item: #1 of 13 id: 18681 author: Means, Florence Crannell title: Across the Fruited Plain date: None words: 23408 flesch: 93 summary: Grandpa pottered with a loose door-latch until Grandma wrung the suds from her hands and cried fiercely, What's the use doing such things, Grampa? Poor Grandma! keywords: baby; beechams; camp; center; children; daddy; day; dick; ellen; eyes; folks; good; grandma; home; house; jimmie; mrs; night; people; place; rose; sally; school; time; work cache: 18681.txt plain text: 18681.txt item: #2 of 13 id: 19337 author: Dickens, Charles title: A Christmas Carol date: None words: 29992 flesch: 87 summary: Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley? Mr. Marley has been dead these seven years, Scrooge replied. keywords: bob; boy; christmas; cold; cratchit; day; door; face; fire; ghost; good; hand; head; life; little; man; marley; merry; mrs; nephew; night; poor; room; round; scrooge; spirit; thought; time cache: 19337.txt plain text: 19337.txt item: #3 of 13 id: 20201 author: Tynan, Katharine title: Mary Gray date: None words: 77180 flesch: 89 summary: What could a man wish for sweeter and prettier beside his hearth than little Nelly? Noel! LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The men would salute their old General, the General salute his old regiment Sir Robin Drummond had come to Mary's side, and turned the page of her music 'Do you know what I came here in the mind to ask you?' 'Miss Nelly is in the drawing-room, sir' MARY GRAY CHAPTER I WISTARIA TERRACE The house where Mary Gray was born and grew towards womanhood was one of a squat line of mean little houses that hid themselves behind a great church. keywords: agatha; anne; chapter; child; day; dear; denis; dowager; drummond; eyes; face; father; general; girl; good; gray; half; hand; heart; home; house; lady; lady anne; langrishe; life; little; look; love; man; mary; mary gray; mind; miss; mother; mrs; nelly; pat; people; place; poor; robin; rooke; room; sir; things; thought; time; way; woman; world; years cache: 20201.txt plain text: 20201.txt item: #4 of 13 id: 2153 author: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn title: Mary Barton date: None words: 166515 flesch: 84 summary: Margaret had still, you see, little or no belief in Jem's innocence; and besides, she thought if Mary saw Will, and heard herself from him that Jem had not been with him that Thursday night, it would in a measure break the force of the blow which was impending. For Job was muttering away in high dudgeon, and even Margaret's tone was altered as she wished Mary good night. keywords: alice; away; bed; bit; carson; child; come; day; days; dead; dear; death; door; end; esther; eyes; face; father; feeling; fire; girl; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; jem; job; john; kind; know; left; life; like; look; looking; love; man; manchester; manner; margaret; mary; mary barton; men; mind; morning; mother; mrs; night; people; place; poor; room; round; saw; set; sir; street; tell; thee; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; wife; wilson; woman; words; work; young cache: 2153.txt plain text: 2153.txt item: #5 of 13 id: 22842 author: Mitford, Mary Russell title: The Widow's Dog date: None words: 4921 flesch: 60 summary: She divided her own supper with poor Chloe, hungry after her long journey; rolled with her upon the Turkey carpet, and at last fell asleep with her arms clasped round her new pet's neck, and her bright face, coloured like lilies and roses, flung across her body; Chloe enduring these caresses with a careful, quiet gentleness, which immediately won for her the hearts of the lovely mother, of the fond father, (for to an accomplished and right-minded man, in delicate health, what a treasure is a little prattling girl, his only one!) of two grandmothers, of three or four young aunts, and of the whole tribe of nursery attendants. And so, sir, continued Mrs. King, who had been telling her little story to my father, whilst I had been admiring her pet, this Mr. Poulton, the tax-gatherer, because I refused to give him our Chloe, whom my boy is so fond of that he shares his meals with her, poor fellow, has laid an information against us for keeping a sporting dog--I don't know what the proper word is--and has had us surcharged; and the first that ever I have heard of it is by this letter, from which I find that I must pay I don't know how much money by Saturday next, or else my goods will be seized and sold. keywords: ashley; chloe; dog; end; father; flower; grandmother; king; mrs; tom cache: 22842.txt plain text: 22842.txt item: #6 of 13 id: 30368 author: Dickens, Charles title: A Christmas Carol The original manuscript date: None words: 29985 flesch: 86 summary: Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley? Mr. Marley has been dead these seven years, Scrooge replied. keywords: bed; bob; boy; christmas; cratchit; day; door; face; fire; ghost; good; hand; head; house; illustration; little; manuscript; marley; merry; nephew; night; page; poor; room; round; scrooge; spirit; time cache: 30368.txt plain text: 30368.txt item: #7 of 13 id: 33754 author: Oxley, J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) title: Terry's Trials and Triumphs date: None words: 37903 flesch: 76 summary: Poor little Terry! Now that there was double cause for such a feeling, he let it have full play, and if poor Terry had done him some mortal injury he could not have shown a more vicious spirit towards him. keywords: afleck; author; board; boy; boys; captain; day; drummond; eyes; face; father; good; halifax; hand; heart; hobart; life; look; man; mind; minnesota; moment; morning; mother; office; poor; right; ship; story; terry; thought; time; water; way; wharf cache: 33754.txt plain text: 33754.txt item: #8 of 13 id: 35359 author: Trotter, Melvin E. (Melvin Earnest) title: Jimmie Moore of Bucktown date: None words: 34067 flesch: 92 summary: He don't talk about nuthin' else and he wants yer ter come an' see him. Der first thing I want yer ter do is ter go ter der Mission wid me ter-night. keywords: bill; boy; bucktown; come; cook; dave; day; der; fagin; fer; floe; fred; git; god; good; help; home; house; jesus; jimmie; like; man; mission; morton; mrs; night; ter; time; way; yer cache: 35359.txt plain text: 35359.txt item: #9 of 13 id: 40729 author: Dickens, Charles title: "Old Scrooge": A Christmas Carol in Five Staves. Dramatized from Charles Dickens' Celebrated Christmas Story. date: None words: 14802 flesch: 99 summary: Uncle Scrooge, uncle Scrooge! (_Scrooge seems to make efforts to reply to the toast, while spirit drags him away._) CURTAIN. My wife, your niece--Yes, you may. (_Scrooge kisses her._) keywords: bob; christmas; cratchit; day; fred; good; little; man; merry; mrs; scene; scro; scrooge; spirit; time cache: 40729.txt plain text: 40729.txt item: #10 of 13 id: 41739 author: Barnett, C. Z. (Charles Zachary) title: A Christmas Carol; Or, The Miser's Warning! (Adapted from Charles Dickens' Celebrated Work.) date: None words: 11078 flesch: 96 summary: _Enter DARK SAM, L. H._ SAM. _Enter FRANK, L. H._ FRANK. keywords: bob; christmas; cratchit; day; frank; ghost; good; man; merry; mrs; scr; scrooge; spirit; time cache: 41739.txt plain text: 41739.txt item: #11 of 13 id: 4377 author: Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan title: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch date: None words: 20886 flesch: 89 summary: Scarcely a week passed that he did not agitate the question, and, as Mrs. Wiggs often said, When Billy Wiggs done set his head to a thing, he's as good as got it! Mrs. Wiggs made the statement as cheerfully as if her elbows were not sticking out through the boy's coat that she wore, or her teeth chattering in her head like a pair of castanets. keywords: 'em; asia; australia; billy; eyes; face; fer; git; goin'; good; hazy; head; jes; jim; lucy; miss; mrs; redding; right; time; way; went; wiggs; yer cache: 4377.txt plain text: 4377.txt item: #12 of 13 id: 447 author: Crane, Stephen title: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets date: None words: 23476 flesch: 88 summary: Do dose little men talk? asked Maggie. Men with calloused hands and attired in garments that showed the wear of an endless trudge for a living, smoked their pipes contentedly and spent five, ten, or perhaps fifteen cents for beer. keywords: air; boy; damn; dat; deh; deh hell; door; eyes; face; girl; git; hands; head; hell; home; jimmie; maggie; men; mother; pete; right; room; street; teh; time; way; wid; woman; yehs; yer cache: 447.txt plain text: 447.txt item: #13 of 13 id: 6334 author: Newberry, Fannie E. (Fannie Ellsworth) title: Sara, a Princess: The Story of a Noble Girl date: None words: 72381 flesch: 83 summary: Who would ever have thought that Sara, little Princess Sara, would stoop to quote, and run around with, some fool of a singing student, an ill-natured one at that! I shall never again quite dare to think of Miss Sara as a little girl; she has crossed the brook, she has entered into woman's kingdom, and all because of a long white gown! keywords: baby; boy; care; child; children; day; dear; door; eyes; face; father; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; jasper; killamet; life; little; look; looking; macon; madame; man; miss; molly; morning; morton; mother; mrs; new; olmstead; pretty; professor; prue; right; robert; room; sairay; sara; sister; tell; things; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; woman; work cache: 6334.txt plain text: 6334.txt