard; head; help; home; house; hung; hung li; inn; kang; know; ku nai; ladder; large; left; legation; letter; like; little; little yi; long; look; looking; money; morning; mother; mrs; mule; nai; nelly; night; old; open; outside; paper; parents; peking; people; poor; red; road; room; round; set; small; son; sun; sure; talk; things; thought; time; wall; way; wife; woman; yung cache: 29683.txt plain text: 29683.txt item: #10 of 23 id: 29693 author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester title: A Waif of the Mountains date: None words: 71409 flesch: 80 summary: There, too, grazed the pony of Nellie Dawson, the horses of Ruggles and Bidwell and the three mules owned by Landlord Ortigies and Vose Adams. His heart was beating fast, though no one else was aware of it, for it was a present which he had made to Nellie Dawson on the preceding Christmas, having been brought by Vose Adams, with other articles, on his trip made several months before the presentation. keywords: able; accustomed; adams; advance; afraid; agin; angel; animals; answer; arms; bad; bar; belief; best; better; bidwell; big; blessed; bower; boys; briggs; brush; budge; business; cabin; camp; captain; captain dawson; care; cause; cañon; certain; chairman; chance; chapter; child; clear; close; colonel; coming; committee; companions; company; constantinople; continued; corporal; countenance; country; couple; course; crime; danger; dangerous; dark; daughter; dawson; days; dead; death; deep; diggings; direction; distance; dog; door; doubt; dozen; duty; easy; expression; eyes; face; fact; faint; fall; fast; father; fear; feeling; feet; felix; fellow; figure; fire; folks; foot; forget; form; friends; fugitives; fur; gal; general; gentlemen; girl; glad; glass; gloom; god; good; gorge; great; grim; ground; group; guide; gulch; half; hand; hard; head; heart; heavenly; help; hercules; high; hoe; hold; home; hope; horses; hour; howsumever; impossible; indians; injins; intention; interest; isham; journey; kind; knowledge; known; lady; landlord; late; leader; leading; left; letters; lieutenant; life; like; likely; line; lips; little; long; longer; looking; looks; love; man; manner; matter; maurice; mean; meaning; meeting; men; miles; mind; miners; mining; minutes; mistake; moment; mood; moon; morning; mountain; mule; nature; near; necessary; need; nellie; nellie dawson; new; news; notice; number; officer; old; ortigies; pards; parent; parson; parson brush; party; pass; past; path; people; pipe; place; plan; point; pony; position; presence; present; punishment; purpose; pursuers; pursuit; question; quick; reach; ready; rear; reason; red; remark; reply; rest; return; rifle; right; rising; rocks; room; rough; ruggles; run; russell; sacramento; safe; sense; settlement; short; silent; single; situation; slight; small; smile; snow; sorry; sound; spot; standing; start; stone; stop; story; straight; strange; stream; strong; sun; sure; suspicion; talking; task; teacher; thing; thought; time; timon; town; trail; travel; tried; trouble; true; truth; try; turn; turning; usual; view; voice; vose; vose adams; wade; wade ruggles; wait; walk; want; war; warning; watch; water; way; weeks; white; winchester; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; wrong; years; young cache: 29693.txt plain text: 29693.txt item: #11 of 23 id: 31189 author: Crane, Stephen title: The Monster and Other Stories date: None words: 36965 flesch: 87 summary: Docteh Trescott is er kind man, an' 'tain't like as if I didn't 'preciate what he done; but--but-- But what? On a particular evening a rather large company of young men were gathered on the sidewalk that edged the park. keywords: advanced; affair; afraid; alek; answer; arms; attitude; aunt; avenue; backward; band; barkeeper; bed; better; black; blue; board; box; boys; broken; buggy; burst; business; butcher; cards; care; carrie; cart; chair; charge; chief; child; children; company; corner; course; cowboy; crazy; crowd; cry; dark; dassent; day; dead; deal; death; deed; deep; desire; devil; die; district; docteh; doctor; dollars; dollehs; don; door; drink; easterner; effect; electric; end; evening; eyes; fa'gut; face; fact; family; farragut; father; feet; figure; fingers; fire; flames; floor; food; formidable; gambler; game; gathering; girl; git; glance; good; grass; great; ground; group; hagenthorpe; half; hall; hand; hannigan; hard; hat; head; heart; hennery; henry; high; home; horace; hotel; house; hurt; illustration; indians; interest; jake; jimmie; johnnie; johnson; judge; kate; kind; kitchen; known; laboratory; lad; lamp; large; late; laugh; lawn; left; legs; life; like; little; long; look; lot; loud; low; mam; man; manner; mare; martha; matter; men; mind; minute; miss; mittens; moment; monster; morning; mother; mrs; near; negro; new; noise; nothin'; number; old; old man; open; page; paper; party; people; place; play; point; porch; quiet; rear; red; reifsnyder; right; road; romper; room; run; saw; scared; school; scully; second; sense; shame; shoulder; sick; silence; silent; sleep; small; smoke; snow; soldiers; sound; square; stairs; stand; stickney; storm; stove; strange; street; sudden; sure; swede; table; talk; terrible; terror; thing; thought; throng; time; tone; town; trees; trescott; voice; walk; water; way; whilomville; white; wide; wife; williams; window; winter; woman; words; work; world; worth; years; young cache: 31189.txt plain text: 31189.txt item: #12 of 23 id: 31521 author: Anonymous title: Little Frida: A Tale of the Black Forest date: None words: 40921 flesch: 85 summary: Do you not remember the first time when Pastor Langen brought you here a shy, trembling little child, and asked me to see you from time to time? She understood, and answered in her sweet babyish accents, 'Fader come back soon, he told little Frida. keywords: able; ada; adeline; alive; anna; answer; appearance; arms; away; babe; baden; beautiful; bed; bible; black; blind; book; boy; brother; brown; care; case; chapter; child; children; christ; christmas; comfort; companion; concert; cry; cutters; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; doctor; door; dorf; drechsler; dringenstadt; earth; elsie; england; english; ere; evening; everett; evil; eyes; face; fader; father; fear; feeling; forest; frida; friends; fräulein; german; gertie; girl; glad; god; good; gower; grandmother; great; green; gretchen; hand; hans; harcourt; head; heart; heinz; help; herr; hilda; holy; home; house; husband; hut; hörstel; jesus; johann; kind; lady; leave; left; letter; life; like; little; little child; little frida; living; london; long; look; looking; lord; loved; lovely; man; manor; mind; minutes; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; music; musical; mutter; müller; nay; need; new; old; parents; party; pastor; people; picture; place; play; pleasure; poor; possible; prayer; pretty; reading; reginald; relations; return; richard; right; room; round; sea; silence; sin; sir; sister; small; son; sorrow; soul; spirit; stanford; story; strange; summer; sure; thee; things; thought; thy; time; trees; true; violin; violinist; visit; voice; warden; way; wife; wilhelm; willoughby; wish; woman; wood; woodland; words; work; world; years; young cache: 31521.txt plain text: 31521.txt item: #13 of 23 id: 32249 author: Otis, James title: The Princess and Joe Potter date: None words: 56527 flesch: 81 summary: It seemed as if the eyes of each boy who was acquainted with Joe had been attracted to that particular advertisement, and business among a certain portion of the youthful merchants in the vicinity of City Hall Square was almost entirely suspended because of the startling information that the lawyers were after Joe Potter. Joe shouted, angrily, and the amateur detective halted long enough to say: You think you're mighty smart, Joe Potter, but you'll find there are some folks that can give you points. keywords: 'bout; advertisement; afternoon; air; alarmed; amateur; arms; attention; aunt dorcas; awful; baby; bad; barn; bed; best; better; big; boy; boys; breakfast; burglar; business; care; carter; case; cents; certain; chance; chapter; child; city; close; cottage; countin; course; dan; day; days; deal; dear; decided; detective; doin'; dollars; door; eyes; face; fact; fashion; fat; feet; fellers; fernald; ferry; folks; friend; fruit; garden; george; german; gettin; goin'; good; great; half; hand; hang; hard; head; heart; help; hold; home; hour; house; hungry; illustration; information; instant; jail; jest; joe; joe potter; joseph; kid; kind; kitchen; lady; lawyers; left; life; like; likely; little; little woman; live; long; longer; look; looking; lost; maid; making; manner; master; master plummer; mean; mighty; mind; minutes; mis; moment; money; more'n; mornin; morrow; mrs; near; necessary; need; new; o'clock; old; papers; pay; perlice; pie; place; plummer; plums; poor; possible; potter; pretty; princess; reason; reg'lar; reply; right; room; round; run; saw; scrape; set; shanty; sich; sim; sleep; small; somethin'; spell; stand; stop; straight; street; stuff; sure; surprise; table; talk; things; think; thinkin; thought; time; tiny; tone; town; trouble; try; tryin; turn; walk; way; weber; weehawken; week; willin; window; woman; words; work; york cache: 32249.txt plain text: 32249.txt item: #14 of 23 id: 32310 author: Raymond, Evelyn title: Dorothy at Oak Knowe date: None words: 58348 flesch: 90 summary: I just stepped here to ask is Miss Dorothy Calvert staying the night? However, she had hardly begun undressing before Dawkins appeared with a small tray of sandwiches and milk, explaining: Supper's long past, Miss Dorothy, but the Principal bade me bring this. keywords: afraid; anxiety; apples; arms; ask; assembly; attention; aunt; auntie; baal; bad; baltimore; bath; beautiful; bed; best; better; betty; big; bishop; bit; blue; boot; box; boy; breakfast; broken; business; calvert; care; case; chair; chance; chapter; chef; child; city; class; close; clothes; cold; come; coming; commons; cottage; course; curiosity; dame; darling; dawkins; day; days; dear; dearest; death; delight; doctor; dolly; door; dormitory; dorothy; dorothy calvert; dress; evening; eyes; face; fact; fall; fancy; far; farmer; fast; father; fault; fear; feeling; feet; fine; floor; florita; folks; foot; form; forward; friends; fun; funny; gilpin; girl; glad; goat; good; grace; great; guess; gwendolyn; half; hall; hallowe'en; hand; happy; hard; hate; head; heart; help; hexam; high; hold; home; honorable; hope; hospital; hour; house; hurry; hurt; ice; instant; jack; jane; john; kind; kingdon; kitchen; knowe; ladies; lady; lady principal; lassie; late; laughter; lecture; left; life; like; lips; little; long; longer; look; looking; lots; love; lovely; ma'am; maid; mamma; man; manner; marjorie; matter; mean; michael; millikins; mind; minute; miss; miss muriel; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; muriel; music; near; need; new; nice; noise; nuts; oak; oak knowe; old; ones; open; ordinary; pair; parlor; party; pass; past; peer; people; person; place; plain; pleased; pocket; point; poor; possible; pot; pretty; pride; principal; private; proud; pupil; queen; quick; ready; real; rest; right; road; robin; room; rules; run; save; school; schoolmates; second; servants; set; seth; shoes; sick; silence; silent; silly; simple; sir; sled; sleep; slide; small; smile; sorry; sort; sound; spirit; spread; states; step; stop; story; strange; suit; supper; sure; surprised; table; talk; talking; teacher; tears; tell; terrible; things; thought; time; tired; tis; toboggan; tongue; town; tross; trouble; true; try; turn; uncle; usual; visit; voice; walk; warm; water; way; week; white; wild; winifred; winston; wish; woman; wonder; words; work; world; worse; wrong; year; yes; young cache: 32310.txt plain text: 32310.txt item: #15 of 23 id: 33343 author: Munroe, Kirk title: Campmates: A Story of the Plains date: None words: 70945 flesch: 78 summary: Boys, this is Mr. Glen Matherson, our new-- Fortunately, the leveller was able to answer most of them, and thus she learned, what Glen had never attempted to conceal, that he was an adopted son of Luke Matherson, of Brimfield, Pennsylvania, who had saved him from a railroad wreck in Glen Eddy creek when he was a baby. keywords: account; afternoon; air; animals; answer; anxious; appearance; arms; army; attempt; attention; away; baby; bad; baggage; bank; bed; best; better; billy; binney; binney gibbs; birthday; bit; black; blankets; body; boy; boys; brackett; breakfast; bridge; brimfield; broad; brown; buffalo; business; camp; captain; car; care; carson; case; certain; chance; chapter; charge; cheyenne; chief; city; clear; close; clothing; cold; colorado; coming; companion; company; conversation; country; course; creek; crossing; cut; danger; dark; darkness; day; daylight; days; desert; direction; distance; distant; division; door; dozen; dry; duty; early; earth; east; easy; edge; elting; end; engaged; engineer; english; entire; escape; evening; excitement; expedition; experience; explorers; eyes; face; fact; far; fastened; father; feeling; feet; fellow; fine; fire; flag; foot; fort; forward; friend; general; gentleman; gibbs; glad; glen; glen eddy; glen matherson; gold; good; grande; grass; great; ground; guard; hair; half; hand; hard; hat; head; heart; heavy; height; help; high; hobart; hold; home; hope; horses; hours; house; idea; indians; instant; interest; journey; kansas; kind; kindly; knowledge; lake; lame; large; left; length; level; leveller; life; like; line; little; locomotive; long; longer; look; looking; loose; louis; lower; luke; lyle; making; man; mare; matherson; meadows; means; meat; members; mexican; mighty; miles; mind; minutes; moment; months; morning; mother; motionless; mountains; mule; narrow; near; need; nettle; new; night; number; offer; old; open; opposite; order; pacific; particular; party; pass; passengers; past; pay; people; perfect; place; plains; pleasant; point; ponies; pony; poor; position; possible; prairie; presence; present; prisoner; prize; question; quick; railroad; ranch; raw; reach; ready; real; red; region; rest; return; ride; riding; rifle; rio; river; rock; rodman; room; rope; run; running; rush; saddle; safety; sand; school; scout; second; set; short; shots; sides; sir; sleep; slope; small; smooth; snow; soldiers; sound; spanish; speed; spite; spring; stage; standing; start; station; story; stream; strength; strong; study; sudden; sun; supper; sure; surface; surprise; swim; talk; team; tell; tents; terrible; things; thinking; thought; time; time glen; tired; tone; tongue; town; track; train; transit; trees; trip; understand; vain; valley; valuable; vast; voice; wagon; wall; want; warriors; water; weary; weeks; west; white; wide; wild; willing; winn; wolf; wonder; wonderful; words; work; world; worse; wounded; year; young; zuñi cache: 33343.txt plain text: 33343.txt item: #16 of 23 id: 36189 author: Walsh, William Shepard title: In Search of a Son date: None words: 37262 flesch: 82 summary: Then Miette repeated to Paul Monsieur Roger's story; she told him about the departure of Monsieur Roger, his wife, and their little George for America, their voyage on the ship, then the fire at sea. Two Friends 18 CHAPTER III. Monsieur Roger 26 CHAPTER IV. Monsieur Roger's Story 32 CHAPTER V. Fire at Sea 39 CHAPTER VI. keywords: acid; air; albert; answer; arms; atmosphere; attraction; bit; blood; bodies; body; boy; candle; carbonic; certain; chapter; chemistry; child; children; château; coin; combustion; continued; cork; cylinder; day; dear; distance; door; drawing; earth; evening; experiment; eyes; face; fact; fall; falling; farm; father; fear; feet; fire; fixed; flame; force; friend; friend roger; gas; gentleman; george; girl; glass; globe; good; gravity; great; ground; half; hand; happy; head; heat; heavier; heavy; hope; house; idea; illustration; impossible; large; lavoisier; lead; left; letter; like; little; long; look; lungs; madame; matter; mercury; miette; miss; miss miette; moment; monsieur dalize; monsieur roger; monsieur solange; moon; morning; mother; necessary; news; nitrogen; number; old; order; oxygen; papa; paper; paris; paul; paul solange; physical; piston; place; poor; pressure; promise; pump; quantity; question; reason; resistance; right; room; science; second; silence; silent; sir; sleep; small; smile; smoke; solange; son; stone; story; strange; sudden; surprise; table; telegram; terrible; thought; time; tower; true; tube; voice; water; way; weight; wife; wish; words; years; young cache: 36189.txt plain text: 36189.txt item: #17 of 23 id: 41708 author: Otis, James title: Jack the Hunchback: A Story of Adventure on the Coast of Maine date: None words: 68778 flesch: 81 summary: This was rather more than meek little Aunt Nancy could endure; but she succeeded in checking the angry words, and rose from her chair to intimate that the interview was at an end. Dressing hurriedly, he went downstairs in time to do a portion of the work, and when the milk was brought into the house after old crumple horn had been driven to pasture, Aunt Nancy asked,-- Do you think you could take care of Louis a little while this forenoon? keywords: 12mo; able; abner; account; adventures; afraid; air; alarm; alger; american; angry; animal; arms; atlanta; attempt; attention; aunt nancy; author; awake; baby; bad; barn; bed; believe; best; better; big; bill; bit; boarders; boat; book; boy; boys; bread; browne; bushes; business; camp; captain; care; case; certain; chance; chapter; cheeks; chick; child; children; chores; circle; city; close; cloth; clothes; cold; come; coming; company; considerable; conversation; country; course; cow; cripple; crumple; curtis; daniel; day; days; deacon; deal; dean; death; decided; deformed; difference; direction; dishes; distance; door; downs; duty; early; end; english; escape; evening; exciting; expected; expression; eyes; face; fact; farmer; father; fear; feet; fellers; fellow; fence; fire; floor; folks; following; fore; forward; friend; frightened; gentleman; glad; goin'; good; gordon; grass; great; guests; half; hand; hard; harness; harry; hayes; head; heart; heavy; help; henty; hero; hold; home; hope; horn; hour; house; hunchback; hunchie; hungry; hurried; idea; illustrations; instant; interest; island; jack; jack dear; jest; journey; kind; kitchen; known; labor; lad; lads; lady; lane; large; leave; leaving; left; lie; life; like; line; little; little woman; littlefield; live; long; look; looking; louis; ma'am; making; manner; matter; mean; meeting; mighty; milk; mind; minutes; moment; money; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; nancy curtis; near; necessary; need; new; oak; old; opportunity; order; otis; page; party; people; piece; place; pleasant; pleasure; plenty; pond; poor; portion; positive; possible; pratt; pretty; price; promise; purpose; question; reader; ready; reason; reckon; reply; reward; right; road; room; round; run; save; scene; search; second; sense; set; shed; ship; short; sigh; silent; sir; sleep; small; son; sorry; souders; speed; stand; state; stay; stop; stories; story; struggle; subject; sufficient; summer; sun; supper; supposed; sure; surprise; tale; talk; task; things; thinking; thought; time; time jack; tiny; tired; tom; tone; town; treasure; trouble; turn; voice; wagon; wait; walk; want; watch; water; way; week; wicked; wife; william; woman; word; work; wrong; yard; years; york; young cache: 41708.txt plain text: 41708.txt item: #18 of 23 id: 42850 author: Browning, Robert title: The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and Other Poems Every Boy's Library date: None words: 14177 flesch: 86 summary: What if, with such words as these, He had cast away his weapon? Said Hóseyn, You feed young beasts a many, of famous breed, Slit-eared, unblemished, fat, true offspring of Múzennem: There stumbles no weak-eyed she in the line as it climbs the hill. keywords: aix; ben; better; black; blue; boy; boys; brain; breast; buhéyseh; captain; castle; charles; cheek; chief; children; church; clive; corporation; council; cricket; day; dead; death; donald; door; duhl; earth; edge; english; ere; eye; eyed; eyes; face; fate; fear; fleet; foot; france; friend; galloping; gentlemen; girl; god; gold; good; great; green; ground; guilders; hair; half; hamelin; hand; head; heart; hearted; heaven; hell; help; hero; hervé; hold; hope; horse; hóseyn; illustration; inch; joris; king; laugh; left; length; life; like; lips; little; long; look; lost; love; lyre; man; mayor; men; mind; minute; mouth; muléykeh; nay; near; neck; needs; new; notes; past; pearl; people; pied; piper; place; poor; priest; prize; proved; rats; red; ride; riel; right; river; roland; rouse; saddle; scarce; score; ship; singing; sir; small; son; soul; sound; stag; stands; step; straight; street; strong; sun; sure; tale; thank; thought; time; tis; town; true; turn; twas; voice; way; wide; wife; wonder; word; worth; years; yellow cache: 42850.txt plain text: 42850.txt item: #19 of 23 id: 44770 author: Mathews, Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) title: Daisy's Work: The Third Commandment date: None words: 23014 flesch: 84 summary: With her it was always little Daisy. I wonder how many bundles are already waiting in the depot for me to put safely in the cars; and turning about Lily saw her father, who had overtaken his wife and little girl. keywords: afternoon; baby; bad; better; betty; bible; care; child; children; class; collins; cora; daisies; daisy; day; dear; ella; eyes; face; father; flowers; forster; frank; friends; general; gentleman; gertrude; girl; glenwood; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; honor; house; illustration; jack; jist; kind; lady; lesson; like; lily; lips; little; little girl; lola; long; look; lord; lost; mamma; manner; mean; mercy; mind; minnie; miss; morning; moses; mother; mrs; need; new; nice; niver; old; papa; people; place; play; pretty; real; rest; right; rosie; sacred; saying; school; set; sir; sister; stranger; sure; susy; swearing; talk; thing; thought; time; turn; use; vain; violet; want; ward; way; wife; woman; words; work; wrong; young cache: 44770.txt plain text: 44770.txt item: #20 of 23 id: 45547 author: Stuart, Gordon (Adventure story writer) title: Hal Kenyon Disappears date: None words: 44514 flesch: 85 summary: As to you other boys, there is no excuse for your running away. Two of the boys, Hal Kenyon and Byron Bowler, were delegated to the work of starting the fire. keywords: aeroplane; afraid; airship; animal; answer; arrows; attention; aviator; bad; bag; bank; bed; best; better; big; body; bowler; boys; break; bridge; broken; byrd; byron; cataract; cave; cañon; certain; chapter; cliff; climb; close; companions; continued; coroner; course; dark; day; days; dead; decided; deep; discovery; distance; doctor; eagerly; earth; edge; end; explanation; eyes; face; fact; falls; fear; feet; ferdinand; fes; find; fire; flathead; floor; flying; following; frank; frankland; general; giant; good; great; ground; gun; hal; hal kenyon; half; hand; heavy; help; high; hill; home; hope; hour; huffman; hunt; idea; information; interest; kenyon; kind; lakefarm; lanterns; large; leather; left; level; like; lion; little; long; look; lost; making; man; manner; matter; maxwell; mean; miles; mind; minutes; moment; morning; mountain; mrs; mummy; mystery; near; necessary; new; noise; nuggets; object; old; open; opening; order; owner; panther; party; passage; peak; pepper; pickles; piece; place; plank; point; porter; possible; pretty; proved; ready; reason; remarkable; reply; return; rifle; right; river; road; rock; room; run; safe; school; scouts; search; second; set; shoes; short; silence; small; smash; sound; specimens; spot; spring; standing; stay; steep; stones; story; strange; stream; strong; suggestion; summer; talk; thing; thought; timber; time; tired; trip; true; upward; view; voice; walk; wall; want; watch; water; waterfall; way; wide; wild; wonder; words; work; years; young cache: 45547.txt plain text: 45547.txt item: #21 of 23 id: 45657 author: Vandercook, Margaret title: The Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows date: None words: 47997 flesch: 72 summary: Oh, isn't our beloved Sunrise cabin the most delightful and original home a group of Camp Fire girls ever possessed! It seems to me you Sunrise Camp Fire girls think every little thing you do and say of importance to all the world. keywords: able; adams; afraid; afternoon; anthony; arms; ashton; asylum; barton; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; best; better; betty; betty ashton; big; billy; black; blue; box; boy; brother; brown; cabin; camp fire; care; chance; chapter; child; children; christmas; circle; clark; close; club; cold; companion; control; course; crippen; cross; cry; dark; day; days; deal; dear; decided; desire; dick; difficult; door; dozen; drawing; dyer; early; effort; eleanor; entire; esther; evening; expression; eyes; face; faith; family; far; fashion; father; feeling; feet; figure; fire; fire girls; fire guardian; foot; friends; future; german; girls; good; graham; gray; great; ground; guardian; haf; hair; half; hand; happy; hard; head; health; heart; heavy; help; herr; hill; home; hour; house; idea; instant; interest; kind; kitchen; later; leave; life; like; little; living; long; longer; look; looking; love; lovely; low; making; mammy; man; manner; matter; mcmurtry; mean; meg; member; mind; minutes; miss; mollie; moment; money; months; morning; mother; mrs; music; near; need; new; night; o'neill; old; older; open; outside; pale; past; people; person; piano; pine; place; play; polly; polly o'neill; pony; poor; possible; present; pretty; princess; professor; question; quiet; real; reason; red; rest; return; road; room; rose; school; self; set; short; silence; singing; single; sister; sleigh; small; snow; song; sorry; special; spirit; spite; stage; star; stay; strange; suggestion; summer; sunrise; sunrise cabin; sunrise camp; sure; surprise; sylvia; talent; talk; things; thinking; thought; time; town; tree; trouble; village; voice; waiting; way; webster; week; wharton; white; willing; winter; wish; woman; wonder; wonderful; woodford; woods; work; world; years; young cache: 45657.txt plain text: 45657.txt item: #22 of 23 id: 46386 author: Rankin, Carroll Watson title: The Castaways of Pete's Patch (A Sequel to The Adopting of Rosa Marie) date: None words: 48386 flesch: 87 summary: Mr. Black placed his automobile at her disposal. She had to spend whole days or pieces of days with Jean, with Marjory, with Henrietta, with Mabel (who nursed her so devotedly that she almost suffered a relapse), and with Mrs. Crane and Mr. Black. keywords: afternoon; ah'm; ambrosial; assured; attractive; aunty; away; bad; balsam; bank; barclay; baskets; beach; beans; beautiful; bed; believe; bennett; berry; best; better; bettie; big; billy; birch; bit; black; blanket; blossom; blue; boat; boy; breakfast; breathing; breed; broth; brown; camp; campers; captain; car; castaways; certain; chapter; children; clean; clearing; close; clothes; cold; coming; cook; cooking; cottage; countenance; course; crane; dandelion; dark; dave; day; days; dead; dear; deep; deer; delight; dinner; distance; doctor; dose; dreadful; driftwood; dry; eager; eat; edge; ees; end; eyes; face; father; feet; fever; find; fine; fire; fish; fishing; food; fresh; friend; game; girls; glad; going; golden; good; goodness; grandmother; gray; great; green; ground; guess; hair; half; hand; hard; head; heavy; heem; help; henrietta; home; hon; hope; hour; house; hungry; hurry; i'm; indian; inside; jane; jean; kind; knees; laddie; lady; lake; lakeville; land; large; launch; left; life; like; little; log; lombard; long; look; mabel; man; mapes; marie; marjory; martin; matter; meal; medicine; miles; mind; minutes; miss; missing; moment; morning; morrow; mother; mouth; mrs; mud; mushrooms; necessary; need; new; news; nice; number; o'clock; object; old; open; outside; party; patch; patient; people; person; pete; picnic; pink; pittsburg; place; pleasant; plenty; point; poor; possible; potatoes; precious; pretty; provisions; queer; quiet; ready; real; rest; ride; right; river; road; room; rosa; run; safe; sand; sarah; saunders; saw; sea; second; shoes; shore; sick; sister; sky; slater; sleep; sleeping; small; smooth; som; sound; spite; spot; spring; stay; stout; strange; strong; supper; sure; surprised; t'ink; table; tent; terrible; things; thought; time; town; trail; tree; trout; tucker; turn; venison; visitors; walk; want; warden; warm; water; waves; way; wet; whale; white; wide; wigwam; wild; willing; wind; woman; wonder; wonderful; woods; word; work; wrong; years; yesterday; young cache: 46386.txt plain text: 46386.txt item: #23 of 23 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: able; adele; afraid; air; arms; august; awful; bayou; beach; bearded; beautiful; beauty; bed; best; better; big; billowing; birds; black; blue; boat; bodies; body; brave; breath; breeze; brierre; bright; broad; broken; brown; building; burst; cane; captain; carmelo; carmen; case; changed; cheniere; child; children; chita; circle; circling; city; clear; clinging; close; cloud; coast; cold; color; colored; coming; cool; cottages; creole; cry; cypress; darkness; darling; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; doctor; dream; dress; drift; earth; east; emerald; enormous; eternal; evening; eyes; face; fancy; far; father; fear; feeling; feet; feliu; fine; fire; fish; fisherman; flat; flood; flying; foam; form; french; fresh; friend; gale; general; ghostly; girl; glass; god; gold; good; grande; grasses; gray; great; green; ground; gulf; gulls; hair; half; hands; harris; head; heart; heaven; heavy; high; home; hope; horizon; hotel; hours; house; huge; human; idea; immense; indian; infinite; innumerable; intervals; invisible; island; isle; julien; large; laroussel; left; level; life; lights; like; line; lips; little; living; long; longer; look; loose; lost; love; low; luggers; luminous; maman; man; marco; mark; marsh; marvellous; mateo; mighty; miguel; miles; minute; mist; moin; moment; monstrous; morning; mother; mouth; moving; music; mysterious; nature; new; night; nom; oaks; ocean; old; open; orleans; palmetto; passing; past; pele; pilot; place; play; pleasure; point; possible; power; prayer; pretty; que; qui; rain; red; rest; return; rich; river; rocking; roll; roots; rose; sand; saw; sea; season; sense; settlement; shadow; shapes; shell; shore; silence; silhouette; silver; single; singular; sky; sleep; smile; smoke; soil; soul; sound; spanish; sparicio; speck; splendid; spray; star; steamer; storm; strange; strength; strong; sudden; summer; sun; surf; swaying; sweet; swells; swift; swim; talk; tall; terrible; thin; things; thought; thunder; tide; timber; time; tiny; tone; touch; trees; unfamiliar; vanished; vast; village; viosca; virgin; voice; watch; water; waves; way; weeds; week; west; white; wife; wild; wind; wings; woman; wooden; woods; world; years; yellow; young; zouzoune cache: 717.txt plain text: 717.txt