item: #1 of 29 id: 10724 author: Alger, Horatio, Jr. title: The Store Boy date: None words: 46386 flesch: 90 summary: Why, Gus Andre, he said, when did you come to town, and how did you leave all the folks in Bridgeport? You have made a mistake, said Ben. Isn't your name Gus Andre? No, it is Ben Barclay, from Pentonville. Master Ben has been seen coming out of a gambling house. keywords: barclay; ben; boy; business; conrad; davenport; dollars; good; hamilton; hill; house; lady; man; money; mother; mrs; new; pay; rose; squire; thought; time; tom; tramp cache: 10724.txt plain text: 10724.txt item: #2 of 29 id: 20618 author: Stratemeyer, Edward title: The Boy Land Boomer; Or, Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma date: None words: 46082 flesch: 92 summary: Too cowardly to meet Pawnee Brown face to face, he wanted to make sure that the great scout should be killed. The boomers, who numbered thousands, had among them several daring and well-known leaders, but not one was better known or more daring than the leader who is known in these pages as Pawnee Brown. keywords: arbuckle; boomers; boy; brown; camp; dick; elk; father; feet; girl; good; hand; head; horse; indian; jack; know; left; man; nellie; pawnee; pawnee brown; pistol; rasco; right; scout; time; trail; vorlange; way; yer cache: 20618.txt plain text: 20618.txt item: #3 of 29 id: 21632 author: Alger, Horatio, Jr. title: Fame and Fortune; or, The Progress of Richard Hunter date: None words: 45766 flesch: 89 summary: Those who have read Ragged Dick will remember that he had a very sprightly and engaging daughter of ten years of age, who seemed to have taken an especial fancy to Dick. He was no longer Ragged Dick now, but Mr. Richard Hunter, junior partner in the large firm of Rockwell & Hunter. keywords: book; boy; business; dick; dollars; evening; fosdick; friend; gilbert; good; house; hunter; man; micky; mrs; murdock; place; pocket; rockwell; roswell; street; thought; time; week cache: 21632.txt plain text: 21632.txt item: #4 of 29 id: 21816 author: Melville, Herman title: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade date: None words: 96218 flesch: 75 summary: Mr. Roberts, good man, could but acquiesce, and the two having silently walked to a less public spot, the manner of the man with the weed suddenly assumed a seriousness almost painful. From bad boys spring good men? keywords: air; aster; barber; boat; book; boy; boys; business; case; chapter; character; charity; charlie; child; china; come; company; confidence; cosmopolitan; day; distrust; doctor; fact; fellow; frank; friend; genial; gentleman; good; half; hand; head; heart; herb; human; indian; interest; kind; know; life; look; man; men; merchant; mind; moment; money; nature; new; orchis; person; plain; poor; pray; present; right; round; sir; sort; spirit; story; stranger; taking; talk; thing; thought; time; trust; truth; ugh; unfortunate; view; want; way; wine; words; world cache: 21816.txt plain text: 21816.txt item: #5 of 29 id: 26075 author: Alger, Horatio, Jr. title: The Erie Train Boy date: None words: 52554 flesch: 91 summary: Fred Takes the First Step 154 XXX. Looking at Mr. Bascom's broad shoulders and muscular arms, Fred felt that he would be likely to keep his word in a most effectual manner. keywords: bonds; bowman; boy; day; dollars; evening; fenton; ferguson; fred; friend; good; house; joshua; man; money; mother; new; palmer; place; room; sinclair; sir; thought; time; train; wainwright; way; york; young cache: 26075.txt plain text: 26075.txt item: #6 of 29 id: 26083 author: Alger, Horatio, Jr. title: Luke Walton date: None words: 54742 flesch: 89 summary: How are you feeling, Jim? inquired Luke, entering, and taking a chair at the bedside. How was that? inquired Luke, with interest. keywords: aunt; boy; browning; business; day; dollars; eliza; felicie; good; harold; house; lady; left; luke; man; merton; money; morning; mother; mrs; stephen; street; thomas; thought; time; tom; tracy; walton; warner; watch cache: 26083.txt plain text: 26083.txt item: #7 of 29 id: 297 author: Tarkington, Booth title: The Flirt date: None words: 74633 flesch: 85 summary: Then Miss Cora and Miss Laura come in so quietly--not wanting to wake anybody--that he doesn't hear them, and he gets caught there. I need a great deal of money, Miss Cora Madison. keywords: air; bed; book; boy; cora; corliss; course; day; door; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hand; head; hedrick; house; kind; laura; left; lindley; little; look; looking; love; madison; man; moment; mother; mrs; people; pryor; ray; richard; right; room; rose; saw; sister; street; thing; thought; time; trumble; vilas; voice; way; window; world cache: 297.txt plain text: 297.txt item: #8 of 29 id: 31665 author: Fritch, Charles E. title: Skin Game date: None words: 3283 flesch: 87 summary: _Working on the theory that you can skin a sucker in space as well as on Earth, the con team of Harding and Sheckly operated furtively but profitably among natives of the outer planets. Harding shrugged, his glance making it plain he knew Sheckly lacked nerve more than sleep. keywords: harding; interpreter; sheckly; skin; thought cache: 31665.txt plain text: 31665.txt item: #9 of 29 id: 32897 author: Chester, George Randolph title: Young Wallingford date: None words: 67003 flesch: 82 summary: If I wasn't waiting to see one of them bite himself and die of poison I'd cut 'em out, returned Mr. Wallingford in the utmost disgust. Mr. Wallingford understood perfectly. keywords: away; bank; beauty; bet; billy; blackie; bob; bubble; business; cent; company; course; daw; day; doctor; dollars; door; eyes; fannie; game; gentleman; gilman; good; great; half; hand; hotel; larry; loan; man; matter; moment; money; mrs; new; office; phelps; right; room; rufus; squinch; stock; thing; time; town; turner; wallingford; way; week; wix; worth; young cache: 32897.txt plain text: 32897.txt item: #10 of 29 id: 33787 author: Munn, Charles Clark title: Rockhaven date: None words: 81844 flesch: 79 summary: No thought of young Winn Hardy, their faithful helper, and his loss came. Frankness is said to be a virtue, and in this case it was more, for it saved the reputation of Winn Hardy as a man of honor and a gentleman, in the eyes of Mona Hutton. keywords: aunt; business; chapter; church; city; company; day; days; dollars; ethel; evening; eyes; face; feel; fer; girl; good; gorge; granite; half; hand; hardy; heart; hill; home; hutton; interest; island; jess; jess hutton; left; life; long; love; man; matter; men; mind; mona; money; mother; mrs; people; play; quarry; right; rockhaven; sea; simmons; stock; summer; tell; ter; thought; time; violin; way; weston; winn; woman; world; yer cache: 33787.txt plain text: 33787.txt item: #11 of 29 id: 34100 author: Standish, Burt L. title: Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager date: None words: 64364 flesch: 86 summary: The Return of Lefty 308 LEFTY LOCKE, PITCHER-MANAGER CHAPTER I AN UNEXPECTED OFFER Lefty Locke gave the man a look of surprise. CHAPTER II SOMETHING QUEER The expression of amazement that leaped into the eyes of Lefty Locke was masked by a shadow. keywords: arm; ball; baseball; big; business; collier; come; eyes; face; find; frazer; game; garrity; good; hand; hit; jack; janet; jones; kennedy; know; league; lefty; lefty locke; locke; look; manager; new; parlmee; pitcher; right; room; season; skullen; southpaw; stillman; stockings; team; thought; time; virginia; way; weegman; wiley; wind; work cache: 34100.txt plain text: 34100.txt item: #12 of 29 id: 37010 author: Chester, George Randolph title: Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of an American Business Buccaneer date: None words: 91268 flesch: 80 summary: Mr. Wallingford Takes a Dose of His Own Bitter Medicine 111 CHAPTER IX. Mr. Wallingford Shows Mr. Clover How to Do the Widows and Orphans Good 129 CHAPTER X. keywords: away; battlesburg; blackie; business; cash; cent; chapter; cigar; clover; come; company; daw; day; days; dollars; door; eyes; face; farmers; friend; good; half; hand; head; home; hotel; house; j. rufus; jasper; klug; lamb; left; life; line; look; machine; man; matter; maylie; moment; money; morning; mrs; neil; new; patent; pay; place; pocket; price; right; room; rufus wallingford; stock; tack; thing; thought; time; town; wallingford; way; wheat; wife; work; worth; years cache: 37010.txt plain text: 37010.txt item: #13 of 29 id: 37249 author: Lynde, Francis title: The City of Numbered Days date: None words: 72893 flesch: 82 summary: I'll tell you, Mr. Brouillard--in confidence. Do you know what I'm thinking about, Mr. Brouillard? keywords: amy; away; bank; brouillard; buckskin; building; business; camp; chigringo; city; company; cortwright; dam; day; desk; end; engineer; eyes; face; father; going; gold; good; government; grislow; half; hands; harlan; head; light; little; love; making; man; massingale; men; mirapolis; miss; money; mountain; new; niquoia; office; people; place; power; railroad; reclamation; service; stock; street; thing; time; town; turn; valley; victor; way; woman; word; work; young cache: 37249.txt plain text: 37249.txt item: #14 of 29 id: 38123 author: Crane, Laura Dent title: The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach; Or, Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies date: None words: 42259 flesch: 87 summary: replied her friend, Ruth Stuart, as she gazed across the still blue waters of Lake Worth dotted with pleasure boats. The Automobile Girls dated their organization back to almost two years before, when Barbara Thurston had bravely stopped a runaway team of horses driven by Ruth Stuart, a rich western girl, summering in Kingsbridge, the home town of the Thurstons. keywords: automobile; automobile girls; bab; barbara; countess; duval; eyes; girls; grace; lancey; madame; man; marian; maud; miss; mollie; monsieur; mrs; night; room; ruth; sallie; smythe; sonde; sophia; stuart; time; villiers; warren cache: 38123.txt plain text: 38123.txt item: #15 of 29 id: 41455 author: Le Queux, William title: The Lady in the Car date: None words: 68694 flesch: 81 summary: Useful man Garrett--very useful indeed. I suppose by this time the poor vain old woman has given up all idea of becoming Princess Albert of Hesse-Holstein. keywords: afternoon; car; charles; clayton; course; dark; day; days; dear; english; evening; eyes; face; friend; garrett; girl; good; grey; half; hand; highness; hotel; hour; italian; left; life; london; looking; love; man; men; moment; morning; motor; mrs; night; parson; people; place; police; pretty; prince; princess; road; room; run; saw; secret; time; way; white; widow; woman; young cache: 41455.txt plain text: 41455.txt item: #16 of 29 id: 45870 author: Phillipps-Wolley, Clive title: Gold, Gold, in Cariboo! A Story of Adventure in British Columbia date: None words: 85356 flesch: 85 summary: As he stood in the little room looking quizzically at his friend's work, Ned Corbett, in his old blue shirt and overalls, with the axe lying across one bare brown forearm, might have served an artist as a model for Labour; but the artist into whose studio he had come had no need for such models. At about the same time one of the finest houses in New York would have been disturbed to its very foundations if it were suspected that Mr. Steve Chance wanted for any of the luxuries of the nineteenth century, and yet here were Steve Chance and Ned Corbett, their last dollar invested in a doubtful venture, their razors abandoned, their toilet necessaries reduced to one cake of soap and a towel between two (Cruickshank condemned the habit of washing altogether upon the road), and their whole stock of household goods reduced to two light packs, to be carried mile after mile upon their own strong shoulders. keywords: camp; cariboo; chance; claims; colonel; corbett; course; creek; cruickshank; day; dead; dollars; eyes; face; feet; fellow; find; frazer; gold; good; great; half; hand; head; lay; left; life; lilla; look; man; men; moment; ned; ned corbett; new; night; pack; pete; phon; place; rampike; river; roberts; round; snow; steve; steve chance; thought; time; trail; want; way; white; work cache: 45870.txt plain text: 45870.txt item: #17 of 29 id: 46125 author: Quevedo, Francisco de title: Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper date: None words: 67322 flesch: 73 summary: Victor Hugo; La Mosaïque, Le Musée des Familles, Le Magasin Pitoresque, Le Grand Tacagno _de_ Quevedo, Les Contes _d_'Edgar Poe, _et aussi_ L'histoire de France et la Revolution _de_ Michelet _et quantité d'autres. Never did I hear such an empty sounding jingling name, or so like the clattering of a bell, as beginning in _Don_ and ending in _dan_. keywords: art; author; bed; book; chap; cloak; come; day; diego; don; drawings; face; father; gentleman; god; good; half; hand; head; hold; home; house; illustration; king; leave; life; little; lord; madrid; man; master; men; money; mother; night; pablo; people; place; play; quevedo; rest; saw; servants; set; sir; spain; street; thing; thought; time; uncle; vierge; way; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 46125.txt plain text: 46125.txt item: #18 of 29 id: 5004 author: Young, Clarence title: The Motor Boys on the Pacific; Or, the Young Derelict Hunters date: None words: 47908 flesch: 92 summary: CHAPTER XXIV HUNTING THE DERELICT WELL, now that we're under way, said Jerry, who had assumed charge of the engine, in which direction do you propose going, Mr. De Vere? Jerry assisted Mr. De Vere out on the small deck in front of the cabin. keywords: blowitz; boat; bob; boys; brig; car; day; derelict; engine; girls; good; jerry; know; little; look; man; motor; ned; nellie; ponto; professor; right; ripper; rose; seabury; time; vere; way cache: 5004.txt plain text: 5004.txt item: #19 of 29 id: 51171 author: Bradbury, Ray title: A Little Journey date: None words: 2646 flesch: 87 summary: The special helmets were issued to be fitted over every gray or white head to supply extra oxygen in case of a leakage in the ship's hull, and at long last the hour had come and Mrs. Bellowes stood behind Mr. Thirkell and said, We're ready, sir. There goes Mr. Thirkell_, thought Mrs. Bellowes. keywords: bellowes; mrs; rocket; ship; thirkell cache: 51171.txt plain text: 51171.txt item: #20 of 29 id: 51361 author: Silverberg, Robert title: Birds of a Feather date: None words: 8026 flesch: 87 summary: The laws are very strict on the subject of bringing alien life to Earth. My name is Ildwar Gorb, of the planet Wazzenazz XIII. keywords: alien; contract; corrigan; earth; gorb; heraal; kallerian; life; stebbins; stortulian; way cache: 51361.txt plain text: 51361.txt item: #21 of 29 id: 51650 author: Anderson, Poul title: Innocent at Large date: None words: 7356 flesch: 90 summary: But since you came on an official courier boat of your planet, Mr. Matheny, regulations force me to ask your business. They wouldn't be able to see the Teamsters Hour on Mars, would they? Oh, we don't expect immigration, said Matheny shyly. keywords: course; doran; earth; gus; man; mars; martian; matheny; people; peri; pete; sam; time cache: 51650.txt plain text: 51650.txt item: #22 of 29 id: 5417 author: Alger, Horatio, Jr. title: Struggling Upward, or Luke Larkin's Luck date: None words: 52858 flesch: 89 summary: CHAPTER XXXI TONY DENTON'S CALL Leaving Luke on his way to the Black Hills, we will go back to Groveton, to see how matters are moving on there. CHAPTER IX LUKE LOSES HIS POSITION Luke Larkin! Luke turned, on hearing his name called, and was rather surprised to see Randolph hastening toward him. keywords: armstrong; bank; box; boy; coleman; dollars; duncan; friend; good; larkin; linton; luke; man; money; mother; mrs; new; randolph; reed; sir; squire; thought; time; tony; watch; way cache: 5417.txt plain text: 5417.txt item: #23 of 29 id: 55725 author: Alger, Horatio, Jr. title: The Train Boy date: None words: 55679 flesch: 89 summary: Poor Paul thought it hard, but his pride sustained him. At Omaha Paul decided to stop over for twenty-four hours, having a little business to attend to for Mr. Bradford. keywords: ashton; aunt; book; boy; bradford; day; dearborn; denton; dollars; framley; good; grace; half; home; hope; lady; major; man; manson; miss; money; mother; mrs; palmer; paul; pay; poor; room; sheldon; sir; stephen; thought; time; train; vernon; work cache: 55725.txt plain text: 55725.txt item: #24 of 29 id: 5977 author: Alger, Horatio, Jr. title: Bound to Rise; Or, Up the Ladder date: None words: 48417 flesch: 93 summary: He took a pen, and, with a serious look, made this entry: I promise to make Harry Walton Minister to France, as soon as I take my place in the White House. The first class ranked as the highest class, and in it was Harry Walton. keywords: boy; cow; day; dollars; father; good; harry; home; luke; man; money; mother; new; night; pay; professor; sir; squire; thought; time; tom; walton; want; way; work cache: 5977.txt plain text: 5977.txt item: #25 of 29 id: 62324 author: Gold, H. L. (Horace Leonard) title: Grifters' Asteroid date: None words: 5926 flesch: 84 summary: GRIFTERS' ASTEROID By H. L. GOLD Harvey and Joe were the slickest con-men ever to gyp a space-lane sucker. Joe reeled aside, and Harvey saw what had upset his partner. keywords: buckos; harvey; joe; johnson; joseph; man; mayor; right; water cache: 62324.txt plain text: 62324.txt item: #26 of 29 id: 636 author: Mackay, Charles title: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 date: None words: 97738 flesch: 67 summary: The undoubted relics of great men, or great events, will always possess attractions for the thinking and refined. During seasons of great pestilence men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was come. keywords: bank; body; capital; cause; cent; combat; company; country; course; court; credit; day; days; death; directors; duel; duelling; duke; end; england; english; europe; evil; favour; fire; following; france; general; good; government; great; guilty; hair; half; hands; head; henry; honour; house; john; justice; king; law; left; life; livres; london; long; lord; making; man; manner; means; men; millions; money; murder; nation; new; night; order; parliament; people; persons; place; pounds; present; prices; public; regent; royal; sea; second; set; sir; south; state; stock; subject; thought; thugs; time; trade; world; years cache: 636.txt plain text: 636.txt item: #27 of 29 id: 713 author: Mackay, Charles title: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 date: None words: 100522 flesch: 65 summary: The boy added, that as soon as supper was ready, many other witches came to partake of it, several of whom he named. Whether the horse-shoe still remains upon the door of the haunted house, to keep away other witches, is uncertain; but there it was, twelve or thirteen years ago. keywords: age; aid; army; body; cause; children; christians; church; city; clergy; country; crime; cross; crusaders; day; days; death; devil; duke; emperor; enemy; england; europe; evidence; france; general; germany; god; good; hand; head; hermit; history; holy; house; james; jerusalem; king; knights; leaders; life; like; lord; louis; man; means; men; mind; new; night; number; order; palestine; parliament; people; persons; peter; place; pope; popular; possession; power; richard; saw; set; sir; sultan; thought; time; trial; turks; war; way; witchcraft; witches; women; work; world; years cache: 713.txt plain text: 713.txt item: #28 of 29 id: 884 author: Mackay, Charles title: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 date: None words: 99964 flesch: 65 summary: They asserted, on the contrary, that the first vow they took on entering the society was a vow of chastity; and that any one among them who transgressed in that particular would immediately lose all the advantages he enjoyed, and be exposed once more to hunger, woe, disease, and death, like other men. This work was published in two volumes, and the authenticity of its details supported by Gorres, Eschenmeyer, and other men of character and reputation in Germany: it is said to have had an immense sale. keywords: age; alchymist; alchymy; animal; art; body; book; cagliostro; city; count; country; cure; day; days; death; dee; effects; elixir; england; europe; experiments; eyes; fluid; following; fortune; france; friend; general; germany; gold; good; hand; house; imagination; influence; iron; king; lead; left; life; madame; magnetic; magnetism; man; manner; master; means; men; metals; mind; money; number; opinion; paris; people; persons; philosopher; physician; place; power; present; science; secret; silver; spirits; state; stone; study; subject; thought; time; water; work; world; years; young cache: 884.txt plain text: 884.txt item: #29 of 29 id: 9990 author: Alger, Horatio, Jr. title: Brave and Bold; Or, The Fortunes of Robert Rushton date: None words: 56585 flesch: 87 summary: Who is it? I think it's young Robert Rushton, but he's much grown entirely. Robert hurried home, and rushed into the kitchen where his mother was at work. keywords: ben; boat; boy; captain; davis; dollars; factory; father; good; halbert; haley; hero; hester; home; little; man; money; mother; mrs; paine; paul; robert; rushton; ship; superintendent; thought; time cache: 9990.txt plain text: 9990.txt