item: #1 of 13 id: 12690 author: Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving) title: The High School Pitcher; or, Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond date: None words: 49173 flesch: 90 summary: The night before Christmas Dick Prescott attended a ball, in his new capacity of reporter. As he bent his head low behind a bulky textbook, Dan Dalzell, of the sophomore class, glanced over at Dick Prescott with sparkling mischief gleaming in his eyes. keywords: ball; boy; boys; cantwell; coach; darrin; dave; dick; dick prescott; face; fred; game; going; good; gridley; hand; high; luce; man; money; pitcher; prescott; principal; purcell; ripley; scammon; school; second; sir; time; tip; way; work; young cache: 12690.txt plain text: 12690.txt item: #2 of 13 id: 2186 author: Kipling, Rudyard title: "Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks date: None words: 55583 flesch: 92 summary: Dan lit the candle because he had bought the belt, and the cook grunted and muttered charms as long as he could see the ducking point of flame. Said Harvey to Dan, as they turned in after watch: Slowly he remembered that he was Harvey Cheyne, drowned and dead in mid-ocean, but was too weak to fit things together. keywords: 'em; anchor; away; boat; boy; boys; cheyne; cod; cook; dad; dan; day; days; deck; disko; dollars; dories; dory; end; eyes; father; fer; fish; fleet; fog; gloucester; good; half; hand; harvey; head; hev; hold; jack; jest; line; look; man; manuel; men; mrs; new; penn; platt; right; round; salters; schooner; sea; things; time; tom; troop; uncle; water; way; young cache: 2186.txt plain text: 2186.txt item: #3 of 13 id: 2225 author: Kipling, Rudyard title: "Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks date: None words: 55571 flesch: 91 summary: Dan lit the candle because he had bought the belt, and the cook grunted and muttered charms as long as he could see the ducking point of flame. Said Harvey to Dan, as they turned in after watch: How about progress and Catholic superstitions? Huh! Slowly he remembered that he was Harvey Cheyne, drowned and dead in mid-ocean, but was too weak to fit things together. keywords: anchor; away; boat; boy; boys; cheyne; cod; cook; dad; dan; day; days; deck; disko; dollars; dory; end; eyes; father; fer; fish; fleet; fog; gloucester; good; half; hand; harvey; head; hev; hold; jack; jest; line; look; man; manuel; men; mrs; naow; new; penn; platt; right; round; salters; schooner; sea; thet; things; time; tom; troop; uncle; water; way; young cache: 2225.txt plain text: 2225.txt item: #4 of 13 id: 35637 author: Machen, Arthur title: The Secret Glory date: None words: 66472 flesch: 74 summary: People have thought that the name is a sort of portmanteau word, a combination of Rugger and Soccer; but in reality the title was derived from the field where the game used to be played in old days by the townsfolk. Benedictus_ were rattled off to frisky Anglicans with great spirit; sometimes the organ tooted, sometimes it bleated gently, like a flock of sheep; now one might have sworn that the music of penny whistles stole on the ear, and again, as the organist coupled up the full organ, using suddenly all the battery of his stops, a gas explosion and a Salvation Army band seemed to strive against one another. keywords: ambrose; believe; black; body; book; boys; church; country; course; cup; dark; day; days; door; english; eyes; face; father; golden; good; green; half; head; heart; holy; horbury; house; land; left; life; light; look; lupton; man; manner; master; men; meyrick; mind; moment; mountain; nelly; new; people; place; public; question; room; school; secret; set; shining; sky; song; system; things; thought; time; water; way; white; wood; work; world; years; young cache: 35637.txt plain text: 35637.txt item: #5 of 13 id: 39291 author: Bray, Reginald Arthur title: Boy Labour and Apprenticeship date: None words: 66050 flesch: 63 summary: | Manufacturing | Small Urban | | | | Districts. Below is given the summary for the two years: +----------------------------------------------------------+ | | Skilled.| Unskilled.| Higher | | | | |Education.| |-------------------------|---------|-----------|----------| | Number | 8,662 | 15,910 | 1,524 | | Percentage | 33·2 | 61·0 | 5·8 | | Percentage, 1906-07 | 28·5 | 67·9 | 3·6 keywords: act; age; apprenticeship; apprenticeship system; boy labour; boys; cent; children; committee; conditions; day; education; elementary; employers; employment; general; half; home; hours; industrial; labour; law; london; occupations |; report; school; school age; state; supervision; system; time; trade; training; work; workshop; years; | -|; | boy; | number; | parent; | | cache: 39291.txt plain text: 39291.txt item: #6 of 13 id: 43989 author: Hamp, Sidford F. (Sidford Frederick) title: The Trail of The Badger: A Story of the Colorado Border Thirty Years Ago date: None words: 71777 flesch: 83 summary: Instead of crying and crawling under the blankets, as he might well have been excused for doing, little Dick sprang out of his bed--as did I also. Men plot and plan and calculate and contrive, thinking themselves very clever; but how feeble they are when Dame Nature steps in and takes a hand, and how easily she can upset all their calculations, we were to learn, once for all, that coming day. keywords: arthur; coming; copper; day; dick; end; fact; feet; find; frank; galvez; good; hand; head; hermanos; little; look; man; mexican; moment; mountain; old; padron; pedro; place; professor; right; saw; thing; time; tom; trail; uncle; water; way; wolves cache: 43989.txt plain text: 43989.txt item: #7 of 13 id: 45582 author: Young, Clarence title: Jack Ranger's Gun Club; Or, From Schoolroom to Camp and Trail date: None words: 63990 flesch: 94 summary: What isn't? asked Sam. Telling Jack like that. I'll make you pay for that, Jack Ranger! Whenever you like, replied Jack coolly, as he stood waiting the attack. keywords: big; bony; boys; budge; camp; chums; day; dock; fire; good; guess; gun; horses; hunting; ike; jack; jack ranger; lads; little; look; man; men; mountain; nat; new; place; professor; right; room; sam; school; snaith; snow; thought; time; want; water; way cache: 45582.txt plain text: 45582.txt item: #8 of 13 id: 5602 author: Victor, Ralph title: The Boy Scouts Patrol date: None words: 32559 flesch: 91 summary: What do you say, Don? continued Rand. No, admitted Jack; but I have given the officer the tip, and told him about the shack in the woods where Pepper saw Rae. keywords: boat; boys; colonel; come; dick; donald; gerald; good; jack; judge; man; monkey; pepper; rae; rand; right; road; scout; think; thought; time; way cache: 5602.txt plain text: 5602.txt item: #9 of 13 id: 59084 author: Le Poer, John Patrick title: A Modern Legionary date: None words: 106891 flesch: 76 summary: They were good men, and when the bayonets crossed they fought quietly and earnestly, and died without a murmur, almost without a groan. They were good men; one engineer and seven legionaries, all simple soldiers, were killed; almost all the others were wounded, but even wounded men who could stand remained at their posts, and those others who had to stay out of the fight loaded their rifles and the rifles of the dead, and passed them to the fighting men, so that two shots often went through a loophole when, in the Black Flags' minds, only one should be expected. keywords: adjutant; attack; battalion; bayonet; body; camp; canteen; captain; charge; commandant; company; comrades; corporal; course; day; duty; enemy; evening; fight; fighting; french; giulia; good; ground; guard; half; left; legionaries; life; mac; man; men; money; morning; nicholas; officers; place; rest; second; sergeant; soldiers; squad; things; thought; time; way; woman; work cache: 59084.txt plain text: 59084.txt item: #10 of 13 id: 61064 author: Paine, Ralph Delahaye title: A Cadet of the Black Star Line date: None words: 38217 flesch: 87 summary: Said David to himself a little more cheerfully: That means he wants me to stay with him. On the train bound for New York David tried to fathom the meaning of the uncertain tidings. keywords: arthur; becket; boat; boy; bracewell; cadet; captain; captain thrasher; cochran; david; deck; face; good; hands; head; help; john; life; liner; man; margaret; master; men; new; night; officer; roanoke; room; sea; ship; thrasher; time; way; witch cache: 61064.txt plain text: 61064.txt item: #11 of 13 id: 61204 author: Walton, Bryce title: The Recruit date: None words: 3716 flesch: 95 summary: A tired fat corporal with a naked head blinked up at tall Wayne. Contemptuously amused little eyes glittered at Wayne from a shaggy head. keywords: eyes; head; man; seton; sir; teener; wayne cache: 61204.txt plain text: 61204.txt item: #12 of 13 id: 7496 author: Young, Clarence title: Jack Ranger's Western Trip; Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range date: None words: 64034 flesch: 93 summary: No sir, I'm Jack Ranger, from Denton, and these are friends of mine, and Jack mentioned their names. Can you tell me where to find him? Yes, to all three questions, Jack Ranger, said Mr. Tevis, heartily, and Jack felt his heart thumping against his ribs as though it would leap out. keywords: 'em; boys; father; find; good; grimm; guess; hall; hand; horses; indian; jack; jim; john; kent; little; look; man; mead; men; nat; place; post; professor; ranger; right; room; sam; smith; socrat; tell; tevis; thought; time; want; water; way cache: 7496.txt plain text: 7496.txt item: #13 of 13 id: 9112 author: Cox, Stephen Angus title: The Dare Boys of 1776 date: None words: 34065 flesch: 85 summary: Chapter XII Dick Does Wonderful Work Dick Dare had been afraid that General Percy might connect him with Tom, and suspect that they were in the neighborhood together, but such a thought evidently did not come to the commander, for happily he seemed to dismiss the matter from his mind when the soldiers departed with the boy. Whut'll ye do, Dick Dare, hey? Yes, whut'll ye do? cried Lem Hicks, pushing forward and facing Dick. keywords: army; ben; british; dare; dick; encampment; father; general; good; patriot; putnam; right; sir; soldiers; time; tom; washington; work; yes; youth cache: 9112.txt plain text: 9112.txt