id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 30287 Sanford, Chester Milton Modern Americans A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades .txt text/plain 50080 2940 83 poor laboring man who lived in Milan, a small canal town in the state father had worked out a plan for teaching the deaf, that the young man father was a man of great public spirit and the best friend Mr. Bell A little boy lived in the greatest city of the United States. settled down to four years of downright hard work, and "from day to His first task was to find work, but as few people at that time lived his life, Mr. Burbank says: "One day I heard that a man was building a Other boys spent their time playing ball, but he worked after journey was long and, as the little girl was only six years old, she He told the boys how the old man made his living by raising forced to do a man's work in helping with the new home. ./cache/30287.txt ./txt/30287.txt