item: #1 of 41 id: 13356 author: Stockton, Frank Richard title: The Captain's Toll-Gate date: None words: 100134 flesch: 85 summary: When Dick Lancaster told Captain Asher he had taken toll from two ladies in a phaeton he was quite eloquent in his description of said ladies. Very early the next afternoon the air was filled with the cries of newsboys, and each paper that these boys sold contained a full and detailed account of a remarkable attempt by an unknown foreigner upon the life of Captain John Asher, a visitor in Washington, and the heroic conduct of his niece, Miss Olive Asher, who shot the murderous assailant with his own pistol. keywords: asher; away; broadstone; captain; captain asher; course; day; deal; dick; easterfield; eyes; face; father; gate; girl; good; hemphill; home; house; lancaster; life; locker; love; man; maria; matter; mind; miss; mrs; olive; people; port; talk; thing; thought; time; toll; uncle; want; way; woman; young cache: 13356.txt plain text: 13356.txt item: #2 of 41 id: 13840 author: Everett-Green, Evelyn title: The Sign of the Red Cross: A Tale of Old London date: None words: 88413 flesch: 81 summary: Gertrude had heard stories of ghastly robberies, committed during these past days in plague-stricken houses, which were entered by worthless vagabonds, when all within were dead or helpless, and from which vantage ground they had gained access into other houses, and had sometimes brought the dread infection with them. We have done what we could; and we cannot be surrounded as are other houses. keywords: boys; builder; child; city; day; days; dead; death; dinah; door; dorcas; eyes; face; father; fear; fire; frederick; gertrude; god; good; harmer; home; house; joseph; lady; life; little; lord; man; master; men; mother; night; peril; plague; poor; reuben; scrope; sick; think; thou; thought; time; way; wife cache: 13840.txt plain text: 13840.txt item: #3 of 41 id: 14237 author: Philips, Samuel title: The Christian Home As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Church; Showing the Mission, Duties, Influences, Habits, and Responsibilities of Home, its Education, Government, and Discipline; with Hints on "Match Making," and the Relation of Parents to the Marriage Choice of their Children; together with a consideration of the Tests in the Selection of a Companion, Etc. date: None words: 89835 flesch: 73 summary: It is often said that the children of ministers and pious parents are usually more wicked than other children. Many children fight against these, prevent parents from performing their duties, and repel all the overtures of the Christian home, all the offers of the Spirit's baptism, abandoning the means of grace, refusing to assume the baptismal engagement taken for them by their parents; and thus, so far as they are concerned, undo and neutralize what their parents did for them. keywords: baptism; chapter; character; children; christian home; church; day; death; discipline; duty; education; example; faith; family; father; god; good; habits; hand; heart; heaven; holy; home; household; infant; influence; interests; law; life; little; lord; love; man; marriage; members; mind; mission; mother; nature; nursery; parents; power; prayer; relation; religion; right; shall; soul; spirit; state; sympathy; thee; thou; thy; training; way; world cache: 14237.txt plain text: 14237.txt item: #4 of 41 id: 14608 author: May, Sophie title: Jimmy, Lucy, and All date: None words: 27207 flesch: 95 summary: That's the way boys make money 'back East' Then after a pause he burst forth again, Or, I might pick berries--if there were any berries! It's not so very easy for little boys to earn money; is it, dear? said Aunt Vi, putting her arm around her young nephew and drawing him toward her. As he looked at her he remembered Jimmy's play, and the parts they were both to take in it; and the thought of little Kyzie as his poor old grandmother seemed so funny to Nate that he began to laugh and called out, Good morning, grandmother! keywords: aunt; bab; boys; castle; children; dunlee; edith; good; james; jimmy; kyzie; little; look; lucy; mamma; mrs; nate; people; thought; time; watch cache: 14608.txt plain text: 14608.txt item: #5 of 41 id: 16448 author: Burnham, Clara Louise title: Jewel's Story Book date: None words: 91623 flesch: 90 summary: Well, something she told me of an experience she once had, when she was a little girl, put the idea of this tale into my head; and I'll read you THE APPLE WOMAN'S STORY Franz and Emilie and Peter Wenzel were little German children, born in America. This book was written for little girls with short braids. keywords: alma; boy; broker; child; children; day; dog; ernest; evringham; eyes; face; faith; father; fletcher; flossie; gabriel; girl; gladys; good; grandpa; great; hand; harry; hazel; head; heart; home; jewel; julia; little; look; love; lucy; man; miss; mother; mrs; right; saw; thought; time; topaz; way cache: 16448.txt plain text: 16448.txt item: #6 of 41 id: 19889 author: Mulholland, Clara title: Naughty Miss Bunny A Story for Little Children date: None words: 33611 flesch: 90 summary: Yes, dear, it will be very nice, and I hope that little Bunny will be a good child and not make her cousin naughty and teach him mischievous tricks. Very likely, Mervyn, dear, for good example is sure to have a strong effect upon little Bunny, who is more thoughtless than really naughty. keywords: boy; bunny; child; dashwood; dear; frank; girl; good; kerr; mama; mervyn; miss; miss kerr; papa; room; sophie cache: 19889.txt plain text: 19889.txt item: #7 of 41 id: 20052 author: Yechton, Barbara title: We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses date: None words: 84352 flesch: 86 summary: for she certainly didn't treat me as she did Nora, and there are only fourteen months between us, if Nora _is_ so tall, and acts so grown up. Oh, Nannie, I said, I do wish Fee _could_ go to college! keywords: away; bed; betty; chad; course; day; dear; door; erveng; eyes; face; fee; felix; good; hand; head; help; hilliard; home; house; jack; look; max; mind; miss; mrs; nannie; nora; nurse; papa; people; phil; right; room; things; think; thought; time; voice; way cache: 20052.txt plain text: 20052.txt item: #8 of 41 id: 21313 author: Fenn, George Manville title: In Honour's Cause: A Tale of the Days of George the First date: None words: 118225 flesch: 91 summary: Why, boy, if you liked to make a stand for it, they would, I dare say, tell you that you are now Sir Frank Gowan. What's the matter, Frank boy? keywords: andrew; boy; captain; companion; course; dear; door; eyes; face; father; feel; forbes; frank; friend; good; gowan; hand; head; help; king; lad; lady; look; man; men; mother; murray; officer; people; place; prince; right; robert; room; sir; think; thought; time; want; way; yes cache: 21313.txt plain text: 21313.txt item: #9 of 41 id: 21367 author: Fenn, George Manville title: Sappers and Miners: The Flood beneath the Sea date: None words: 108749 flesch: 93 summary: But what did the fellow say to give you an excuse for attacking him as you did? Said he was fishing, father, replied Gwyn; but that was only his insolence. Said it was all nonsense, I believe. keywords: boy; boys; colonel; course; dinass; dog; end; face; father; feet; good; grip; gwyn; hand; hardock; head; help; hold; joe; jollivet; lad; little; look; major; man; men; mind; pendarve; place; right; rope; round; sam; sir; think; time; try; vores; want; water; way; work cache: 21367.txt plain text: 21367.txt item: #10 of 41 id: 21901 author: Optic, Oliver title: The Birthday Party: A Story for Little Folks date: None words: 5433 flesch: 92 summary: _Miss Flora Lee presents her compliments to Miss Nellie Green, and requests the pleasure of her company on Wednesday afternoon, July 20._ _ When you buy the book, you pay the printer, the paper maker, the bookseller, the type founder, the miner who dug the lead and the iron from the earth, the machinist who made the press, and a great many other persons whose labor enters into the making of a book--you pay all these men for their labor; you give them money to help take care of their wives and children, their fathers and mothers. keywords: children; flora; lee; man; party; tommy cache: 21901.txt plain text: 21901.txt item: #11 of 41 id: 22219 author: Howells, William Dean title: The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story date: None words: 43719 flesch: 86 summary: Pony was not his real name; it was what the boys called him, because there were so many fellows who had to be told apart, as Big Joe and Little Joe, and Big John and Little John, and Big Bill and Little Bill, that they got tired of telling boys apart that way; and after one of the boys called him Pony Baker, so that you could know him from his cousin Frank Baker, nobody ever called him anything else. But now, before I go the least bit further with the story of Pony Baker's running away, I have got to tell about Jim Leonard, and what kind of boy he was, and the scrape that he once got Pony and the other boys into, and a hair-breadth escape he had himself, when he came pretty near being drowned in a freshet; and I will begin with the hair-breadth escape, because it happened before the scrape. keywords: baker; boys; circus; dave; father; fellows; frank; good; home; house; jake; jim; jim leonard; leonard; mother; pony; run; thought; time; way cache: 22219.txt plain text: 22219.txt item: #12 of 41 id: 27618 author: Warner, Susan title: The End of a Coil date: None words: 170843 flesch: 91 summary: Mr. Copley could run down there any day (so could he); and Mrs. Copley would be in excellent air, with beautiful surroundings. All this was said in a breath, in a rush and hurry, at the moment of taking leave; the luggage was on board, Rupert was looking after it, Mr. St. Leger's elegant figure was just stepping across the gangway; and Mr. Copley kissed and shook hands and was off, with a word to Lawrence as he passed, before Mrs. Copley or Dolly could throw in more than an exclamation of dismay to stop him. Stop him! keywords: answer; believe; brierley; care; child; christina; copley; course; day; days; dear; dolly; dolly copley; eberstein; eyes; face; father; find; friend; going; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; jersey; lady; lawrence; leger; life; look; looking; man; mind; miss; money; mother; mrs; people; place; pleasure; question; right; room; rupert; sandie; shubrick; sort; thayer; things; thought; time; venice; want; way; wine; work; world; young cache: 27618.txt plain text: 27618.txt item: #13 of 41 id: 28179 author: Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) title: The Inglises; Or, How the Way Opened date: None words: 86718 flesch: 88 summary: They are good little things in general, as children go. If any one had suddenly asked David Inglis to tell him what had been the very happiest moments during all the fourteen happy years of his life, he would probably have gone back in thought to the day, when on the banks of a clear stream among the hills, his very first success as a fisherman had come to him. keywords: bethia; caldwell; children; david; day; father; frank; good; home; house; inglis; jem; life; like; mamma; miss; mother; mrs; night; oswald; papa; people; philip; tell; thing; thought; time; violet; way cache: 28179.txt plain text: 28179.txt item: #14 of 41 id: 31371 author: Cobb, Thomas title: The Little Clown date: None words: 19170 flesch: 94 summary: And men and women gradually came out of the other vans, which stood about anyhow, and they all looked very sleepy and rather dirty, especially the children who soon began to collect round Jimmy as if he were the most extraordinary thing in the caravan. Her hand was on his arm, and her eyes wore a very curious expression, almost as if she were going to cry also, just to keep Jimmy company. keywords: aunt; clown; door; jimmy; miss; morton; mother; roberts; selina; time; train cache: 31371.txt plain text: 31371.txt item: #15 of 41 id: 32118 author: Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel) title: Child Versus Parent: Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home date: None words: 25760 flesch: 60 summary: The temptation presses to urge parents sometimes to forget that they are parents, and to suggest to children sometimes to remember that they are children--in any event, semi-occasionally to recall that to parents children are ever and quite explicably children. The Jew who knows something of the history of his people, over and beyond the list of boarding-schools so Christian as to shut out Jewish children, knows that this was prefigured by the prophet when he announced in the unforgettable word of the Hebrew Bible: And He shall turn the heart of the parents to the children and the heart of the children to the parents. keywords: children; comradeship; conflict; family; father; home; israel; life; love; mother; parents; possession; problem; relation; respect; reverence; right; school; self; sense; son; things; time; truth; way; world; years; youth cache: 32118.txt plain text: 32118.txt item: #16 of 41 id: 33517 author: Leslie, Madeline title: Little Frankie on a Journey date: None words: 7388 flesch: 93 summary: Sally was turning the mattress in her mistress's room; but as soon as she heard their voices, she presented little Frankie a small handkerchief with two pretty pictures printed upon it. Before they started from home, Mrs. Gray had partly promised her sister-in-law that she would stop there with Nelly and Frankie on their return, and make a visit; but on the last day of their journey, it was quite cold and rainy. keywords: frankie; good; gray; mamma; mother; mrs; nelly; willie cache: 33517.txt plain text: 33517.txt item: #17 of 41 id: 36099 author: Sinclair, Upton title: A Cadet's Honor: Mark Mallory's Heroism date: None words: 52481 flesch: 86 summary: Mark Mallory. It was evident that the yearlings had no love for Mark Mallory, whoever Mark Mallory might be. keywords: b'gee; baby; barracks; boy; bull; cadets; camp; chapter; class; crowd; day; dewey; face; fight; fischer; good; half; harris; head; indian; let; look; mallory; man; mark; moment; murray; parson; place; plebe; point; rest; room; stanard; texas; thought; time; way; west; williams; yearlings cache: 36099.txt plain text: 36099.txt item: #18 of 41 id: 38277 author: Stables, Gordon title: From Squire to Squatter: A Tale of the Old Land and the New date: None words: 85416 flesch: 88 summary: It was a somewhat sarcastic laugh; and young Archie felt sorry for Bob's mother, she looked so unhappy. Well, there is nothing like a sailing ship after all for teaching one the virtue of patience; and at last Archie settled down to his sea life. keywords: archie; bit; black; bob; bounder; boy; branson; broadbent; burley; bush; come; country; craig; day; elsie; etheldene; eyes; face; farm; father; findlayson; fire; good; half; hand; harry; head; home; kate; kind; lad; left; life; like; look; man; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; night; place; poor; room; round; rupert; sarah; sir; squire; tell; thing; thought; time; trees; uncle; way; winslow; work; young cache: 38277.txt plain text: 38277.txt item: #19 of 41 id: 39549 author: Molesworth, Mrs. title: The Carved Lions date: None words: 49365 flesch: 89 summary: And it made me determine never to send any child of mine, or any child I had the care of, to a school where there was so little feeling of _home_, so little affection and gentleness--above all, that dreadful old-world rule of letters being read, and the want of trust and confidence in the pupils, which showed in so many ways. I often made up fancies about it, and pictured myself doing lessons with other little girls and reading the same story-books and playing duets together. keywords: aspinall; book; children; cranston; day; dear; father; fenmore; geraldine; girls; good; haddie; harriet; home; illustrations; kind; ledbury; lions; mamma; mind; miss; molesworth; mrs; myra; old; room; school; stories; story; things; thought; time; way cache: 39549.txt plain text: 39549.txt item: #20 of 41 id: 39705 author: Meade, L. T. title: The Lady of the Forest: A Story for Girls date: None words: 70115 flesch: 88 summary: Then I am your friend, little Phil Lovel. I must not speak to little Rachel Lovel. keywords: avonsyde; boy; children; day; dear; eyes; face; father; forest; good; griselda; hand; heir; katharine; kitty; lady; like; little; look; lovel; miss; mother; mrs; nancy; old; phil; rachel; room; rupert; tankard; time; want cache: 39705.txt plain text: 39705.txt item: #21 of 41 id: 39806 author: Brine, Mary D. (Mary Dow) title: How "A Dear Little Couple" Went Abroad date: None words: 11700 flesch: 77 summary: They finally decided to give a few stares back again, and little bashful Polly ventured to smile, though she didn't have anything in particular to smile about. They saw lots of little children in the street going about with great beautiful bunches of flowers--red, red roses and Italian violets in their dirty little hands, running after carriages, and holding their fragrant wares up to the ladies and gentlemen who were driving about to see the city. keywords: boy; children; city; couple; dear; eyes; good; little; mamma; papa; polly; teddy; time cache: 39806.txt plain text: 39806.txt item: #22 of 41 id: 39850 author: Doubleday, Russell title: Cattle-Ranch to College: The True Tales of a Boy's Adventures in the Far West date: None words: 74900 flesch: 84 summary: John kept his head and made every blow tell, while Jake in his anger forgot all he knew and defended himself so poorly that his opponent soon satisfied him he was the better man. John kept stamping frantically, and in an instant Billy had joined him and was also vigorously engaged in crushing out the dreaded flames. keywords: baldy; ben; big; boys; brother; bunch; camp; cattle; country; cow; day; door; eyes; face; father; fire; good; gray; half; hand; head; home; horse; indian; jerry; john; left; life; look; man; men; miles; morning; new; night; open; outfit; place; river; rope; round; saddle; saw; snow; thought; time; town; trail; wagon; way; work; worth; young cache: 39850.txt plain text: 39850.txt item: #23 of 41 id: 4030 author: Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot title: Travellers' Stories date: None words: 12194 flesch: 79 summary: The gardens are full of beautiful children. The old monks well knew how to choose beautiful places to live in. keywords: children; day; feet; flowers; friend; good; house; lady; look; man; people; place; room; thing; thought; time; trees; water; wind cache: 4030.txt plain text: 4030.txt item: #24 of 41 id: 41966 author: Pierson, Clara Dillingham title: Tales of a Poultry Farm date: None words: 35661 flesch: 93 summary: Do you see that tall White Plymouth Rock Cock over there? said the brown-haired twin to hers. Any other Hen on the farm would, but the Brown Hen will not. keywords: chickens; cock; fowls; good; hen; hens; man; mother; plymouth; poultry; rock; time; white cache: 41966.txt plain text: 41966.txt item: #25 of 41 id: 43249 author: MacDonald, Elizabeth Roberts title: Our Little Canadian Cousin date: None words: 21158 flesch: 76 summary: It might, long ago, have been so arranged and protected as to make it a very pleasant summer residence, but, instead, it was now used only for a week or two in haying-time, when the haymakers slept and ate in its basement,--for this quaint little house had a basement, with a kitchen, dining-room, and storeroom. You see, mother dear, he said quite seriously, yours are a _little_ larger, so we won't be mixing them up! keywords: air; blue; camp; canadian; children; christmas; cousin=; day; dear; dora; family; father; grey; home; house; jackie; marjorie; merrithew; miss; mother; mrs; party; river; room; story; things; time; way; white cache: 43249.txt plain text: 43249.txt item: #26 of 41 id: 436 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: The Master Key An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity date: None words: 35614 flesch: 78 summary: Rob Makes a Resolution When Rob opened the front door he came face to face with Nell, who gave an exclamation of joy and threw herself into his arms. Rob Loses His Treasures 14. keywords: air; boy; chief; day; demon; earth; electricity; eyes; fellow; good; head; indicator; machine; man; men; moment; people; pocket; record; right; rob; room; thought; time; traveling; tube; turk; world cache: 436.txt plain text: 436.txt item: #27 of 41 id: 43636 author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title: Our Little Cuban Cousin date: None words: 19724 flesch: 88 summary: =Little Bermuda.= By MARIA LOUISE POOL. And Victory! cried little Isabella, who added with all her childish might, Long live Cuba. keywords: 12mo; boy; children; cloth; cuba; day; father; good; help; home; house; life; long; man; maria; men; new; people; ramon; spaniards; story; sugar; think; time cache: 43636.txt plain text: 43636.txt item: #28 of 41 id: 43832 author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title: Our Little German Cousin date: None words: 18415 flesch: 92 summary: Do little girls in Sonneberg help make the dolls, just as Bertha and I help you on the Santa Claus images? asked Gretchen. They looked like little old men. keywords: bertha; boy; children; cousin=; day; father; frederick; gretchen; hans; home; men; mother; people; siegfried; story; tell; time; village; way; work cache: 43832.txt plain text: 43832.txt item: #29 of 41 id: 45347 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: The Master Key An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity date: None words: 36632 flesch: 77 summary: [Illustration] [Illustration] _CHAPTER FIVE_ THE CANNIBAL ISLAND Doubtless the adventures of the day had tired Rob, for he slept throughout the night as comfortably as if he had been within his own room, lying upon his own bed. [Illustration: Rob was surrounded by a group of natives] THE MASTER KEY _ keywords: air; boy; chief; day; demon; earth; electricity; eyes; good; head; illustration; indicator; left; machine; man; men; moment; people; pocket; record; right; rob; room; thought; time; traveling; tube; turk; world cache: 45347.txt plain text: 45347.txt item: #30 of 41 id: 46484 author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title: Our Little Eskimo Cousin date: None words: 19915 flesch: 89 summary: Yet as Mrs. Morrison's charming volume has long been a delight to me, I am only too happy to link my name with its new and enriched form in this slight way, and simply declare that it is to me the most bewitching book of songs for little people that I have ever known. You should see our stout little Etu riding the waves in his kayak, and balancing the throwing-stick on his shoulder to send the harpoon flying straight to the mark. keywords: baby; boat; boy; children; dogs; eskimo; etu; father; home; little; mother; people; place; reindeer; seal; snow; stories; story; time; water; work cache: 46484.txt plain text: 46484.txt item: #31 of 41 id: 46540 author: Finley, Martha title: Elsie's Winter Trip date: None words: 45265 flesch: 81 summary: cried little Elsie, with a shudder of disgust. Poor thing! sighed little Elsie, I don't know how men can have the heart to be so cruel to animals that are not dangerous. keywords: captain; chester; children; daughter; day; dear; deck; dinsmore; elsie; evelyn; father; good; grace; grandma; harold; home; hope; land; look; lucilla; max; men; mother; ned; papa; people; place; sea; smile; talk; tee; time; violet; water; way cache: 46540.txt plain text: 46540.txt item: #32 of 41 id: 5052 author: Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne title: Absalom's Hair date: None words: 38877 flesch: 84 summary: A highly gifted young man like Rafael Kaas, with such excellent prospects in every way, must not, when little more than twenty, burden himself with a middle-aged wife and a number of children. Rafael Kaas a handsome fellow?--well, yes, but too big, too fair, no repose, altogether too restless. keywords: angelika; boat; day; dean; eyes; face; father; fru; good; hair; half; hand; head; helene; hellebergene; home; kaas; life; look; man; moment; mother; people; place; rafael; round; thought; time; way cache: 5052.txt plain text: 5052.txt item: #33 of 41 id: 51651 author: Miller, Walter M. title: Conditionally Human date: None words: 12698 flesch: 92 summary: I'm Agent Norris, Mr. O'Reilley. Norris backed a few steps toward the door. keywords: anne; baby; chief; child; delmont; door; face; franklin; house; man; neutroid; norris; o'reilley; peony; thought; wife cache: 51651.txt plain text: 51651.txt item: #34 of 41 id: 52782 author: Harris, Joel Chandler title: Aaron in the Wildwoods date: None words: 53870 flesch: 88 summary: But, Colonel, drawled Mr. Simmons, what under the sun ever got the idee in your head that Addison Abercrombie _is_ harboring your nigger? It's as simple as a-b ab, Mr. Gossett replied with energy. In his soul he despised Mr. Gossett, whose negroes were constantly in the woods, and loved and admired Addison Abercrombie, whose negroes never ran away, and who, if every slave on his plantation were a fugitive, would never call on Mr. Simmons to catch them. keywords: aaron; abercrombie; ben; big; chunky; crotchet; dat; day; dey; dogs; george; good; gossett; gray; head; home; horse; know; little; long; man; master; men; negroes; nigger; night; place; riley; runaway; simmons; son; swamp; tell; time; way; white; young cache: 52782.txt plain text: 52782.txt item: #35 of 41 id: 5676 author: MacDonald, George title: A Double Story date: None words: 34622 flesch: 85 summary: Miserable man and woman! To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. keywords: agnes; child; cottage; door; eyes; face; good; king; moment; palace; princess; queen; rosamond; shepherd; thing; thought; time; way; woman cache: 5676.txt plain text: 5676.txt item: #36 of 41 id: 57283 author: Key, Ellen title: The Century of the Child date: None words: 70874 flesch: 60 summary: Prof. Axel Key's investigations on school children have won international recognition. An old illiterate housekeeper who earned a living by taking school children to board was one of the best educators I have ever seen. keywords: case; children; day; development; education; feeling; freedom; future; good; history; home; human; individual; instruction; life; love; man; marriage; means; mother; nature; new; parents; people; power; present; punishment; race; result; right; school; self; society; soul; study; system; things; time; training; view; way; woman; work; world; years cache: 57283.txt plain text: 57283.txt item: #37 of 41 id: 57844 author: Alden, W. L. (William Livingston) title: The Adventures of Jimmy Brown date: None words: 43749 flesch: 85 summary: I said I wouldn't scalp him for nothing, for that would be cruelty; but if Mr. Travers was sure that Mr. Martin was the enemy of the red man, then Green Thunder's heart would ache for revenge, and I would scalp him with pleasure. Mr. Travers said that Mr. Martin was a notorious enemy and oppressor of the Indians, and he gave me ten cents, and said that as soon as Mr. Martin should come and be sitting comfortably on the piazza, I was to give the warwhoop and scalp him. keywords: baby; boy; day; dog; father; good; house; man; martin; mother; people; right; room; stairs; sue; time; tom; travers; way cache: 57844.txt plain text: 57844.txt item: #38 of 41 id: 59495 author: Johnson, John title: Reject date: None words: 1884 flesch: 88 summary: Mr. Ames flicked his cigar ashes toward a vacuum cup on the wall and looked down at the boy. Well, Mr. Ames said, coldly. keywords: ames; play cache: 59495.txt plain text: 59495.txt item: #39 of 41 id: 5955 author: Bailey, Arthur Scott title: The Tale of Tommy Fox date: None words: 15983 flesch: 94 summary: She just stared back at Tommy Fox; and she didn't say a word to him, which somehow made Tommy still more peevish. He did not see Tommy Fox at all, because Tommy was hidden behind the bush. keywords: dog; farmer; green; grouse; mother; mrs; spot; tommy; tommy fox; woodchuck cache: 5955.txt plain text: 5955.txt item: #40 of 41 id: 60581 author: Moulton, Louise Chandler title: More Bed-Time Stories date: None words: 44373 flesch: 86 summary: Her lips, which had never cooed over babies, or soothed the sorrows of little children, or talked nonsense to any listener, were thin, as to such seldom-used lips seemed natural. Her father and aunt had learned that little hearts need something more than to be clothed and fed; and Agatha had learned, by their care for her, their love for her, and never doubted again that she had her own place in their hearts. keywords: boy; child; day; days; eyes; face; father; girl; god; good; hair; heart; home; house; jack; life; look; love; man; miss; mother; mrs; nelly; new; place; room; saw; thing; thought; time; voice; way; world; years cache: 60581.txt plain text: 60581.txt item: #41 of 41 id: 908 author: Shaw, Bernard title: Treatise on Parents and Children date: None words: 40153 flesch: 57 summary: With millions of acres of woods and valleys and hills and wind and air and birds and streams and fishes and all sorts of instructive and healthy things easily accessible, or with streets and shop windows and crowds and vehicles and all sorts of city delights at the door, you are forced to sit, not in a room with some human grace and comfort or furniture and decoration, but in a stalled pound with a lot of other children, beaten if you talk, beaten if you move, beaten if you cannot prove by answering idiotic questions that even when you escaped from the pound and from the eye of your gaoler, you were still agonizing over his detestable sham books instead of daring to live. But the plain fact is that in refusing to allow the child to be taught by qualified unrelated elders (the parents shrink from the lesson, even when they are otherwise qualified, because their own relation to the child makes the subject impossible between them) we are virtually arranging to have our children taught by other children in guilty secrets and unclean jests. keywords: adults; art; boy; children; day; education; fact; family; father; freedom; god; good; home; human; knowledge; law; life; like; man; matter; means; men; moral; mother; parents; people; person; present; reason; religion; right; school; schoolmaster; society; system; things; time; want; way; work cache: 908.txt plain text: 908.txt