item: #1 of 37 id: 13905 author: Brown, Abbie Farwell title: John of the Woods date: None words: 33819 flesch: 96 summary: Presently the young man began to weaken, and at last John felt the stranger's body grow limp in his clutch. Behind mewed the tired Blanche, whose kittens John carried in his arms, while the carrier pigeon and the raven perched on his shoulder. keywords: animals; bear; boy; brutus; day; dog; eyes; face; forest; friends; gigi; good; hand; head; hermit; john; king; like; man; prince; son; time cache: 13905.txt plain text: 13905.txt item: #2 of 37 id: 14762 author: Optic, Oliver title: Now or Never; Or, The Adventures of Bobby Bright: A Story for Young Folks date: None words: 45934 flesch: 87 summary: It is true Bobby did not think of any of these things; though, if he had, it would have made no difference with him. The book business is good just now, isn't it? continued Bobby, without clearly comprehending the meaning of the other's last remark. keywords: bayard; bobby; books; boy; bright; business; day; dollars; father; good; hardhand; hero; home; house; lady; lee; man; money; mother; pay; sir; squire; thing; thought; time; tom; want cache: 14762.txt plain text: 14762.txt item: #3 of 37 id: 19473 author: Optic, Oliver title: Now or Never; Or, The Adventures of Bobby Bright date: None words: 48415 flesch: 87 summary: It is true Bobby did not think of any of these things; though, if he had, it would have made no difference with him. The book business is good just now, isn't it? continued Bobby, without clearly comprehending the meaning of the other's last remark. keywords: annie; bayard; bobby; books; boy; bright; business; day; dollars; father; good; hardhand; hero; home; house; lady; lee; man; men; mind; money; morning; mother; pay; riverdale; sir; squire; thought; time; timmins; tom; want cache: 19473.txt plain text: 19473.txt item: #4 of 37 id: 19936 author: Herbert, Minie title: Willie the Waif date: None words: 13657 flesch: 94 summary: But little Willie would not hear of any such arrangement. In that time she had forgotten all the lessons her mother had tried to teach her, and now when little Willie wanted her to show him the way to Jesus she was not able to do so. keywords: blair; bob; boy; boys; brother; children; come; day; elton; jesus; lady; little; miss; mrs; time; willie; yer cache: 19936.txt plain text: 19936.txt item: #5 of 37 id: 21611 author: Unknown title: The Runaway Or, The Adventures of Rodney Roverton date: None words: 15385 flesch: 81 summary: There was a romantic interest in all this for young Rodney. For poor Rodney there was no more sleep that night, even had they placed him on a bed of roses. keywords: bill; boy; chapter; day; face; god; good; heart; home; house; life; man; morning; rodney; ship; thought; time cache: 21611.txt plain text: 21611.txt item: #6 of 37 id: 22219 author: Howells, William Dean title: The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story date: None words: 43719 flesch: 86 summary: Pony was not his real name; it was what the boys called him, because there were so many fellows who had to be told apart, as Big Joe and Little Joe, and Big John and Little John, and Big Bill and Little Bill, that they got tired of telling boys apart that way; and after one of the boys called him Pony Baker, so that you could know him from his cousin Frank Baker, nobody ever called him anything else. But now, before I go the least bit further with the story of Pony Baker's running away, I have got to tell about Jim Leonard, and what kind of boy he was, and the scrape that he once got Pony and the other boys into, and a hair-breadth escape he had himself, when he came pretty near being drowned in a freshet; and I will begin with the hair-breadth escape, because it happened before the scrape. keywords: baker; boys; circus; dave; father; fellows; frank; good; home; house; jake; jim; jim leonard; leonard; mother; pony; run; thought; time; way cache: 22219.txt plain text: 22219.txt item: #7 of 37 id: 23383 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: Archibald Hughson: An Arctic Story date: None words: 27319 flesch: 84 summary: Archy felt grateful to old Andrew, and thanked him warmly. Don't speak about that, boy, remarked Andrew. The crew generally did not treat Archy as kindly as old Andrew had done. keywords: andrew; archy; board; boat; captain; crew; day; god; ice; max; men; sea; ship; snow; time; water; way cache: 23383.txt plain text: 23383.txt item: #8 of 37 id: 23758 author: Optic, Oliver title: Work and Win; Or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise date: None words: 50461 flesch: 86 summary: Night came on again, with a hopeless prospect for the future; and poor Noddy began to question the wisdom of the course he had taken. You will not send poor Noddy to prison--will you? interposed Mollie. keywords: ben; bertha; boat; boy; cabin; captain; day; deck; fanny; father; fire; good; grant; house; man; mcclintock; miss; mollie; noddy; sir; time; vessel; want; water; way; woodville; work cache: 23758.txt plain text: 23758.txt item: #9 of 37 id: 29295 author: Molesworth, Mrs. title: Great Uncle Hoot-Toot date: None words: 31395 flesch: 93 summary: You don't think he'll be very severe with poor Geoff? _Very_ hard indeed it seemed to him--to proud Geoff, who had never yet taken in good part his mother's mildest reprimands. keywords: boy; come; eames; elsa; farmer; geoff; good; home; hoot; mamma; mother; thought; time; toot; uncle; vicky; way cache: 29295.txt plain text: 29295.txt item: #10 of 37 id: 31265 author: Otis, James title: Aunt Hannah and Seth date: None words: 22715 flesch: 78 summary: It's the only home I ever knew, an' my heart would be wellnigh broken if I lost it! Before she had ceased speaking Seth was flinging rug after rug on the burning oil, for Aunt Hannah, like many another woman living in the country, had an ample supply of such floor coverings. It was not until Aunt Hannah had concluded that Seth appeared to understand he was the boy referred to, and then he asked excitedly: Do you suppose the Seth Barrows told about there can be me? Of course, my dear. keywords: aunt; aunt hannah; barn; boy; dean; dear; dog; face; hannah; house; master; seth; snip; time; way; woman; work cache: 31265.txt plain text: 31265.txt item: #11 of 37 id: 31371 author: Cobb, Thomas title: The Little Clown date: None words: 19170 flesch: 94 summary: And men and women gradually came out of the other vans, which stood about anyhow, and they all looked very sleepy and rather dirty, especially the children who soon began to collect round Jimmy as if he were the most extraordinary thing in the caravan. Her hand was on his arm, and her eyes wore a very curious expression, almost as if she were going to cry also, just to keep Jimmy company. keywords: aunt; clown; door; jimmy; miss; morton; mother; roberts; selina; time; train cache: 31371.txt plain text: 31371.txt item: #12 of 37 id: 32325 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) date: None words: 116074 flesch: 92 summary: Said he swum along behind me that night, and heard me yell every time, but dasn't answer, because he didn't want nobody to pick _him_ up and take him into slavery again. But at last, just as I was sailing by, _flash_ comes the light in Mary Jane's window! keywords: bed; canoe; come; dark; dat; day; dey; door; duke; going; good; hain't; half; hand; head; home; house; huck; jim; kind; king; left; little; long; look; man; men; mighty; mile; mind; minute; miss; money; nigger; people; place; pretty; raft; right; river; run; set; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; tom; town; trouble; warn't; water; way; woods; work cache: 32325.txt plain text: 32325.txt item: #13 of 37 id: 34024 author: Emerson, Alice B. title: Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point; or, Nita, the Girl Castaway date: None words: 44832 flesch: 92 summary: In the third volume of the series, Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp; Or, Lost in the Backwoods, Ruth and some of her school friends spend a part of the mid-winter vacation at Mr. Cameron's hunting lodge in the Big Woods, where they enjoy many winter sports and have adventures galore. Helen, when deserted by The Fox, who, from that first day at Briarwood Hall, had shown herself to be jealous of Ruth Fielding, for some reason, went slowly up to her room and found Ruth and Mercy there before her. keywords: ann; aunt; boat; boys; come; cox; crab; fielding; fox; girl; good; heavy; helen; hicks; jane; kate; lighthouse; long; man; mary; mercy; miss; nita; right; ruth; ruth fielding; school; sea; tell; thought; time; tom; uncle; water; way cache: 34024.txt plain text: 34024.txt item: #14 of 37 id: 36400 author: Hill, Grace Brooks title: The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended date: None words: 48131 flesch: 92 summary: Dat Sammy Pinkney boy was suah some good once in a while. Harried by his disappointment, Sammy was met by his mother in a stern mood, her first question being: Where have you been wasting your time ever since dinner, Sammy Pinkney? keywords: agnes; away; basket; big; boy; bracelet; car; children; corner; costello; course; dot; find; girls; good; gypsies; gypsy; home; house; kenway; man; mccall; mrs; neale; pinkney; right; road; ruth; sammy; tess; time; women cache: 36400.txt plain text: 36400.txt item: #15 of 37 id: 36852 author: Fenn, George Manville title: The Story of Antony Grace date: None words: 150102 flesch: 88 summary: He was sent for home one day to find his father dying; and, a week later, poor Mr Hallett found himself with all his father's affairs upon his hands, and that he had died heavily in debt. I dessay I am, Mr Hallett, but Mr Grimstone said as this boy was to-- And if you don't go about your business I shall box your ears. keywords: antony; blakeford; boy; carr; come; course; day; dear; door; eyes; face; father; feeling; good; grace; great; half; hallett; hand; head; help; home; jabez; like; linny; lister; look; man; mary; mind; miss; mr blakeford; mr hallett; mr jabez; mr lister; mr rowle; office; place; poor; revitts; right; room; round; rowle; sir; speak; tell; thought; time; voice; want; way; went; words; work; yes cache: 36852.txt plain text: 36852.txt item: #16 of 37 id: 37911 author: Penrose, Margaret title: The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach; Or, In Quest of the Runaways date: None words: 46567 flesch: 90 summary: They hoped that Cora Kimball could be induced to go with them, and, if Cora did go, why, of course, it meant that Jack would come down, occasionally, or, perhaps, oftener. The news so suddenly divulged by Andy confused Cora. keywords: andy; belle; bess; boys; car; chapter; cora; day; girls; good; house; jack; left; little; look; miss; mother; motor; mrs; nellie; place; right; road; robinson; room; rose; run; sister; time; walter; way; woman cache: 37911.txt plain text: 37911.txt item: #17 of 37 id: 3795 author: Alcott, Louisa May title: Under the Lilacs date: None words: 83954 flesch: 81 summary: The interest taken in the father was owing to the son at first; but, by the time the story was told, old Ben had won friends for himself not only because of the misfortunes which he had evidently borne in a manly way, but because of his delight in the boy's improvement, and the desire he felt to turn his hand to any honest work, that he might keep Ben happy and contented in this good home. Old Ben carried the bag in one hand while young Ben held the other fast, looking a little shame-faced at his own emotion now, for there were marks of tears on his cheeks, but too glad to repress the delight he felt that he had really found Daddy this side heaven. keywords: bab; ben; betty; big; billy; boy; boys; brown; celia; children; come; day; dog; eyes; face; father; find; fun; gate; girls; good; great; half; hand; head; help; home; house; lita; little; look; man; mind; miss; miss celia; moss; mother; mrs; new; place; poor; pretty; red; right; round; sam; sancho; squire; tell; thing; thorny; thought; time; want; way; white cache: 3795.txt plain text: 3795.txt item: #18 of 37 id: 38160 author: Marsh, Richard title: A Hero of Romance date: None words: 81456 flesch: 87 summary: Master Bertie Bailey was kept in; and the outrage this was to his feelings was altogether too deep for words. Master Bertie Bailey was seated at a desk very much the worse for wear; a long desk, divided into separate compartments, which were intended to accommodate about a dozen boys. keywords: bailey; bankes; bed; bertie; bertie bailey; boy; boys; captain; day; dreams; ellis; eyes; face; fletcher; gentleman; going; good; griffin; half; hand; head; home; house; lad; land; left; life; look; man; mecklemburg; mind; moment; money; mrs; night; place; road; room; school; shane; tell; things; thought; till; time; way; words cache: 38160.txt plain text: 38160.txt item: #19 of 37 id: 49724 author: Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe title: Snow-White; or, The House in the Wood date: None words: 23752 flesch: 96 summary: Dwarfs didn't ought to eat them, any more than children. When you leave this kinds of child alone, it runs away, that's what it does; and Miss Tylers isn't any kind of persons to leave this kinds of child wiz, anyhow, and so I told them at first. keywords: child; dwarf; eyes; green; house; kind; man; mark; place; right; snow; story; things; time; tree; way; white; wiz cache: 49724.txt plain text: 49724.txt item: #20 of 37 id: 5970 author: Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan title: Lovey Mary date: None words: 22669 flesch: 91 summary: When Lovey Mary stumbled over the Hazy threshold with the sleeping Tommy and the duck in her arms, Miss Hazy fluttered about in dismay. Lovey Mary crushed the letter in her hand; she would not give it to Miss Hazy. keywords: asia; bell; cabbage; come; eyes; fer; girl; git; good; hand; hazy; home; house; jes; kate; lovey mary; mary; miss; mrs; patch; right; time; tommy; way; wiggs cache: 5970.txt plain text: 5970.txt item: #21 of 37 id: 61878 author: Meade, L. T. title: The Manor School date: None words: 100103 flesch: 91 summary: This young lady is Miss Christian Mitford--the Honorable Miss Christian Mitford, said Judith, laughing. We ran away from home yesterday, both of us--me from a very humble home, and Miss Christian Mitford from her grand one. keywords: away; child; christian; christian mitford; course; day; dear; door; eyes; face; girl; good; jessie; judith; little; look; maud; miss; miss peacock; mother; mrs; night; nurse; peacock; room; rose; rosy; school; sort; star; susan; tell; thing; thompson; thought; time; want cache: 61878.txt plain text: 61878.txt item: #22 of 37 id: 7100 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05 date: None words: 9040 flesch: 93 summary: WELL, I got a good going-over in the morning from old Miss Watson on account of my clothes; but the widow she didn't scold, but only cleaned off the grease and clay, and looked so sorry that I thought I would behave awhile if I could. YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. keywords: going; good; jim; man; time; tom; warn't; widow cache: 7100.txt plain text: 7100.txt item: #23 of 37 id: 7101 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 06 to 10 date: None words: 13704 flesch: 94 summary: Then he studied it over and said, couldn't I put on some of them old things and dress up like a girl? Yes, and I TOLD 'em so; I told old Thatcher so to his face. keywords: canoe; good; island; jim; man; pap; place; river; time; warn't; way cache: 7101.txt plain text: 7101.txt item: #24 of 37 id: 7102 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15 date: None words: 12289 flesch: 94 summary: Yes, says I, and other times, when things is dull, they fuss with the parlyment; and if everybody don't go just so he whacks their heads off. But before night they changed around and judged it was done by a runaway nigger named Jim. keywords: come; dat; good; jim; man; right; time; warn't; way cache: 7102.txt plain text: 7102.txt item: #25 of 37 id: 7103 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 16 to 20 date: None words: 19136 flesch: 89 summary: Said he swum along behind me that night, and heard me yell every time, but dasn't answer, because he didn't want nobody to pick HIM up and take him into slavery again. I reckon that old man was a coward, Buck. keywords: buck; day; duke; good; jim; little; man; men; raft; right; river; tell; time; warn't; way; young cache: 7103.txt plain text: 7103.txt item: #26 of 37 id: 7104 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 21 to 25 date: None words: 13552 flesch: 88 summary: And look at Charles Second, and Louis Fourteen, and Louis Fifteen, and James Second, and Edward Second, and Richard Third, and forty more; besides all them Saxon heptarchies that used to rip around so in old times and raise Cain. You don't know kings, Jim, but I know them; and this old rip of ourn is one of the cleanest I've struck in history. keywords: duke; good; hands; head; king; man; men; people; right; time; town; warn't; way cache: 7104.txt plain text: 7104.txt item: #27 of 37 id: 7105 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 26 to 30 date: None words: 14758 flesch: 91 summary: Said it warn't no fair test. Said his brother William was the cussedest joker in the world, and hadn't tried to write --HE see William was going to play one of his jokes the minute he put the pen to paper. keywords: come; duke; good; jane; kind; king; mary; money; think; warn't; way cache: 7105.txt plain text: 7105.txt item: #28 of 37 id: 7106 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 31 to 35 date: None words: 14163 flesch: 92 summary: Tom had his store clothes on, and an audience--and that was always nuts for Tom Sawyer. I set up a shout--and then another--and then another one; and run this way and that in the woods, whooping and screeching; but it warn't no use--old Jim was gone. keywords: come; good; jim; kind; nigger; old; right; thing; time; tom; warn't; way cache: 7106.txt plain text: 7106.txt item: #29 of 37 id: 7107 author: Twain, Mark title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to the Last date: None words: 18991 flesch: 88 summary: Said we'd got to post Jim first. Jim says: Why, Mars Tom, I hain't got no coat o' arm; I hain't got nuffn but dish yer ole shirt, en you knows I got to keep de journal on dat. keywords: aunt; bed; good; jim; look; nigger; right; sally; things; think; time; tom; warn't; way; went cache: 7107.txt plain text: 7107.txt item: #30 of 37 id: 7193 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 1. date: None words: 7009 flesch: 89 summary: No Tom. Tom did play hookey, and he had a very good time. keywords: aunt; ben; boy; fence; heart; jim; ling; sid; time; tom; work cache: 7193.txt plain text: 7193.txt item: #31 of 37 id: 7194 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2. date: None words: 11190 flesch: 88 summary: Then they sat together, with a slate before them, and Tom gave Becky the pencil and held her hand in his, guiding it, and so created another surprising house. At last Tom could stand it no longer. keywords: becky; boy; boys; face; good; hand; heart; mary; school; sid; time; tom; water; way cache: 7194.txt plain text: 7194.txt item: #32 of 37 id: 7195 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 3. date: None words: 9442 flesch: 90 summary: Tom flung off his jacket and trousers, turned a suspender into a belt, raked away some brush behind the rotten log, disclosing a rude bow and arrow, a lath sword and a tin trumpet, and in a moment had seized these things and bounded away, barelegged, with fluttering shirt. Tom, s'pose it's Injun Joe! keywords: aunt; boys; face; half; head; huckleberry; injun; joe; man; potter; sid; time; tom cache: 7195.txt plain text: 7195.txt item: #33 of 37 id: 7196 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4. date: None words: 10839 flesch: 86 summary: Tom felt happy in his success, for he knew it was the boat's last trip for the night. Then Tom hid himself away in a shady nook to sleep till noon, and the other pirates got ready to fish and explore. keywords: aunt; boys; camp; fire; heart; huck; island; joe; night; pirates; time; tom; water; way cache: 7196.txt plain text: 7196.txt item: #34 of 37 id: 7197 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 5. date: None words: 8822 flesch: 85 summary: You going to have all the girls and boys? Yes, every one that's friends to me--or wants to be; and she glanced ever so furtively at Tom, but he talked right along to Amy Lawrence about the terrible storm on the island, and how the lightning tore the great sycamore tree all to flinders while he was standing within three feet of it. Part 5 CHAPTER XVIII THAT was Tom's great secret--the scheme to return home with his brother pirates and attend their own funerals. keywords: becky; book; boy; boys; girl; harper; master; moment; school; thought; time; tom cache: 7197.txt plain text: 7197.txt item: #35 of 37 id: 7198 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 6. date: None words: 8424 flesch: 93 summary: At last Tom said: It ain't any use, Huck, we're wrong again. At last Tom rose slowly and softly, and started alone. keywords: boys; half; house; huck; injun; joe; potter; right; time; tom cache: 7198.txt plain text: 7198.txt item: #36 of 37 id: 7199 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 7. date: None words: 10096 flesch: 90 summary: She was surprised to hear Tom dissent. Tom's excitement enabled him to keep awake until a pretty late hour, and he had good hopes of hearing Huck's maow, and of having his treasure to astonish Becky and the picnickers with, next day; but he was disappointed. keywords: becky; cave; huck; joe; man; night; thought; time; tom; way; widow cache: 7199.txt plain text: 7199.txt item: #37 of 37 id: 7200 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 8. date: None words: 7523 flesch: 91 summary: Tom learned of Huck's sickness and went to see him on Friday, but could not be admitted to the bedroom; neither could he on Saturday or Sunday. About a fortnight after Tom's rescue from the cave, he started off to visit Huck, who had grown plenty strong enough, now, to hear exciting talk, and Tom had some that would interest him, he thought. keywords: cave; huck; money; place; right; time; tom; way; widow cache: 7200.txt plain text: 7200.txt