item: #1 of 8 id: 12170 author: Curwood, James Oliver title: The Wolf Hunters: A Tale of Adventure in the Wilderness date: None words: 53893 flesch: 85 summary: With bated breath and eagerly beating heart Rod pursued his search. They hastened to the dwelling of the factor, and while Wabi rushed in to meet his mother and father Rod cut across to the Company's store. keywords: cabin; camp; chasm; day; eyes; face; feet; fire; gold; good; great; half; head; hunters; indian; life; minnetaki; mukoki; night; rifle; rod; shot; snow; time; trail; wabi; wabigoon; white; wilderness; wolf; woongas; young; youth cache: 12170.txt plain text: 12170.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 20287 author: Carr, E. Donald (Edmund Donald) title: A Night in the Snow or, A Struggle for Life date: None words: 9173 flesch: 69 summary: At the bottom of the ravine into which I had now fallen, I found myself again involved in snow drifts, and had still more difficulty than before in getting out of them. The snow was for the most part up to the knees and very soft, and the drifts were so deep that they could only be crossed by crawling on hands and knees, as any one will readily understand who has attempted to cross deep snow when in a soft state. keywords: day; feet; hill; man; night; ratlinghope; snow; time; way; wolstaston cache: 20287.txt plain text: 20287.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 23129 author: Reid, Mayne title: The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North date: None words: 95020 flesch: 78 summary: Before they had quite reached the gate, there was a general rush of trappers, traders, voyageurs, _coureurs-des-bois_, and other _employes_, to reach them; and the next moment they were lost in the midst of the people who crowded out of the Fort to welcome them. From this point it is possible to travel _by water_ to Hudson's Bay on the north-east, to the Atlantic Ocean on the east, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, to the Pacific on the west, and to the Polar Sea on the north and north-west. keywords: air; america; animal; basil; bird; camp; canoe; colour; course; creature; day; deer; direction; feet; fire; fish; francois; game; ground; head; indians; journey; kind; lake; length; little; lucien; marengo; moment; moose; norman; north; place; red; river; rock; saw; set; shot; snow; species; surface; swan; time; tree; voyageurs; water; way; white; winter; wolves cache: 23129.txt plain text: 23129.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 28255 author: Beard, Daniel Carter title: Shelters, Shacks and Shanties date: None words: 52727 flesch: 82 summary: But I was young and rash at that time, and without any previous experience in building or the aid of books to guide me and with only such help as I could find among backwoods farmers I built a forty-foot-front, two-story log house that is probably the pioneer among log houses erected by city men for summer homes. In my log house in the mountains of Pike County, Pa., I have a table fashioned entirely with an axe; even the ends of the boards which form the top of the table were cut off by Siley Rosencranz with his trusty axe because he had no saw. keywords: axe; bark; boys; building; cabin; camp; chimney; cut; door; end; ends; feet; fig; figs; fireplace; form; good; ground; house; illustration; inches; inside; latch; log; log cabin; log house; logs; manner; open; outside; place; poles; posts; roof; shows; sod; sticks; tree; walls; wood cache: 28255.txt plain text: 28255.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 30365 author: Sienkiewicz, Henryk title: In Desert and Wilderness date: None words: 127480 flesch: 80 summary: Stas in reality regarded this language as the most beautiful in the world and taught it, not without some success, to little Nell. The air became so cool that Stas shook off his drowsiness and began to worry whether the chill would not incommode little Nell. keywords: bedouins; boy; camels; camp; caravan; chamis; children; day; days; death; desert; distance; elephant; eyes; face; father; fear; fire; gebhr; girl; good; ground; hands; head; horses; idris; journey; kali; king; little; mahdi; master; mea; moment; mzimu; near; negroes; nell; night; order; people; place; ravine; rawlinson; return; rifle; river; saba; saw; smain; stas; sudânese; sun; thought; time; tree; trunk; want; water; way; white cache: 30365.txt plain text: 30365.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 34668 author: Reid, Mayne title: The Young Yagers: A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa date: None words: 85251 flesch: 78 summary: Their herds of horned cattle, their horses, their flocks of big-tailed sheep and goats, engross all their time, and _agricultural_ farming is not to their taste. Partridges, wild ducks, and many other birds, do the same. keywords: africa; animal; antelopes; birds; black; body; boys; buck; camp; colour; congo; course; day; distance; dogs; eyes; feet; game; good; groot; groot willem; ground; hans; head; hendrik; horns; horses; hunters; jan; klaas; length; like; lion; moment; nest; ostrich; ostriches; plain; rhinoceros; rock; shot; species; swartboy; tail; thought; time; water; way; white; willem; yagers cache: 34668.txt plain text: 34668.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 63205 author: Preston, Laura title: A Boy's Trip Across the Plains date: None words: 32697 flesch: 78 summary: She had never worked in her life, and although she attempted to do so, in order to support herself and little Guy, she found it almost impossible to earn enough to supply them with food. Guy bore all these taunts very quietly, and even laughed at them, and made himself so useful and agreeable to every one, that on the morning of the start from W----, Mr. Harwood was heard to say he would as soon be without one of his best men as little Guy Loring. keywords: aggie; camp; day; fire; george; good; graham; gus; guy; harwood; indians; look; men; mother; mrs; night; people; place; poor; prairie; thought; time; wagon; young cache: 63205.txt plain text: 63205.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 63566 author: Grant, James title: Jack Manly; His Adventures by Sea and Land date: None words: 86227 flesch: 71 summary: Sailor's Post-office_, a cranny in the rocks, known for ages to the mariners of all nations, who were wont to deposit their letters there, closed up in a bottle, to be taken away by the first ship which passed in an opposite direction--a custom which the Dominican, Father Navarette, mentions as being _old_, at the time of his visit in 1673. On the _Twelfth_ day after we had abandoned the _Leda_, there remained in the boat only four alive, including Hartly, Reeves, a seaman named Jones, and myself. keywords: air; amoo; baylis; black; blue; board; boat; brig; cape; captain; chapter; close; coast; cold; crew; cuffy; day; days; dead; death; deck; deep; escape; eyes; feet; field; good; great; half; hand; hans; hartly; head; hope; ice; island; jack; king; land; lay; leda; left; life; long; man; men; miles; moment; morning; night; old; paul; peterkin; place; red; reeves; rocks; round; sail; save; schooner; sea; ship; shore; shot; snow; sun; time; water; way; white; wife; wild; wind cache: 63566.txt plain text: 63566.txt