item: #1 of 25 id: 16215 author: Ainsworth, William Harrison title: Jack Sheppard: A Romance date: None words: 156738 flesch: 81 summary: On an empty cask, which served him for a chair, and opposite Jack Sheppard, whose rapid progress in depravity afforded him the highest satisfaction, sat Blueskin, encouraging the two women in their odious task, and plying his victim with the glass as often as he deemed it expedient to do so. How Jack Sheppard broke out of 218 the Cage at Willesden XIX. keywords: answer; austin; black; blueskin; boy; captain; carpenter; case; chapter; child; dark; darrell; day; dear; door; draper; escape; eyes; face; father; feet; friend; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; help; hold; house; iron; jack; jack sheppard; jackson; jonathan; jonathan wild; kneebone; lady; leave; left; life; look; looking; man; master; mind; mint; moment; mother; mrs; newgate; night; open; person; place; poor; prison; prisoner; quilt; return; room; round; rowland; set; short; sir; sir rowland; son; street; taker; tell; thames; thief; thought; time; tone; trenchard; voice; way; widow; wild; winifred; wood; woollen; word cache: 16215.txt plain text: 16215.txt item: #2 of 25 id: 20071 author: Meade, L. T. title: Sue, A Little Heroine date: None words: 76570 flesch: 92 summary: If he's the son of my old friend, more than ever is he my care now; and you this evening, little Connie, shall tell me your story. Purty little Connie? keywords: agnes; anderson; boy; child; children; come; connie; day; dear; door; eyes; face; father; fire; fur; giles; girl; good; great; harris; heart; home; john; little; look; man; mother; mrs; night; pickles; poor; ronald; room; sue; thought; time; voice; warren; wery; wot; yer cache: 20071.txt plain text: 20071.txt item: #3 of 25 id: 20341 author: Chase, Josephine title: Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods date: None words: 50629 flesch: 89 summary: Hippy put out a hand, but was sorry for it afterwards, for the bear-like grips of the lumberjacks left it a pulp, as Hippy Wingate expressed it. In the meantime Tom and Hippy were discussing the attack of the previous night, and Tom Gray was cautioning Hippy to be on the lookout all the time and see to it that the Overland girls were protected. keywords: bear; camp; elfreda; emma; fire; forest; girls; good; grace; gray; henry; hindenburg; hippy; horse; indian; jacks; joe; lieutenant; man; men; night; overland; overlanders; party; riders; river; shafto; time; tom; tom gray; tree; way; willy; wingate; woman cache: 20341.txt plain text: 20341.txt item: #4 of 25 id: 21794 author: Webster, Frank V. title: The Boy from the Ranch; Or, Roy Bradner's City Experiences date: None words: 39879 flesch: 93 summary: Yes, and if you don't quit I think Billy will make you vamoose anyhow, murmured Roy. Meanwhile Roy was in the saddle, ready to travel, wondering what could be the matter with his father, and why his parent had sent for him in such a hurry. keywords: annister; baker; boy; bradner; car; father; good; hotel; man; men; new; place; ranch; right; room; roy; royster; think; thought; time; wakely; way; york cache: 21794.txt plain text: 21794.txt item: #5 of 25 id: 21842 author: Webster, Frank V. title: The Boy Scouts of Lenox; Or, The Hike Over Big Bear Mountain date: None words: 47740 flesch: 83 summary: He had the making of a good scout only for those faults which other boys derided as silly and girlish. At any rate the new Wolf Patrol numbered five, and other boys were showing a disposition to make application for membership. keywords: bear; billy; boys; camp; carl; chance; culpepper; day; dock; felix; find; george; good; home; josh; leader; look; man; master; mother; mountain; paper; patrol; right; scout; things; time; tom; want; way; witherspoon cache: 21842.txt plain text: 21842.txt item: #6 of 25 id: 23116 author: Emerson, Alice B. title: Ruth Fielding Down East; Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point date: None words: 43451 flesch: 91 summary: This_ mouse, in that case, is likely to swallow the cat! CHAPTER XIII THE HERMIT Now, tell me, Miss Ruth, said Mr. Hammond, having taken the girl of the Red Mill into his own car for the short run to Beach Plum Point, what is this trouble about your new scenario? If it is better than 'The Heart of a Schoolgirl', or 'The Forty-Niners', or 'The Boys of the Draft', then it must be some scenario, Miss Ruth. keywords: aunt; away; bella; car; child; company; day; door; fielding; find; girl; going; good; hammond; helen; henri; hermit; house; jennie; kate; man; mill; mind; miss; picture; point; red; ruth; ruth fielding; saw; scenario; stone; story; thing; time; tom; way; woman cache: 23116.txt plain text: 23116.txt item: #7 of 25 id: 23208 author: Long, Helen Beecher title: How Janice Day Won date: None words: 67131 flesch: 91 summary: No noisier or more ill-favored crew, Janice Day thought, could ever have been gathered under the roof of the Inn, than she now saw as she pushed open the screen. Janice wondered then--and she wondered afterward--if this unexplained anxiety connected Hopewell Drugg with the dances at the Lake View Inn. CHAPTER V THE BLUEBIRD--FOR HAPPINESS Could it be possible that Janice Day had alighted from Walky Dexter's old carryall at the little grocery store for still another purpose? keywords: aunt; bowman; coins; day; dear; drugg; elder; eyes; father; frank; girl; going; good; haley; haw; home; hopewell; inn; janice; janice day; jason; joe; lem; little; man; marty; massey; money; moore; mrs; narnay; nelson; parraday; polktown; poor; right; rill; school; store; ter; thing; thought; time; uncle; walky; way; woman; young cache: 23208.txt plain text: 23208.txt item: #8 of 25 id: 2452 author: Lincoln, Joseph Crosby title: Shavings: A Novel date: None words: 116800 flesch: 94 summary: And at last Jed Winslow drifted into the conversation. Said Jed had sent over by the telephone man's auto and asked him to cash a check for that much. keywords: armstrong; babbie; babbitt; bank; barbara; captain; charlie; course; day; door; face; goin'; good; grover; guess; hand; head; home; house; hunniwell; jed; jed winslow; kind; know; little; look; major; man; maud; mean; mind; money; mrs; nodded; orham; phineas; right; ruth; sam; saw; shop; somethin'; talk; tell; things; think; thought; time; twas; uncle jed; way; winslow; yes; young cache: 2452.txt plain text: 2452.txt item: #9 of 25 id: 30963 author: Young, Robert F. title: A Knyght Ther Was date: None words: 18897 flesch: 86 summary: * I Mallory, who among other things was a time-thief, re-materialized the time-space boat _ Mallory was not one to keep himself in suspense. keywords: castle; century; eyes; galahad; knight; mallory; man; money; perfidion; room; rowena; sangraal; set; shield; sir; table; thy; time cache: 30963.txt plain text: 30963.txt item: #10 of 25 id: 33381 author: Clark, Joan title: Penny Nichols Finds a Clue date: None words: 38586 flesch: 89 summary: Mr. Nichols talked with several other policemen, and then, satisfied that he had learned all the details of the unsuccessful raid, took Penny home. Betty and her father took Penny home since Mr. Nichols found it necessary to go to the police station. keywords: betty; boy; brunner; car; davis; detective; door; father; garage; girl; home; jimmie; man; molberg; nichols; office; penny; police; rap; street; susan; thought; time; truck cache: 33381.txt plain text: 33381.txt item: #11 of 25 id: 34831 author: Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) title: Guilt of the Brass Thieves date: None words: 42013 flesch: 91 summary: Penny inquired, making conversation. Jack doesn't seem to get along with Sally Barker very well, Penny remarked, smiling at the recollection. keywords: away; barker; boat; brass; captain; cat; dock; door; factory; father; gandiss; girls; good; harper; house; island; jack; joe; man; men; penny; queen; race; river; room; sally; sweeper; thought; time; water cache: 34831.txt plain text: 34831.txt item: #12 of 25 id: 38850 author: Awdelay, John, active 1559-1577 title: The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' date: None words: 51320 flesch: 84 summary: They wyll most lamentable[126] demaunde your charitie, _and_ wyll quicklye shed salte teares, they be so tender harted. I haue taken a note of a good many of them, _and_ wil send their names and dwelling-places to such Iusticers as dwelleth nere or next vnto them, that they by their good wisdomes may displace the same, and auctoryse such as haue honesty. keywords: aboute; awdeley; bene; book; bée; canting; cap; chete; clothes; company; counterfet; cranke; day; description; doth; downe; drinke; dyd; edition; end; eyther; gentleman; geue; god; goeth; good; great; hadde; halfe; hand; harman; hath; haue; hauing; header; hee; home; house; hym; hys; hée; iohn; kent; knaue; language; leaf; let; london; lye; lytle; maister; man; matter; maye; men; money; names; neuer; night; nowe; ouer; parish; parson; people; place; poore; printer; quoth; ring; roge; sayth; selfe; speake; th_e; thomas; thou; time; tyme; vagabonds; vnto; vpon; waye; wil; woman; words; woulde; wyfe; wyll; wylliam; wyth; yeares; yow cache: 38850.txt plain text: 38850.txt item: #13 of 25 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: #14 of 25 id: 42137 author: Snell, Roy J. (Roy Judson) title: The Magic Curtain A Mystery Story for Girls date: None words: 47447 flesch: 95 summary: Certainly no one, for no one knew the full truth, which was that in her excitement Jeanne had mixed her numbers and, instead of presenting him with her own address, had sent him five blocks down the street where, as one must know, he found no little French girl named Petite Jeanne. It is Petite Jeanne at breakfast, Jeanne answered. keywords: black; boy; curtain; dark; day; dean; door; eyes; face; fire; florence; french; girl; great; jeanne; know; lady; life; long; magic; man; moment; night; opera; petite; petite jeanne; pierre; place; rosemary; stage; thought; time; way cache: 42137.txt plain text: 42137.txt item: #15 of 25 id: 43584 author: Lavell, Edith title: The Mystery of the Secret Band date: None words: 46782 flesch: 90 summary: Mary Louise introduced Max, and Pauline in turn introduced the cute little blond as Miss Jackson. Briefly Mary Louise related the story, and the good woman was relieved to hear that the blow was not serious. keywords: christmas; detective; detweiler; door; ferguson; gay; girl; good; hilliard; home; hotel; house; little; man; margaret; mary louise; max; miss; mrs; night; pauline; room; stoddard; thought; time; weinberger; woman cache: 43584.txt plain text: 43584.txt item: #16 of 25 id: 436 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: The Master Key An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity date: None words: 35614 flesch: 78 summary: Rob Makes a Resolution When Rob opened the front door he came face to face with Nell, who gave an exclamation of joy and threw herself into his arms. Rob Loses His Treasures 14. keywords: air; boy; chief; day; demon; earth; electricity; eyes; fellow; good; head; indicator; machine; man; men; moment; people; pocket; record; right; rob; room; thought; time; traveling; tube; turk; world cache: 436.txt plain text: 436.txt item: #17 of 25 id: 43677 author: Snell, Roy J. (Roy Judson) title: Whispers at Dawn; Or, The Eye date: None words: 39408 flesch: 97 summary: Johnny stepped inside. Johnny started from his chair, then settled back. keywords: captain; dark; day; door; drew; eyes; felix; girl; good; grace; hand; house; johnny; know; light; look; man; moment; place; room; spider; street; things; thought; time; trunk; voice; way; whisper cache: 43677.txt plain text: 43677.txt item: #18 of 25 id: 45169 author: Hapgood, Hutchins title: The Autobiography of a Thief date: None words: 72966 flesch: 83 summary: He was a good deal older man than I and was one of the old-school burglars, and a good one. Many men fall into the vilest of habits. keywords: away; bit; boy; convicts; day; days; dollars; fall; friends; girl; good; graft; grafter; great; home; house; insane; jack; johnny; life; look; mamie; man; men; money; months; morning; new; night; opium; outside; pals; place; police; prison; saw; sing; state; stir; street; term; thief; thing; thought; time; way; woman; work; world; years; york cache: 45169.txt plain text: 45169.txt item: #19 of 25 id: 45347 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: The Master Key An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity date: None words: 36632 flesch: 77 summary: [Illustration] [Illustration] _CHAPTER FIVE_ THE CANNIBAL ISLAND Doubtless the adventures of the day had tired Rob, for he slept throughout the night as comfortably as if he had been within his own room, lying upon his own bed. [Illustration: Rob was surrounded by a group of natives] THE MASTER KEY _ keywords: air; boy; chief; day; demon; earth; electricity; eyes; good; head; illustration; indicator; left; machine; man; men; moment; people; pocket; record; right; rob; room; thought; time; traveling; tube; turk; world cache: 45347.txt plain text: 45347.txt item: #20 of 25 id: 45452 author: Clark, Joan title: Connie Carl at Rainbow Ranch date: None words: 36023 flesch: 91 summary: Howdy, Miss Connie, he said heartily, sweeping off his sombrero. I hate to tell you, Miss Connie, but the old Rainbow is headed for the rocks. keywords: alkali; barrows; blakeman; cecil; cliff; connie; cowboy; enid; foreman; girl; helena; horse; jim; lefty; money; pop; rainbow; ranch; right; silvertail; thought; time; trail; way cache: 45452.txt plain text: 45452.txt item: #21 of 25 id: 53015 author: MacApp, C. C. title: A Guest of Ganymede date: None words: 9279 flesch: 92 summary: And, in answer to his moan, they said, Do not be unphilosophical Murdoch you will find many thoughts to occupy your time. Murdoch applied heat forward and moved the ship gingerly ahead. keywords: building; man; murdoch; right; robot; ship; sir; thought; voice; waverill cache: 53015.txt plain text: 53015.txt item: #22 of 25 id: 58673 author: Miller, Walter M. title: It Takes a Thief date: None words: 7725 flesch: 93 summary: Asir started slowly toward the room where Big Joe waited. If the intruder makes an error, Big Joe will kill_, announced the machine as Asir took another step. keywords: asir; big; door; eyes; girl; hüffen; joe; slubil; thief cache: 58673.txt plain text: 58673.txt item: #23 of 25 id: 5893 author: Wells, Carolyn title: Two Little Women on a Holiday date: None words: 56128 flesch: 94 summary: But trust little Alicia to do something big! Will you be good little girls, and not finger the exhibits, except such as I say you may? Of course we will. keywords: alicia; bernice; berry; course; day; dolly; dotty; fayre; fenn; forbes; girls; good; home; house; jeff; look; mean; miss; mother; mrs; party; people; right; room; thing; thought; time; uncle; way; yes cache: 5893.txt plain text: 5893.txt item: #24 of 25 id: 62996 author: Brackett, Leigh title: The Jewel of Bas date: None words: 18552 flesch: 97 summary: Ciaran groaned. There were Mouse and Ciaran to stem the death-flood--two mortals fighting the immortals' plans for conquest. keywords: bas; boy; ciaran; eyes; face; grey; head; hunter; kalds; light; man; mouse; people; stone; time; world cache: 62996.txt plain text: 62996.txt item: #25 of 25 id: 6827 author: Stuart, Gordon (Adventure story writer) title: Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island date: None words: 46687 flesch: 91 summary: At last Jerry gave a shout of joy. Jerry felt uncomfortable. keywords: bank; boat; boys; dad; dave; day; feet; frank; fulton; going; good; guess; half; house; island; jerry; left; look; man; men; phil; place; plum; right; river; run; scouts; shore; skyrocket; tell; time; tod; water; way cache: 6827.txt plain text: 6827.txt