item: #1 of 31 id: 18496 author: Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows) title: Big Brother date: None words: 11561 flesch: 88 summary: But he thought of little Robin fifteen miles away, crying at the strange faces around him; and for his sake he stumbled bravely on. If she never found any tracks of little bare feet on the freshly scrubbed kitchen floor, it was because his watchful eyes had spied them first, and he had wiped away every trace. keywords: brother; child; children; day; dearborn; estel; face; home; mrs; robin; steven; thought; time cache: 18496.txt plain text: 18496.txt item: #2 of 31 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: #3 of 31 id: 21049 author: Garis, Howard Roger title: The Curlytops and Their Pets; Or, Uncle Toby's Strange Collection date: None words: 49093 flesch: 96 summary: Teddy Martin jumped up so suddenly from the bank of the brook, where he was loading his ship with what he called swords, guns and gunpowder, that he tipped the vessel over and the whole cargo was spilled into the water. A moment later Teddy Martin came pushing his way through the crowd now in the bakery. CHAPTER XI TOP ACTS STRANGELY Mr. Martin, the father of the Curlytops, Mr. Capper, the baker, and the crowd of persons in the shop looked at Teddy and his friend, Jimmy Norton, as the two boys hurried into the place. keywords: circus; curlytops; dog; dogs; house; jack; janet; little; man; martin; monkey; mother; mrs; pets; skyrocket; teddy; tip; toby; tricks; trouble; uncle cache: 21049.txt plain text: 21049.txt item: #4 of 31 id: 21884 author: Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry) title: The Faithless Parrot date: None words: 1787 flesch: 92 summary: But Tittums was very much struck by his appearance and bearing; his feathers were so pretty, he spoke so many languages, shrieked so terribly and in such a loud voice, had travelled so much, and was so struck by the beauty of Tittums, that, poor little Cat as she was, she ceased to care a button for faithful Fido, and kept all her sly glances for Mr. Paul Parrot. She walked out with Mr. Paul Parrot, she sang to him, looked kindly at him, and, in fact, only seemed happy when he was by. keywords: fido; parrot; tittums cache: 21884.txt plain text: 21884.txt item: #5 of 31 id: 23401 author: Anonymous title: Our Pets date: None words: 1077 flesch: 101 summary: It fol-low-ed Pol-ly up stairs to the nur-se-ry, and down to the school-room, and round the fields when she walk-ed out; and Pol-ly said, If Nan did grow to be a great sheep, she should nev-er be kill-ed for mut-ton. Some-times she will sit as still as a mouse on Un-cle Tom's shoul-der while he is read-ing, and look so grave-ly on the book that you might think she was read-ing too: but she is not quite wise e-nough for that. keywords: pol cache: 23401.txt plain text: 23401.txt item: #6 of 31 id: 26616 author: Leslie, Madeline title: Minnie's Pet Dog date: None words: 10193 flesch: 80 summary: In this volume I shall give the reader an account of her pet dog, Tiney, with anecdotes of other dogs. After this, whenever Tiney saw him, he began to bark, or rather to growl; but Leo never took the least notice of him. Tiney, however, was fond of running to the gate to see what dogs were passing by. keywords: church; dog; dogs; gentleman; house; lee; leo; master; minnie; mrs; time; tiney cache: 26616.txt plain text: 26616.txt item: #7 of 31 id: 26617 author: Leslie, Madeline title: Minnie's Pet Parrot date: None words: 9655 flesch: 80 summary: Minnie Lee had a pleasant home. But in this volume I shall speak of himself, his family, equipage, and estate, only as they are connected with my object, which is to tell you about Minnie's pet parrot, and also to relate stories of other parrots, all of which are strictly true. keywords: bird; cage; family; father; lee; man; minnie; mrs; parrot; pet; poll; time cache: 26617.txt plain text: 26617.txt item: #8 of 31 id: 26618 author: Leslie, Madeline title: Minnie's Pet Monkey date: None words: 10179 flesch: 81 summary: Don't you know any stories of good monkeys, father? I don't recollect any at this moment, my dear; but I will see whether I can find any for you. changed to pet monkey. keywords: day; fellow; good; jacko; kees; lee; master; minnie; monkey; mrs; pet; time cache: 26618.txt plain text: 26618.txt item: #9 of 31 id: 26619 author: Leslie, Madeline title: Minnie's Pet Lamb date: None words: 11494 flesch: 81 summary: Or you can ask Anne; for she was brought up in a shepherd's family, and can tell you all about the way they bring up little lambs when their mothers will not own them. At this moment, Anne appeared at the door, to ask her mistress a question, and Minnie took the opportunity to tell her that she wanted to hear about raising little lambs. keywords: day; dog; father; flock; lamb; lee; minnie; mother; sheep; shepherd; time cache: 26619.txt plain text: 26619.txt item: #10 of 31 id: 26620 author: Leslie, Madeline title: Minnie's Pet Horse date: None words: 10830 flesch: 77 summary: He was arranged in a row with other horses engaged in the same work; but when the carters were absent, he left the range, and, unattended by any driver, went down High Street, along the Gallowgate, and up a narrow lane, where he stopped at the farrier's door. Many horses will not stay a moment in the stable by themselves, without discovering a great deal of impatience. keywords: animal; day; dog; father; gentleman; horse; lee; master; minnie; pet; pony; stable; years cache: 26620.txt plain text: 26620.txt item: #11 of 31 id: 27472 author: La Bédollière, Emile de title: The Story of a Cat date: None words: 14049 flesch: 77 summary: On seeing Mother Michel bearing in her arms the rescued cat, he said to himself: What, another beast! Having pronounced these words in a firm tone, Madame de la Grenouillère addressed herself to Mother Michel. keywords: cat; countess; day; faribole; father; father lustucru; grenouillère; house; illustration; lustucru; madame; michel; mother; mother michel; moumouth; steward cache: 27472.txt plain text: 27472.txt item: #12 of 31 id: 28682 author: Leslie, Madeline title: Minnie's Pet Cat date: None words: 9639 flesch: 77 summary: 'I declare that great cat has brought her kitten up here,' exclaimed my nurse, astonished at her effrontery. There are some wonderful accounts of the sagacity of cats, remarked Mr. Lee, smiling at Minnie's quick flush of indignation. keywords: cat; cats; child; day; family; fidelle; lady; lee; minnie; mrs; puss; time cache: 28682.txt plain text: 28682.txt item: #13 of 31 id: 30966 author: Molesworth, Mrs. title: Miss Mouse and Her Boys date: None words: 42592 flesch: 93 summary: She isn't accustomed to see little boys fighting and kicking each other. You are quieter than Jus and Archie, and little Rosamond has not been used to boys, or indeed to playfellows at all. keywords: archie; aunt; bob; boys; girl; good; home; justin; little; mattie; miss; moor; mouse; mrs; nance; pat; rosamond; tell; things; thought; time; way cache: 30966.txt plain text: 30966.txt item: #14 of 31 id: 31327 author: Mullen, Stanley title: Master of the Moondog date: None words: 12725 flesch: 89 summary: Tod Denver and Charley, the moondog, made ideal companions as they set a zigzag course for the Martian diggings--paradise for fools._ [Illustration] Tod Denver glared at Charley, who was a moondog and looked like one, and Charley glared back. keywords: big; caltis; charley; darbor; denver; earth; girl; inside; light; man; martian; moondog; ship; space; time; tod; tod denver cache: 31327.txt plain text: 31327.txt item: #15 of 31 id: 32069 author: Jackson, Helen Hunt title: Letters from a Cat Published by Her Mistress for the Benefit of All Cats and the Amusement of Little Children date: None words: 9771 flesch: 86 summary: And, oh, my dear Helen, such good things as I had to eat! They put it into old broken things that tip over at the least knock, and then they set them just where they are sure to be most in the way. keywords: cat; good; helen; mary; mother; pussy; thing; time cache: 32069.txt plain text: 32069.txt item: #16 of 31 id: 33240 author: Jackson, Helen Hunt title: Mammy Tittleback and Her Family: A True Story of Seventeen Cats date: None words: 10349 flesch: 87 summary: Their names are Johnny and Rosy Chapman; and if it had not been for Johnny and Rosy Chapman, there would never have been this nice story to tell about Mammy Tittleback: for Phil and Fred are big boys, and do not care very much about cats; they like to see them around, and to make them comfortable; but Johnny and Rosy are quite different. Johnny is only eight and Rosy six, and they love cats and kittens better than anything else in the world; and when they went to spend this last summer at their Uncle Frank Wellington's, and found Mammy Tittleback with six little kittens, just born, they thought such a piece of luck never had happened before to two children. keywords: cats; house; jerry; johnny; kittens; mammy; rosy; tittleback cache: 33240.txt plain text: 33240.txt item: #17 of 31 id: 34205 author: Kringle, George title: Some Little People date: None words: 18352 flesch: 86 summary: They were good little boys, with pleasant ways, and pleasant words, and very pleasant faces. I thought you were a good little girl; good little girls are satisfied here. keywords: boys; dickon; home; lisbeth; london; mother; things; thought; way cache: 34205.txt plain text: 34205.txt item: #18 of 31 id: 37188 author: Busch, Wilhelm title: Plish and Plum date: None words: 2292 flesch: 95 summary: Mamma Fittig, full of kindness, Fearing anger's headlong blindness, Cries, Best Fittig! Papa Fittig, calm and cosy, Mamma Fittig, round and rosy, Arm in arm sit peaceful there-- Troubled by no speck of care-- keywords: chapter; fittig; paul; peter; plish; plum cache: 37188.txt plain text: 37188.txt item: #19 of 31 id: 37330 author: Stables, Gordon title: Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites date: None words: 109275 flesch: 82 summary: There was a great number of other little dogs in the village besides himself--poodles, Pomeranians, and Skyes, doggies of every denomination and all shades of colour, and many of these got up early too. A poor, persecuted little bird is this same yellow bunting; and schoolboys often, when they find the nest, scatter it and its precious contents to the four winds of heaven. keywords: aileen; away; bird; bit; black; blue; boy; cage; captain; cat; country; day; days; dear; dog; dogs; dolls; door; evening; eyes; face; feet; food; frank; friend; good; green; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; ida; kind; left; life; little; look; love; man; mary; master; mind; mirram; mistress; morning; nero; nest; new; night; peggy; pet; place; pompey; poor; pretty; room; round; sea; ship; song; story; summer; tell; thing; thought; time; toby; trees; water; white; wife; world; years cache: 37330.txt plain text: 37330.txt item: #20 of 31 id: 38771 author: Meade, L. T. title: The Little Princess of Tower Hill date: None words: 55519 flesch: 83 summary: He looked uncommonly well this morning, remarkably neat in his person, and altogether a striking contrast to poor disheveled little Maggie. In five minutes the plan was made which was to exercise so large an influence over little Maggie, which was, in short, completely to alter her life. keywords: aylmer; baby; billy; boy; child; children; course; day; dear; eyes; face; father; girl; good; grey; heart; home; john; little; maggie; miss; moment; mother; mrs; night; pepper; poor; ralph; room; round; sir; story; susy; thought; time; tom; trusty; waters; yer cache: 38771.txt plain text: 38771.txt item: #21 of 31 id: 38995 author: Miller, Thomas title: The Sheep and Lamb date: None words: 6956 flesch: 89 summary: He was a kind-hearted man; for as soon as the lamb entered the cottage it went up to him, and as he patted its pretty head, he sighed heavily, for he felt almost as much troubled at parting with it as did little Johnny. Please, sir, he doesn't know that butcher Page didn't take away Johnny's lamb in the cart, said Polly, rushing to the rescue, because we kept it in the little croft, and drove Charley's lamb out instead, for little Johnny had been crying so all day that it made us all sorry to see it. keywords: charley; duckling; johnny; lamb; price; sheep; vol; vols cache: 38995.txt plain text: 38995.txt item: #22 of 31 id: 42946 author: Davenport, Emma title: Live Toys; Or, Anecdotes of Our Four-Legged and Other Pets date: None words: 38365 flesch: 87 summary: _ cloth, 3_s._ 6_d. What it was that induced Tawney not only to _see_ Pricker, but to attack him again, we do not know, as nobody was witness of the catastrophe. keywords: 16mo; 8vo; author; bird; bluebeard; book; children; cloth; day; dog; donkey; door; edges; edition; fcap; garden; head; history; home; house; illustrations; jacky; look; mamma; morning; neddy; new; papa; place; price; room; round; sister; tawney; thought; time; way; window cache: 42946.txt plain text: 42946.txt item: #23 of 31 id: 44914 author: Craik, Georgiana M. (Georgiana Marion) title: Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew date: None words: 9336 flesch: 103 summary: Now if I had a real home, Mew-Mew would say, I would have a lot of young cats in it. Mew-Mew would spring up like a shot. keywords: bow; cat; dog; good; illustration; mew; wow cache: 44914.txt plain text: 44914.txt item: #24 of 31 id: 44924 author: Brabourne, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, Baron title: Uncle Joe's Stories date: None words: 105204 flesch: 68 summary: There trooped after him, three and three at a time, a whole regiment of little men, all dressed in green, and apparently belonging to the first comer. At that moment several little men, about a foot high, leaped down from the loft above the stables, and going to the favoured team, began to brush and comb them with great care and energy, rubbing them well all over and uttering no words to anybody as they did so, save to each other as they worked, as if to encourage themselves to greater exertions. keywords: belinda; boy; case; cat; child; country; course; day; dog; doubt; evelyn; eyes; face; fact; fairies; fairy; famcram; farmer; father; forest; good; hand; head; home; house; kind; king; left; life; long; man; manner; matter; mind; moment; mother; ophelia; people; philip; place; poor; power; queen; race; right; round; royal; sister; things; thought; time; voice; way; words; zac cache: 44924.txt plain text: 44924.txt item: #25 of 31 id: 45276 author: Anonymous title: Dame Trot and Her Cat date: None words: 615 flesch: 83 summary: [Illustration: 0006] Next morning when little Dame Trot came down stairs, To attend, as usual, to household affairs, She found that the kitchen was swept up as clean As if Puss, a regular servant had been. Oh, what a strange cat! thought poor little Dame Trot, She'll break my best china and upset the pot; But no harm befel them--the velvety paws Were quite sure; the Dame for alarm had no cause. keywords: dame cache: 45276.txt plain text: 45276.txt item: #26 of 31 id: 45389 author: Anonymous title: Two Yellow-Birds date: None words: 3000 flesch: 89 summary: It is very wicked to let little birds want seeds, or water, either to drink, or wash themselves in. She used to go to school in the morning, and when she came home, would often bring flowers to dress his cage with, or chickweed, and the long seed vessels of the plantain, which little birds love very much; and he always repaid her with a song. keywords: cage; lucy; mother cache: 45389.txt plain text: 45389.txt item: #27 of 31 id: 48648 author: May, Sophie title: Doctor Papa date: None words: 25252 flesch: 94 summary: Does you feel orfly? said little Flaxie. Ah, it was a sad, sad lesson to little Flaxie. keywords: baby; dear; flaxie; frizzle; gray; little; lucy; mamma; mother; mrs; ninny; preston; prim; rose; said; tell; thought; time cache: 48648.txt plain text: 48648.txt item: #28 of 31 id: 50702 author: Sutton, Lee title: Venus Boy date: None words: 40821 flesch: 98 summary: More marva than any other person had ever seen surrounded Johnny. Most of the time Baba clicked it, but when he got tired Johnny took over for a while. keywords: arrow; baba; bear; claws; colony; door; eyes; friend; head; johnny; man; marva; men; rhinosaur; rick; right; rock; tank; time; tree; venus; voice; way cache: 50702.txt plain text: 50702.txt item: #29 of 31 id: 51478 author: Stamers, James title: Dumbwaiter date: None words: 4351 flesch: 86 summary: It says, she read, not much is known about Antimony IX divers because none have ever been known to leave their planet. We always make an exception for Antimony IX divers. keywords: diver; florence; honey; jones; mind; sol; thought cache: 51478.txt plain text: 51478.txt item: #30 of 31 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: #31 of 31 id: 60587 author: Goulart, Ron title: Shandy date: None words: 2996 flesch: 99 summary: Is Miss Nancy at home? Who are you? Tell Miss Nancy it's Shandy. Or better, Mr. Shandy. Christ, said Holman, backing now. keywords: head; holman; nancy; shandy cache: 60587.txt plain text: 60587.txt