item: #1 of 3 id: 23652 author: Anonymous title: The Entertaining History of Jobson & Nell date: None words: 686 flesch: 89 summary: [Illustration] Near the Sign of the Bell Liv'd Jobson and Nell And cobbling of Shoes was his trade They agreed very well The neighbors did tell For he was a funny old blade. [Illustration] Poor Nell then began To persuade her good man The soles for to cobble once more Quoth Jobson you elf keywords: illustration; jobson cache: 23652.txt plain text: 23652.txt item: #2 of 3 id: 38616 author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf title: Where Love is There God is Also date: None words: 5235 flesch: 91 summary: Avdyeitch had always been a good man; but as he grew old, he began to think more about his soul, and get nearer to God. But God gave Avdyeitch no luck with his children. keywords: avdyeitch; god; martuin; window; woman cache: 38616.txt plain text: 38616.txt item: #3 of 3 id: 40677 author: Winks, W. E. (William Edward) title: Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers date: None words: 104781 flesch: 70 summary: But we must premise, first of all, as a safeguard against a false inference or false hopes, that _such_ accidents are sure to come in the way of _industrious, clever_ and _deserving_ men. This I know, there is not now a happier man in England than John Pounds; and I think 'tis best as it is.'--_Memoir of John Pounds_, p. 12. keywords: account; afterward; age; author; began; bible; bloomfield; book; boy; bradburn; business; carey; character; children; christian; church; cloth; cobbler; cooper; country; craft; crispin; d.d; day; days; death; drew; edition; england; english; father; friend; george; gifford; god; good; hand; history; home; house; john; lackington; left; life; literary; london; lord; man; master; means; men; mind; mother; new; old; order; paper; people; place; poet; position; pounds; preacher; public; read; reading; rev; robert; samuel; school; self; service; set; shoemaker; sir; society; son; study; thomas; thought; time; town; trade; way; wesley; william; work; world; writer; years; young cache: 40677.txt plain text: 40677.txt