item: #1 of 18 id: 13997 author: Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) title: Real Folks date: None words: 90318 flesch: 85 summary: Dorris kept her little room, and was neighborly as heretofore; but she was busy with her music, and had little time but her evenings; and now there was nobody to walk home with Desire to Shubarton Place, if she stayed in Aspen Street to tea. Do you remember the story Luclarion used to tell us of when she and her brother Mark were little children and used to play that the looking-glass-things were real, and that two children lived in them, in the other room, and how we used to make believe too in the slanting chimney glass? keywords: children; come; coming; craydocke; day; days; dear; desire; dorris; eyes; face; frank; geoffrey; girl; going; good; got; half; hazel; helena; help; home; house; kenneth; kincaid; laura; ledwith; life; little; living; long; look; luclarion; man; megilp; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; new; oldways; people; place; real; right; ripwinkley; room; rosamond; round; set; street; tea; things; think; thought; time; titus; uncle; want; way; white; window; work; world; years; young cache: 13997.txt plain text: 13997.txt item: #2 of 18 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: #3 of 18 id: 14903 author: Rand, Edward A. (Edward Augustus) title: The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play date: None words: 53258 flesch: 91 summary: Tell Aunt Stanshy to wipe out every thing, and we will start once more, was the message that Ann sent off by Charlie. What saint is that? The wrathful Charlie gave Tim a look of contempt and turned away. keywords: aunt; aunt stanshy; barn; boys; charlie; club; come; day; door; eyes; fire; good; governor; head; home; house; juggie; ladder; look; man; miss; pip; president; room; round; saw; school; sea; sid; simes; stanshy; thing; thought; tim; time; tony; way; white; window; wort cache: 14903.txt plain text: 14903.txt item: #4 of 18 id: 17168 author: Harte, Bret title: The Queen of the Pirate Isle date: None words: 6642 flesch: 77 summary: It was just after the exciting capture of a merchantman with the indiscriminate slaughter of all on board--a spectacle on which the round blue eyes of the plump Polly had gazed with royal and maternal tolerance, and they were burying the booty--two table spoons and a thimble in the corner of the closet, when Wan Lee stolidly rose. An earlier flight had been impossible on account of Wan Lee being obliged to perform his regular duty of blacking the shoes of Polly and Hickory before breakfast,--a menial act which in the pure Republic of childhood was never thought inconsistent with the loftiest piratical ambition. keywords: children; eyes; hickory; illustration; lee; majesty; patsey; pirates; polly; queen; red; wan cache: 17168.txt plain text: 17168.txt item: #5 of 18 id: 20984 author: May, Sophie title: Prudy Keeping House date: None words: 26967 flesch: 92 summary: Seeing her betters disagree, little Fly had taken her turn at pouting. She saw no harm in letting Fly hop about the pavement on one foot sucking oranges, till she herself felt chilled by the keen wind; then she drew the little girl into the house, and shut the door against the snow-storm, saying,-- Why, how happened you out here, little Miss Fly? She sawed me the whole time; she ought to sended me in, thought Fly, dancing up and down to shake off the snow. keywords: auntie; children; dear; dimple; doctor; dotty; eyes; fixfax; fly; folks; good; home; horace; house; hubbard; lady; look; miss; mother; mrs; pragoff; prudy; room; tell; thought cache: 20984.txt plain text: 20984.txt item: #6 of 18 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: #7 of 18 id: 28466 author: Hunt, Jean Lee title: A Catalogue of Play Equipment date: None words: 6582 flesch: 69 summary: ]* This working hypothesis for the selection of toys is as yet but little understood either by those who buy or those who sell play materials. His wooden toys are merely wooden ornaments without relation to any series and without playability, immobile, reasonless, for the philosophy of the play laboratory is quite unknown to the makers of play materials, while those who buy are guided almost entirely by convention and have no better standard by which to estimate what constitutes their money's worth. keywords: blocks; chap; children; cut; equipment; floor; illustration; kind; laboratory; material; play; school; set; toys; use cache: 28466.txt plain text: 28466.txt item: #8 of 18 id: 29593 author: Barrow, Sarah L. title: Red, White, Blue Socks, Part First Being the First Book date: None words: 13146 flesch: 81 summary: on the top of the page is written 'Colonel Freddy; or, the March and Encampment of the Dashahed Zouaves.' The sky was as blue as possible; the sun shone so brightly that it seemed as though it must have been polished up for the occasion, and Colonel Freddy, as soon as he awoke, could not help giving a little shout of joy. keywords: boys; children; colonel; father; fox; freddy; george; good; helen; jourdain; mother; new; peter; regiment; time; zouaves cache: 29593.txt plain text: 29593.txt item: #9 of 18 id: 29594 author: Barrow, Sarah L. title: Red, White, Blue Socks. Part Second Being the Second Book of the Series date: None words: 14842 flesch: 80 summary: You know old Jerry that I told you about? Then they got into the carriages, and old Jerry grasped Freddy's hand with an affectionate Good-by, my little Colonel, God bless ye! keywords: boys; camp; colonel; flag; freddy; fur; george; good; house; jerry; left; little; peter; schermerhorn; time; tom; wor; zouaves cache: 29594.txt plain text: 29594.txt item: #10 of 18 id: 30469 author: Mockler, Geraldine title: A Tale of the Summer Holidays date: None words: 20649 flesch: 86 summary: It is a good thing that Helen was not here, said Jim, or Master Hal would not have got off so easily. But now that Master Hal looks so queer, I don't like to leave him. keywords: boy; dodds; drusie; fort; going; hal; helen; illustration; jim; jumbo; thought; time; tommy; way cache: 30469.txt plain text: 30469.txt item: #11 of 18 id: 31007 author: Molesworth, Mrs. title: The Girls and I: A Veracious History date: None words: 70703 flesch: 96 summary: Cr. 8vo. Cr. 8vo. keywords: ---the; 18mo; 21_s; 2nd; 4to; 8vo; anne; bit; book; children; church; come; course; crown 8vo; day; dear; door; edit; edition; england; english; ext; father; fcp; girls; globe 8vo; good; gran; half; hebe; history; home; house; illustrated; illustrations; introduction; jack; john; kind; lady; lectures; life; look; looking; m.a; maud; miss; mother; mrs; mums; net; new; night; notes; nurse; parsley; people; poems; poor; prof; rev; room; round; series; sermons; serry; sir; sort; tea; things; thought; time; vols; way; works cache: 31007.txt plain text: 31007.txt item: #12 of 18 id: 33521 author: Leslie, Madeline title: Little Frankie at His Plays date: None words: 7964 flesch: 95 summary: They were all crying for joy that dear, darling little Frankie had not been drowned. I think whatever faults little Frankie had, he dearly loved his mother. keywords: boy; dear; frankie; good; mamma; try; willie cache: 33521.txt plain text: 33521.txt item: #13 of 18 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: #14 of 18 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: #15 of 18 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: #16 of 18 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: #17 of 18 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: #18 of 18 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