item: #1 of 37 id: 10438 author: Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone title: Up the Hill and Over date: None words: 99557 flesch: 90 summary: The town was named after his father-I am Esther Coombe. CHAPTER V Two days after the installation of what Mrs. Sykes persisted in calling the spinal mattress, Esther Coombe was late in getting home from school. keywords: amy; ann; aunt; aunt amy; bubble; callandar; child; church; coombe; course; day; dear; doctor; door; esther; esther coombe; eyes; face; girl; good; hand; heart; home; house; jane; letter; little; long; look; love; man; mary; matter; milligan; mind; miss; moment; mother; mrs; need; night; people; ring; room; sykes; tell; things; think; thought; time; voice; want; way; woman cache: 10438.txt plain text: 10438.txt item: #2 of 37 id: 13049 author: Pearson, Francis B. (Francis Bail) title: Reveries of a Schoolmaster date: None words: 48131 flesch: 78 summary: In good time, if the boy is kept growing, he will have outgrown his stone-bruises, his chapped hands, his freckles, his warts, and his physical and spiritual awkwardness. He says those two will join the others, all in good time. keywords: book; boys; brer; brown; chapter; college; course; day; days; evening; experience; eyes; face; feeling; folks; girls; good; home; hours; life; look; man; matter; mind; mother; neighbor; people; place; potatoes; pupils; reading; right; school; schoolmaster; sort; subject; talk; teacher; things; thinking; time; truth; use; want; way; wonder; work; world; year cache: 13049.txt plain text: 13049.txt item: #3 of 37 id: 13356 author: Stockton, Frank Richard title: The Captain's Toll-Gate date: None words: 100134 flesch: 85 summary: When Dick Lancaster told Captain Asher he had taken toll from two ladies in a phaeton he was quite eloquent in his description of said ladies. Very early the next afternoon the air was filled with the cries of newsboys, and each paper that these boys sold contained a full and detailed account of a remarkable attempt by an unknown foreigner upon the life of Captain John Asher, a visitor in Washington, and the heroic conduct of his niece, Miss Olive Asher, who shot the murderous assailant with his own pistol. keywords: asher; away; broadstone; captain; captain asher; course; day; deal; dick; easterfield; eyes; face; father; gate; girl; good; hemphill; home; house; lancaster; life; locker; love; man; maria; matter; mind; miss; mrs; olive; people; port; talk; thing; thought; time; toll; uncle; want; way; woman; young cache: 13356.txt plain text: 13356.txt item: #4 of 37 id: 13522 author: Sinclair, May title: Superseded date: None words: 28612 flesch: 81 summary: While the doctor was making up his mind, little Miss Quincey, in her shabby back bedroom, lay waiting for him, trembling, fretting her nerves into a fever, starting at imaginary footsteps, and entertaining all kinds of dismal possibilities. Then Miss Quincey, desperate under the eye of the Head, would try to rush the thing, with ridiculous results. keywords: cautley; cursiter; day; eyes; head; juliana; lady; life; like; look; louisa; martha; miss quincey; moon; mrs; rhoda; saw; sidwell; thing; thought; time; vivian; way; woman cache: 13522.txt plain text: 13522.txt item: #5 of 37 id: 15099 author: Eggleston, Edward title: The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana date: None words: 60222 flesch: 84 summary: But poor Ralph could never satisfy his constituency in this regard. All this while poor Ralph was looking about the room for Bud. Bud's actions had of late been strangely contradictory. keywords: away; book; bud; chapter; court; creek; day; door; eyes; face; fer; god; good; hank; hannah; hartsook; hawkins; home; house; jones; life; look; man; martha; master; means; miss; mother; mrs; new; night; people; pete; place; poor; ralph; school; sense; shocky; small; spelling; squire; story; tell; think; thought; time; walter; way; white; word; young cache: 15099.txt plain text: 15099.txt item: #6 of 37 id: 16287 author: James, William title: Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals date: None words: 62808 flesch: 63 summary: These ideals of other lives are among those secrets that we can almost never penetrate, although something about the man may often tell us when they are there. But, if our ability to recollect a thing be so largely a matter of its associations with other things which thus becomes its cues, an important pædagogic consequence follows. keywords: action; association; attention; case; character; child; conceptions; conduct; consciousness; day; education; effort; example; fact; feeling; field; general; good; habit; human; ideas; impression; interest; kind; life; man; matter; memory; mind; moment; native; nature; need; new; object; order; point; process; psychology; pupil; sense; sort; subject; system; teacher; things; thought; time; way; words; work; world cache: 16287.txt plain text: 16287.txt item: #7 of 37 id: 18936 author: Hubbard, Elbert title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers date: None words: 77491 flesch: 75 summary: I know the night-schools of the cities, the Ungraded Rooms, the Schools for Defectives, the educational schemes in prisons, the Manual-Training Schools, the New Education (first suggested by Socrates) as carried out by G. Stanley Hall, John Dewey, and dozens of other good men and women in America. Many good men in Chicago did not cease to revile their chiefest citizen, until the ears of Altgeld were stopped and his hands stiffened by death. keywords: age; alfred; arnold; benedict; book; booker; boy; business; children; christian; church; confucius; day; death; desire; eddy; education; england; erasmus; fact; father; form; froebel; god; good; head; health; heart; home; human; hypatia; idea; law; life; living; love; man; matter; men; mind; money; moses; mother; mrs; nature; new; order; people; person; place; plato; power; pythagoras; religion; right; school; science; set; socrates; state; teacher; things; thought; time; truth; use; way; women; words; work; world; years; young cache: 18936.txt plain text: 18936.txt item: #8 of 37 id: 20132 author: Rockwood, Roy title: The Wizard of the Sea; Or, A Trip Under the Ocean date: None words: 29614 flesch: 90 summary: I'm a passenger, replied Mont, and my name is Mont Folsom. Why you're the wust boy in the town fer mischief, Mont--an' everybody knows it. keywords: air; boat; boys; bully; captain; carl; good; half; hero; hoke; link; man; mont; professor; right; sea; searcher; ship; sir; stump; time; vindex; water; way; woddle cache: 20132.txt plain text: 20132.txt item: #9 of 37 id: 21050 author: Reed, Talbot Baines title: The Master of the Shell date: None words: 101692 flesch: 83 summary: By chance the hero, Mr Railsford, finds out who did it, but under circumstances which make it impossible for him to tell anyone. I am Mr Railsford, the new master, said he presently, overtaking Mrs Hastings, as she hobbled back in dudgeon to her work; which are my rooms? keywords: ainger; arthur; barnworth; baronet; bickers; boys; captain; course; day; dig; doctor; door; end; evening; face; felgate; fellows; friend; going; good; grandcourt; half; head; hear; herapath; house; know; letter; look; man; marky; master; mind; morning; mr bickers; mr railsford; place; present; question; railsford; right; room; round; school; shell; sir; smedley; stafford; study; tell; term; thing; thought; time; way; work cache: 21050.txt plain text: 21050.txt item: #10 of 37 id: 21098 author: Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs. title: The Independence of Claire date: None words: 98177 flesch: 85 summary: Then the meal being finished, Mrs Gifford and her companion announced a wish to sit still and rest, while Mr Judge nervously invited Miss Claire to accompany him in a walk. That was what would have happened to the Claire Gifford of a week before, but now for the first time Claire experienced a taste of the disagreeables attendant on her changed circumstances, and it was bitter to her mouth. keywords: cecil; claire; claire gifford; course; day; dear; end; erskine; eyes; face; fanshawe; friend; gifford; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; hour; house; janet; kind; life; look; love; major; man; mind; miss; mistress; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; night; people; poor; room; school; sophie; table; tea; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; week; willoughby; woman; work; years cache: 21098.txt plain text: 21098.txt item: #11 of 37 id: 21219 author: Hill, Grace Livingston title: A Voice in the Wilderness date: None words: 104441 flesch: 84 summary: Never should that mean little meddling man see that his words had pierced her soul. Once more Margaret sang: Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide! keywords: boy; bud; course; day; door; eyes; face; father; forsythe; gardley; girl; good; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; jasper; kemp; life; little; long; look; man; margaret; men; minister; mom; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; place; rogers; room; rosa; saw; school; set; tanner; teacher; tell; things; think; thought; time; voice; wallis; way; west; woman; words cache: 21219.txt plain text: 21219.txt item: #12 of 37 id: 21315 author: Fenn, George Manville title: The King's Sons date: None words: 11624 flesch: 88 summary: good boy! whispered the monk. We cannot do that, boys. keywords: alfred; boy; boys; father; king; men; monk; queen; swythe cache: 21315.txt plain text: 21315.txt item: #13 of 37 id: 21663 author: Perring, Mrs. title: Aunt Mary date: None words: 37631 flesch: 74 summary: 'Oh, as to that,' said Harry, 'I don't suppose he would attack the tea equipage, though he is a very good hand at clearing bread-and-butter plates,' he added, laughing; 'and I expect if that Miss Mabel Ellis comes, that we shall have a scene, for he is sure to turn her into ridicule.' 'Misfortunes never come alone,' it is said; and though I am not myself a firm believer in this proverb, it certainly proved true with regard to Mabel Ellis, though these misfortunes were entirely the results of her pride and self-will, so she does not deserve our commiseration. keywords: aunt; aunt mary; children; clara; day; dear; ellis; freddy; girl; good; harry; home; julia; kind; lady; mabel; maitland; mamma; mary; mrs; papa; poor; room; sister; time cache: 21663.txt plain text: 21663.txt item: #14 of 37 id: 22195 author: Baker, Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker) title: Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories date: None words: 27144 flesch: 82 summary: I have always missed something, and felt that I was different from other little girls, but I did not really understand what it was. She was a teacher, a teacher of the little school--that is to say, of the school for little children. keywords: away; children; day; elsa; face; father; girl; good; hand; home; johanson; karin; little; man; mother; new; nils; pastor; room; schoolmistress; teacher; tora; way; wife; woman cache: 22195.txt plain text: 22195.txt item: #15 of 37 id: 23771 author: Eggleston, Edward title: The Hoosier School-boy date: None words: 37706 flesch: 87 summary: Finding Jack in despair over some of his sums, he said: Why don't you ask Susan Lanham to show you? There was a touch of something in the tone of this reply that amused the school, and that made the master look up quickly and suspiciously at Jack Dudley, but the expression on Jack's face was as innocent as that of a cat who has just lapped the cream off the milk. CHAPTER II KING MILKMAID Pewee Rose, whose proper name was Peter Rose, had also the nickname of King Pewee. keywords: ball; ben; bob; boys; columbus; face; father; game; good; gray; great; holliday; home; house; jack; lanham; little; man; master; mother; new; pewee; riley; school; susan; time; way cache: 23771.txt plain text: 23771.txt item: #16 of 37 id: 27426 author: Hutchens, Paul title: Shenanigans at Sugar Creek date: None words: 32472 flesch: 82 summary: And that reminds me,--Please bless the boys who live and play along old Sugar Creek--all of 'em--Big Jim, Little Jim, Circus, Dragonfly, Poetry, Bill Collins.... I knew what the kind man was doing all right, 'cause I'd seen and heard him do it many a time in our little white church, and also I'd seen him doing it once down on his knees behind the old sycamore tree all by himself.... Then, while different ones of us were putting a row of buttons on his coat, which were black walnuts which we stuck into the snow in his stomach, Circus and Dragonfly disappeared, leaving only Poetry and Little Jim and Little Tom Till and me, that being all the rest of the gang that was there, on account of Big Jim had had to go with his pop that afternoon to take a load of cattle to the city. keywords: black; door; dragonfly; house; jim; little; man; mom; poetry; pop; right; snow; tom; | | cache: 27426.txt plain text: 27426.txt item: #17 of 37 id: 27746 author: Boston (Mass.). School Committee title: Schedule of Salaries for Teachers, members of the Supervising staff and others. January 1-August 31, 1920, inclusive date: None words: 5611 flesch: 17 summary: Head master, first year $3636, annual increase $144, maximum $4,500 Master, Director of Model School, first year $2916, annual increase $144, maximum 4,068 Masters, first year $2484, annual increase $144, maximum 3,492 Junior Masters, first year $1620, annual increase $144, maximum 3,060 First Assistants, first year $1812, annual increase $96, maximum 2,484 Assistants, first year $1668, annual increase $96, maximum 2,340 Clerical Assistant, first year $984, annual increase $96, maximum 1,272 LATIN AND DAY HIGH SCHOOLS. Head Masters, first year $3636, annual increase $144, maximum $4,500 Masters, Heads of Departments, first year $2484, annual increase $144, maximum 3,492 Junior Masters, appointed before June 1, 1906, who have attained the rank of Master 3,204 Junior Masters, appointed after June 1, 1906, first year $1764, annual increase $144, maximum 3,060 Assistant Principals, first year $2004, annual increase $96, maximum 2,484 The rank of assistant principal shall be abolished as the position becomes vacant by the retirement of the present incumbents. keywords: assistants; day; increase; maximum; school; year cache: 27746.txt plain text: 27746.txt item: #18 of 37 id: 28544 author: Warner, Susan title: Say and Seal, Volume I date: None words: 158978 flesch: 87 summary: No indeed! said Mr. Linden.--Miss Faith, what is the difference between a bird and a philosopher? Somewhat to the surprise as well as amusement of the company, the answer to this was the heartiest, merriest bit of a laugh; then she said, One looks round the corner, Mr. Linden! I will appoint two or three boys to play the part of the pigeon in hawking, said Mr. Linden,--Miss Faith might get tired of being caught, if not of running away. keywords: answer; boys; child; cindy; day; deacon; derrick; doctor; door; essie; eyes; face; faith; faith derrick; good; grave; guess; half; hand; harrison; head; home; hope; house; know; left; linden; little; look; looking; man; matter; mean; mind; miss; miss faith; morning; mother; mrs; night; pattaquasset; people; phil; place; pleasure; question; quiet; rest; reuben; road; room; round; sam; simlins; sir; smile; smiling; somers; sort; squire; stoutenburgh; table; talk; tea; tell; things; thought; time; tone; voice; want; way; wish; words; work; world cache: 28544.txt plain text: 28544.txt item: #19 of 37 id: 28545 author: Warner, Anna Bartlett title: Say and Seal, Volume II date: None words: 201824 flesch: 86 summary: The little laugh which answered her, the way in which Mr. Linden bent down and said, How do you know, Miss Faith? were slightly mystifying to Dr. Harrison. Miss Faith, Mr. Linden said then, it is a little hard to pass from one inquisitor to another--but I must hand you over to Miss Essie. keywords: answer; basket; breakfast; care; chair; chapter; cheeks; child; colour; coming; day; dear; derrick; doctor; door; endecott; endy; essie; eyes; face; faith; faith derrick; fire; flowers; good; grave; half; hand; harrison; head; heart; help; home; house; johnny; know; laughing; lay; letter; life; linden; lips; little; look; love; low; man; mignonette; mind; minute; miss; miss faith; miss linden; moment; morning; mother; mrs; need; new; night; pattaquasset; people; place; pleasure; pretty; quiet; rest; reuben; room; round; saw; sir; smile; somers; sort; speak; stoutenburgh; suppose; table; talk; tea; things; think; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; wish; words; work cache: 28545.txt plain text: 28545.txt item: #20 of 37 id: 28996 author: Archer, Thomas title: Miss Grantley's Girls, and the Stories She Told Them date: None words: 37972 flesch: 75 summary: I had been staying with old friends of my dear father, for they did not desert me altogether though I was only a governess; indeed, they gave me too large a share of the amusements and sight-seeing which take up so much time, so that I was obliged to bid them good-bye for a good while, and restrict my visits to Sundays or one evening a week. Thus old Dormeur forbade Sara to have any more to say to Dufarge, but encouraged the lover of his eldest girl, a man of twice her age, the grim and saturnine Bartholde, by birth seigneur of an estate near Lozère, where, however, he lived only on sufferance, for the title had been abated after the persecutions following the Edict of Nantes, and though Bartholde was rich, he had abandoned both title and the display that belonged to it. keywords: antoine; child; day; dear; door; dormeur; dryce; evening; eyes; face; father; girl; good; grantley; hand; home; house; left; letter; london; looking; love; man; miss; moment; mrs; night; people; place; room; round; story; thought; time; vicar; way; work cache: 28996.txt plain text: 28996.txt item: #21 of 37 id: 30957 author: McDonald, J. Daley (James Daley) title: Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools date: None words: 7977 flesch: 57 summary: So far as preparation in the methods of science teaching is concerned, much good may be accomplished in teachers courses and in practice teaching. Duplication of teachers' courses in special methods would be eliminated for a single course for all of the departments of biological science would be sufficient. keywords: biology; course; knowledge; method; preparation; problem; school; science; subject; teacher; teaching; work cache: 30957.txt plain text: 30957.txt item: #22 of 37 id: 32581 author: Kelly, Myra title: Little Aliens date: None words: 39013 flesch: 81 summary: Miss Blake would now reap the benefit of this and other improvements, while Miss Bailey devoted her energies to a new invoice of seedlings. Although Miss Bailey appreciated this tribute she could understand Miss Blake's failure to do so, and she explained to Morris that, upon pain of being instantly cast out from her heart of hearts, he must learn to love Miss Blake. keywords: baby; blake; boy; child; children; course; day; door; esther; eva; eyes; father; friend; gold; hand; home; house; isidore; lady; mamma; man; miss; miss bailey; mit; morris; mother; mowgelewsky; mrs; new; patrick; readers; room; rosie; school; street; teacher; things; time; und; yetta cache: 32581.txt plain text: 32581.txt item: #23 of 37 id: 32651 author: Cox, Irving E. title: Adolescents Only date: None words: 10802 flesch: 86 summary: Was your jar the one on the bookcase, Mr. Elvin? I'll get it for you, Mr. Elvin. keywords: benedicto; david; donald; elvin; gold; metal; mind; right; rocket; room; san; schermerhorn; school; time; twins cache: 32651.txt plain text: 32651.txt item: #24 of 37 id: 32965 author: Furman, Lucy S. title: Mothering on Perilous date: None words: 45844 flesch: 83 summary: The heads said to me this morning, We shall give up trying to keep little boys in the school,--it is useless, though we need them almost as much as they need us. Taking him in my arms and giving him a good hug, I said, Jason, dear, I want you to remember that it is wrong for little boys to fight. keywords: babe; bed; big; blant; boys; christmas; course; day; eyes; face; family; fence; geordie; good; haint; head; hen; home; house; iry; jason; keats; killis; life; little; man; morning; new; night; nucky; philip; rich; room; school; seed; set; sunday; tell; time; trigger; way; yesterday cache: 32965.txt plain text: 32965.txt item: #25 of 37 id: 35008 author: Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt title: Concerning Belinda date: None words: 38308 flesch: 81 summary: Miss Lucilla Ryder came to town. As Miss Lucilla Ryder explained, in an effort to soothe the natural fears of a society leader whose great-grandfather had been a most reputable farmer, the young ladies of the school were divided into groups, and the flowers of New York's aristocracy would find in their especial classes only those young ladies with whom they might reasonably expect to be intimate after their school life ended and their social career began. keywords: amelia; belinda; carewe; child; course; cynthia; day; door; eyes; face; father; french; girls; good; hand; head; home; know; laura; look; love; lucilla; mademoiselle; man; miss; miss lucilla; miss ryder; new; night; room; ryder; school; smile; teacher; thing; thought; time; voice; way; york cache: 35008.txt plain text: 35008.txt item: #26 of 37 id: 37254 author: Drayson, Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) title: The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich date: None words: 78172 flesch: 73 summary: Their style of conversation, too, was inferior to what I had heard from other old cadets. I turned round, and for an instant I thought of returning the blow; but I recalled to mind that I had heard of a neux being all but killed who had struck on old cadet, and, instantly recollecting myself, I said,-- I did nothing to deserve such a blow as that. keywords: academy; boy; boys; brag; cadet; class; day; days; examination; fair; father; half; head; hostler; howard; left; life; look; man; men; mind; neux; officer; room; round; rouse; saw; school; shepard; snipson; stanley; thought; time; woolwich; work; years cache: 37254.txt plain text: 37254.txt item: #27 of 37 id: 40581 author: Thorne, Guy title: The Secret Service Submarine: A Story of the Present War date: None words: 46401 flesch: 88 summary: It penetrated behind the green curtain where, in an agony of rheumatism and tortured bones, little Lockhart was standing. The second master, who taught such mathematics as each imp condescended to learn, was poor little Lockhart, a misshapen bundle of bones, as hollow and bitter as a dried lemon. keywords: bernard; brother; carey; course; dark; deck; dickson; doctor; door; doris; eyes; face; german; good; hand; head; house; john; lockhart; man; marjorie; moment; morstone; night; room; round; scarlett; school; sea; sir; submarine; table; thing; thought; time; voice; water; way; young cache: 40581.txt plain text: 40581.txt item: #28 of 37 id: 43147 author: Meade, L. T. title: A World of Girls: The Story of a School date: None words: 79660 flesch: 83 summary: As a baby little Annie had been surrounded by comforts and luxuries, and her father and mother had lived in a large house, and kept a carriage, and Annie had two nurses to wait on herself alone. Yes, mother, said little Annie, gazing full into her mother's face with her sweet bright eyes, I'll--I'll love her, mother; I'll give her lots and lots of love. keywords: annie; annie forest; cecil; child; danesbury; day; dear; door; dora; eyes; face; girls; good; half; head; heart; hester; house; lavender; little; look; love; miss; moment; mother; mrs; mrs willis; night; place; poor; room; round; school; susan; time; voice; way; words cache: 43147.txt plain text: 43147.txt item: #29 of 37 id: 43697 author: Franklin, Josephine title: Nelly's First Schooldays date: None words: 21610 flesch: 88 summary: The sight of his pleasant face saddened, did not tend to make little Nell feel happier. Are you afraid _now_, Nell? God takes care of us, always, said little Nell, solemnly, still leaning on her branch and crossing her feet. keywords: brooks; children; comfort; day; dear; elinor; good; home; johnny; martin; melinda; milly; miss; mrs; nelly; room; school; time; way; yer cache: 43697.txt plain text: 43697.txt item: #30 of 37 id: 45554 author: Thackeray, William Makepeace title: Doctor Birch and His Young Friends date: None words: 9413 flesch: 83 summary: I promise you, the fare at the Usher's table, the getting up at five o'clock in the morning, the walking out with little boys in the fields, (who used to play me tricks, and never could be got to respect my awful and responsible character as teacher in the school,) With a resolute step, and his arm still linked in Champion's, Captain Davison now advanced, followed by a wake of little boys, to that corner of the green where Mrs. Buggies has her tart-stand. keywords: birch; boys; champion; davison; doctor; good; illustration; little; master; miss; prince; raby; room; school cache: 45554.txt plain text: 45554.txt item: #31 of 37 id: 45746 author: Cole, Thomas R. (Thomas Raymond) title: Learning to Be a Schoolmaster date: None words: 12388 flesch: 67 summary: A general meeting for all the teachers was held from time to time when a good speaker could be secured or when I wished to present a phase of school work that should be understood by all. They also lose at the same time one of the most fruitful and pleasant experiences in school work. keywords: activities; board; building; meeting; principal; pupils; school; study; superintendent; teachers; time; work; year cache: 45746.txt plain text: 45746.txt item: #32 of 37 id: 46292 author: Martin, George Madden title: Selina: Her Hopeful Efforts and Her Livelier Failures date: None words: 91328 flesch: 83 summary: Minerva over Venus ever, Miss Selina, from Mr. Cannon of the white vest. Is Miss Selina here? keywords: adele; algy; amanthus; anna; auntie; bit; boswell; bruce; chapter; coming; cousin; culpepper; day; door; dress; evening; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hair; hand; having; head; home; house; jones; juanita; juliette; lady; life; look; mamma; marcus; maud; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; papa; person; pocahontas; pretty; right; room; saw; school; selina; selina wistar; thing; thought; time; tuttle; uncle; way; white; wistar; women; world cache: 46292.txt plain text: 46292.txt item: #33 of 37 id: 48912 author: Sologub, Fyodor title: The Little Demon date: None words: 102321 flesch: 86 summary: At last Peredonov appeared with Routilov. * * At last Peredonov and Volodin decided to go and fix up the match. keywords: ardalyon; black; borisitch; boy; boys; cards; course; dark; darya; day; door; eyes; face; girl; good; grushina; hand; head; home; house; inspector; khripatch; kokovkina; laughing; laughter; left; letter; liudmilla; look; man; marta; master; mind; nadezhda; new; people; peredonov; place; princess; room; routilov; sasha; school; sisters; smile; street; thought; time; town; varvara; vershina; voice; volodin; way cache: 48912.txt plain text: 48912.txt item: #34 of 37 id: 57028 author: Neill, Alexander Sutherland title: A Dominie's Log date: None words: 40015 flesch: 85 summary: I once shocked a dear old lady by saying that the part of the Bible that appealed to me most was that in which the Pharisee said: I thank God that I am not as other men. Other men have a definite standard of right and wrong; I have none. keywords: bairns; believe; book; boy; boys; brown; children; class; day; education; father; girls; good; half; home; life; little; look; man; margaret; men; morning; net; new; night; people; school; sir; steel; system; teacher; thing; thinking; thought; time; tom; truth; try; village; want; way; willie; women; word; work; wrong; years cache: 57028.txt plain text: 57028.txt item: #35 of 37 id: 57059 author: Neill, Alexander Sutherland title: A Dominie Dismissed date: None words: 56247 flesch: 87 summary: He's an ambitious youth, Jim, and his position as best man at my marriage will merely make him long for other worlds to conquer. But of course if you think Geordie would be the better man to sit on the dickey of the carriage, and lead the bride to the wedding feast, and throw out the sweeties and pennies to the children, and-- Aw'll be yer best man! keywords: annie; bairns; believe; book; boy; boys; children; day; dominie; door; education; ellen; face; girls; good; half; hand; head; house; idea; jackson; janet; jean; jim; life; look; love; macdonald; maggie; man; margaret; men; mester; mind; money; mother; mrs; new; night; people; peter; school; scotland; thing; thought; time; village; war; way; work; world; wrong; wud; yer cache: 57059.txt plain text: 57059.txt item: #36 of 37 id: 59853 author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester title: A Young Hero; Or, Fighting to Win date: None words: 68534 flesch: 77 summary: It may well be asked what young Fred Sheldon expected to do with such a useless musket, should emergency arise demanding a weapon. As he did so he placed his hand on the top rail of the fence and with one bound leaped over, dropping upon his feet within a few steps of poor Fred Sheldon, who, with every reason for believing he had been seen, sprang to his feet and ran for dear life. keywords: archie; boy; boys; bud; bud heyland; carter; constable; cyrus; day; door; fred; fred sheldon; good; hand; head; heyland; home; house; kincade; lad; ladies; lion; man; minute; money; mother; night; place; road; room; sutton; thought; time; tramp; voice; way; work; young cache: 59853.txt plain text: 59853.txt item: #37 of 37 id: 6056 author: Harben, Will N. (Will Nathaniel) title: The Desired Woman date: None words: 110187 flesch: 93 summary: Leaving Mostyn, she hastened to the fence, meeting the uplifted and woeful glance of Barnett as he neared her. He has robbed good men an' women of their money in his shady deals, an' folks tell all sorts o' tales about 'im. Thar you go ag'in, Tom Drake broke in, with a hearty laugh. keywords: ann; bank; boy; buckton; business; child; come; day; dick; dolly; door; drake; eyes; face; father; girl; god; going; good; hand; head; help; home; house; irene; john; left; life; lips; look; love; man; men; mind; miss; mitchell; money; morning; mostyn; mrs; new; old; open; right; room; saunders; sort; talk; tell; things; think; thought; time; town; voice; want; way; webb; woman cache: 6056.txt plain text: 6056.txt