item: #1 of 8
id: 14998
author: Kay, Ross
title: The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine
date: None
words: 50467
flesch: 88
summary: The men all the while pretended that they thought it was a joke, and then when I got just to the right place, quick as a wink I jumped up and yelled at my horse in the loudest tones I could muster, and when little Zeke really tries hard to make himself heard there isn't usually much trouble in hearing him. It was seven o'clock when at last Zeke declared the party was ready to depart.
keywords: boat; boys; camp; canyon; fred; george; good; grant; guide; gulch; indian; jefferson; john; man; men; moultrie; navajo; party; pete; place; right; simon; thomas; time; way; zeke
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item: #2 of 8
id: 15195
author: Daviess, Maria Thompson
title: Rose of Old Harpeth
date: None
words: 55615
flesch: 77
summary: Here's a pan of delicacies for the hens, and this bucket is for you to bring some shelled corn for Miss Rose Mary to parch for them, when you come to the house. Tenting up the garden sass ag'in, Miss Rose Mary? No, we're jest giving all the household duds a mooning instead of a sunning, Cal, answered Uncle Tucker with a chuckle as he came over to the wall beside the visitor.
keywords: aunt; away; come; crabtree; day; door; everett; eyes; general; good; hand; head; heart; help; house; know; lavinia; left; little; man; milk; miss; mrs; new; poteet; providence; right; road; rose mary; smile; stonie; sweetbriar; tell; things; time; tobe; tucker; uncle; uncle tucker; viney; voice; want; white; woman; young
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item: #3 of 8
id: 23391
author: Young, Rose E. (Rose Emmet)
title: Sally of Missouri
date: None
words: 56705
flesch: 85
summary: The miner would not let Miss Madeira come far out on the crag, though he let the men follow him, calling warnings to them as they came. Got the cote-haouse an' all, the relroad an' all--Miss Sally Madeira, Mist' Crit Madeira's daughter, _she_ lives tha'.
keywords: away; bernique; boy; bruce; canaan; come; company; day; eyes; face; father; girl; god; good; grierson; hand; head; high; hills; house; letter; life; light; little; look; love; madeira; man; men; miss; miss madeira; missouri; new; old; people; piney; place; river; road; sally; sally madeira; saw; steering; thing; tigmores; time; voice; way; young
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item: #4 of 8
id: 27984
author: Otis, James
title: Ralph Gurney's Oil Speculation
date: None
words: 74353
flesch: 73
summary: Close behind George came Ralph and Bob, both excited by the thought that there was yet a possibility the men might escape with the team, and both running as fast as they could. Leaving Bob and Ralph to continue the cold-water application, since not more than two could work at a time advantageously, George went with the farmer to see what sort of a vehicle they could borrow in exchange for their own.
keywords: 12mo; bob; boys; business; case; cloth; day; dick; farm; george; good; harnett; horses; house; hut; jim; left; man; matter; men; money; moonlighters; newcombe; night; oil; place; price; property; ralph; road; simpson; story; team; thought; time; town; way; work
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item: #5 of 8
id: 45287
author: Bramble, Charles A.
title: The A B C of Mining: A Handbook for Prospectors
date: None
words: 41185
flesch: 76
summary: With this modest collection of implements he made forty assays of gold ores that turned out to be correct when repeated in a laboratory. of metallic iron, but are in demand as fluxes for other iron ores.
keywords: acid; amalgam; black; case; cent; clay; copper; deposits; feet; fine; gold; gravel; great; illustration; inches; iron; lead; material; mercury; metal; mineral; mining; nitric; ore; ores; pan; pipe; pounds; prospector; quartz; quicksilver; red; rock; silver; square; surface; test; tin; ton; value; vein; water; white; work; zinc
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item: #6 of 8
id: 51768
author: Sheckley, Robert
title: Prospector's Special
date: None
words: 8547
flesch: 90
summary: Fourteen hundred dollars, Mr. Morrison. Here we are, Mr. Morrison, Williams 4 said.
keywords: goldenstone; krandall; morrison; robot; sandcar; telephone; venus; water; williams
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item: #7 of 8
id: 61811
author: Williams, Robert Moore
title: Quest on Io
date: None
words: 5336
flesch: 93
summary: Seeing she couldn't get the gun, she stopped, and the blast she launched from her eyes made Andy think they were heat guns of a new kind. Andy reached decisively for a rock.
keywords: andy; boss; girl; gun; heat; man; oscar
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item: #8 of 8
id: 61895
author: Cummings, Ray
title: Space-Wolf
date: None
words: 5481
flesch: 91
summary: Well, in a nutshell, I'm Morgan--Solo Morgan. The lure of precious zolonite drew Morgan to barren Titan--to find a weird beast-empire ruled by a cold-eyed Earth-girl queen.
keywords: cah; girl; gun; morgan; nada; red; rocks
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