        item: #1 of 10
          id: 12777
      author: Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
       title: The Young Engineers in Nevada; Or, Seeking Fortune on the Turn of a Pick
        date: None
       words: 49631
      flesch: 94
     summary: Conclusion CHAPTER I ALF AND HIS MAKINGS OF MANHOOD Say, got the makings? Eh? inquired Tom Reade, glancing up in mild astonishment. Drew, do you think you look as healthy as I do? As he stood there, erect as a soldier, with his fine athletic figure revealed, and the bronze on his face seemingly inches deep, Tom Reade looked what he was---every inch a man though still a boy in years.
    keywords: alf; camp; claim; come; dolph; drew; dugout; dunlop; fellow; ferrers; gage; good; harry; hazelton; jim; know; let; look; man; men; reade; right; sir; time; tom; tom reade; want; way; work
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        item: #2 of 10
          id: 16608
      author: Mighels, Philip Verrill
       title: Bruvver Jim's Baby
        date: None
       words: 44998
      flesch: 87
     summary: My little boy! said the miner--my little boy! and taking both doll and little man in his arms he held them in passionate tenderness against his heart. You've got to be back before too late or your claim goes up, fer, Jim, you know as well as me that Parky's got the right of law! If only I could git that shrub, said Jim, as his friend departed, and back to the tossing little man he went, worried to the last degree.
    keywords: baby; blacksmith; bone; borealis; boy; boys; cabin; camp; christmas; day; doc; drawled; eyes; face; field; git; goin'; good; hand; hill; home; house; jim; keno; man; men; miner; miss; pup; right; skeezucks; snow; time; tintoretto; tree; way; webber
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        item: #3 of 10
          id: 16629
      author: Mighels, Philip Verrill
       title: The Furnace of Gold
        date: None
       words: 90623
      flesch: 88
     summary: CHAPTER XXXV THE MEETINGS OF TWO STRONG MEN Matt Barger, riding in the night, intent upon nothing save the chance to deal out his vengeance to Van Buren, had camped beside the river, at the turn where Van and Beth had skirted the bank to the regular fording below. Then--it must have been Searle who made the mistake--let Mr. Van Buren see it--see what I wrote--see---- What did he read you--read about Van--Mr. Van Buren--almost the last thing in the letter? Glen was surprised at her agitation.
    keywords: algy; barger; beth; bostwick; broncho; camp; car; claim; culver; dave; day; desert; dick; dollars; eyes; face; gettysburg; girl; glen; going; goldite; good; half; hand; heart; horse; horseman; kent; lawrence; letter; life; line; little; look; love; man; mccoppet; men; mind; moment; money; mrs; napoleon; new; place; pony; reservation; right; searle; suvy; thing; thought; time; van; van buren; water; way; work; world
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        item: #4 of 10
          id: 20332
      author: MacArthur, Ruth Brown
       title: Tabitha's Vacation
        date: None
       words: 47708
      flesch: 87
     summary: There's just about enough for three, and I've a notion that Miss Tabitha will think you didn't keep your promise very well if she ever finds out how near you came to setting the house a-fire. Toady's pale face on the pillow made him pause on the threshold, while a twinge of remorse tugged at his heart, but the victim, hearing the creak of the opening door, opened his round eyes, and smiling beatifically, asked in a weak voice, Seen Tabitha? Billiard grunted an unintelligible reply.
    keywords: away; billiard; boys; children; day; door; eyes; face; girl; gloriana; glory; good; half; head; home; house; inez; irene; janie; kitchen; know; look; mckittrick; mean; mercedes; myra; night; rest; room; susie; tabitha; tell; thought; time; toady; town; voice
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        item: #5 of 10
          id: 31556
      author: Otis, James
       title: Dick in the Desert
        date: None
       words: 18726
      flesch: 79
     summary: There is no reason why you should spend the time in trying to get food for us, Dick dear. Across the desert alone! A boy like me ought to be able to do it, and-- Your father hasn't a penny, Dick dear.
    keywords: boy; camp; daddy; desert; dick; father; little; man; mother; sand; spring; stevens; time; wagon; way
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        item: #6 of 10
          id: 34280
      author: Bacon, Frank
       title: Lightnin' After the Play of the Same Name by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon
        date: None
       words: 57153
      flesch: 86
     summary: Bill Jones, she asked, in a loud, rasping tone, where have you been? Bill had put down the lid at the first hint of her entrance. She glanced quickly from one to the other, and then her gentle brown eyes came to rest lovingly on old Bill.
    keywords: arm; away; bill; bill jones; blodgett; chair; come; court; davis; desk; door; eyes; half; hammond; hand; harper; head; john; jones; judge; lightnin; look; man; marvin; millie; mother; mrs; place; right; room; said; thomas; time; townsend; voice; wife
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        item: #7 of 10
          id: 36423
      author: Patchin, Frank Gee
       title: The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali; Or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze
        date: None
       words: 49886
      flesch: 92
     summary: Master Tad is a better one. But Master Tad had already been using his eyes.
    keywords: angel; boys; bud; camp; chunky; desert; eyes; feet; guess; guide; head; horse; lad; lads; ned; parry; pony; professor; rider; right; stacy; stevens; tad; time; tom; trail; want; water; way; wild
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        item: #8 of 10
          id: 51396
      author: Evans, Dean
       title: Not a Creature Was Stirring
        date: None
       words: 5332
      flesch: 93
     summary: Gannett planted his big feet wide apart and frowned sourly around and sniffed the air like a dog at a gopher hole. Gannett didn't know why the sun looked sick, and he didn't know why the world smelled sick.
    keywords: bottle; croupier; gannett; god; hand; jeep; man; night; time
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        item: #9 of 10
          id: 59458
      author: Cox, Irving E.
       title: The Earthman
        date: None
       words: 9252
      flesch: 87
     summary: Out of fourteen hundred assigned to the post, only four escaped--two guards on noon duty in the watch tower; the Commander's wife, who had skipped lunch and stayed in her cottage; and Captain Tchassen. Yet, despite his appearance, his sudden exhaustion was very real; Captain Tchassen had been on Earth only five days and he was still not adjusted to the atmospheric differences.
    keywords: briggan; captain; dispersal; drein; earth; earthman; people; sedan; sergeant; station; tchassen; tynia
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        item: #10 of 10
          id: 5951
      author: Stratton, Lilyan
       title: Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information
        date: None
       words: 48438
      flesch: 72
     summary: A man becomes, under Nevada laws, a full fledged citizen and voter at the end of six months. When at Reno University, de Longchamps did the pen and ink work and other illustrating for the Artemesai, the University publication.
    keywords: action; case; city; county; court; day; days; defendant; divorce; face; fact; feet; gold; good; hand; heart; helen; home; hotel; husband; illustration; judge; lady; lake; law; life; love; man; men; miles; mining; months; mrs; nevada; new; people; plaintiff; reno; residence; river; school; senator; state; time; truckee; university; virginia; water; way; west; wife; woman; world; years; york
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