        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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