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id: 34113
author: Kipling, Rudyard
title: An Almanac of Twelve Sports
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words: 1058
sentence: 102
flesch: 94
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summary:
  Sunday_ 3 10 17 24 _Monday_ 4 11 18 25 _Tuesday_ 5 12 19 26 _Wednesday_ 6 13 20 27 _Thursday_ 7 14 21 28 _Friday_ 1 8 15 22 29 _ July. _Sunday_ 3 10 17 24 31 _Monday_ 4 11 18 25 -- _Tuesday_ 5 12 19 26 -- _Wednesday_ 6 13 20 27 -- _Thursday_ 7 14 21 28 -- _Friday_ 1 8 15 22 29 -- _


id: 43355
extension: .txt
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words: 13881
sentence: 1933
flesch: 89
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title:
  Mr. Punch's Book of Sport The Humour of Cricket, Football, Tennis, Polo, Croquet, Hockey, Racing, &c

summary:
  Oh, we think it is a _ripping_ game. [Illustration: HARE AND HOUNDS--AND DONKEY Seen two men with bags of paper pass this way?--No!


id: 47254
extension: .txt
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words: 26294
sentence: 1427
flesch: 78
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title:
  Handbook of Summer Athletic Sports Comprising: Walking, Running, Jumping, Hare and Hounds, Bicycling, Archery, Etc.

summary:
  Other men have, at times, beaten him; but he has outstayed them all at last in endurance. If, however, this be impossible, and it be absolutely necessary for the aspirant to train himself, a few safe general rules may be laid down, which can be followed without danger, and the observance of which is sure to give an easy victory over _untrained_ men, such as attend country matches.


id: 6879
author: Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
title: The Gold Bat
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words: 44665
sentence: 3306
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Hullo, Trevor, said Ruthven. Come over to the baths, said Trevor, I want to see O'Hara about something. Trevor and O'Hara raised their caps as the chariot swept by, but the salute passed unnoticed.


id: 39025
title: Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport
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words: 47872
sentence: 1880
flesch: 75
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summary:
  He shies at the homely perambulator, starts at the sound of cantering hoofs, is terrified by a water-cart, maddened by the strains of the regimental band, or the firing of the guards at their matutinal drill, and finally attempts to bolt or turn round as other horses, careering along, meet and pass him in a straggling gallop. This is obviously true in the case of many horses, but there are some who, roused by the nervous force in their riders, will gallop without being squeezed, and who want nothing more than to be held together and left alone.


id: 12689
author: Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
title: The High School Freshmen; or, Dick & Co.'s First Year Pranks and Sports
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words: 48471
sentence: 3528
flesch: 90
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summary:
  For the first time in seven years the freshmen hounds, led by Captain Dick Prescott, had won. Wouldn't the whole town---including the Board members---wake up, if they only knew that the whole thing was planned out by a fourteen-year-old freshie, by name Dick Prescott! You won't let it out, Len, that I had any hand in it? asked Dick, quickly.


id: 26412
author: Ready, Oliver George
title: Life and sport in China Second Edition
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words: 54845
sentence: 1687
flesch: 61
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summary:
  A very low freeboard and no cabin, with the exception of a kind of deck-house quite aft, where the helmsman stands, one mast hoisting a gracefully-cut sail with alternate blue and white cloths, a small muzzle-loading cannon in the bows, and a crew of ten or a dozen in quaint uniforms, who, when wind fails, take to the sweeps, and standing up facing the direction in which they are going, and keeping good time, propel the boat at a fair pace. At other times, in company with a convivial friend, I would get under way in the cool of the evening, and after running out to sea for an hour or so to enjoy the night breezes setting in from the Pacific, and perhaps laying to for a swim, we would return to the lovely bay, and dropping anchor off the Praia Grande dine by moonlight to the strains of the Portuguese military band, which played two or three times weekly either at the Governor's Palace or in the public gardens, both of which overlooked the sea.


id: 41436
title: The Sportswoman's Library, Vol. 1 of 2
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words: 69398
sentence: 2743
flesch: 74
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summary:
  The last--babbling--is incurable, but the other failings often appear in good hounds after they have lost their pace. This instance will also serve to remind you, that good hounds are not easily parted with from any kennel, and, therefore, it behoves you to be very careful in the choice of those you take into your own.


id: 47243
title: The Sportswoman's Library, Vol. 2 of 2
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words: 72989
sentence: 3107
flesch: 78
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summary:
  [Illustration: _HOUNDS OF THE DEVON AND SOMERSET PACK._ (_From a Picture in the possession of C. H. Basset, Esq., of Watermouth Castle._)] and I was very proud of leading at the end of the first round in little _Fusee_, but unfortunately the wind dropped completely in the second round, and only a few of us managed to complete the course at all.


id: 21958
author: Standish, Burt L.
title: Frank Merriwell's Races
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words: 72362
sentence: 5195
flesch: 90
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summary:
  Well? Well, he made a mistake in Frank Merriwell, for Merriwell despised him all the more, although he did nothing to injure Ditson. Within the boathouse, at this very moment, Bob Collingwood was saying to Frank Merriwell: You cannot row in the race to-day, Merriwell.


id: 16316
author: Miller, Claude Harris
title: Outdoor Sports and Games
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words: 83095
sentence: 4102
flesch: 80
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summary:
  This play is very common in ball games, and as there is only a difference of an instant in the time that it takes a runner to go from first base to second, who starts just as the pitcher delivers the ball, and the time it takes a pitched ball to be caught by the catcher and snapped to second, a game may be won or lost just on this play alone. In hockey, as in many other games, the whole object is to drive the puck into your opponents' goal and to prevent them from driving it into yours.


id: 21452
author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
title: Ernest Bracebridge: School Days
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words: 98364
sentence: 4718
flesch: 81
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summary:
  Buttar, Bouldon, and poor Ellis, and many other boys, were deeply grieved when they heard it. Whatever Ellis thought of himself, there were several other boys just as awkward, or at all events as unapt to learn military manners.


id: 21038
author: Reed, Talbot Baines
title: A Dog with a Bad Name
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words: 99155
sentence: 5747
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Mrs Jessop, said he, Mr Jeffreys is going on a journey. Very well, Mr -- Jeffreys, ma'am. Mr Jeffreys, we'll try how we get on for a month; and after that I can offer you a pound a month besides your board.


id: 47760
title: Three Hundred Things a Bright Boy Can Do
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words: 128105
sentence: 5738
flesch: 79
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summary:
  $Shadow Buff.$--A sheet or other large piece of white linen should be fastened at one end of the room, so that it hangs without wrinkles; Buff seats himself on a low stool with his face to the sheet, and a table, on which is a lighted candle, should be placed about four or five feet behind him, and the rest of the lights in the room extinguished. Next take a cane or other piece of light flexible wood, and bind the centre of it tightly at the point G an inch below A. Bend the cane into a semi-circle and connect C and D with string.


