item: #1 of 20 id: 10164 author: McClung, Nellie L. title: The Black Creek Stopping-House, and Other Stories date: None words: 44195 flesch: 84 summary: Mrs. Corbett baked bread for them each week. The bread is yours, said Mrs. Corbett, sternly; you may have it, but I can't bake any more for you! W'y not? asked Reginald, feeling all at once hungrier than ever. keywords: angus; belmont; black; corbett; creek; day; door; evelyn; face; father; fred; girl; good; heart; home; house; john; left; like; maggie; man; men; mind; mother; mrs; night; people; philip; rance; room; shaw; stopping; things; thomas; thought; time; twins; way; woman; work; young cache: 10164.txt plain text: 10164.txt item: #2 of 20 id: 20345 author: Thomson, Edward William title: Old Man Savarin, and Other Stories date: None words: 47755 flesch: 90 summary: De old man is scare ver' bad. Turning, he saw a boat in midstream, where no craft then on the river, except his own skiff, could be safe, unless manned by several good men. keywords: away; baptiste; big; boy; come; cross; dat; day; eyes; face; fader; father; feet; fish; godfrey; good; grandfather; grandpapa; great; half; hand; harry; head; home; john; know; look; man; men; mini; mother; night; old; pay; peter; red; river; round; savarin; saw; tell; thought; time; tom; verbitzsky; white cache: 20345.txt plain text: 20345.txt item: #3 of 20 id: 28960 author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title: The Backwoodsmen date: None words: 65671 flesch: 82 summary: Mrs. Gammit's Pig I've come to borry yer gun! said Mrs. Gammit, appearing suddenly, a self-reliant figure, at the open door of the barn where Joe Barron sat mending his harness. No, siree! responded Mrs. Gammit with decision. keywords: barn; bear; black; boss; boy; cabin; camp; child; close; dark; dave; deep; door; edge; eyes; face; feet; gammit; git; good; gun; half; hand; head; heart; henderson; home; jest; johnson; let; lilly; log; long; look; macphairrson; man; mcwha; moment; mrs; open; red; right; rosy; saw; snow; thought; time; trail; voice; water; way; white cache: 28960.txt plain text: 28960.txt item: #4 of 20 id: 30874 author: Brown, Paul Cameron title: The Land of Look Behind date: None words: 19050 flesch: 78 summary: Once dispatched, the three ears lost their kernels giving old women to this day their namesake of beady eyes. So, in an act of mercy, old women and crones were born saving future generations the misery of living too old. keywords: adua; bertrand; boat; child; day; dead; door; earth; end; eyes; face; fire; good; home; house; humboldt; jake; land; life; man; mind; night; noise; people; pizza; place; presence; rip; scot; sky; smoke; things; thought; time; town; water; way; world cache: 30874.txt plain text: 30874.txt item: #5 of 20 id: 59220 author: Robinson, F. A. (Frank Alfred) title: Trail-Tales of Western Canada date: None words: 45642 flesch: 81 summary: I take your offer, old man, said the preacher. Moses Evans and other men, who with him made open confession of Jesus Christ, were again and again spat upon and cursed, as they passed along the entry at their daily toil in the mine. keywords: away; bill; boys; camp; charlie; church; day; days; face; father; fire; george; god; good; hand; home; house; jack; john; ken; life; like; little; man; manse; men; minister; missionary; morning; mother; mrs; night; old; place; preacher; room; time; town; words; work; years cache: 59220.txt plain text: 59220.txt item: #6 of 20 id: 6174 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 1. date: None words: 20754 flesch: 85 summary: Plans for coming days were talked of, and the laughter of many voices filled the house. When I started Pretty Pierre on his travels, I did not know--nor did he --how far or wide his adventurers and experiences would run. keywords: aleck; christmas; day; eyes; face; father; fones; god; good; gregory; hand; life; love; malbrouck; man; moose; mother; night; people; pierre; pretty; sergeant; time; way cache: 6174.txt plain text: 6174.txt item: #7 of 20 id: 6175 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 2. date: None words: 20425 flesch: 90 summary: The hat and cloak are those of Sergeant Tom, but the voice is that of Jen Galbraith. This Rider of the Plains was Sergeant Thomas Gellatly, familiarly known as Sergeant Tom. keywords: eyes; father; galbraith; gellatly; good; hammer; hand; horse; jen; little; man; night; pierre; prairie; pretty; sergeant; sergeant tom; tom; val cache: 6175.txt plain text: 6175.txt item: #8 of 20 id: 6176 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 3. date: None words: 18447 flesch: 87 summary: I should have thought-- The Honourable interrupted: To tell you that you are Sir Duke Lawless. Shon, old fellow, come here, said Sir Duke Lawless. keywords: day; duke; eyes; face; hand; honourable; indian; lawless; life; man; men; night; pierre; shon; sir; snow; stone; time; trafford; valley cache: 6176.txt plain text: 6176.txt item: #9 of 20 id: 6177 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 4. date: None words: 18057 flesch: 91 summary: Yes, he continued, and I know that you prefer Shon McGann to Pretty Pierre. It was at this point that Shon McGann entered, looked round, nodded to all, and then came forward to the table where Pretty Pierre sat. keywords: door; eyes; face; fort; hand; lazenby; like; look; man; master; mcgann; men; night; pierre; shon; things; wife; woman cache: 6177.txt plain text: 6177.txt item: #10 of 20 id: 6178 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 5. date: None words: 16448 flesch: 90 summary: Irene in Quebec, were left to guard the place of treasure, until, to the sound of the laughing spring, there should come many men and much machinery, and the sinking of shafts in the earth, and the making, of riches. But St. Jean was far from the ways of settlement, and there was little food and only one hut, and many things must be done for the Rose Tree Mine in the places where men sell their souls for money; and Antoine and Angelique, French peasants from the parish of Ste. keywords: antoine; blanche; corraine; eyes; face; father; good; hand; head; heart; man; pierre; priest; shon; words cache: 6178.txt plain text: 6178.txt item: #11 of 20 id: 6180 author: Parker, Gilbert title: A Romany of the Snows, vol. 1 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre date: None words: 20980 flesch: 90 summary: Pierre eyed Macavoy--measured him, as it were, for what he was worth. It can hardly be said that there were two series of Pierre stories. keywords: face; fort; giant; girl; half; hand; head; hilton; ida; indians; king; life; little; macavoy; man; men; pierre; time; wid; wife; woman; word cache: 6180.txt plain text: 6180.txt item: #12 of 20 id: 6181 author: Parker, Gilbert title: A Romany of the Snows, vol. 2 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre date: None words: 19071 flesch: 94 summary: Or is it that you think old men are cowards? The devil's games: cards and law-breaking; and you sneer at men who try to bring lost sheep into the fold. keywords: child; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hand; king; life; malachi; man; men; pierre; slave; time; wife; woman cache: 6181.txt plain text: 6181.txt item: #13 of 20 id: 6182 author: Parker, Gilbert title: A Romany of the Snows, vol. 3 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre date: None words: 20412 flesch: 92 summary: 'Well, well,' he answered, with a severe look, 'our Company has need of great men for hard tasks.' And no one--is coming? There are men making for the shore, and the fires are burning, but no one is--coming this way. . . . keywords: brydon; door; eyes; face; father; fingall; fort; good; hand; heart; house; life; man; men; pierre; river; saw; time; voice cache: 6182.txt plain text: 6182.txt item: #14 of 20 id: 6183 author: Parker, Gilbert title: A Romany of the Snows, vol. 4 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre date: None words: 22587 flesch: 94 summary: You are good men. When Gaspard and Pierre looked each other in the eyes they knew that one word between them was as a hundred with other men. keywords: bay; child; day; eyes; fire; gaspard; good; hand; heart; john; lawless; man; north; pierre; pourcette; shon; sun; thing; time cache: 6183.txt plain text: 6183.txt item: #15 of 20 id: 6184 author: Parker, Gilbert title: A Romany of the Snows, vol. 5 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre date: None words: 16532 flesch: 93 summary: Their names were much more notorious than sweet; and yet in Quebec men laughed as they shrugged their shoulders at them; for as many jovial things as evil were told of Tarboe. When it became known that a dignitary of the Church had been given a case of splendid wine, which had come in a roundabout way to him, men waked in the night and laughed, to the annoyance of their wives; for the same dignitary had preached a powerful sermon against smugglers and the receivers of stolen goods. keywords: bissonnette; eyes; girl; gobal; good; halby; joan; lafarge; law; man; martin; men; pierre; tarboe; thing; throng cache: 6184.txt plain text: 6184.txt item: #16 of 20 id: 6186 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Northern Lights, Volume 1. date: None words: 24765 flesch: 91 summary: I'm for goin' North, far up, where these two-dollar-a-day and hash-and-clothes people ain't come yet. White men had left their Indian wives, but had come back again, and for ever renounced the life of their own nations, and become great chiefs, teaching useful things to their adopted people, bringing up their children as tribesmen--bringing up their children! keywords: clint; dingan; door; eyes; face; fire; girl; good; greevy; hand; heart; life; lodge; man; mitiahwe; night; sinnet; time; way; west; white; woman cache: 6186.txt plain text: 6186.txt item: #17 of 20 id: 6187 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Northern Lights, Volume 2. date: None words: 29438 flesch: 88 summary: Never in the history of white men had these rapids been ridden at nighttime. The white women of Portage la Drome were too blind, too prejudiced, to see all that she really was, and admiring white men could do little, for Pauline would have nothing to do with them till the women met her absolutely as an equal; and from the other halfbreeds, who intermarried with each other and were content to take a lower place than the pure whites, she held aloof, save when any of them was ill or in trouble. keywords: bindon; day; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hands; head; heart; indian; jim; life; long; man; men; morrow; mother; people; sally; way; white; woman; world; years cache: 6187.txt plain text: 6187.txt item: #18 of 20 id: 6188 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Northern Lights, Volume 3. date: None words: 18410 flesch: 86 summary: That's it, dear old man. Where this man had gone none other had been of white men from the Western lands, though from across the wide Pacific, from the Eastern world, adventurers and exiles had once visited what is now known as the Yukon Valley. keywords: andy; aunt; black; boy; cassy; eyes; face; george; grassette; kate; life; little; man; sheriff; voice; woman; years cache: 6188.txt plain text: 6188.txt item: #19 of 20 id: 6189 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Northern Lights, Volume 4. date: None words: 25314 flesch: 83 summary: Other men had flattered her vanity, had given her a sense of power, had made her understand her possibilities, but nothing more--nothing of what Varley brought with him. But at last came dark days. keywords: day; eyes; face; father; finden; good; heart; jansen; jopp; know; life; like; man; o'ryan; rufus; saw; silver; tassel; terry; tim; time; varley; voice; years cache: 6189.txt plain text: 6189.txt item: #20 of 20 id: 6190 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Northern Lights, Volume 5. date: None words: 18300 flesch: 91 summary: Men were losing their heads; there was an element of irresponsibility in the new outbreak likely to breed some violent act, which every man of them would lament when sober again. Secret, evilly wise and inhuman, he looked a being apart, whom men might seek for help in dark purposes. keywords: day; dollars; dupont; eyes; face; foyle; girl; goatry; halbeck; hand; life; lygon; man; money; night; rawley; voice; years cache: 6190.txt plain text: 6190.txt