item: #1 of 40 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: #2 of 40 id: 1318 author: Reynolds, John N. (John Newton) title: The Twin Hells A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and Missouri Penitentiaries date: None words: 67078 flesch: 79 summary: I have often been told, and that, too, by old prison men, that it was impossible to run a prison and have first-class discipline without the whip. Those long, dreary days of monotonous work--the same thing must be gone over, day after day; the food we eat, the treatment to which we are subjected, our loneliness and solitude, all combined, make prison life almost unbearable. keywords: case; cell; charge; coal; convict; county; crime; criminals; dark; day; days; death; feet; good; home; house; kansas; kind; liberty; life; man; manner; men; mines; missouri; money; months; night; officer; penitentiary; place; prison; prisoner; room; sentence; state; term; thought; time; warden; way; wife; work; years; young cache: 1318.txt plain text: 1318.txt item: #3 of 40 id: 15132 author: Brown, William Wells title: Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave date: None words: 20936 flesch: 83 summary: We made our first stop at Vicksburg, where we remained one week and sold several slaves. slaves have no father. keywords: boat; city; day; house; jail; louis; man; master; mother; new; night; orleans; place; slavery; slaves; thought; time; walker; work cache: 15132.txt plain text: 15132.txt item: #4 of 40 id: 17820 author: Delaney, Lucy A. (Lucy Ann) title: From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom date: None words: 9208 flesch: 73 summary: With mother, father and sister, a pleasant home and surroundings, what happier child than I! Having been brought up in a free State, mother had learned much to her advantage, which would have been impossible in a slave State, and which she now proposed to turn to account for the benefit of her daughter. keywords: bates; berry; child; freedom; girl; judge; mitchell; mother; mrs; slavery; time; years cache: 17820.txt plain text: 17820.txt item: #5 of 40 id: 17827 author: Thompson, L. S. (Lucy S.) title: The Story of Mattie J. Jackson Her Parentage—Experience of Eighteen years in Slavery—Incidents during the War—Her Escape from Slavery date: None words: 12223 flesch: 77 summary: During that time my father and mother were in the same neighborhood, but a short distance from each other. He had tantalized her in every possible way to humiliate and annoy her; yet while he could demand her services he appreciated and placed perfect confidence in mother and family. keywords: brother; captain; children; escape; family; father; freedom; god; lewis; man; master; mother; time; way; years cache: 17827.txt plain text: 17827.txt item: #6 of 40 id: 18931 author: Fowke, Gerard title: Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 date: None words: 91808 flesch: 74 summary: The skull, which was intact, lay on left side, vertex north, ribs, arm bones, and feet bones lay on the top, at the back, and at the vertex, in contact with the skull and with one another. Specimens reported from caves not excavated were found on the floor, sometimes in situations where no addition of cave earth had taken place since the objects were left there; at other times where they were brought from below by burrowing animals; and, again, where they are exposed in the bed or banks of a drainage channel. keywords: ashes; bluff cave; bones; cave; cave earth; cavern; clay; county; creek cave; deposit cave; depth; distance; dry; east; end; entrance; farm; feet; floor; foot; fragments; hill; house; illustration; inches; left; level; long; material; miles; miller; mounds; mouth; near; north; place; point; river; rock; roof; sell cave; skull; slope; space; stones; stream; surface; time; vicinity; wall; water; way; west cache: 18931.txt plain text: 18931.txt item: #7 of 40 id: 22534 author: Charless, Charlotte Taylor Blow title: A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren date: None words: 48056 flesch: 67 summary: I alluded to the celebration, and said, �It only needed �father� to read the �Cotter�s Saturday Night� to have made it complete in interest. She accompanied him at night, and at all times to Church, preferring (when we did not ride) to take the long walk with �father� to going with �mother� across the street to �the Second Church. keywords: business; character; charless; children; church; day; dear; death; family; father; friend; god; good; grandfather; heart; home; hope; house; husband; kind; letter; life; little; louis; love; man; men; mind; mother; new; place; poor; things; time; world; years cache: 22534.txt plain text: 22534.txt item: #8 of 40 id: 23391 author: Young, Rose E. (Rose Emmet) title: Sally of Missouri date: None words: 56705 flesch: 85 summary: The miner would not let Miss Madeira come far out on the crag, though he let the men follow him, calling warnings to them as they came. Got the cote-haouse an' all, the relroad an' all--Miss Sally Madeira, Mist' Crit Madeira's daughter, _she_ lives tha'. keywords: away; bernique; boy; bruce; canaan; come; company; day; eyes; face; father; girl; god; good; grierson; hand; head; high; hills; house; letter; life; light; little; look; love; madeira; man; men; miss; miss madeira; missouri; new; old; people; piney; place; river; road; sally; sally madeira; saw; steering; thing; tigmores; time; voice; way; young cache: 23391.txt plain text: 23391.txt item: #9 of 40 id: 31770 author: McElroy, John title: The Struggle for Missouri date: None words: 96729 flesch: 61 summary: 98 F. P. Blair wrote to the Secretary of War urging that the four regiments assigned to Missouri for three years' service, which Lyon was to command, should not be officered by the Governor of Missouri, but that it would be better that they be nominated by Gen. Lyon, subject to the approval of the President, and he said: The agreement between Harney and Gen. Price gives me great disgust and dissatisfaction to the Union men; but I am in hopes we can get along with it, and think that Harney will insist on its execution to the fullest extent, in which case it will be satisfactory. At the close of the interview of June 11, Gen. Lyon, with Col. Blair and Maj. Conant, returned to the Arsenal, while Gov. Jackson and Gen. Price hurried to the depot of the Pacific Railroad, where they impressed a locomotive, tender and cars, and urged the railroad men to get up steam in the shortest possible time. keywords: 1st; arms; army; arsenal; artillery; attack; battle; blair; brigadier; camp; capt; cavalry; city; col; command; commanding; confederate; country; creek; curtis; day; days; department; division; enemy; force; forward; fremont; gen; general; government; governor; harney; jackson; kansas; left; line; louis; lyon; maj; march; mcculloch; men; miles; military; missouri; missouri state; new; officers; order; people; position; president; price; regiment; retreat; right; river; secessionists; service; sigel; south; springfield; state; time; troops; union; union men; united; van; war; way; west; wounded; years cache: 31770.txt plain text: 31770.txt item: #10 of 40 id: 32325 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) date: None words: 116074 flesch: 92 summary: Said he swum along behind me that night, and heard me yell every time, but dasn't answer, because he didn't want nobody to pick _him_ up and take him into slavery again. But at last, just as I was sailing by, _flash_ comes the light in Mary Jane's window! keywords: bed; canoe; come; dark; dat; day; dey; door; duke; going; good; hain't; half; hand; head; home; house; huck; jim; kind; king; left; little; long; look; man; men; mighty; mile; mind; minute; miss; money; nigger; people; place; pretty; raft; right; river; run; set; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; tom; town; trouble; warn't; water; way; woods; work cache: 32325.txt plain text: 32325.txt item: #11 of 40 id: 33048 author: None title: Jap Herron: A Novel Written from the Ouija Board date: None words: 52948 flesch: 87 summary: Petticoat government 'll get old Jap tripped up, he complained to the office cat. And when Jap got up and told the folks that not Jap Herron but a greater man than he ever hoped to be, had cradled and nussed Bloomtown and learnt her to walk, I might' nigh split my guzzle yellin' for joy. keywords: barton; bill; bloomtown; bowers; boy; chapter; day; door; ellis; eyes; face; flossy; going; good; granger; half; hand; harlow; herald; home; isabel; jap; jap herron; jones; judge; kelly; little; man; mark; mother; mrs; new; office; paper; planchette; right; room; story; street; time; tom; town; want; wat; way; words; work cache: 33048.txt plain text: 33048.txt item: #12 of 40 id: 35207 author: Dunn, Byron A. (Byron Archibald) title: The Courier of the Ozarks date: None words: 82327 flesch: 89 summary: Can it be that old man has been our guardian angel all the time? asked Lawrence. Many men wear nightgowns, he explained. keywords: army; battle; bruno; captain; chittenden; colonel; command; dan; day; face; father; force; general; good; grace; great; guerrillas; harry; horse; jack; jerry; lawrence; left; man; mark; mcneil; men; miles; missouri; place; porter; right; road; shot; tell; thought; time; uns; way; wounded cache: 35207.txt plain text: 35207.txt item: #13 of 40 id: 36675 author: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe title: Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas date: None words: 98151 flesch: 70 summary: This range is broken up into high cliffs, often wonderful to behold, which form the enclosing walls of river valleys. [13] The following is a list of the principal mines worked under the Spanish government, with their situation: Mine La Motte Head of St. Francis river. keywords: arkansas; banks; character; clay; country; course; creek; day; distance; feet; fire; fork; francis; furnace; ground; having; high; horse; hunters; illinois; indian; iron; lands; lead; left; length; limestone; long; louis; man; masses; miles; mineral; mining; mississippi; missouri; morning; near; new; night; north; number; ore; period; place; point; potosi; present; quartz; red; region; river; rock; soil; south; state; stream; surface; territory; time; valley; water; way; west; western; white; white river; years cache: 36675.txt plain text: 36675.txt item: #14 of 40 id: 40698 author: Unknown title: Address to the People of the United States, together with the Proceedings and Resolutions of the Pro-Slavery Convention of Missouri, Held at Lexington, July 1855 date: None words: 12054 flesch: 50 summary: Col. S. A. Young rose and informed the Convention, that he had information that a letter had been received by a member of this Convention, Mr. Field, from a distinguished politician, advising and urging him, that unless certain resolutions were adopted by this Convention, to secede from the Convention and break it up in a row; and he wished this matter investigated, and the facts properly brought out. _Jackson Co._--S. H. Woodson, W. M. F. Magraw, W. F. Robinson, W. Easley, E. C. McCarty, N. R. McMurry, J. A. Winn, T. M. Adams, N. M. Miller, W. Ellis, E. McClanahan, John McCarty, J. M. Ridge, J. R. Henry, Col. J. M. Cogswell, Jno. keywords: col; committee; convention; county; kansas; missouri; motion; president; resolutions; slavery; state; territory cache: 40698.txt plain text: 40698.txt item: #15 of 40 id: 42322 author: Flagg, Edmund title: Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 1 date: None words: 121138 flesch: 61 summary: Boats like those employed, of twenty to thirty feet beam, and six to eight feet draught of water, must have _uncommon_ power to be propelled up a river, every pint of whose water is equal in weight to a quart of Ohio water, and moves with a velocity hardly credible. It is a trite remark, that few studies are more pleasing to the inquisitive mind than that of the _nature of man_. keywords: account; alton; american; bank; beautiful; beauty; blue; bluffs; boat; bosom; character; charles; circumstance; city; county; course; current; dark; day; deep; distance; earth; evening; extent; eye; feet; fine; flagg; forest; form; forth; french; general; good; grand; green; half; heart; high; history; horse; hour; human; illinois; indian; island; land; left; length; life; limestone; long; louis; man; men; miles; mind; mississippi; missouri; morning; mounds; mouth; nature; new; night; northern; note; number; ohio; opposite; origin; people; place; plain; point; prairie; present; public; race; region; river; road; rock; route; scene; settlement; shore; site; soil; spot; state; stone; stream; summer; sun; surface; time; town; traveller; trees; united; valley; vicinity; view; village; volume; waters; way; west; western; white; wild; work; world; years; young cache: 42322.txt plain text: 42322.txt item: #16 of 40 id: 44574 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Missouri Outlaws date: None words: 50599 flesch: 86 summary: After presenting the scalps taken by myself and young men to the sachems, and receiving their thanks, I was going to my wigwam to visit my father, detained at home by old wounds, when I suddenly saw a young girl leaning against the ark of the first man. As far as I can judge, this pirate or this outlaw, whichever you choose to call him, is not a man like other men. keywords: brother; camotte; captain; chief; clinton; desert; dickson; durand; eye; face; father; friend; george; girl; good; hand; head; hunter; indian; joshua; man; matter; men; mitchell; moment; numank; oliver; outlaw; right; samuel; sir; squatter; time; tom; valley; way cache: 44574.txt plain text: 44574.txt item: #17 of 40 id: 45558 author: Lathrop, David title: The History of the Fifty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers date: None words: 67159 flesch: 73 summary: General Nelson--How many men have you? General Davis--About twenty-five hundred men, General. General Nelson--roughly and angrily--About twenty-five hundred! _ At such places, as many men as could get near the wagon would lay hold and hoist it, and then the mules could again proceed. keywords: army; battle; boys; brigade; camp; captain; cavalry; chapter; colonel; command; company; country; creek; davis; day; days; division; enemy; field; general; good; guard; hospital; house; illinois; left; line; major; march; miles; missouri; morning; mountain; night; ninth; o'clock; order; place; position; price; rebels; regiment; river; road; sick; soldiers; springfield; time; town; troops; union; valley; war; way; wounded cache: 45558.txt plain text: 45558.txt item: #18 of 40 id: 46001 author: Dalziel, D. (Davison) title: A Parody on Iolanthe date: None words: 12785 flesch: 80 summary: ====================================================================== This train, leaving Chicago one hour later than heretofore, makes a much surer connection with Western lines. Agents make a dumb appeal to_ PHYLLIS.) keywords: = =; agent; alton; cars; central; chicago; city; co.; day; falls; illustration; iolanthe; line; lord; michigan; new; office; phyllis; queen; railroad; railway; road; route; street; strephon; york cache: 46001.txt plain text: 46001.txt item: #19 of 40 id: 48822 author: McCall, D. title: Three Years in the Service A Record of the Doings of the 11th Reg. Missouri Vols. date: None words: 30903 flesch: 79 summary: On the march from Mechanicsburg the 11th lost several men; they were behind and were taken by rebel cavalry, who were picking up stragglers, but did not get many, as our cavalry were protecting the rear, and they did not venture up very close. Ague and fever became frequent, and several men died in the brigade. keywords: 11th; advance; brigade; camp; cavalry; command; day; left; line; men; miles; missouri; morning; night; order; place; rebels; regiment; river; time; town cache: 48822.txt plain text: 48822.txt item: #20 of 40 id: 490 author: Calamity Jane title: Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane date: None words: 2069 flesch: 75 summary: We were afterwards ordered to Fort Custer, where Custer city now stands, where we arrived in the spring of 1874; remained around Fort Custer all summer and were ordered to Fort Russell in fall of 1874, where we remained until spring of 1875; was then ordered to the Black Hills to protect miners, as that country was controlled by the Sioux Indians and the government had to send the soldiers to protect the lives of the miners and settlers in that section. We also had many exciting times fording streams for many of the streams in our way were noted for quicksands and boggy places, where, unless we were very careful, we would have lost horses and all. keywords: city; deadwood; fort; horses; time cache: 490.txt plain text: 490.txt item: #21 of 40 id: 49526 author: Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry) title: The Missouri Persecutions date: None words: 107100 flesch: 63 summary: Upon the reception of the report, the Prophet Joseph, his brother Hyrum, and other leading men started for the settlement of the saints, their company increasing on the route, by brethren living between Far West and Diahman joining them. On the twenty-eight of October, Colonel Jennings, of Livingston County, had entered into a treaty of peace with the saints at Haun's Mill, and each party agreed to use whatever of influence it possessed for peace; and while we cannot learn whether that same colonel was in the company which did the killing or not, still it is known that a few days after the massacre, he, in company with other leading men in upper Missouri, among whom was Mr. Ashby, member of the State legislature from Chariton, went about threatening the lives of the survivors, stealing their property, laying waste their crops and running off their stock. keywords: arms; brethren; brother; camp; chapter; church; citizens; city; clay county; colonel; committee; company; county; court; daviess county; day; day saints; days; elders; following; footnote; general; god; good; governor; hands; history; homes; house; independence; jackson county; john; joseph; joseph smith; judge; kirtland; land; law; laws; left; lord; man; men; militia; missouri; mob; mormons; new; night; number; order; people; place; prisoners; property; prophet; rigdon; river; saints; smith; state; things; time; way; west; zion cache: 49526.txt plain text: 49526.txt item: #22 of 40 id: 51118 author: Monks, William title: A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas Being an Account of the Early Settlements, the Civil War, the Ku-Klux, and Times of Peace date: None words: 75630 flesch: 71 summary: It was stated that the law-abiding citizens were without arms and that the Kuklux were raiding the whole country; the whole country was being terrorized by said men and in God's name asked us to come and bring men and arms to aid the civil officers to enforce the law. The author took the matter under advisement, and as Jamison, with his band of men, had threatened time and again to raid Howell county and kill the author with other Union men, he decided to give his consent to the Governor, wrote him while he reluctantly would consent to accept the appointment he had thought that he had discharged his duty in the late war and would not be required to take part in any further military operation. keywords: author; camp; captain; command; company; confederate; county; court; day; force; gen; government; home; house; howell; howell county; informed; law; left; man; men; miles; missouri; monks; near; number; order; people; place; plains; post; rebels; right; river; road; rolla; shot; springfield; state; time; union men; war; way; west cache: 51118.txt plain text: 51118.txt item: #23 of 40 id: 59500 author: Brown, William Wells title: Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave. Second Edition date: None words: 31850 flesch: 80 summary: 397. Sec. 35 and 36.--Any free colored person found with slaves in a kitchen, outhouse or negro quarter, without a written permission from the master or overseer of said slaves, and any slave found without such permission with a free negro on his premises, shall receive fifteen lashes for the first offence, and thirty-nine for each subsequent offence; to be inflicted by master, overseer, or member of any patrol company.--p. If any slave, who shall be out of the house or plantation where such slave shall live, or shall be usually employed, or without some white person in company with such slave, shall _refuse to submit_ to undergo the examination of _any white_ person, it shall be lawful for such white person to pursue, apprehend, and moderately correct such slave and if such slave shall assault and strike such white person, such slave may be _lawfully killed_!!--_2 Brevard's Digest_, 231. MISSISSIPPI. keywords: boat; city; day; dollars; free; good; home; house; jail; liberty; louis; man; master; men; mother; negro; new; night; person; place; sec; slave; slavery; states; thought; time; walker; white; woman; work; years cache: 59500.txt plain text: 59500.txt item: #24 of 40 id: 61119 author: Harmon, Jim title: Dangerous Quarry date: None words: 5654 flesch: 87 summary: Granite City granite is still as widely disbursed and almost as highly prized as South African diamonds. It said: Investigate the Ozark village of Granite City. keywords: accident; car; city; granite; man; parnell; people; professor; thompson; town cache: 61119.txt plain text: 61119.txt item: #25 of 40 id: 7100 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05 date: None words: 9040 flesch: 93 summary: WELL, I got a good going-over in the morning from old Miss Watson on account of my clothes; but the widow she didn't scold, but only cleaned off the grease and clay, and looked so sorry that I thought I would behave awhile if I could. YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. keywords: going; good; jim; man; time; tom; warn't; widow cache: 7100.txt plain text: 7100.txt item: #26 of 40 id: 7101 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 06 to 10 date: None words: 13704 flesch: 94 summary: Then he studied it over and said, couldn't I put on some of them old things and dress up like a girl? Yes, and I TOLD 'em so; I told old Thatcher so to his face. keywords: canoe; good; island; jim; man; pap; place; river; time; warn't; way cache: 7101.txt plain text: 7101.txt item: #27 of 40 id: 7102 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15 date: None words: 12289 flesch: 94 summary: Yes, says I, and other times, when things is dull, they fuss with the parlyment; and if everybody don't go just so he whacks their heads off. But before night they changed around and judged it was done by a runaway nigger named Jim. keywords: come; dat; good; jim; man; right; time; warn't; way cache: 7102.txt plain text: 7102.txt item: #28 of 40 id: 7103 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 16 to 20 date: None words: 19136 flesch: 89 summary: Said he swum along behind me that night, and heard me yell every time, but dasn't answer, because he didn't want nobody to pick HIM up and take him into slavery again. I reckon that old man was a coward, Buck. keywords: buck; day; duke; good; jim; little; man; men; raft; right; river; tell; time; warn't; way; young cache: 7103.txt plain text: 7103.txt item: #29 of 40 id: 7104 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 21 to 25 date: None words: 13552 flesch: 88 summary: And look at Charles Second, and Louis Fourteen, and Louis Fifteen, and James Second, and Edward Second, and Richard Third, and forty more; besides all them Saxon heptarchies that used to rip around so in old times and raise Cain. You don't know kings, Jim, but I know them; and this old rip of ourn is one of the cleanest I've struck in history. keywords: duke; good; hands; head; king; man; men; people; right; time; town; warn't; way cache: 7104.txt plain text: 7104.txt item: #30 of 40 id: 7105 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 26 to 30 date: None words: 14758 flesch: 91 summary: Said it warn't no fair test. Said his brother William was the cussedest joker in the world, and hadn't tried to write --HE see William was going to play one of his jokes the minute he put the pen to paper. keywords: come; duke; good; jane; kind; king; mary; money; think; warn't; way cache: 7105.txt plain text: 7105.txt item: #31 of 40 id: 7106 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 31 to 35 date: None words: 14163 flesch: 92 summary: Tom had his store clothes on, and an audience--and that was always nuts for Tom Sawyer. I set up a shout--and then another--and then another one; and run this way and that in the woods, whooping and screeching; but it warn't no use--old Jim was gone. keywords: come; good; jim; kind; nigger; old; right; thing; time; tom; warn't; way cache: 7106.txt plain text: 7106.txt item: #32 of 40 id: 7107 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to the Last date: None words: 18991 flesch: 88 summary: Said we'd got to post Jim first. Jim says: Why, Mars Tom, I hain't got no coat o' arm; I hain't got nuffn but dish yer ole shirt, en you knows I got to keep de journal on dat. keywords: aunt; bed; good; jim; look; nigger; right; sally; things; think; time; tom; warn't; way; went cache: 7107.txt plain text: 7107.txt item: #33 of 40 id: 7193 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 1. date: None words: 7009 flesch: 89 summary: No Tom. Tom did play hookey, and he had a very good time. keywords: aunt; ben; boy; fence; heart; jim; ling; sid; time; tom; work cache: 7193.txt plain text: 7193.txt item: #34 of 40 id: 7194 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2. date: None words: 11190 flesch: 88 summary: Then they sat together, with a slate before them, and Tom gave Becky the pencil and held her hand in his, guiding it, and so created another surprising house. At last Tom could stand it no longer. keywords: becky; boy; boys; face; good; hand; heart; mary; school; sid; time; tom; water; way cache: 7194.txt plain text: 7194.txt item: #35 of 40 id: 7195 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 3. date: None words: 9442 flesch: 90 summary: Tom flung off his jacket and trousers, turned a suspender into a belt, raked away some brush behind the rotten log, disclosing a rude bow and arrow, a lath sword and a tin trumpet, and in a moment had seized these things and bounded away, barelegged, with fluttering shirt. Tom, s'pose it's Injun Joe! keywords: aunt; boys; face; half; head; huckleberry; injun; joe; man; potter; sid; time; tom cache: 7195.txt plain text: 7195.txt item: #36 of 40 id: 7196 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4. date: None words: 10839 flesch: 86 summary: Tom felt happy in his success, for he knew it was the boat's last trip for the night. Then Tom hid himself away in a shady nook to sleep till noon, and the other pirates got ready to fish and explore. keywords: aunt; boys; camp; fire; heart; huck; island; joe; night; pirates; time; tom; water; way cache: 7196.txt plain text: 7196.txt item: #37 of 40 id: 7197 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 5. date: None words: 8822 flesch: 85 summary: You going to have all the girls and boys? Yes, every one that's friends to me--or wants to be; and she glanced ever so furtively at Tom, but he talked right along to Amy Lawrence about the terrible storm on the island, and how the lightning tore the great sycamore tree all to flinders while he was standing within three feet of it. Part 5 CHAPTER XVIII THAT was Tom's great secret--the scheme to return home with his brother pirates and attend their own funerals. keywords: becky; book; boy; boys; girl; harper; master; moment; school; thought; time; tom cache: 7197.txt plain text: 7197.txt item: #38 of 40 id: 7198 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 6. date: None words: 8424 flesch: 93 summary: At last Tom said: It ain't any use, Huck, we're wrong again. At last Tom rose slowly and softly, and started alone. keywords: boys; half; house; huck; injun; joe; potter; right; time; tom cache: 7198.txt plain text: 7198.txt item: #39 of 40 id: 7199 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 7. date: None words: 10096 flesch: 90 summary: She was surprised to hear Tom dissent. Tom's excitement enabled him to keep awake until a pretty late hour, and he had good hopes of hearing Huck's maow, and of having his treasure to astonish Becky and the picnickers with, next day; but he was disappointed. keywords: becky; cave; huck; joe; man; night; thought; time; tom; way; widow cache: 7199.txt plain text: 7199.txt item: #40 of 40 id: 7200 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 8. date: None words: 7523 flesch: 91 summary: Tom learned of Huck's sickness and went to see him on Friday, but could not be admitted to the bedroom; neither could he on Saturday or Sunday. About a fortnight after Tom's rescue from the cave, he started off to visit Huck, who had grown plenty strong enough, now, to hear exciting talk, and Tom had some that would interest him, he thought. keywords: cave; huck; money; place; right; time; tom; way; widow cache: 7200.txt plain text: 7200.txt