        item: #1 of 9
          id: 12176
      author: Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
       title: The Gate of the Giant Scissors
        date: None
       words: 29504
      flesch: 87
     summary: No mouse could have stolen down the stairs more silently than timid little Jules. Why should she be sitting there longing for fairy tales to be true, when the great Hand that had set the stars to swinging could bring anything to pass; could even open that long-closed gate and bring the brother and sister together again, and send happiness to little Jules?
    keywords: away; big; brossard; cousin; day; door; eyes; face; gate; henri; home; house; joyce; jules; kate; madame; monsieur; room; scissors; sister; time; tree; way; white
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        item: #2 of 9
          id: 19337
      author: Dickens, Charles
       title: A Christmas Carol
        date: None
       words: 29992
      flesch: 87
     summary: Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley? Mr. Marley has been dead these seven years, Scrooge replied.
    keywords: bob; boy; christmas; cold; cratchit; day; door; face; fire; ghost; good; hand; head; life; little; man; marley; merry; mrs; nephew; night; poor; room; round; scrooge; spirit; thought; time
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        item: #3 of 9
          id: 20260
      author: Sitwell, Florence Alice
       title: Daybreak: A Story for Girls
        date: None
       words: 8409
      flesch: 88
     summary: Mother Agnes' tenderness to poor Kate almost exceeded her tenderness to the dying child, but Kate made no response to it. The days had seemed months since poor Kate was missed, and this first news of a girl who might possibly turn out to be Kate, had made Mother Agnes hurry up to town by the night train, quite forgetting that she could not disturb St. Thomas' Hospital with inquiries at such an early hour.
    keywords: agnes; bed; children; day; face; frances; great; kate; mother
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        item: #4 of 9
          id: 23195
      author: Vaders, Henrietta
       title: Wikkey A Scrap
        date: None
       words: 10678
      flesch: 78
     summary: There was a touch of injured innocence in the tone; it was simply the statement of a fact which might easily have been otherwise, and the entire matter-of-factness of the assertion inspired Lawrence with a good deal of confidence, together with the cough which returned on the slightest movement, and would effectually prevent a noiseless evasion on the part of poor Wikkey. It was a winter's morning in 1869, bright as it is possible for such a morning to be in London, but piercingly cold, and Wikkey had brushed and re-brushed the pathway--which scarcely needed it, the east wind having already done half the work--just to put some feeling of warmth into his thin frame before seating himself in his usual place beneath the lamp-post.
    keywords: boy; child; eyes; face; king; lawrence; look; mrs; time; wikkey
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        item: #5 of 9
          id: 30368
      author: Dickens, Charles
       title: A Christmas Carol The original manuscript
        date: None
       words: 29985
      flesch: 86
     summary: Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley? Mr. Marley has been dead these seven years, Scrooge replied.
    keywords: bed; bob; boy; christmas; cratchit; day; door; face; fire; ghost; good; hand; head; house; illustration; little; manuscript; marley; merry; nephew; night; page; poor; room; round; scrooge; spirit; time
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        item: #6 of 9
          id: 37463
      author: Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
       title: The Builders
        date: None
       words: 109478
      flesch: 82
     summary: I liked it very much, and so did Mrs. Blackburn, but Miss Blackburn really showed some temper because he would not change a line when she asked him to. Well, I thought that Miss Blackburn was right when she said the line was all out of character with the speaker; but Mrs. Blackburn did not agree with us, and when Mr. Wythe appealed to her, she said it was just perfect as it was, and that he must not dream of changing it.
    keywords: alan; angelica; blackburn; caroline; child; colfax; come; course; david; day; dear; doctor; door; eyes; face; father; good; great; hair; hand; head; heart; hope; house; instant; letty; life; little; look; mammy; man; mary; meade; mind; minute; miss; moment; mother; mrs; night; people; roane; room; things; think; thought; timberlake; time; voice; war; way; white; woman; words; work; world; years
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        item: #7 of 9
          id: 38277
      author: Stables, Gordon
       title: From Squire to Squatter: A Tale of the Old Land and the New
        date: None
       words: 85416
      flesch: 88
     summary: It was a somewhat sarcastic laugh; and young Archie felt sorry for Bob's mother, she looked so unhappy. Well, there is nothing like a sailing ship after all for teaching one the virtue of patience; and at last Archie settled down to his sea life.
    keywords: archie; bit; black; bob; bounder; boy; branson; broadbent; burley; bush; come; country; craig; day; elsie; etheldene; eyes; face; farm; father; findlayson; fire; good; half; hand; harry; head; home; kate; kind; lad; left; life; like; look; man; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; night; place; poor; room; round; rupert; sarah; sir; squire; tell; thing; thought; time; trees; uncle; way; winslow; work; young
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        item: #8 of 9
          id: 40729
      author: Dickens, Charles
       title: "Old Scrooge": A Christmas Carol in Five Staves. Dramatized from Charles Dickens' Celebrated Christmas Story.
        date: None
       words: 14802
      flesch: 99
     summary: Uncle Scrooge, uncle Scrooge! (_Scrooge seems to make efforts to reply to the toast, while spirit drags him away._) CURTAIN. My wife, your niece--Yes, you may. (_Scrooge kisses her._)
    keywords: bob; christmas; cratchit; day; fred; good; little; man; merry; mrs; scene; scro; scrooge; spirit; time
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        item: #9 of 9
          id: 41739
      author: Barnett, C. Z. (Charles Zachary)
       title: A Christmas Carol; Or, The Miser's Warning! (Adapted from Charles Dickens' Celebrated Work.)
        date: None
       words: 11078
      flesch: 96
     summary: _Enter DARK SAM, L. H._ SAM. _Enter FRANK, L. H._ FRANK.
    keywords: bob; christmas; cratchit; day; frank; ghost; good; man; merry; mrs; scr; scrooge; spirit; time
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