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- 1593
- author: Wood, Robert Williams
- title: How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers: A Manual of Flornithology for Beginners
- date: None
- words: 1553
- flesch: 89
- summary: [Illustration] Verses and Illustrations By Robert Williams Wood. Published by Paul Elder and Company San Francisco and New York. [Illustration] Observe the Turnip in the pot.
- keywords: auk; bird; blue; butter; cat; crocus; crow; illustration; orchid; panicle; parrot; pea; pewee; plover; quail; tern; toucan; turnip
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- 18629
- author: Jefferies, Richard
- title: Nature Near London
- date: None
- words: 66562
- flesch: 78
- summary: But even then from time to time came the sweet voice, full of hope in coming summer. In the shrubberies around villa gardens, or in the hedges of the small paddocks attached, thrushes and other birds sometimes build their nests.
- keywords: acorns; adjacent; air; ancient; appearance; arable; arch; ash; atmosphere; autumn; away; bank; bare; barley; barn; beach; beautiful; beauty; bees; bells; beneath; berries; best; better; birch; birds; black; blackbirds; blades; bloom; blue; boat; body; boughs; brambles; branches; breeze; bridge; bright; brilliant; brook; brown; bunches; bushes; buttercups; calling; cattle; centre; chalk; change; chestnut; children; city; clear; cliff; close; clouds; colour; coming; common; copse; corn; corner; cornfields; country; course; cover; crowded; crows; curious; current; curve; cut; dark; day; days; dead; deep; different; direction; distance; distant; ditch; downs; drooping; dry; dull; dust; early; earth; east; easy; eggs; elms; end; english; evening; eye; eyes; fact; fair; fall; fallen; familiar; fast; favourite; feeding; feet; fern; field; fine; fire; firs; fish; flags; flock; flowering; flowers; fly; foliage; food; foot; footpath; form; fresh; fro; frost; fruit; furrow; furze; garden; gateway; gather; glance; golden; good; grass; grasses; great; green; greenfinches; grey; grounds; growth; half; hand; hard; hawthorn; hay; hazel; head; heap; heath; heavy; hedge; height; hidden; high; higher; highway; hills; hollow; home; horse; hours; houses; hue; human; immense; inches; insects; interest; iron; june; kind; known; labour; laden; land; lane; large; leaf; leaves; left; lesser; level; lie; life; light; like; line; little; london; long; longer; look; magpies; man; manner; mass; meadows; mere; metropolis; midsummer; miles; mind; minute; missel; mist; moment; morning; motion; mounds; narrow; near; neck; neighbourhood; nest; nightingale; note; number; numerous; nuts; oaks; october; old; open; opposite; outside; overhead; pair; pale; parapet; particular; partridges; passing; past; path; peculiar; people; perch; petals; pieces; pigeons; pink; place; plain; plant; plantation; pleasant; pleasure; plough; point; pond; possible; present; purple; quick; rain; rays; red; rest; return; ripe; rise; river; road; roadside; roll; roof; rooks; root; rose; round; run; rustle; sang; scarce; sea; season; second; sedges; sense; set; shadow; shallow; sharp; sheep; shelter; shepherd; short; shrubs; sides; silence; silent; singing; single; size; sky; slender; slope; small; snow; soil; song; south; sparrow; species; spot; spray; spring; stalks; stand; stay; stick; stone; straight; straw; stream; strong; stubble; summer; summit; sun; sunlight; sunshine; surface; swallows; sward; sweeping; sweet; tail; tall; thick; things; thought; thrushes; time; tint; tiny; tops; touch; town; trees; trout; true; turn; turning; twigs; use; usual; vapour; vast; verge; view; visible; visit; walk; walking; wall; warm; watch; water; waves; wayside; weather; weeds; week; west; wheat; wheels; white; wide; wild; willow; wind; wings; winter; wood; wooden; work; yards; year; yellow; yonder; young
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- 26139
- author: Ontario. Department of Education
- title: Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study
- date: None
- words: 76988
- flesch: 78
- summary: Plant seeds as in No. 4, except that the box is kept in a dark cupboard. Apply this study to seed planting: Plant seeds of wheat in four pots of soil, No. 1, half an inch deep; No. 2, two inches; No. 3, four inches; No. 4, six inches.
- keywords: account; adult; agriculture; air; animals; annuals; apparatus; appearance; apple; aquarium; attention; autumn; available; ball; bark; barometer; beautiful; beetles; best; better; birds; black; bloom; blossoms; blue; board; body; book; bottle; box; boxes; boys; branches; bright; brown; buds; bulbs; burrow; butterflies; butterfly; cabbage; candle; carbon; care; careful; case; cat; causes; centre; cents; changes; chapter; chickens; children; class; classes; clay; clean; climbing; close; cloth; clover; co.; cocoons; cold; collection; colour; common; conditions; convenient; cool; corn; correlations; course; covering; cow; crops; crow; cultivation; cuttings; cutworms; dandelion; dark; day; days; deep; department; description; detailed; development; diameter; different; dioxide; direct; direction; dispersal; distance; dog; domestic; doors; downy; drawing; dry; duck; early; earth; effect; eggs; elm; end; environment; equal; evergreens; examples; excursion; exercises; expansion; experiments; eyes; fall; farm; feathers; features; feeding; feet; field; fine; fire; fish; flame; flowers; fly; following; food; foot; forest; form; frost; fruit; garden; garden plants; garden work; gardening; gas; gases; gauze; general; germination; good; grain; grass; gravel; great; greater; green; ground; growing; growth; habits; half; hand; hard; head; heat; heavy; help; high; hold; holes; home; horse; hot; humus; identification; iii; important; inches; insects; inside; interest; interesting; iron; jar; kinds; knowledge; known; lamp; land; large; larvã; lead; leaf; leaves; legs; length; lesson; life; light; like; lime; liquids; literature; little; living; locality; long; look; making; manual; manure; maple; material; matter; means; mercury; method; milkweed; mixture; moist; months; moth; movements; nasturtium; natural; nature; nature study; near; necessary; need; nest; new; note; notice; number; objects; observations; ontario; open; orchard; order; organs; oxygen; page; pair; paper; parts; pea; perennials; pests; physical; pictures; piece; pine; place; planting; plants; plots; points; pollen; position; possible; pot; potato; preparation; prepared; pressure; problems; produce; protection; provide; pump; pupils; purpose; questions; rabbit; rapid; reading; red; references; required; results; rise; robin; room; room lesson; root; rows; rubber; sand; scales; school; school garden; science; season; second; seeds; selected; selection; september; set; shape; sharp; sheep; shell; short; silk; similar; simple; size; small; snow; soft; soil; solids; solution; song; sparrow; special; species; specimens; spirit; spread; spring; squirrel; stalk; stem; stones; storing; strong; studies; study; subject; sufficient; sugar; suitable; summer; sun; sunlight; surface; sweet; tail; teacher; teeth; test; thermometer; thick; things; time; tiny; toad; topics; training; transplanting; treatment; trees; trunk; tube; twigs; type; underground; upper; use; useful; uses; valuable; value; varieties; vegetables; visit; warm; watch; water; way; weather; weed; week; weight; white; wild; wild flowers; wind; window; wings; winter; wire; wood; woodpecker; work; worm; year; yellow; young
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- 33346
- author: Wood, Robert Williams
- title: How to tell the Birds from the Flowers, and other Wood-cuts A Revised Manual of Flornithology for Beginners
- date: None
- words: 3109
- flesch: 92
- summary: [Illustration] Verses and Illustrations By Robert Williams Wood. Published By Duffield and Co. New York. [Illustration] Observe the Turnip in the Pot.
- keywords: ant; asparagus; auk; beetle; bird; blue; butter; cat; cock; cow; crocus; crow; fish; gnu; hare; harrier; hen; illustration; larks; nature; panicle; pansy; parrot; pea; pelican; pen; pewee; pipe; plover; quail; rooster; rue; tern; toucan; turnip
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- 414
- author: Jefferies, Richard
- title: The Pageant of Summer
- date: None
- words: 7269
- flesch: 82
- summary: On the fingers they left a green scent; rushes have a separate scent of green, so, too, have ferns, very different from that of grass or leaves. Every blade of grass, each leaf, each separate floret and petal, is an inscription speaking of hope.
- keywords: air; apple; beauty; bees; birds; blackbird; blades; blue; boughs; branches; broad; cover; crake; day; days; deep; ditch; earth; elm; fern; field; flowers; grass; grasses; great; green; ground; hand; hawthorn; heart; hedge; high; hours; humble; leaf; leaves; life; like; little; living; long; man; matter; mind; minute; mound; nests; notes; oak; oaks; open; parsley; pollen; red; rushes; shadow; sky; song; sorrel; strength; summer; sun; surface; sweet; thick; things; time; tree; water; white; wild; willow; wings; wood; yellow; yonder
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- 43013
- author: Wood, Robert Williams
- title: Animal Analogues: Verses and Illustrations
- date: None
- words: 1578
- flesch: 87
- summary: The Yellow-Hammer, or the Flicker, More briefly Golden-winged Wood-picker, My drawing of which _striking_ bird May seem to you perhaps absurd, You even may suspect I stole The idea from some Totem-pole: [Illustration] Verses and Illustrations By Robert Williams Wood.
- keywords: ant; antelope; ape; beet; beetle; fish; gnu; hare; harrier; illustration; newt; octo; pansy; pitcher; pus; rays; saw; whelk; yellow
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- 43200
- author: New York State College of Agriculture
- title: Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets Being a selection, with revision, from the teachers' leaflets, home nature-study lessons, junior naturalist monthlies and other publications from the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1896-1904
- date: None
- words: 171757
- flesch: 84
- summary: It is true that a willow is very comfortable in places where many other trees will suffer from wet feet; yet it will give good results elsewhere. Plant trees and bushes about the borders of the place, and let some of them, at least, grow into tangles; then, even in the back yard, the wary cat-bird may make its home.
- keywords: able; account; active; actual; added; adult; agricultural; aid; air; alfalfa; alice; american; animals; anna; answer; antennã; ants; aphids; appeal; appearance; apple; april; aquaria; aquarium; area; arrangement; asters; attached; attention; autumn; bad; bailey; banks; bare; bark; base; bass; bear; bearing; beautiful; beauty; bed; beds; beetle; beginning; beneath; best; better; big; birds; black; bloom; blossoms; blue; board; bodies; body; books; botany; botsford; bottle; box; boxes; boy; boys; branches; break; breeding; bright; broken; brook; brown; bud; buds; bugs; building; bulbs; bulletin; bushes; business; butterflies; butterfly; cabbage; care; careful; case; cast; caterpillars; cecropia; cellar; cells; center; cents; certain; change; character; cherry; chickadee; chickens; children; chrysalids; cicada; cion; city; clay; clear; close; clouds; clover; clusters; co.; cocoons; cold; collect; collecting; college; colony; color; colored; comfortable; coming; common; community; compare; complete; comstock; conditions; cone; connection; content; convenient; cool; corn; cornell; corner; country; course; covering; covers; creatures; crop; crows; current; cut; cutting; damp; danger; dark; day; days; dead; decay; deep; definite; department; desirable; desire; development; differences; different; difficult; direction; dirt; disease; distance; distinct; district; doors; dormant; doubt; downy; draft; dragon; drainage; drawing; drops; dry; ducks; dust; early; ears; earth; easy; eating; economic; edge; education; effort; eggs; elm; end; ends; enemies; enlarged; enthusiasm; entire; environment; escape; europe; evaporation; evening; example; excellent; existence; experience; experiment; expression; eyes; fact; fall; familiar; family; farm; farmer; fast; father; feathers; february; fed; feed; feeding; feet; fence; fertile; field; fig; figs; fine; fins; fish; fishes; flat; flicker; flour; flowers; fly; fog; foliage; folk; following; fond; food; foot; forest; form; fourth; fowls; fragments; free; fresh; friendly; friends; fruit; garden; geese; general; geography; giant; girls; glacial; glacier; glass; golden; good; grade; grafting; grasshoppers; gravel; gray; great; greater; greatest; green; ground; grow; growing; growth; habits; hairy; half; hand; handle; happy; hard; hatched; hay; head; heavy; height; help; hemlock; hen; hens; hepatica; hermit; hickory; high; higher; hills; hind; history; hold; holes; home; hope; horses; hot; hours; house; idea; illustration; important; improvement; inches; increase; indian; insect life; insects; inside; instruction; interested; interesting; jack; january; jar; jaws; john; july; june; junior; kernel; kinds; knowledge; known; laboratory; lake; land; language; large; larvã; late; lawn; layer; lead; leaflet; leaves; left; legs; length; lens; lesson; life; light; lightning; like; likely; limbs; line; little; little plant; live; living; load; long; longer; look; looking; loose; main; making; man; manner; manual; maple; march; marks; mary; mass; masses; material; matter; mccloskey; meadow; meal; means; measure; meat; members; men; mere; method; middle; milk; miller; mind; minnows; mixed; moisture; moment; monthly; morning; mosquito; moth; mother; mountains; movement; mud; muddy; music; names; narrow; native; natural; naturalist; nature; near; nearer; necessary; neck; need; neighborhood; neighbors; nest; net; netting; new; nitrogen; norway; note; notice; november; number; numerous; nuthatch; objects; observations; october; old; ones; open; opening; opportunity; opposite; orb; orchard; order; outdoor; outer; outline; outside; page; pair; paper; particles; particular; parts; pass; passing; peas; pebbles; peculiar; pencil; people; perfect; period; permanent; persons; picture; piece; pine; pitch; place; plain; plant; plant life; planting; pleasant; plenty; point; pollen; pond; poor; position; possible; potato; potatoes; pots; poultry; pounds; power; practical; practice; prepared; present; pretty; prey; problems; process; produce; professor; proper; prune; pruning; public; pulpit; pumpkin; pupa; pupils; pupã; purpose; quarterly; questions; quiet; rain; raised; reach; ready; real; reasons; record; red; region; regular; relation; results; rich; road; robin; rock; rogers; room; roots; running; rural; sac; salamanders; sand; sap; sapsucker; saw; scales; school; schoolroom; science; season; second; secure; sediment; seeds; separate; set; shallow; shape; sharp; shed; shell; short; shower; showing; shrubs; sides; silk; silken; similar; simple; single; size; sketch; skin; sky; sleep; small; smaller; smooth; snow; society; soft; soil; song; sound; south; sow; space; sparrow; special; species; specimens; spencer; spiders; spinnerets; spiral; spirit; spot; spread; spreading; spring; spruce; spun; spur; square; squash; squirrel; stalk; standing; starch; start; state; stem; sticks; stiff; stones; stories; story; straight; strange; stream; strong; structure; struggle; student; studies; study; study work; subject; suet; sufficient; sugar; suggestions; summer; sun; sunlight; sunshine; supply; sure; surface; sweet; sympathy; system; tadpoles; tail; tall; teacher; teaching; temperature; term; terrarium; texture; thick; things; thought; thousands; thread; throat; thunder; time; tiny; tip; tips; toad; tongue; touch; training; tree; true; trunk; tubes; turkey; turn; twig; uncle; underground; underneath; united; university; unlike; upper; use; useful; uses; valley; valuable; value; vapor; varieties; variety; view; visit; visitors; voice; vol; volume; wait; want; warm; wasps; watch; watching; water; water plants; way; ways; weather; weavers; web; webs; weed; week; west; wet; wheat; white; wide; wild; willows; window; winged; wings; winter; wire; wish; wonder; wonderful; wood; woodpecker; work; world; worms; worth; yard; year; yellow; york; young
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- 533
- author: Stratton-Porter, Gene
- title: The Song of the Cardinal
- date: None
- words: 25890
- flesch: 85
- summary: Mrs. Cardinal enjoyed the meal. The only reason she escaped a big blue racer when she went to take her first bath, was that a hawk had his eye on the snake and snapped it up at just the proper moment to save the poor, quivering little bird.
- keywords: abram; air; babies; bank; barn; beak; beautiful; beauty; berries; best; better; big; bird; black; blue; body; breast; breath; brilliant; broken; brooding; burst; bushes; cardinal; cheer; chip; clear; close; coming; corn; course; crest; cry; day; days; dear; dogwood; dove; dry; early; earth; edge; egg; eggs; eyes; face; family; far; farmer; father; fear; feathers; feet; fellow; felt; females; fence; field; fine; flaming; flight; fly; following; food; frightened; god; good; grape; grass; gray; great; green; grew; gun; half; hand; happiness; head; heart; high; home; honey; hope; hour; hunter; jest; joy; kind; king; land; leaves; life; like; limberlost; line; little; location; long; look; lord; love; man; maria; mate; mighty; mile; morning; mother; music; nancy; near; nest; new; notes; old; open; orchard; passion; past; perfect; place; plow; plumage; poor; power; pretty; proud; rail; rainbow; red; redbird; remainder; right; river; rolling; short; size; sky; small; song; spot; spring; squirrel; stay; story; sumac; sun; sure; swamp; sweet; sycamore; tell; tender; thing; thorn; thought; throat; time; tired; tree; twig; underbrush; voice; wabash; water; way; wet; wheat; white; wife; wild; wind; wing; wonder; woodpecker; work; year; young
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- 6164
- author: Jefferies, Richard
- title: The Life of the Fields
- date: None
- words: 74541
- flesch: 77
- summary: Blackbirds whistle all around, the woods are full of them; willow-wrens plaintively sing in the trees; other birds call--the dry wind mingles their notes. Other birds sit, and hope to escape by remaining still, till they detect the tremor coming direct towards them, when they rise.
- keywords: account; acorns; acres; advertisements; air; ancient; animals; apparent; appearance; apple; approach; arms; ash; atmosphere; autumn; bank; bare; bark; beat; beautiful; beauty; beech; bees; beneath; best; better; big; bill; birds; black; blackbird; blades; bloom; blue; books; boughs; boy; branches; breeze; bright; brighton; broad; broken; brook; brown; bushes; buttercups; calm; cattle; cause; centre; certain; change; children; circle; circular; city; class; clear; clematis; close; cloud; cold; colley; colour; comes; coming; common; conditions; copse; corn; corner; cottages; country; course; cover; crake; creatures; cross; cuckoo; curious; current; curve; cut; dark; day; days; dead; deep; deeper; degrees; delicate; destruction; dew; different; difficult; direction; distance; distant; dog; dolly; doubt; downs; drawing; drink; dry; dull; dust; dynamite; early; earth; easy; effect; elm; elms; end; england; evening; exe; existence; experience; eyes; faces; fact; fall; far; farmer; farther; fast; feed; feeling; feet; fern; field; finches; fine; fire; fish; flags; flowers; fly; food; foot; footpath; force; form; forward; fowl; fro; game; garden; gate; gateway; general; glance; going; golden; good; grass; grasses; great; greater; green; grey; gun; half; hamlet; hand; hard; harvest; hawk; hawthorn; hay; head; heart; heavy; hedge; height; hidden; high; higher; highest; hills; hold; holes; hollow; home; hook; hope; horizon; horses; hours; house; hovering; hue; human; hunter; immense; insects; inside; instance; intelligence; iron; ivy; jack; january; kestrel; kind; knowledge; labour; land; lane; language; large; larks; leaf; leaves; left; legs; level; life; light; like; likely; line; little; live; living; local; london; long; longer; look; looking; lost; luke; machine; man; manner; marked; masts; matter; meadow; means; men; mere; miles; mind; minute; mist; modern; moment; moon; morning; motion; movement; mowing; narrow; natural; nature; near; nest; new; north; notes; numbers; numerous; oak; oaks; object; old; open; opposite; order; otter; outside; overhead; pale; paper; parsley; particular; passing; past; path; people; petals; pheasants; piece; pigeons; place; plain; plant; play; pleasant; plough; poacher; point; pointed; pond; position; possible; post; power; present; preservation; press; pure; question; quick; quiet; rabbits; railway; rain; reach; reaping; reason; red; remains; rest; return; ricks; rises; river; roberts; rock; roof; room; roots; rose; rough; round; run; runs; science; sea; searching; second; sense; set; shade; shadow; shallow; sharp; sheep; shelter; short; shows; sides; silence; similar; singing; sky; slender; slip; slope; slow; small; snow; soft; solid; song; sounds; southern; space; spot; spring; square; stalks; stand; starling; stem; step; stick; stone; straight; straw; stream; street; strength; strong; sufficient; summer; summit; sun; sunlight; sunny; sunset; sunshine; surface; swallows; sward; sweet; tail; tall; thick; things; thought; thrush; thrushes; time; tinted; tiny; touch; town; trees; trout; true; turf; turn; upper; valley; vast; vessel; view; villager; visible; voice; waggon; walk; walking; wall; warm; waste; watch; water; way; ways; weather; week; wet; wheat; whistle; white; wide; wild; willow; wind; winding; windows; wings; winter; women; wonderful; wood; words; work; world; yards; years; yellow; yonder; young
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