item: #1 of 7
          id: 17135
      author: Moore, Clement Clarke
       title: Twas the Night before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas
        date: None
       words: 1135
      flesch: 85
     summary: A company of men, women, and children went together just after the evening service in their church, and, standing around the tomb of the author of A Visit from St. Nicholas, recited together the words of the poem which we all know so well and love so dearly. Afterward, they learned it, and sometimes recited it, just as other children learn it and recite it now.
    keywords: children; christmas; illustration
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        item: #2 of 7
          id: 17382
      author: Moore, Clement Clarke
       title: A Visit From Saint Nicholas
        date: None
       words: 629
      flesch: 90
     summary: In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap-- [Illustration] When out on the lawn there rose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter, Away to the window I flew like a flash, As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, So, up to the house-top the coursers they flew, With a sleigh full of toys--and St. Nicholas too.
    keywords: illustration; nicholas
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        item: #3 of 7
          id: 20112
      author: Towne, Ellis
       title: Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land And Other Stories
        date: None
       words: 11127
      flesch: 93
     summary: In this instance baby's mother was a plain, quiet woman; and she thought baby's grandmother's name was quite fine enough for baby; and so baby was called Roxy, and, when she was ten years old, you would have thought little Roxy fully as old-fashioned as her name. Poor little Roxy!
    keywords: claus; day; flaxie; lill; mother; mrs; ninny; roxy; santa; thought; time
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        item: #4 of 7
          id: 25896
      author: Page, Thomas Nelson
       title: Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus
        date: None
       words: 13908
      flesch: 92
     summary: [Illustration] [Illustration] II When they reached home Tommy, after warming his hands and telling his mother about the sled, set to work to write a letter to Santa Claus on behalf of Johnny, and as he wrote, a number of things came to him that he thought Johnny would like to have. This gave Tommy courage, and he stepped forward and said, He lives in a little bit of a house near our place--just that way-- He turned and pointed.
    keywords: bear; claus; father; johnny; like; santa; sled; snow; things; tommy
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        item: #5 of 7
          id: 31996
      author: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
       title: Is There a Santa Claus?
        date: None
       words: 2238
      flesch: 89
     summary: He is Santa Claus with the big, loving, Christmas heart, for all that; Santa Claus with the kind thoughts for every one that make children and grown-up people beam with happiness all day long. For years, she wrote, she had saved and saved, hoping some time to have five dollars, and then she would go with me to the homes of the very poor and be Santa Claus herself.
    keywords: christmas; claus; man; santa
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        item: #6 of 7
          id: 519
      author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
       title: A Kidnapped Santa Claus
        date: None
       words: 3778
      flesch: 81
     summary: Well, these Daemons of the Caves, thinking they had great cause to dislike old Santa Claus, held a meeting one day to discuss the matter. Indeed, the Daemons could not tempt old Santa Claus in any way.
    keywords: children; claus; daemon; santa
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        item: #7 of 7
          id: 520
      author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
       title: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
        date: None
       words: 30306
      flesch: 84
     summary: The language of the beasts became clear to little Claus; but he never could understand their sulky and morose tempers. And that is how our Claus became Santa Claus.
    keywords: cat; children; claus; day; deer; eyes; forest; good; immortals; king; knooks; master; necile; ones; queen; santa claus; sledge; time; toys; valley; world
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