id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 7283 nan Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools .txt text/plain 71036 4114 82 There was once a man in Italy--so the story runs--who said that animals [Footnote: St. Francis was born in 1182 in the little town of Assissi, staggering like a cracked old human voice, groped its way amongst the It was not difficult to see that times were hard--the old man's clothes [Footnote: What interested the author in the old organ-grinder? wheat, he heard a cuckoo such a long way off it sounded like a watch One day we thought we would look for some mansard [Footnote: Mansard: One more long last look, and then we turned our faces away from the At last their basket was full, and the old man got up and began to come "Bonjour," [Footnote: Bonjour: "good day."] the old man said. [Footnote: Do you know any facts of Lincoln's life that would support There dwelt an old man in Monastier, [Footnote: Monastier: a little [Footnote: What things are contrasted in the story? ./cache/7283.txt ./txt/7283.txt