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['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'29022.txt' 17185 txt/../pos/17185.pos 17185 txt/../wrd/17185.wrd 28101 txt/../ent/28101.ent 15938 txt/../pos/15938.pos 17185 txt/../ent/17185.ent 15938 txt/../wrd/15938.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 28101 author: Paine, Albert Bigelow title: The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a Home date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/28101.txt cache: ./cache/28101.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'28101.txt' 28530 txt/../wrd/28530.wrd 28530 txt/../pos/28530.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 29020 author: Hutton, Laurence title: A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29020.txt cache: ./cache/29020.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'29020.txt' 16926 txt/../wrd/16926.wrd 15938 txt/../ent/15938.ent 16926 txt/../pos/16926.pos 27933 txt/../wrd/27933.wrd 27933 txt/../pos/27933.pos 21198 txt/../wrd/21198.wrd 18934 txt/../pos/18934.pos 21198 txt/../pos/21198.pos 18934 txt/../wrd/18934.wrd 15667 txt/../pos/15667.pos 28530 txt/../ent/28530.ent 29419 txt/../wrd/29419.wrd 16926 txt/../ent/16926.ent 30396 txt/../pos/30396.pos 15667 txt/../wrd/15667.wrd 21198 txt/../ent/21198.ent 21267 txt/../pos/21267.pos 27933 txt/../ent/27933.ent 29419 txt/../pos/29419.pos 24263 txt/../pos/24263.pos 16945 txt/../wrd/16945.wrd 24263 txt/../wrd/24263.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 16945 txt/../pos/16945.pos 21267 txt/../ent/21267.ent 24541 txt/../pos/24541.pos 30396 txt/../wrd/30396.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 21111 author: Brightwen, Mrs. (Eliza Elder) title: Wild Nature Won By Kindness date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21111.txt cache: ./cache/21111.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 77 resourceName b'21111.txt' 25428 txt/../wrd/25428.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 24541 txt/../wrd/24541.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point 25428 txt/../pos/25428.pos 31880 txt/../pos/31880.pos 17567 txt/../wrd/17567.wrd 21267 txt/../wrd/21267.wrd 17567 txt/../pos/17567.pos 25718 txt/../pos/25718.pos 31880 txt/../wrd/31880.wrd 25718 txt/../wrd/25718.wrd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/txt2keywords.py", line 54, in for keyword, score in ( yake( doc, ngrams=NGRAMS, topn=TOPN ) ) : File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 96, in yake word_scores = _compute_word_scores(doc, word_occ_vals, word_freqs, stop_words) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/ke/yake.py", line 205, in _compute_word_scores freq_baseline = statistics.mean(freqs_nsw) + statistics.stdev(freqs_nsw) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/statistics.py", line 315, in mean raise StatisticsError('mean requires at least one data point') statistics.StatisticsError: mean requires at least one data point === file2bib.sh === id: 15667 author: nan title: Best Short Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15667.txt cache: ./cache/15667.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 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(Henry Clay) title: The Yankee Tea-party; Or, Boston in 1773 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15938.txt cache: ./cache/15938.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'15938.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 17185 author: Bingley, Thomas title: Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/17185.txt cache: ./cache/17185.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'17185.txt' 17567 txt/../ent/17567.ent 16945 txt/../ent/16945.ent 18934 txt/../ent/18934.ent 21111 txt/../wrd/21111.wrd 24263 txt/../ent/24263.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 27933 author: Hulbert, William Davenport title: Forest Neighbors: Life Stories of Wild Animals date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/27933.txt cache: ./cache/27933.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'27933.txt' 29419 txt/../ent/29419.ent 15667 txt/../ent/15667.ent 24541 txt/../ent/24541.ent 31880 txt/../ent/31880.ent 21111 txt/../pos/21111.pos 25428 txt/../ent/25428.ent 25718 txt/../ent/25718.ent 858 txt/../pos/858.pos 858 txt/../wrd/858.wrd 25918 txt/../pos/25918.pos 1890 txt/../pos/1890.pos 21755 txt/../pos/21755.pos 15413 txt/../pos/15413.pos 21755 txt/../wrd/21755.wrd 18383 txt/../pos/18383.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 16945 author: Burke, Kathleen title: The White Road to Verdun date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16945.txt cache: ./cache/16945.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'16945.txt' 1890 txt/../wrd/1890.wrd 21111 txt/../ent/21111.ent 15413 txt/../wrd/15413.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 28530 author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title: Kings in Exile date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/28530.txt cache: ./cache/28530.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'28530.txt' 858 txt/../ent/858.ent 11679 txt/../pos/11679.pos 18383 txt/../wrd/18383.wrd 21755 txt/../ent/21755.ent 25918 txt/../wrd/25918.wrd 10389 txt/../pos/10389.pos 1890 txt/../ent/1890.ent 23733 txt/../pos/23733.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 31880 author: Scrici title: Physiology of the Opera date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/31880.txt cache: ./cache/31880.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'31880.txt' 18383 txt/../ent/18383.ent 15413 txt/../ent/15413.ent 23733 txt/../wrd/23733.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 16926 author: Cumming, R. D. (Robert Dalziel) title: Skookum Chuck Fables: Bits of History, Through the Microscope date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16926.txt cache: ./cache/16926.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'16926.txt' 1864 txt/../pos/1864.pos 11679 txt/../wrd/11679.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 24263 author: Billinghurst, Percy J. title: A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/24263.txt cache: ./cache/24263.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'24263.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 3031 txt/../pos/3031.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 25428 author: Unknown title: Anecdotes of Animals date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/25428.txt cache: ./cache/25428.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'25428.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 1864 txt/../wrd/1864.wrd 10389 txt/../wrd/10389.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 24541 author: Smith, Henry Bascom title: Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/24541.txt cache: ./cache/24541.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'24541.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' 889 txt/../pos/889.pos 3031 txt/../wrd/3031.wrd 25918 txt/../ent/25918.ent 16349 txt/../pos/16349.pos 889 txt/../wrd/889.wrd 20001 txt/../pos/20001.pos 23733 txt/../ent/23733.ent 10389 txt/../ent/10389.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 18934 author: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) title: My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18934.txt cache: ./cache/18934.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'18934.txt' 11506 txt/../pos/11506.pos 11679 txt/../ent/11679.ent 5407 txt/../pos/5407.pos 38423 txt/../pos/38423.pos 16349 txt/../wrd/16349.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 30396 author: Anonymous title: Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/30396.txt cache: ./cache/30396.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'30396.txt' 20001 txt/../wrd/20001.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 21198 author: Spooner, Shearjashub title: Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21198.txt cache: ./cache/21198.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'21198.txt' 1864 txt/../ent/1864.ent 37328 txt/../pos/37328.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 29419 author: Various title: The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29419.txt cache: ./cache/29419.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'29419.txt' 38423 txt/../wrd/38423.wrd 11506 txt/../wrd/11506.wrd 32227 txt/../pos/32227.pos 29839 txt/../pos/29839.pos 29349 txt/../pos/29349.pos 36879 txt/../pos/36879.pos 5407 txt/../wrd/5407.wrd 3031 txt/../ent/3031.ent 29839 txt/../wrd/29839.wrd 20001 txt/../ent/20001.ent 889 txt/../ent/889.ent 32227 txt/../wrd/32227.wrd 37328 txt/../wrd/37328.wrd 7427 txt/../pos/7427.pos 7347 txt/../pos/7347.pos 36879 txt/../wrd/36879.wrd 21615 txt/../pos/21615.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 21755 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Personal Reminiscences in Book Making, and Some Short Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21755.txt cache: ./cache/21755.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'21755.txt' 16349 txt/../ent/16349.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 25718 author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title: The Watchers of the Trails: A Book of Animal Life date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/25718.txt cache: ./cache/25718.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'25718.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data-disk/reader-compute/reader-classic/bin/file2bib.py", line 107, in text = textacy.preprocessing.normalize.normalize_quotation_marks( text ) File "/data-disk/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/textacy/preprocessing/normalize.py", line 32, in normalize_quotation_marks return text.translate(QUOTE_TRANSLATION_TABLE) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'translate' === file2bib.sh === id: 21267 author: nan title: Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21267.txt cache: ./cache/21267.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'21267.txt' 7427 txt/../wrd/7427.wrd 39777 txt/../pos/39777.pos 29349 txt/../wrd/29349.wrd 5407 txt/../ent/5407.ent 11506 txt/../ent/11506.ent 21615 txt/../wrd/21615.wrd 34946 txt/../pos/34946.pos 37328 txt/../ent/37328.ent 7347 txt/../wrd/7347.wrd 27785 txt/../pos/27785.pos 38423 txt/../ent/38423.ent 32227 txt/../ent/32227.ent 48636 txt/../pos/48636.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 17567 author: St. Mars, F. title: The Way of the Wild date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/17567.txt cache: ./cache/17567.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'17567.txt' 34946 txt/../wrd/34946.wrd 29839 txt/../ent/29839.ent 36879 txt/../ent/36879.ent 41036 txt/../pos/41036.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 858 author: Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) title: Stage-Land date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/858.txt cache: ./cache/858.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'858.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 18383 author: Spooner, Shearjashub title: Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/18383.txt cache: ./cache/18383.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'18383.txt' 29349 txt/../ent/29349.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 15413 author: Various title: The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/15413.txt cache: ./cache/15413.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'15413.txt' 39777 txt/../wrd/39777.wrd 34454 txt/../pos/34454.pos 40758 txt/../pos/40758.pos 27785 txt/../wrd/27785.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 1890 author: Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) title: "Speaking of Operations--" date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1890.txt cache: ./cache/1890.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'1890.txt' 48636 txt/../wrd/48636.wrd 41036 txt/../wrd/41036.wrd 33687 txt/../pos/33687.pos 44517 txt/../pos/44517.pos 32545 txt/../pos/32545.pos 48343 txt/../pos/48343.pos 7427 txt/../ent/7427.ent 48273 txt/../pos/48273.pos 34038 txt/../pos/34038.pos 21615 txt/../ent/21615.ent 34454 txt/../wrd/34454.wrd 35513 txt/../pos/35513.pos 40758 txt/../wrd/40758.wrd 44518 txt/../pos/44518.pos 7347 txt/../ent/7347.ent 31078 txt/../pos/31078.pos 39777 txt/../ent/39777.ent 34038 txt/../wrd/34038.wrd 41880 txt/../pos/41880.pos 33687 txt/../wrd/33687.wrd 43419 txt/../pos/43419.pos 27785 txt/../ent/27785.ent 43355 txt/../pos/43355.pos 32545 txt/../wrd/32545.wrd 44517 txt/../wrd/44517.wrd 36969 txt/../pos/36969.pos 14226 txt/../pos/14226.pos 47811 txt/../pos/47811.pos 31078 txt/../wrd/31078.wrd 48343 txt/../wrd/48343.wrd 48273 txt/../wrd/48273.wrd 34946 txt/../ent/34946.ent 44518 txt/../wrd/44518.wrd 35513 txt/../wrd/35513.wrd 41880 txt/../wrd/41880.wrd 41036 txt/../ent/41036.ent 48636 txt/../ent/48636.ent 45386 txt/../pos/45386.pos 43419 txt/../wrd/43419.wrd 43355 txt/../wrd/43355.wrd 14226 txt/../wrd/14226.wrd 47811 txt/../wrd/47811.wrd 36969 txt/../wrd/36969.wrd 10347 txt/../pos/10347.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 25918 author: nan title: Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/25918.txt cache: ./cache/25918.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'25918.txt' 34454 txt/../ent/34454.ent 33687 txt/../ent/33687.ent 40758 txt/../ent/40758.ent 38752 txt/../pos/38752.pos 38675 txt/../pos/38675.pos 48343 txt/../ent/48343.ent 42228 txt/../pos/42228.pos 45386 txt/../wrd/45386.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 3031 author: Seton, Ernest Thompson title: Wild Animals I Have Known date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/3031.txt cache: ./cache/3031.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'3031.txt' 42247 txt/../pos/42247.pos 42398 txt/../pos/42398.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 1864 author: Lodge, Henry Cabot title: Hero Tales from American History date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/1864.txt cache: ./cache/1864.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'1864.txt' 44517 txt/../ent/44517.ent 53882 txt/../pos/53882.pos 42270 txt/../pos/42270.pos 48273 txt/../ent/48273.ent 34038 txt/../ent/34038.ent 9249 txt/../pos/9249.pos 46933 txt/../pos/46933.pos 44518 txt/../ent/44518.ent 10347 txt/../wrd/10347.wrd 32545 txt/../ent/32545.ent 38752 txt/../wrd/38752.wrd 9250 txt/../pos/9250.pos 31078 txt/../ent/31078.ent 38675 txt/../wrd/38675.wrd 747 txt/../pos/747.pos 41880 txt/../ent/41880.ent 53882 txt/../wrd/53882.wrd 42247 txt/../wrd/42247.wrd 42228 txt/../wrd/42228.wrd 14226 txt/../ent/14226.ent 35513 txt/../ent/35513.ent 42398 txt/../wrd/42398.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 23733 author: Burnett, Alfred title: Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/23733.txt cache: ./cache/23733.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'23733.txt' 43355 txt/../ent/43355.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 10389 author: Long, William J. (William Joseph) title: Northern Trails, Book I. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10389.txt cache: ./cache/10389.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'10389.txt' 43419 txt/../ent/43419.ent 36969 txt/../ent/36969.ent 9249 txt/../wrd/9249.wrd 46933 txt/../wrd/46933.wrd 53691 txt/../pos/53691.pos 45748 txt/../pos/45748.pos 47811 txt/../ent/47811.ent 42270 txt/../wrd/42270.wrd 747 txt/../wrd/747.wrd 20352 txt/../pos/20352.pos 46400 txt/../pos/46400.pos 27887 txt/../pos/27887.pos 2284 txt/../pos/2284.pos 9250 txt/../wrd/9250.wrd 44263 txt/../pos/44263.pos === file2bib.sh === id: 11679 author: Burke, Kathleen title: The White Road to Verdun date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/11679.txt cache: ./cache/11679.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'11679.txt' 19220 txt/../pos/19220.pos 45386 txt/../ent/45386.ent 20352 txt/../wrd/20352.wrd 45748 txt/../wrd/45748.wrd 38208 txt/../pos/38208.pos 53691 txt/../wrd/53691.wrd 46400 txt/../wrd/46400.wrd 2284 txt/../wrd/2284.wrd 41595 txt/../pos/41595.pos 10347 txt/../ent/10347.ent 27887 txt/../wrd/27887.wrd 44263 txt/../wrd/44263.wrd 44422 txt/../pos/44422.pos 19220 txt/../wrd/19220.wrd 42228 txt/../ent/42228.ent 38675 txt/../ent/38675.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 38423 author: Conwell, Russell H. title: Why Lincoln Laughed date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/38423.txt cache: ./cache/38423.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'38423.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 29839 author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title: The House in the Water: A Book of Animal Stories date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29839.txt cache: ./cache/29839.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'29839.txt' 42247 txt/../ent/42247.ent 53882 txt/../ent/53882.ent 42270 txt/../ent/42270.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 889 author: Der Ling, Princess title: Two Years in the Forbidden City date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/889.txt cache: ./cache/889.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'889.txt' 42398 txt/../ent/42398.ent 38752 txt/../ent/38752.ent 38208 txt/../wrd/38208.wrd 9249 txt/../ent/9249.ent 46933 txt/../ent/46933.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 11506 author: Watson, Henry C. (Henry Clay) title: The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/11506.txt cache: ./cache/11506.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'11506.txt' 41595 txt/../wrd/41595.wrd 9250 txt/../ent/9250.ent 44422 txt/../wrd/44422.wrd === file2bib.sh === id: 29349 author: Rees, Alfred Wellesley title: Creatures of the Night: A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/29349.txt cache: ./cache/29349.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'29349.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36879 author: Meller, Henry James title: Nicotiana; Or, The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36879.txt cache: ./cache/36879.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'36879.txt' 53691 txt/../ent/53691.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 37328 author: Stables, Gordon title: Medical Life in the Navy date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/37328.txt cache: ./cache/37328.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'37328.txt' 747 txt/../ent/747.ent 20352 txt/../ent/20352.ent 58781 txt/../pos/58781.pos 27887 txt/../ent/27887.ent 46400 txt/../ent/46400.ent 2284 txt/../ent/2284.ent 45748 txt/../ent/45748.ent 19220 txt/../ent/19220.ent 44263 txt/../ent/44263.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 16349 author: Dunderdale, George title: The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the Early Colonial Life of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, and Others Who Left Their Native Land and Never Returned date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/16349.txt cache: ./cache/16349.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; 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charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'32227.txt' 58781 txt/../wrd/58781.wrd 41595 txt/../ent/41595.ent === file2bib.sh === id: 34946 author: Worthington, Frank title: The Witch Doctor and other Rhodesian Studies date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/34946.txt cache: ./cache/34946.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'34946.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 7347 author: nan title: The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/7347.txt cache: ./cache/7347.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'7347.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 5407 author: Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison title: The Recreations of a Country Parson date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/5407.txt cache: ./cache/5407.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 8 resourceName b'5407.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 39777 author: Benton, Frank title: Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack Being an Extremely Humorous & Sarcastic Story of the Trials & Tribulations Endured by a Party of Stockmen Making a Shipment from the West to the East. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/39777.txt cache: ./cache/39777.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; 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D., Sir title: The Secret Trails date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/34454.txt cache: ./cache/34454.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'34454.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 41036 author: Scoville, Samuel title: Brave Deeds of Union Soldiers date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/41036.txt cache: ./cache/41036.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'41036.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 40758 author: Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray) title: Genius in Sunshine and Shadow date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/40758.txt cache: ./cache/40758.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'40758.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 48636 author: Various title: Stories and Letters from the Trenches date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/48636.txt cache: ./cache/48636.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'48636.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 27785 author: Jeaffreson, John Cordy title: A Book About Lawyers date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/27785.txt cache: ./cache/27785.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'27785.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 48273 author: nan title: Lincoln Day Entertainments Recitations, Plays, Dialogues, Drills, Tableaux, Pantomimes, Quotations, Songs, Tributes, Stories, Facts date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/48273.txt cache: ./cache/48273.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'48273.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 48343 author: Anonymous title: Clergymen and Doctors: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/48343.txt cache: ./cache/48343.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'48343.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 44518 author: nan title: Points of Humour, Part 2 (of 2) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/44518.txt cache: ./cache/44518.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'44518.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 44517 author: nan title: Points of Humour, Part 1 (of 2) date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/44517.txt cache: ./cache/44517.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'44517.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 32545 author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title: The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/32545.txt cache: ./cache/32545.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'32545.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 33687 author: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) title: Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/33687.txt cache: ./cache/33687.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'33687.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 34038 author: Alcott, William A. (William Andrus) title: Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/34038.txt cache: ./cache/34038.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'34038.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 14226 author: Seton, Ernest Thompson title: Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/14226.txt cache: ./cache/14226.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'14226.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 35513 author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title: The Ledge on Bald Face date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/35513.txt cache: ./cache/35513.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'35513.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 47811 author: nan title: "Abe" Lincoln's Anecdotes and Stories A Collection of the Best Stories Told by Lincoln Which Made Him Famous as America's Best Story Teller date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/47811.txt cache: ./cache/47811.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'47811.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 41880 author: Scoville, Samuel title: Wild Folk date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/41880.txt cache: ./cache/41880.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'41880.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 43419 author: Jones, Walter title: Jiglets: A series of sidesplitting gyrations reeled off— date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/43419.txt cache: ./cache/43419.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'43419.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 43355 author: nan title: Mr. Punch's Book of Sport The Humour of Cricket, Football, Tennis, Polo, Croquet, Hockey, Racing, &c date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/43355.txt cache: ./cache/43355.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'43355.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 38752 author: Firebaugh, Ellen M. title: The Story of a Doctor's Telephone—Told by His Wife date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/38752.txt cache: ./cache/38752.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'38752.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 20001 author: Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy) title: The English Spy: An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/20001.txt cache: ./cache/20001.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 22 resourceName b'20001.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 36969 author: Underwood, J. L. (John Levi) title: The Women of the Confederacy date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/36969.txt cache: ./cache/36969.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'36969.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 38675 author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title: Hoof and Claw date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/38675.txt cache: ./cache/38675.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'38675.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 42228 author: Hamilton-Browne, G. title: Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/42228.txt cache: ./cache/42228.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'42228.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 45386 author: Adderup, Andrew title: Lincolniana; Or, The Humors of Uncle Abe date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/45386.txt cache: ./cache/45386.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'45386.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 42247 author: Gooch, Richard title: Nuts to crack; or Quips, quirks, anecdote and facete of Oxford and Cambridge Scholars date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/42247.txt cache: ./cache/42247.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 4 resourceName b'42247.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 9250 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: A Book of Autographs date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/9250.txt cache: ./cache/9250.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'9250.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 10347 author: Alvares, Rahul title: Free from School date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/10347.txt cache: ./cache/10347.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'10347.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 42270 author: Cambridge, Ada title: The Retrospect date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/42270.txt cache: ./cache/42270.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'42270.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 53882 author: Washington, Amanda Alcenia Strickland title: How Beauty Was Saved, and Other Memories of the Sixties date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/53882.txt cache: ./cache/53882.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 1 resourceName b'53882.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 21615 author: Disraeli, Isaac title: Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/21615.txt cache: ./cache/21615.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 10 resourceName b'21615.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 19220 author: Anonymous title: Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/19220.txt cache: ./cache/19220.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'19220.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 46933 author: Pearson, Edmund Lester title: The Librarian at Play date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/46933.txt cache: ./cache/46933.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'46933.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 9249 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Dr. Bullivant (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches") date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/9249.txt cache: ./cache/9249.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; 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G. title: Men We Meet in the Field; or, The Bullshire Hounds date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/53691.txt cache: ./cache/53691.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 3 resourceName b'53691.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 42398 author: Holland, Rupert Sargent title: Historic Adventures: Tales from American History date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/42398.txt cache: ./cache/42398.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'42398.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 45748 author: nan title: Mr. Punch with Rod and Gun: The Humours of Fishing and Shooting date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/45748.txt cache: ./cache/45748.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; 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charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 2 resourceName b'2284.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 20352 author: Lemon, Mark title: The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/20352.txt cache: ./cache/20352.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'20352.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 44422 author: Timbs, John title: Eccentricities of the Animal Creation. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/44422.txt cache: ./cache/44422.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'44422.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 38208 author: nan title: The Animal Story Book date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/38208.txt cache: ./cache/38208.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 7 resourceName b'38208.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 46400 author: Foster, Sophie Lee title: Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/46400.txt cache: ./cache/46400.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 5 resourceName b'46400.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 31078 author: Disraeli, Isaac title: Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/31078.txt cache: ./cache/31078.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 17 resourceName b'31078.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 41595 author: Crabtre, Addison Darre title: The Funny Side of Physic Or, The Mysteries of Medicine, Presenting the Humorous and Serious Sides of Medical Practice. An Exposé of Medical Humbugs, Quacks, and Charlatans in All Ages and All Countries. date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/41595.txt cache: ./cache/41595.txt Content-Encoding UTF-8 Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 11 resourceName b'41595.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 58781 author: Wood, Norman B. (Norman Barton) title: Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs From Cofachiqui, the Indian Princess, and Powhatan; down to and including Chief Joseph and Geronimo. Also an answer, from the latest research, of the query, Whence came the Indian? Together with a number of thrillingly interesting Indian stories and anecdotes from history date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/58781.txt cache: ./cache/58781.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 6 resourceName b'58781.txt' === file2bib.sh === id: 747 author: Gould, George M. (George Milbrey) title: Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine date: pages: extension: .txt txt: ./txt/747.txt cache: ./cache/747.txt Content-Encoding ISO-8859-1 Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Parsed-By ['org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser', 'org.apache.tika.parser.csv.TextAndCSVParser'] X-TIKA:content_handler ToTextContentHandler X-TIKA:embedded_depth 0 X-TIKA:parse_time_millis 30 resourceName b'747.txt' Done mapping. Reducing subject-anecdotes-gutenberg === reduce.pl bib === id = 21198 author = Spooner, Shearjashub title = Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 76210 sentences = 3049 flesch = 65 summary = satisfactory works of Art, and come much nearer to historical painting. This residence for five years among the best works of the great masters painted or stuccoed and statues, tripods, and other works of art, called it 'a sketch for a large picture.' Sir Thomas said little, but painter was at work on the hand of one of his pictures; he turned to the Salvator Rosa painted history, landscape, battle-pieces, and sea-ports; At the time of Salvator Rosa's return to Rome says Pascoli, he figured having worked a long time on a picture and finished it with great care, His stated work for a time was making drawings from pictures At another time, having promised to paint a picture for M. painters to Florence, for the purpose of restoring the art of painting, This great artist, one of the fathers of modern painting, was born at Vernet calls it painting pictures, and he is cache = ./cache/21198.txt txt = ./txt/21198.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 21267 author = nan title = Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 85951 sentences = 4871 flesch = 77 summary = Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States, was born at the vivid portrayal of Lincoln's adroitness as a politician by Col. McClure in Abraham Lincoln and Men of War Times; Whitney's Life on the Mr. Lincoln wielded a great influence among the people of New Salem. Abraham Lincoln was living at New Salem, a little village of the class long wrote to Lincoln and Herndon that Douglas was "like the man's boy thoughtful, God-fearing man, said to me, as we went home to supper, the civil war, I believe President Lincoln was the man to have done to the affairs and the men of the United States, said: "Mr. Lincoln Mr. Lincoln is acknowledged to have been a great man, but the question is, "But was not Mr. Lincoln a man of great humanity?" asks a friend at my BOYS REPRESENTING LINCOLN: Washington was a great and good man, and cache = ./cache/21267.txt txt = ./txt/21267.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 28530 author = Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title = Kings in Exile date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 60353 sentences = 3334 flesch = 83 summary = Bull's, was long, close-haired, and massively horse-faced, with a low-hung head and answer their staring eyes with a kind of heavy fury, [Illustration: "When the grizzly saw her, his wicked little dark eyes When the grizzly saw her, his wicked little dark eyes glowed suddenly Whereupon the tiger half rose, opened his great red mouth like a but it looked like him; and the puma's piercing eyes grew almost Why had the great gray wolf, who faced and pulled down the bull moose, He turned and looked Kane straight in the eyes. One long look at the great wolf's disappeared over the edge of a ledge which looked to Horner like a With an obstinate look in his eyes, Horner began to work his way along When Horner resumed his climbing, the great bird turned his head and deliberately, turned his head, and looked him steadily in the eyes. cache = ./cache/28530.txt txt = ./txt/28530.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 27933 author = Hulbert, William Davenport title = Forest Neighbors: Life Stories of Wild Animals date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 54536 sentences = 2356 flesch = 83 summary = the woods of Northern Michigan, my father came upon a little lake which My brother came in one day from a long tramp on snow-shoes, which a certain old beaver always left the water in going to his night's about the time he left his old home; and this, by the way, is a very The Beaver was at work in the woods not very far away, and presently he One bright February day the Beaver and his wife left their lodge to look all round the wood-pile, looking for a way out, and poking his little beaver-trap, jumped for deep water, and was drowned like his father river was working night and day to carry the water out of the woods. pleasant time, and enjoying the touch of the cold water as it went The summer passed, and half the autumn; the first snow came and went, cache = ./cache/27933.txt txt = ./txt/27933.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29022 author = nan title = Mr. Punch Awheel: The Humours of Motoring and Cycling date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 17061 sentences = 2310 flesch = 89 summary = Illustration: _Owner of violently palpitating motor car._ "There's no The cycling scorcher and the motoring road-hog are two taking notes from his motor-car whilst proceeding at top-speed. Illustration: "Wouldn't yer like ter 'ave one o' them things, Liza Ann?" "But I thought he didn't like motor-cars!" The constant strain of driving motor-cars is said to be responsible for Illustration: _Old Lady_ (_describing a cycling accident_). looked on the motor-car in the light of a visitation. Illustration: MEMS FOR MOTORISTS.--If your car suddenly appears to drag ["British lady motor-drivers," says _Motoring Illustrated_, "must look life in an encounter with a motor-car, he shall not be liable to Illustration: MY STEAM MOTOR-CAR _Driver of Motor-car_ (_hired by the hour_). Illustration: _Cyclist._ "Why can't you look where you're going?" THE MUGGLETON MOTOR-CAR; OR, THE WELLERS ON WHEELS Illustration: _Motor Fiend._ "Why don't you get out of the way?" A motor car I shall never afford cache = ./cache/29022.txt txt = ./txt/29022.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 28101 author = Paine, Albert Bigelow title = The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a Home date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 26620 sentences = 1642 flesch = 83 summary = Metropolis the Little Woman bought papers of the train boy and began to ground-floor flat--a gaudy little place--the only one in the house both said some things that I suppose we shall regret to our dying day. We were settled at last, and our little place looked clean and more like As I have said, the Little Woman selected our next home. The Precious Ones began to demand food and the Little Woman Little Woman when we went, and gave the Precious Ones some indigestible days of anxious waiting, the Little Woman went out to discuss the The Little Woman said that in the morning she altogether certain that the Little Woman and the Precious Ones could But the Little Woman declared she would never live in another place point these things out to the Little Woman. I suggested to the Little Woman one day that it would be in the nature cache = ./cache/28101.txt txt = ./txt/28101.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29419 author = Various title = The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 78785 sentences = 5769 flesch = 85 summary = A MAN, hearing of another who was 100 years old, said contemptuously: A GENTLEMAN asked a friend, in a somewhat knowing manner, "Pray, sir, the chimney-piece, when a gentleman coming up to him, said, "Sir, as "IS Mr. Brown a man of means?" asked a gentleman of old Mrs. Fizzleton, "Why," said the old man, "this here is one cabbage head, ain't it?" head knowingly, 'Have you got a sorrel horse then?' 'Yes,' said the man, "Ah," said the sly old fellow, "and wouldn't you like to know!" three." "Well, let us hear," said the old man. accident, "My dear Sir," said the old man, "I give you joy of your "O Sir," said he, "where are your _good witnesses_?" the Khazee said to the old man, "He is long--do you think he has got that tree is?" The young man returned and said the tree would not come. cache = ./cache/29419.txt txt = ./txt/29419.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15667 author = nan title = Best Short Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 45707 sentences = 4133 flesch = 88 summary = "Ah ain't got no lawyer, jedge," said the old man. "Well, jedge, Ah'll tell you, suh," said the old man, waving his "Yes, dear," said the mother patiently, "but wait a day or so until she way--called the young fellow in to him one day and said: Turning to Mr. Gloom, the old man said: "At least," the young man said ruefully as he left the court, "father's "I got son in army," said a wrinkled old chief to United States Senator "No," said the old man, "I was born two good miles from here." replied: "Yes, malaria, you know." "Well," said the old gentleman, "we "I can, sir," said the young man, "but I am not mean enough to do it." "Young man," said Manager Woods sternly, "you should know that it is "Listen," said the young man, "judge, we were on our way to have you "Yes, sir," said the boys. cache = ./cache/15667.txt txt = ./txt/15667.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15544 author = Stone, Barney title = Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 10850 sentences = 782 flesch = 94 summary = Skinny was doubled up so he looked like a horse Skinny, "I always do a little coastin when I ride a wheel." Believe P.S. Skinny sez this means "poor simp" but lissen, derie, fer you it of a fether gathers no moss"; sumpin like that anyhow; you know Julie lived on a farm (You know Julie dere, I told you my old man was raised Believe you me, Julie, I luv a life on the ocean wave like a burlecue did, and believe you me Julie from other things he said about her, I If there's one thing in life that Skinny loves its sumpin good to eat. first time I ever eat out in company with Skinny, and believe you me, Believe you me, angel face she looks like a model fer a tent. Skinny has just arrove back in camp from the trenches and got the news cache = ./cache/15544.txt txt = ./txt/15544.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 20001 author = Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy) title = The English Spy: An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 218849 sentences = 10738 flesch = 72 summary = By Frolic, Mirth, and Fancy gay, Old Father Time is borne away. Bernard Blackmantle's Visit to Tom Echo--Oxford Phraseology--Smuggled Dinners--A College Party described-Ride and Drive--Kensington Gardens--Belles and BeauxStars and fallen Stars--Singularities of 1824-Tales of TonOn Dits and Anecdotes--Sunday Evening--High Life and said my aunt, "and tell him an old friend of his father's, on whom "Come, old fellow," said Tom, "turn to--no ceremony. "The welcome of Isis to you, sir," said the old man. ~159~~ Handing the note to old Mark--"Pray," said I, not a little said the honourable, "I know that leg," eyeing a divine little foot and a little fat man, remarkable for his love of good living. in the lads, Mark." "Now we shall have a little sport, old fellows," "Bear a hand, old fellow!" said Horace Eglantine one morning, coming respectable-looking old lady to my friend Transit, who was at that cache = ./cache/20001.txt txt = ./txt/20001.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 21111 author = Brightwen, Mrs. (Eliza Elder) title = Wild Nature Won By Kindness date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 45424 sentences = 2817 flesch = 84 summary = In many cases I have kept a wild animal or bird for a few days to learn loss of the cheery little bird, who seemed like a bright ubiquitous returning, the dear little bird lay dead beneath the window, against Whilst I was watching it, a little bird darted with all its force kept in a cage with but little sand and an outside water-glass which box down a little way from the cage on the floor, and placed a small log after year, a lock was placed to the box to protect the little bird; but and with a long feather soon attracted the little animal's attention; he catch the agile little creature; but one day we saw a cat watching an Autumn is the best time to begin taming such a little friend. a mealworm, four or five times a day, when the bird appears. cache = ./cache/21111.txt txt = ./txt/21111.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 15938 author = Watson, Henry C. (Henry Clay) title = The Yankee Tea-party; Or, Boston in 1773 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 44833 sentences = 2531 flesch = 80 summary = affair was conducted," said one of the young men, named Hand, filling "You must tell us what took place at Concord, also," said young Hand. said Pitts, pointing to one of the old men, named Jonas Davenport. "I heard the story, and saw the old man on his white horse," remarked "The old man immortalized himself," said Hand. "Now," said Kinnison, "I expect that some of you men who know something losing men, and I saw many an old friend fall near me. "Never mind the shirk," said Pitts: "tell us how the men of the right Colonel Arnold ordered Hanchet and fifty men to march by land "I thought General Stark belonged to New Hampshire," said Hand. lessen the sufferings of the men, and many an old man wanted to join the hands of men whose calling he knew not, his good sword was soon in his cache = ./cache/15938.txt txt = ./txt/15938.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29020 author = Hutton, Laurence title = A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 21594 sentences = 1039 flesch = 79 summary = the great wonderment of The Boy, who to this day, after many years of The Boy was always a little bit afraid of his father, while he loved and The Boy was red-headed and long-nosed, even from the beginning--a shy, 1848 or 1849, and The Boy went to his father's store in Hudson Street, In his mind's eye The Boy, at the end of forty years, can see it all; [Illustration: THE HOUSE OF THE BOY'S GRANDFATHER--CORNER OF HUDSON moved to Hubert Street, when The Boy was about ten years old; and for this day The Boy would go miles out of his way rather than pass Dr. Castle's house. In later years, when Bob and The Boy could swim--a little--and had The Boy never walked along the streets of London by his father's side [Illustration: THE BOY'S FATHER] put his gentle hand upon The Boy's little red head, and said: "Whatever cache = ./cache/29020.txt txt = ./txt/29020.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 17567 author = St. Mars, F. title = The Way of the Wild date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 94071 sentences = 4552 flesch = 84 summary = The owl came up behind, going like a cloud-shadow, and it, and yelling like several shrews, got too close, it turned its head, The hedgehog saw its eyes shining like stars in a little jet of fighting wild-duck coming up from the sea to feed--"spoke" like swords bird-thing of the night cried out suddenly, very far away in the sky, the fact away; and by the time he shot up a tree, like a long, rippling, I like to think of what that little, long, crippled female genet did like a cat, as was his way, what time he was profiting by his enemy's The owl had only time to turn her cat-like face and--hiss. her--crouched, and with her wings just a little open, like a bird about to himself as he came trotting along towards the cheeky little bird, like tail; but it looked like one, in a way. cache = ./cache/17567.txt txt = ./txt/17567.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 17185 author = Bingley, Thomas title = Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 34573 sentences = 1386 flesch = 71 summary = Uncle Thomas resumes his Stories about the Instinct of Animals.--Tells Uncle Thomas relates some Very Remarkable Stories about the Cat; points Uncle Thomas concludes Stories about Instinct with several Interesting Animals.--Tells about the Horse, and of the Immense Herds which are The animal proceeded cautiously, and safely for some time, till coming "But, Uncle Thomas, what can be the use of such animals as white ants? Uncle Thomas relates some Very Remarkable Stories about the Cat; cat kind, such as the lion, tiger, &c.; and though these animals differ Uncle Thomas tells about the Migrating Instinct of Animals.--Of the Uncle Thomas tells about the Migrating Instinct of Animals.--Of the "Uncle Thomas, I heard to-day of a swallow which for many years returned "Which animals do you mean, Uncle Thomas?" "Where do such animals come from, Uncle Thomas." 174 "Where do such animals come from, Uncle Thomas." should end with ? cache = ./cache/17185.txt txt = ./txt/17185.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18383 author = Spooner, Shearjashub title = Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 83322 sentences = 3451 flesch = 67 summary = the finest works of Caravaggio, the Paintings of the great hall, a spent some time at Venice, studying with great attention the works of still desirous of executing some great work, proposed to the king best," replied the Moor; and so Philip sent him Blas de Prado to Fez. There he painted various works for the palace, and a portrait of the he sent him to Portugal, to paint the portraits of King John III., picture which Agostino painted was his celebrated Communion of St. Jerome which Napoleon placed in the Louvre, but is now in the gallery at visited by artists or persons skilled in works of art, "by whose success in painting; some, full of admiration for the works of antiquity his Works as a Painter, iii, 229; his Works at Paris, iii, 276; his Admirable Works, iii, 146; Present Value of his Works, iii, 147; cache = ./cache/18383.txt txt = ./txt/18383.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 18934 author = Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) title = My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 52137 sentences = 3458 flesch = 86 summary = At that time I was a school-boy, living with my brother, who was a man. to this day I look so young that people who remember me as a boy now knows it was Jimmy who wrote that?" was what we said when we had lighted wait until the owner returns, no doubt a man who smokes the Arcadia I have said that I always took care not to know how much tobacco I with it--he gazed at the garden tobacco for a time, and then took a pipe Strathmore smoking a good cigar, though we are not told how he came by three times a day, and you yourself admit that it made a new man of you. "'Well, now that I think of it, I was only smoking one cigar a day at "Do you know," said Marriot, looking a little scared, "I thought I would thought--that I was smoking my last pipe. cache = ./cache/18934.txt txt = ./txt/18934.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16926 author = Cumming, R. D. (Robert Dalziel) title = Skookum Chuck Fables: Bits of History, Through the Microscope date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 37631 sentences = 2157 flesch = 80 summary = She read it fifty times, placed it next her heart and pranced about like intentions Johnny spent the whole day in idleness at the home of Mrs. Peter; and, as it is no insult among the Indians for a buck to propose Hard Times Hance was living on first principles; but then, if a man is his wife, and Hance had fallen into the trap in the usual man-like Sure Man opened his eyes and his ears and his mouth all at the same time dollars in fifty years, which is not very long to a man if he can start Once upon a time in Ashcroft a very foolish young man married a very Once upon a time in Ashcroft there lived a lady who had the wool pulled short time hubby began to consider her in the light of a "white man's present, but our time becomes the aggregate days and years. cache = ./cache/16926.txt txt = ./txt/16926.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16945 author = Burke, Kathleen title = The White Road to Verdun date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 16736 sentences = 814 flesch = 77 summary = French Commander of the camp told us that the German love of holding On the battlefields the kindness of the French medical men to the German Verdun." General Pétain appeared slightly surprised, and turning to me, The men of the French army have named their kilometres from Verdun, we came on a line of men waiting their turn to of the soldiers of France, whilst her wounds are daily treated and a German cannon there were certainly ten answers from the French guns. same time by the French and the Germans. the men talking little of war, but much of their homes and their hundred shells a day still fall on Verdun, but at the time of the great so there, in the citadel of Verdun with a small French flag before me, I She is indeed a General, saving men for France. Because these women of France have sent their men forth to die, eyes cache = ./cache/16945.txt txt = ./txt/16945.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 25918 author = nan title = Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 93618 sentences = 5525 flesch = 79 summary = Sir William Gell's Dog, which was said to speak 101 The horse and dog referred to, were the first animals on which this Beside horses and dogs, the poet Byron, like his own Don Juan, had a present day, with but few exceptions, dogs are treated with great Sydney Smith's comment was, '_I should like to hear the dog's account of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton was very fond of dogs; his son[59] tells an house of friend or stranger, "Don't be afraid of the dog, sir, he never bear in warfare, a dog excited great attention by its attachment to the him sick.' I called one day on Mrs ----, and her lap-dog flew at my leg short time that he regularly attended the dinner-table like a dog, and in the Haymarket; the horse, the dog, the monkeys, and the cats went dog life." No two animals are better agreed when kept together. cache = ./cache/25918.txt txt = ./txt/25918.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 30396 author = Anonymous title = Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 45139 sentences = 3244 flesch = 78 summary = late times, one of whose plays, in the original manuscript, is said to said nothing for a long time; but he nodded his head, and Coleridge villa in which the work was written, and which to this day is called The author of this very successful work, (originally published in year, and "as old as the hills;" having led a long life and a merry one. Of all the great original works which appeared during his time, considered four lines a day good work, and was seven years in beating poet was the work of Lord Rochester, and originated in a mistake not THE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D. Carefully selected, with Life of the Author, and original and authentic NIMMO'S POPULAR EDITION OF THE WORKS OF THE POETS. Popular Works by the Author of 'Heaven our Home.' A Book for Fragments of Time on each Lord's Day of the Year. cache = ./cache/30396.txt txt = ./txt/30396.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 31880 author = Scrici title = Physiology of the Opera date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 18830 sentences = 741 flesch = 64 summary = The tenor, basso, prima donna and baritone may be considered as Sometimes the tenor is seen riding out with the prima donna, with whom a winter night; until the young gentlemen have jammed their opera hats Another effect of a beautiful prima donna, is to make young husbands, admiring the courage of the little tenor (the outlaw), which they and the prima donna to follow him up in order to raise his head on her ill-fated young man is placed by the side of Miss Smith's mother, a that prima donna against the whole world; whereupon Miss Smith with one the word "stupid," Miss Smith makes no reply, but merely looks at Mr. Brown as if she had not the slightest idea whatever that a very personal the point of cutting off his head, but a very prima donna like looking he is just going to be married to the prima donna like looking lady, cache = ./cache/31880.txt txt = ./txt/31880.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 21755 author = Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title = Personal Reminiscences in Book Making, and Some Short Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 53254 sentences = 2862 flesch = 82 summary = Ramsgate boat, a lion-like as well as lion-hearted man, who rescued One day, soon after the men had commenced work, it began to blow hard, ring comes to the alarm-bell, and a man or a boy rushes in shouting At such times I came to know that "man wants but thunder comes rolling over the sea, men with hard hands and bronzed The ladder-way by which the men descend to their work is 1230 feet deep. "It's only the kibbles," said Captain Jan. Up came one and down went the other, passing each other with a dire Here the Captain told me men were at work not far off and he wished to "Looks like dirty weather, skipper," said Dick, pointing to windward. passing a broken-boned man out of a little boat into a smack or steamer which stand in the way of a young man's success in life, not only cache = ./cache/21755.txt txt = ./txt/21755.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 21615 author = Disraeli, Isaac title = Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 202700 sentences = 10183 flesch = 69 summary = The success of this work was eminent; and its author appeared for the moral, gloom, to prepare a new edition of his work on the Life and Times Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the writing, having published several curious works on this subject, they In those times, it was a common opinion to suspect every great man of an of his character," observes Prince Hoare, in the life of this great book is a mere play on words, concerning a little volume containing the the present day men of letters are subject to similar misfortunes; for To observe the ridiculous attitudes in which great men appear, author of 109 different works; but it is curious to observe how far our great author of little books_! great taste and spirit, has written on poetry and poets, but he composed From such works these great poets, cache = ./cache/21615.txt txt = ./txt/21615.txt === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === id = 15413 author = Various title = The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 49888 sentences = 2396 flesch = 74 summary = Racine.--The celebrated French poet, Racine, having one day returned from church-door, the poor man waited for him: "Sir," said he, showing him what doctor observing him, said, "Sir, perhaps you don't like mutton?" "Oh, yes, no," said he, "he is too great a man for me: go and bring me the village addressed them:--"My friends," said he, "the day of vengeance is arrived; third person came, and asked after an old man who must have passed that said he would have no man refused that came to his house." sir," said the young men, "if you knew our soon put that to the test," said the king, and asking Lord Stair to take an immediately told him; when his majesty good humouredly replied, "My lord, was a young man,' said he, 'I determined never to go to bed at night, till great you may be," said the Guinea-man, "but I don't like your looks: I cache = ./cache/15413.txt txt = ./txt/15413.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 16349 author = Dunderdale, George title = The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the Early Colonial Life of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, and Others Who Left Their Native Land and Never Returned date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 118847 sentences = 6136 flesch = 82 summary = station at Port Fairy, went with two men, named Wilson and Gibbs, in man-of-war that had arrived at Port Jackson, three old men who had a small public-house kept by a man named Burke, a little way down tall stranger came near looked at the group, and said: canal, went away whistling "Old Dan Tucker," and left the question of true-born native of New England, a good young man, always seen at came every day, picking and scratching like an old hen, and went away A beggarly looking young man came a few days That night the two men had a long talk about old times. Davy took a long and steady look, and said: "I am blowed if they One of the men on shore said, "Look at that white-fellow." It is not every man that has a friend like Jack; many men At that time I went with a man from Port Albert to cache = ./cache/16349.txt txt = ./txt/16349.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 23733 author = Burnett, Alfred title = Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 79124 sentences = 4937 flesch = 80 summary = Brigadier-General (then Colonel) Lytle, who commanded a brigade during 'He's a big man, is General Banks,' said of the rebels, thus placing every able-bodied white man of the South General's aids, seeing two rebels a little way off, on a by-road, put his horse, when, to the infinite amusement of the staff, young Lu. Steadman (a son of the General, and, though but sixteen years of age, 51st Indiana Regiment, saw one of the old man's daughters, and said Old Stonnicker and Colonel Marrow, of 3d Ohio -General Old Stonnicker and Colonel Marrow, of 3d Ohio -General "O, come, be a man," said the Colonel; "any thing I can do for you It was said by the boys that at the battle in which General Garnett of the men said he would like something to eat, and went in the house, In the fight at Murfreesboro, General Rosecrans said the 74th Ohio cache = ./cache/23733.txt txt = ./txt/23733.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 747 author = Gould, George M. (George Milbrey) title = Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 399137 sentences = 18605 flesch = 66 summary = years to the ordinary time of puberty, many cases are recorded. child; and Warner's case of the Jewish girl three and a half years old, Smellie mentions the case of a black woman who had twins, one child case of a two-year-old child, born in the sixth month of pregnancy. out successfully four times in the same woman; Chisholm mentions a case speaks of a case in which a child was born half an hour after the death reported the case of a healthy woman, thirty-five years old, 5 feet 1 Weil reported the case of a man of twenty-two years who was born with who lived four days; and Le Duc records a case of a child born without of a case of a child twenty-two months old, who suffered for some time Thomas has reported the case of a man sixty-five years old who in an cache = ./cache/747.txt txt = ./txt/747.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 5407 author = Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison title = The Recreations of a Country Parson date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 136022 sentences = 6123 flesch = 75 summary = put things in the right point of view: but the moral effort to look It is a great thing to write leisurely, and with a general feeling my reader, know better than to think that life is a lottery; but 1. Thinking an artisan a sensible right-minded man, knowing his my readers as a great and thoughtful man, I might here give an You would like to sit here, and look, and think, all day. Still, the great thing about man is the mind; and when I set out come to think as the man who wrote against stooping thought. nature, thinking it to be inert, as 'dead matter.' To say that man and such a thing is, or is not, 'the true life of man.' And when living men, and that man has not true and absolute life, are not And sometimes, looking out into days to come, you think cache = ./cache/5407.txt txt = ./txt/5407.txt === reduce.pl bib === === reduce.pl bib === id = 858 author = Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) title = Stage-Land date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 19395 sentences = 1173 flesch = 86 summary = The stage hero never talks in a simple, straightforward way, like a mere myself, murder the good old man, get the hero accused of the crime, The chief duty of the comic man's life is to make love to servant-girls, The good stage lawyer also wipes away a tear when sad things happen; and The good stage lawyer is never by any chance a married man. the stage young man who is coming home to see his girl. She is going to marry the man-servant, is the stage servant-girl, as They quarrel a good deal over their love-making, do the stage The comic lovers are often very young, and when people on the stage are your mother's hair," says the good old man, feeling the girl's head all The people on the stage think very highly of the good old man, but they similarities, is that the good old man is in reality the stage hero cache = ./cache/858.txt txt = ./txt/858.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 889 author = Der Ling, Princess title = Two Years in the Forbidden City date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 92920 sentences = 4868 flesch = 84 summary = Young Empress, wife of the Emperor Kwang Hsu. She said: "Her Majesty has Her Majesty sat talking, we standing, for some little time and she asked When we commenced to eat, Her Majesty ordered the eunuchs to place Majesty, the Young Empress and the Court ladies, and after a long and Her Majesty's order, so we returned to the Palace three days later. was half over a eunuch came and told me that Her Majesty wanted to see look like." At the same time Her Majesty gave orders for the Imperial The day after our arrival at the Summer Palace Her Majesty said that Please do not move." I told Her Majesty what Miss Carl said, The Young Empress said to me one day: "Her Majesty is very said: "You should not have told Her Majesty about the eunuchs, they are Her Majesty said that the head eunuch had told cache = ./cache/889.txt txt = ./txt/889.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1864 author = Lodge, Henry Cabot title = Hero Tales from American History date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 53000 sentences = 2401 flesch = 74 summary = to be a great nation whenever her young men cease to possess energy, States, all men turned to Washington to stand at the head of the new country through a great civil war, was then able to build up a new and a great force of Indians from the lakes, Boone commanded the left wing. hundred fighting men-British regulars, French partizans, and Indians. army of over seven thousand men, and accompanied by a large force of a neutral port, when four British war-vessels, a ship of the line, a men of iron courage and great bodily powers, skilled in the use of their Hyde gave the orders to left face and forward and the Maine men marched regiment just in time to see a long line of men in gray rise from behind great ironclad rams as the men of the Union did in building the monitors cache = ./cache/1864.txt txt = ./txt/1864.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 1890 author = Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) title = "Speaking of Operations--" date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 10466 sentences = 597 flesch = 79 summary = As I look back it seems to me that in childhood's days all the doctors I asked whether he was acquainted with Doctor Y--Y being a person whom I Being ethical among doctors is practically the same thing Doctor Z also wore whiskers, carefully pointed up by an expert hedge mentioning them to you one by one, whereas any good, live surgeon knows experienced surgeon has you all apart in half the time the tailor takes these times share but one common instinct: If you go to a new surgeon or time I take the head of the table and start in to carve it is fitting many persons who are still living can remember when the doctors were a picture of a person whose stomach was sliced four ways, like a I know not how it may be in the world at large, but in a hospital, cache = ./cache/1890.txt txt = ./txt/1890.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 31078 author = Disraeli, Isaac title = Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 232322 sentences = 11152 flesch = 67 summary = curious book-lovers will be interested in the personal history of an secret places, and appearing at night, like King Hugon, the great great a work, as his History of the World." Now when the truth is known, the passage, as a curious instance where the secret history of books is secret history of two great works so well known is as sufficient as strictures; the secret history of Rawleigh's great work had never man of letters, deeply conversant with secret and public history, and a one hand, Sir George Carew, observing the French King's hesitation, appears by a curious fact noticed in the anonymous life of Sir Philip fatal word _Death_, especially when applied to kings and great people. If we possessed the secret history of the literary life of George history of our English authors, Steevens allowed the good man to insert in Grose's words, who says:--"He was a man of great good-nature, cache = ./cache/31078.txt txt = ./txt/31078.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 3031 author = Seton, Ernest Thompson title = Wild Animals I Have Known date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 52526 sentences = 2622 flesch = 86 summary = Next day I was at the same place, and as the crows came near I raised my to sit on went bobbing away through the woods, of course Rag ran his now far-away red-tail, "for there it hides night and day in the runway On he came at last and Rag met him like a little fury. Thud, thud they came, and down went poor little Rag. In a moment the Swamp they went till Rag had made sure that his mother was hidden safely old fox going round the pond to meet Molly and led him far and away, A man living as far away as Petrel said he saw a large black wolf "Bingo--Bing--old--boy--Fetch me the trap wrench!" Away he went and little foxes were, and the old ones were taking turns in trying to lead Her little ones were one day old but already quick on cache = ./cache/3031.txt txt = ./txt/3031.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29349 author = Rees, Alfred Wellesley title = Creatures of the Night: A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 83121 sentences = 3094 flesch = 72 summary = Wild life at night--Long watching--A "set" with numerous inhabitants--The Autumn passed on towards winter, the nights were long, the great harvest diving across-stream, just as an old fox, when hunting in the woods, first, like a young fox that, till he learns the fear of dogs and men, A certain vole, living in the river-bank near the place where the blossomed in the hedge-bank near the field-vole's home, and the lark, in the winter days far more frequently than did the field-voles. Kweek, the little field-vole, asleep in his hidden nest beneath the woodland home; and even the narrow path from the field-voles' burrow to autumn night, and lay in the shadow of the stone where the old male vole first the mother badger brought a rabbit home, she placed it close old fox came from the edge of the wood; and then for some time all was cache = ./cache/29349.txt txt = ./txt/29349.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10389 author = Long, William J. (William Joseph) title = Northern Trails, Book I. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 30324 sentences = 1152 flesch = 77 summary = record of a big white wolf killing a young caribou by snapping at the record of a big wolf killing a young caribou by biting into the chest moonlight; far away, like a vague shadow, a handful of little gray look, and the old wolf in her daily hunts often crossed the deep path little Mooka and Noel could listen for hours to Old Tomah's animal she knew, the old she-wolf, like most mother animals in the presence of A new experience had come to the little wolf cubs in a single away easily with the cubs, circling to join the mother wolf, which back, driving the cubs and the old he-wolf away like a flock of sheep. kill, the cubs, led by the mother wolf, would hunt half of the day and had been a good time for the wolf cubs, as for most wild animals; and cache = ./cache/10389.txt txt = ./txt/10389.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 27785 author = Jeaffreson, John Cordy title = A Book About Lawyers date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 136253 sentences = 5395 flesch = 65 summary = Having won the lady and married her, Mr. Philip Yorke brought her home to a 'very small house' near Lincoln's In Milk Street, Cheapside, lived Sir John More, judge in the Court of died on April 15, 1733; twelve years after Sir John Pratt, Lord Camden's On becoming Lord Ellenborough and Chief Justice, Edward Law moved to a first time in the Old Bailey, when Sir William Scott and Lord The common law chiefs were slow to follow in the Lord Keeper's steps, houses or mansions to live in, as they have now (called Inns of Court), In Lord Chancellor King's time, amongst the fees and perquisites which judges, called Lord Justices, two additional Vice Chancellors, and a palaces, the Inns of Court set apart certain days of the year for Any person familiar with the Inns of Court at the present time will see cache = ./cache/27785.txt txt = ./txt/27785.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 29839 author = Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title = The House in the Water: A Book of Animal Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 52076 sentences = 2942 flesch = 84 summary = night-silence, the Boy at once said to himself, "Beavers, at work!" He The Boy crept forward like a cat, his gray eyes shining with beaver appeared over the edge of the dam, not ten feet away, and "Bless your old heart, Jabe!" said the Boy. the pond, washing up to the Boy's feet on the crest of the dam, and When Jabe was gone, the Boy went straight up-stream to the dam, taking The Boy had timed his coming none too early; for the pond had dropped From the mended dam the Boy now led Jabe away up-stream in haste, in As Jabe finished they came in sight of a long, rather low dam, with a family," suggested the Boy, when Jabe had come to a long pause, either "I'm glad _you_ don't trap them that way, Jabe!" said the Boy. FOR three days more the Boy and Jabe remained in the beaver country; cache = ./cache/29839.txt txt = ./txt/29839.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 11679 author = Burke, Kathleen title = The White Road to Verdun date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 16911 sentences = 845 flesch = 78 summary = The French Commander of the camp told us that the German love On the battlefields the kindness of the French medical men to the France of a French doctor who was attending a wounded German men in a French regiment; he serves many ends. The men of the French Army have named their red wine "pinard," indomitable soul of the soldiers of France, whilst her wounds are find the men talking little of war, but much of their homes and their Ottawa, so there, in the citadel of Verdun with a small French flag French cook who, seeing an English soldier standing by, began to General, saving men for France. small men and women of France. for the men of France. I have spoken much of the men of France, but the women have Because these women of France have sent their men forth to die, cache = ./cache/11679.txt txt = ./txt/11679.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 11506 author = Watson, Henry C. (Henry Clay) title = The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776 date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 44001 sentences = 2253 flesch = 76 summary = by one these feeble old men came up and took the General by the hand, As old Harmar concluded these remarks, the old men standing near the "But the little boy wants to hear a story about Washington," said "I wonder the men didn't all desert," remarked Mrs. Harmar. "Yes," said old Harmar, "General Washington was the main pillar of the "Now I'll tell you a story that I have just called to mind," said old "Let me see," said old Harmar; "where did I first meet you, Higgins? which could prompt the deeds of men," said young Harmar, growing quite "Come, no slander on the women of the present day," said Mrs. Harmar. times?" said old Harmar. "Tell us anything to pass time," said young Harmar. "Those times are gone," said old Harmar mournfully. "What bloody creatures war can make men," remarked young Harmar. Edwards' men, used to tell it," replied old Harmar. cache = ./cache/11506.txt txt = ./txt/11506.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 38423 author = Conwell, Russell H. title = Why Lincoln Laughed date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 25243 sentences = 1566 flesch = 83 summary = I first met Lincoln at the White House during the Civil War. To-day it One day when I was at the White House in conversation with Lincoln a man As we sat there Lincoln opened Artemus Ward's book and read several things "Because," said Mr. Lincoln, "Old Grimes is dead, that good old man!" The two stories long accredited to Ward at which Mr. Lincoln laughed most Ward once stated that Lincoln told him that he was an expert at raising Lincoln said to me that day, "One glimpse of Ward would make a culprit "The old man came to the door several days after that and said, 'Marse "Good for you, old man!" sed I; "giv that air a conspickius place in the Lincoln said that much of Ward's humor was of the educational sort. President's death on April 15, 1865, said that Abraham Lincoln's humorous cache = ./cache/38423.txt txt = ./txt/38423.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 7347 author = nan title = The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 73924 sentences = 4860 flesch = 78 summary = Mrs. Lincoln, the first to weigh this man justly, said proudly, that President Lincoln to a party of friends in the White House executive Adams, in a position to know, published in the New York _Press_: "Mr. Lincoln told my father that he was exactly six feet three inches." This reason--strange in a man knowing how to bide his time to win--Lincoln but Lincoln recited his grievance to the men, and said to his friend President Lincoln was wont to carry his mother's old Bible about with It was the regular habit of President Lincoln to read the day's President Lincoln in case the European allies' declared war. Despite Chase's political enmity to him, President Lincoln said of On New-year's morning, 1864, President Lincoln entered the War merely said to President Lincoln: 'Everything is drifting into the war, "Well," drawled Mr. Lincoln, "I feel very much like the man who said he cache = ./cache/7347.txt txt = ./txt/7347.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36879 author = Meller, Henry James title = Nicotiana; Or, The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 25919 sentences = 1427 flesch = 74 summary = Now, in regard to snuff, that like smoking is so much abused, coming under Snuff was manufactured and consumed in great quantities in France, long Tobacco is a lawyer--his pipes do love long cases, But no tobacco or snuff shall be And no tobacco or snuff shall be imported, except at London, Bristol, Every manufacturer of tobacco or snuff shall take out a licence from the Every person who shall first become a manufacturer of tobacco or snuff, And every dealer in tobacco and snuff shall take out a licence in like Every person who shall manufacture or deal in tobacco or snuff without "For the taking of fumes by pipes, as in tobacco and other things, to tobacco, whether smoked or taken as snuff, exercises a very considerable who was remarkable for the quantity of tobacco he smoked, that though he _Pipes._--In reference to these essentials to smoking tobacco, a great cache = ./cache/36879.txt txt = ./txt/36879.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 37328 author = Stables, Gordon title = Medical Life in the Navy date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 26565 sentences = 1193 flesch = 77 summary = "Yes, sir," said she, looking pleasedly at it with one eye (so have I orders were, gasped a little, called for a glass of water,--not beer, carrying a large red flag, and with an old grey-haired officer sitting wards, men's wards, officers' wards; and thus we spent the time till a of that time my appointment to a sea-going ship came. the water alongside, the boat darts away from the ship like an arrow namely, a little round-faced, dimple-cheeked, good-natured fellow, who "And precious little to dine upon," said the officer on his right. Leaving the men for a short time with the boat, we made our way to the only an assistant-surgeon, where a young medical officer feels all the on the quarter-deck, turn out good service-officers. joined the service; and, poor little man! navy would be a very good service for the medical officer. cache = ./cache/37328.txt txt = ./txt/37328.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34946 author = Worthington, Frank title = The Witch Doctor and other Rhodesian Studies date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 60022 sentences = 4819 flesch = 91 summary = "Tell the man to come to-morrow," he said, and walked off in the The head messenger turned to the man sitting in the yard and said: "The Chiromo said nothing, but the look in his eye made Mokorongo's hand fly The white man looked across his table at the witch doctor. "There is Lizizi," said his guide, pointing to an old man sitting on a First, they turned at a walk towards the right-hand wall: a man stood Two days before the "Great Man" was due to arrive, old Garamapingwe, the Great Man kill a good cow and have done with it when, looking to the the third man, led by a little native boy, was blind and empty handed. Chief, when it came to the turn of the old man with the ivory. The old man turned his face towards me and, as he said good-bye, I saw a cache = ./cache/34946.txt txt = ./txt/34946.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34038 author = Alcott, William A. (William Andrus) title = Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 123682 sentences = 6402 flesch = 75 summary = fast." A young physician had in the mean time come into the place, and medicine, our good family doctor proposed a tea made from certain sweet then a little water applied to it is as good as any thing."--"But is patient insane with his medicine about half the time, and greatly till he too, like the old man before mentioned, began to beg for cold life long,--I relied not a little on medicine, in various forms, be required by a reasonable man, and till that time, it had not entered recovered in a reasonable time, and is, I believe, alive to this day. In this general way things went on for some time. strong, he said; and had used it in this way for a long time. She returned, at times, to medical advice and medicine; but, so far as I by no means, at the present time, what she had been in her best days. cache = ./cache/34038.txt txt = ./txt/34038.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 7427 author = Pittenger, William title = Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 31755 sentences = 2193 flesch = 80 summary = any man can make a good speech of this character. utterance, if he can tell a good story, the average dinner party will SOME A B C DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING SPEECHES, TOASTS, AND RESPONSES SOME A B C DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING SPEECHES, TOASTS, AND RESPONSES general speech-making, but in pleasant after-dinner talking and addresses "The Nation," to any Great Man of the Past, to "Liberty," to "Free Speech," OUTLINE OF A SPEECH IN RESPONSE TO THE TOAST "THE DAY WE CELEBRATE" Statesman--to The Greatest of Good Men and the Best of Great Men. THOUGHTS FOR A SPEECH IN RESPONSE TO THE TOAST "WASHINGTON: GREAT AS A the great father of his country had a little style about him," said the bad taste to spend more time in telling our guests how good and great we The speech closes with thanks and good wishes in return. cache = ./cache/7427.txt txt = ./txt/7427.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 40758 author = Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray) title = Genius in Sunshine and Shadow date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 83493 sentences = 4608 flesch = 73 summary = Buffon's definition is nearly the same; he says, "Genius is only great great reader, but said that "a man who attempts to read all the new Dr. Darwin, the ingenious English poet, wrote his works, like some eminent English author, tells us that he passed much time in London in poet and dramatist, who wrote the well-known story of his prison life, English poet, experienced a life which reads like fiction.[110] The William Thom was an English poet of genius, but very humbly born. day," says Carlyle; "but the writer of a true poem, like the apostle of who was a hearty admirer and personal friend of the poet, said, "Yes, letters she says, "My life, since the age of fifteen years, has been one Molière's domestic life, like that of only too many men of genius, and [Footnote 154: Jerrold was but twenty-five years of age when he wrote cache = ./cache/40758.txt txt = ./txt/40758.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 41036 author = Scoville, Samuel title = Brave Deeds of Union Soldiers date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 72133 sentences = 3658 flesch = 81 summary = Union men gave a cheer, followed their little leader, breaking clear rear guard of the Union force and the Confederate's under General Confederate Army while the rear guard of the retreating Union forces suspect men coming out of a Confederate city to be Union soldiers. little time could be gained the Union men could burn the Oostinaula a little band of men who were brave enough to stand against an army and Confederates had the advantage of the breastworks and the Union men As the news came that the Union men were giving way, they "There was a little city and few men within it and there came a great "General," he said, "those men were Confederates." men who manned the little wall across the path, but the slave regiments Jackson with thirty thousand men marched half-way round the Union Army. Confederate forces long enough to let his men cross. cache = ./cache/41036.txt txt = ./txt/41036.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 32227 author = Field, Chester title = The Cynic's Rules of Conduct date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 2481 sentences = 230 flesch = 82 summary = be at his office desk making the money to pay for the blow-out. Should the lady's husband remove his hat keep yours on. Beware of the man who never buys a gold brick. Tell your rich relations how fast you are making money--your poor If you would make a lifelong friend of a man who lives in a hall When playing poker, it is as bad form to wear a coat as it is to be The father gives the bride away, but the small brother would like to. watch a man sitting in a street car where women are standing. It is not good form for a young girl to go to the theatre with a Don't forget to tell her that she's "not like other girls." It always Don't tell a girl that she looks best when wearing a veil. It is not good form to congratulate a girl friend upon her engagement. cache = ./cache/32227.txt txt = ./txt/32227.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 33687 author = Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) title = Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 94158 sentences = 4056 flesch = 73 summary = MAMMALIA, or sucking animals; as, man; bats, monkeys, bears, animal had probably travelled some distance to the place where he was Once, however, the animal escaped, and followed his master to the having discovered the retreat of the animal, takes his dog along with "In the year 1749," says Kahn, "one of these animals came near the farm yet, the moment the man's voice was heard, the faithful animal set up This animal, which is the size of a large dog, belongs to Africa. piece for some time, and the ball fell before it reached the animal. himself; but the affectionate animal soon discovered his hiding-place, animals, with their heads and trunks just appearing above the water. animals in the night, they kept close within their houses till Some animal, it appeared, had taken fright at a dog, and, by a sudden dog, animal, or man, can approach the nest without being attacked. cache = ./cache/33687.txt txt = ./txt/33687.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 39777 author = Benton, Frank title = Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack Being an Extremely Humorous & Sarcastic Story of the Trials & Tribulations Endured by a Party of Stockmen Making a Shipment from the West to the East. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 36112 sentences = 1612 flesch = 82 summary = and Dillbery Ike got into the ranch with a drive of cattle we found that Eatumup Jake was for getting a can of tomatoes, but old Chuckwagon said Well, we got on the way-car, were hitched on to the cattle train and off The conductor said we would start right away soon as he got where to feed and how much, but Dillbery said the cattle had got used One day while waiting on a sidetrack old Chuckwagon got to telling about got to telling about the breed of their saddle hosses, and some said But old yellow had got trained to going around that mountain, and started for the ranch, old Buck came by again, looking like he was and finally went to sleep; but every time I and the bull got to As time went on Dillbery got times cattle were so tired when they got to Omaha and they were so long cache = ./cache/39777.txt txt = ./txt/39777.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34454 author = Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title = The Secret Trails date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 39628 sentences = 2292 flesch = 83 summary = same time watching Fluellyn out of the corner of its wicked little eye. feet of it, it jerked its long tail into the air, and at the same time right fore-hoof high above its head and struck like a flash at Peddler's forth upon the stillness, the great bull's eyes and nostrils opened wide moment, with a long, red gash half-way down his flank, he was fighting Her wide-set eyes, like the red bow of her mouth, were kind and The Man came forward to meet her, his eyes paying without stint the to make up their minds that they liked Jackson better than the bears, it, eyeing first the bears and then the rabbits. the victim Buck opened his half-closed eyes and gave a snort of For a good hour Murray followed the trail of the two bears, at times like fire, came into view, following hard upon the rabbit's trail. cache = ./cache/34454.txt txt = ./txt/34454.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36969 author = Underwood, J. L. (John Levi) title = The Women of the Confederacy date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 106021 sentences = 5789 flesch = 77 summary = war, he said he would point to the dear women of his people as he had the women of the Northern States exhibited in that war a devotion and North." Oh that's about the way men, women and children down South Southern woman could step from a country home to adorn the White House little Southern States sent more men in proportion to population than Northern soldiers killed our young men in war; politicians killed "God bless these Virginia women!" said a general officer from one of with old Southern home life is a day full of restful peace and happy SOUTHERN WOMEN IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES SOUTHERN WOMEN IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES In later years of the war a great many of the wounded soldiers were General Gordon tells of a simple-hearted country Confederate woman who While the patriotic women of New Orleans saw very little of war's cache = ./cache/36969.txt txt = ./txt/36969.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 32545 author = Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title = The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 70390 sentences = 3810 flesch = 81 summary = the edges of the sea, where the great waters kept air-holes open through the ice-fields, the old she-bear, with her cub close at her heels, moved eyes, as with narrow, snaky head thrust forward and jaws half-parted Among the little stones close to shore, where the water was hardly more By this time the little salmon was between two and three inches long. the night air, a black bear crept down to the water's edge on one side The little lake, long and narrow, and set in a cleft of the deep forest, When he came to the surface and shook the water out of his eyes, Mahoney eyes, hungry with long loneliness; the little white church, with shining When the white bear, swimming under water outstretched like an otter, saw the big white form swimming at the surface some little distance But the fierce little eyes of the bear, dark and glinting red, were not cache = ./cache/32545.txt txt = ./txt/32545.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 48343 author = Anonymous title = Clergymen and Doctors: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 44727 sentences = 2728 flesch = 75 summary = Doctor Hill, a notorious wit, physician, and man of letters, having attendants, the duke said, "That young man shall have the first good Doctor, afterwards Bishop, Kennet preached the funeral sermon of the preaching on Sunday began immediately after the church service ended; Mr. Jeaffreson, in his amusing _Book about Doctors_, tells a good story that from very early times the fee of the physician (like that of the said with much earnestness, 'Good Doctor, give me my sermon, and know usefulness by preaching every year in London, where he excited great day the Doctor, coming to see his patient, asked him if he had followed be more than two days about it, "for," said he, "I shall not live sir," said the Doctor, "take it to him to-night. Fragments of Time on each Lord's Day of the Year. book is to show how little of the good man can die, and how thoroughly cache = ./cache/48343.txt txt = ./txt/48343.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 48273 author = nan title = Lincoln Day Entertainments Recitations, Plays, Dialogues, Drills, Tableaux, Pantomimes, Quotations, Songs, Tributes, Stories, Facts date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 38480 sentences = 3761 flesch = 94 summary = Right nobly do you lead the way, Old Flag. They march forward in two lines, carrying flags, pause and sing. Gun held in right hand, top resting on shoulder, raise left Mrs. Lincoln: Yes, you children like to laugh at the things I say about Mrs. Lincoln (_to girls_): Don't tell pa that John was waiting for Abe John (_running off at right_): Come on, Tom, I hear the boys forming At the front the boys turn to right, girls to left, pass to left of stage now leads the boys along the line of girls, going in right line reaches front of stage, when the first one of the left-hand The little girls in white who carried flags now march in and stand in a girls march on in two lines, half coming from right and half from left. Boy dressed as Lincoln stands in center of stage. cache = ./cache/48273.txt txt = ./txt/48273.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 48636 author = Various title = Stories and Letters from the Trenches date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 33700 sentences = 2113 flesch = 81 summary = lines--the German trenches were about four hundred yards away--where learned, a German officer came charging at the head of his men into was a wounded German soldier, who, recovering from the delirium of of the French and German trenches. above the trench just like a man, and then the Germans kept shooting war is demonstrated by the stories told by wounded soldiers reaching a German officer fell, wounded by a bayonet. British trenches than the German, but whenever our men began to go out to carry in the wounded man the German snipers got busy. village being shelled by German guns a prisoner of war just being By this time the Prince was with a number of German troops One officer says 500 German bodies already have "With other wounded men and officers I was taken away to a house "Advancing, the French discovered forty dead Germans in the trench, cache = ./cache/48636.txt txt = ./txt/48636.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 35513 author = Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title = The Ledge on Bald Face date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 46097 sentences = 2963 flesch = 88 summary = "But we'll just call you Woolly Billy for short," said Tug Blackstock. gleam of intimate confidence for Tug Blackstock and the big black dog. Come on, Jim," said Blackstock, stepping out But Blackstock only shook his head slowly, and called the big black "Take a good look at him, Jim," said Blackstock. as Woolly Billy, so long as she knew he had Jim to look after him. "It's all right, Jim. Come with me," said Woolly Billy, tugging at the mill-hands turned away, leaving Long Jackson and big Andy Stevens, the Long an' Jim an' me, we'll follow the trail o' the bear right round Last of all came in Long Jackson, with Jim. Blackstock slipped the Says I to myself, ef Jim smells Black Dan in that bear trail, "Jim likes the bear, sir, _doesn't_ he?" suggested Woolly Billy, to Jim stretched at his feet, Tug Blackstock felt that Brine's Rip, for cache = ./cache/35513.txt txt = ./txt/35513.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 44518 author = nan title = Points of Humour, Part 2 (of 2) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 15316 sentences = 625 flesch = 68 summary = remaining dead body--"you are right, friend," said she, "he must be "Good God!" involuntarily exclaimed the young man, "and there they are!" knocked a second time: the master of the house asked again and again, came down, opened the door, and asked the man what he wanted? replied the master of the house; "yes, to my sorrow," answered Backbac. "Good blind man," replied the master of the house, "all that I can do "And why, fool," said the man of the house, "do not you answer at first, with me then?" asked Backbac; "I tell you again," said the man of the As Backbac went out of the house, three blind men, his companions, were seated, Backbac said to them, "brothers, we must shut the door, and take robber, who sat at Backbac's right hand, picked out the best, and eat us the half."--"You shall have but a quarter," said Brandt. cache = ./cache/44518.txt txt = ./txt/44518.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 41880 author = Scoville, Samuel title = Wild Folk date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 49826 sentences = 2307 flesch = 83 summary = spite of his funny face and quiet ways, the little coon came of a The fierce chorus came to the hunted ones like a message of death and That day, as they turned away from the brook, Mother Bear stopped and forward, while her two cubs kept close behind like little shadows. The old bear took one long look while her cubs, terrified, crowded from that day forward the old bear was trailed by three cubs instead that time on the stranger led the little band, and the cubs came to the ears of the great bear pricked up, and his deep-set, little eyes until they looked like a great black-and-white pinwheel. snow-white breast, black head, curved wings, and forked tail. saw a dark little figure come out of the water and rush up the long Then the trio of little heads disappeared, and Mother Fox came out and cache = ./cache/41880.txt txt = ./txt/41880.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 44517 author = nan title = Points of Humour, Part 1 (of 2) date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 9867 sentences = 703 flesch = 84 summary = London late in the evening, he stumbled over the body of an old man, King sat, who threw it at the young prince and continued to write. miller had some suspicions, and determined to set them at rest one way As the village clock struck one that night, and as the loving pair were an equally loud; scream from the lady of the miller, who now gave all up She yelled and screamed till the poor man in despair knew not what "_The Devil I have_," returned the miller, in a tone which came up like John of Mengden; a worthy old man, who loved his glass of wine, and had "Let the venerable Lady Abbess come down to me," said the general, as The lady Abbess entreated the old man not to undertake so rash an was allowed; and a knight might tremble in the dark like an old woman, cache = ./cache/44517.txt txt = ./txt/44517.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 41595 author = Crabtre, Addison Darre title = The Funny Side of Physic Or, The Mysteries of Medicine, Presenting the Humorous and Serious Sides of Medical Practice. An Exposé of Medical Humbugs, Quacks, and Charlatans in All Ages and All Countries. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 199735 sentences = 13663 flesch = 79 summary = FEMALE DOCTOR.--A WHITE BLACK MAN.--SQUASHY.--MOTHER'S doctor, who, without a known patient, harnessed his bare-ribbed old horse doctor, spending my days in coffee-houses (where physicians were wont to the entire winter the old doctor made daily visits to his patient. "No, no,--a little more wine, doctor,--some old women, whom any smart man "Have you got any money, young man?" growled the old doctor, wheeling "Sir," said a physician visiting a patient in the suburbs of this city, to if the good old doctor had a moment to spare, he would retail some little Still the old doctor pulled for dear life, and still rose the ghost-like The following day the minister carried the patient to the spanker doctor, "Alas, doctor," said an unfortunate old gentleman, some seventy-four years An old lady once said, "I've hearn say that doctors either are, or are old man, eighty years of age, whose father lived at the time while cache = ./cache/41595.txt txt = ./txt/41595.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 14226 author = Seton, Ernest Thompson title = Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 30071 sentences = 1496 flesch = 87 summary = Redruff's mother knew it was coming as soon as she saw the frost grapes him on a foolish chase away back down the valley of the Don. But Cuddy, as it chanced, came right along, straight for the brood, and Rag had lived his whole life in the swamp (he was three weeks old) Away she went into the woods and the little one Molly was a good little mother and gave him a careful bringing up. On he came at last and Rag met him like a little fury. _Thud, thud_ they came, and down went poor little Rag. In a moment the Swamp they went till Rag had made sure that his mother was hidden safely old fox going round the pond to meet Molly and led him far and away, We were close to the den where the little foxes were, and the old ones cache = ./cache/14226.txt txt = ./txt/14226.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 42228 author = Hamilton-Browne, G. title = Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 86577 sentences = 3617 flesch = 78 summary = "Then the white chief sent word: 'Save your women, let them come I have frequently talked to Maori warriors of their old-time wars, In those good old days, when the inmates of a pah or kainga saw a blood, shed in old-time wars, and on this island they determined, of either white man or Hau Hau, yet that said fighting must be enjoyed them good men, on the ridge to observe the enemy, mounted his horse white men rest, the Hau Haus, far away in the recesses of the bush, staff at that time consisted of six white men, all good and to be went up the hill after the white men, who, having heard the shots, We lost numbers of men this way; and although no officer or man was I had plenty of old hands among my men, both black and white, and on cache = ./cache/42228.txt txt = ./txt/42228.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 47811 author = nan title = "Abe" Lincoln's Anecdotes and Stories A Collection of the Best Stories Told by Lincoln Which Made Him Famous as America's Best Story Teller date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 28461 sentences = 1752 flesch = 81 summary = President Lincoln said he did not know where to place him, and that "General Blank asks for more men," said Secretary of War Stanton and doing things," said President Lincoln one day, "and he is often President's order, the Secretary said: "Did Lincoln give you an order One day an old lady from the country called on President Lincoln, Ward Lamon told this story of President Lincoln, whom he found one day "By the way," remarked President Lincoln one day to Colonel Cannon, a great many people would like to see how 'Abe' Lincoln looked, and, "Come," said Mr. Lincoln, "wait a bit and I'll tell you a story;" Mr. Lincoln once said in a speech: "Fellow citizens, my friend, Mr. Douglas, made the startling announcement today that the Whigs are all "That reminds me of a story," President Lincoln said one day to a "Look here, old gentleman," remarked President Lincoln, who was cache = ./cache/47811.txt txt = ./txt/47811.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 43419 author = Jones, Walter title = Jiglets: A series of sidesplitting gyrations reeled off— date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 15875 sentences = 1518 flesch = 95 summary = "Look here," says Percy, "I never drink water unless it's absolutely "Look here," says he, "I thought you said this water was healthy. Percy finally got enough pancakes and paid his ten cents like a man. "That's all right," says the grocer, "it knows its own way around the "Assulting you?" says he; "you wanted some of the usual and you got it One day a friend of mine came to me and says: "Hello, old man!" says he, "come and have a drink." "I know it," says I, "but I want to know where he's got to." "Sorry, old man, to see you in such a condition last night," says he. "What has her feet got to do with it?" says he, "I'm marrying the girl, "Let me tell you how I got engaged to her," says he. "Ha!" says one of them, "we've got you. cache = ./cache/43419.txt txt = ./txt/43419.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 43355 author = nan title = Mr. Punch's Book of Sport The Humour of Cricket, Football, Tennis, Polo, Croquet, Hockey, Racing, &c date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 13881 sentences = 2032 flesch = 89 summary = CRICKETERS WHO OUGHT TO BE GOOD HANDS AT PLAYING A TIE.--"The Eleven of RIDDLE MADE "ON THE GROUND."--Why are cricket matches like the backs of You may play the game of Cricket, like the men well known to fame, Ye must yield once more to Woman, for the Ladies now play Cricket! [Illustration: OUR VILLAGE CRICKET CLUB.--We had thirty seconds left [Illustration: SUGGESTION FOR THE CRICKET SEASON [Illustration: "CRICKETING INTELLIGENCE."--_Sporting Old Parson_ (_to [Illustration: OUR VILLAGE CRICKET CLUB.--Tom Huggins, of the local fire [Illustration: CRICKET--THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE [Illustration: "DONKEYS HAVE EARS."--_Emily_ (_playing at lawn-tennis [Illustration: LAWN-TENNIS UNDER DIFFICULTIES--"PLAY!" [Illustration: LOVE GAME] [Illustration: A NICE QUIET GAME FOR THE HOME.--This is only a little [Illustration: AN OBJECTIONABLE OLD MAN.--_Young Ladies._ "Going to make [Illustration: Di got me to play hockey. [Illustration: HAPPY THOUGHT.--The good old game of "Hare and Hounds," [Illustration: _Uncle Dick._ "Ah yes, cricket is a fine game, no cache = ./cache/43355.txt txt = ./txt/43355.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 20352 author = Lemon, Mark title = The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 113740 sentences = 9768 flesch = 84 summary = politely making way, replied, "Pass, O Pigmy!"--"O, sir," said the madam," said he, "I have _dropt a guinea_."--"No, sir," replied the written, "Pray, my Lord Chief Justice," said a gentleman present, "what IT has been said that a lady once asked Lord B--g--m who was the best said the minister, "that's my place."--"Come ye up, sir," replied Jamie; "Then," said his friend, "you know him by sight."--"Yes," replied Fraser, to leave this _old_ place."--"Psha, sir," said George, "don't "NATURE has written 'honest man' on his face," said a friend to Jerrold, "PRAY, sir," said Lady Wallace to David Hume, "I am often asked what age JERROLD said to a very thin man, "Sir, you are like a pin, but without attendants, the duke said, "That young man shall have the first good "Quite out, sir, indeed," said her maid in reply, then, you know, a man may be both."--"_So I see, sir_," said Cannon, cache = ./cache/20352.txt txt = ./txt/20352.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 42247 author = Gooch, Richard title = Nuts to crack; or Quips, quirks, anecdote and facete of Oxford and Cambridge Scholars date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 72918 sentences = 4659 flesch = 78 summary = behind St. John's College, Cambridge, wherein the _old Doctor John Franklin, Fellow and Master of Sidney College, Cambridge, Upon the death of a provost of King's College, Cambridge, the fellows Sir Thomas Clayton, whose lady, says Wood, "did put the college to The late vice-master of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Rev. William of Cambridge, says, one of the colleges was at one period so full, "Dining in Pembroke College Hall, New Year's Day, College, Oxford, says Chalmers, the gift of the hospitable Sir Watkins great critic, Dr. Richard Bentley, at Trinity College, Cambridge, for late Master of Trinity College, Bishop Mansel, like himself a wit of The men of St. John's College, Cambridge, like every other society in The present Vice-Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, being told that Taylor, fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Is recorded of the celebrated Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, cache = ./cache/42247.txt txt = ./txt/42247.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 42270 author = Cambridge, Ada title = The Retrospect date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 87859 sentences = 3769 flesch = 76 summary = matter of course to us, young and old, in those far-distant days. our England of all places--at this time of day! Over the road from my bedroom window in her house stood a fine old The other day I saw that house again, and, looking up at the windows, house, young ladies of the old days, I found living still, to remember way with the history of the old families whose homes we passed and with It struck me, as I stood up in Mr B.'s carriage to look at the old house do not for a moment think--that the old times on the whole were better old home--one day so like another that I could not lose myself amongst As I said, the last time I saw the old man was on a Sunday--probably our Naturally I walked away towards the Old End every time. cache = ./cache/42270.txt txt = ./txt/42270.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 38752 author = Firebaugh, Ellen M. title = The Story of a Doctor's Telephone—Told by His Wife date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 52762 sentences = 5430 flesch = 98 summary = "Poor old fellow!" said Mary as she turned from the 'phone, "but I don't She had taken down the receiver when a man's voice said, "The doctor "All right, Mary," said the doctor, gently, seeing that she was quite minutes the doctor was gone and Mary went to bed. When the door had closed behind her Mary asked the other doctor's wife "What is it?" asked the doctor, looking around, and Mary told him with a The doctor's voice came to Mary from the room of the patient. "If the telephone would permit," said Mary, as the doctor answered the "Please 'phone your complaints to the doctor," said Mary, calmly "I was just saying," said Mary, "that the doctor 'phoned me a few The doctor said he would like Mary to go in and she followed him Mary, smiling down at the little questioner, said, "The doctor didn't cache = ./cache/38752.txt txt = ./txt/38752.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 38675 author = Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title = Hoof and Claw date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 57870 sentences = 3087 flesch = 82 summary = For a little, Brown Bull stood irresolute, half inclined to lead his edged his herd back a little way into the host, so that it no longer copper-colored little five-year-old, his son, whose dark eyes danced As Wind-in-the-Night lifted his head the white wolf stopped howling, Wind-in-the-Night had made good going, and was eating up the long miles Before he had gone half a mile, Wind-in-the-Night saw the trail of the Some little time after, a fussy red-winged blackbird came bustling into the man stop abruptly and raise something that looked like a long brown The great brown ram, his eyes nearly starting from his head, came heavy-jawed and almost dog-like face, inconspicuous ears, dark eyes, and the skull, lips curled up from his long white teeth, and half-open eyes topmost pinnacle of Bald Face, the great white-headed eagle stared Mary like that of Brannigan and Long Jackson, who knew so consummately cache = ./cache/38675.txt txt = ./txt/38675.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 42398 author = Holland, Rupert Sargent title = Historic Adventures: Tales from American History date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 71185 sentences = 3441 flesch = 79 summary = Far in the forests of western New York was the camp of a great Indian While the men were building a new boat of skins, Captain Lewis spent a small United States flag to a pole to be carried by one of the men, great Missouri River, a place never before seen by white men. stated that three of Burr's armed boats were anchored near the city, Country people along the river saw the flotilla pass, and sent word United States, and in time Burr saw the men of Texas begin a struggle beside the _Polly_, and the Americans saw a large number of men, Moors asked some friends to come to his house, and ten men, well armed, spent missionary sent to England brought many men and women from that country Some men in the country were insisting that the time had come for the cache = ./cache/42398.txt txt = ./txt/42398.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 45386 author = Adderup, Andrew title = Lincolniana; Or, The Humors of Uncle Abe date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 20775 sentences = 1302 flesch = 83 summary = Uncle Abe, with a sly look toward several of his old Illinois friends, "So you see, gentlemen," said Uncle Abe, moralizing, "I got the blame of in that beautiful new two-story house you have just passed." Uncle Abe "Seems to me, Jeff," said Uncle Abe, "you got the Chicago platform "Yes," said Uncle Abe, looking severely at Bob, "that's the difference "Good morning, Mr. H------," said Uncle Abe. "But you know the reputation of the place--the kitchen?" said Uncle Abe. "Yes," said Uncle Abe, "we've got too many old officers in the army, and "Well, then," said Uncle Abe, with a smile of good humor, "I can do "Let us have the story, Uncle Abe," said one of the crowd, who evidently a good Time coming," a countryman stepped up to Uncle Abe, and said: "Well," said Uncle Abe, "if you think a drop would do him good, let it cache = ./cache/45386.txt txt = ./txt/45386.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 46400 author = Foster, Sophie Lee title = Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 118508 sentences = 6186 flesch = 74 summary = Indian War Period Forts, Battle Fields and Treaty Spots 370 nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress thirty years old, the father of four little ones, stately in person, a General James Jackson had a brother, John, who was in the British Navy All day long there had been a vague unrest in the old colonial home, that time up rode a gallant revolutionary soldier named Captain John On February 14th, 1779, at War Hill, Wilkes County, Georgia, the battle and served as one of Georgia's soldiers line in the Revolutionary War. He was three times married, raised a large family of children whose Many years ago there lived in Virginia a little boy whose name was John of his life, his home was near Augusta at a beautiful country place All this time General Elijah Clarke's right hand man Colonel Hawkins, patriot, soldier, United States senator and Indian cache = ./cache/46400.txt txt = ./txt/46400.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 10347 author = Alvares, Rahul title = Free from School date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 35342 sentences = 2227 flesch = 82 summary = It's not every day that a 16 year old writes a book. lot of time observing the fish at Ashok's shop and getting practical All through the three days I was assigned simple jobs like watching sprayed with water three times a day with a shower pointing upwards so the Pune Snake Park and the idea of my one year sabbatical took root. My first day at the snake park and what an experience! spiders, earthworms and my all-time favourites, crocodiles and snakes. "Sir" as everyone calls him, suggested I start work from the next day Croc Bank is home to thousands of crocodiles, all of them housed in There is, in fact, a big snake pit at the Croc Bank, Much later, when I visited Croc Bank a second time, it was the breeding And on the last day of my stay at Croc Bank the red-eared turtle which cache = ./cache/10347.txt txt = ./txt/10347.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 44263 author = Various title = 500 of the Best Cockney War Stories date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 78070 sentences = 6321 flesch = 89 summary = A German sniper was busy potting at our men in a front-line trench at mile or so behind the line at Ypres, when German shells began to land B. Finch (late London Regiment), 155 High Road, the "bags" and saw our Cockney pal rushing, head down, towards our line One day a heavy shell came over and knocked down my Cockney chum, Tubby The Cockney turned round and replied, "Blimey, ain't I in this blinkin' It came from a little Cockney, a so-called "walking" wounded case. The little Cockney looked up and despite his pain he smiled and said, a section of front line trench near the La Bassée road when a German "One day a young Cockney in the line for the first time was Cockney said: "You're orl right on the old banjo, sergeant, but when it The officer replied in the negative, whereupon the Cockney said, "Well, cache = ./cache/44263.txt txt = ./txt/44263.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 19220 author = Anonymous title = Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 45010 sentences = 2375 flesch = 73 summary = SWIFT, CURRAN, O'LEARY AND O'CONNELL. "Ha, friend," said the Dean, "sharp is the word with you, I fellow?" said the dean, putting his head out of the window; "come up said, "At what time did I order you to open and read a paper directed to Lady Carteret, wife of the Lord Lieutenant, said to Swift, "The air of Dean Swift having preached an assize sermon in Ireland, was invited to Dean Swift is said to have jocularly remarked, that he never preached ladies of the castle were present in the gallery, to witness what Mr. Curran called, in the course of the debate, "this exhibition by "Mr. Yelverton said, that he was proud to call such a man as Dr. O'Leary Like Dean Swift, Father O'Leary relieved, every Monday morning, a number occasion, an old friend of his, who had once belonged to the bar, Mr. K----, a member of a most respectable family, called on O'Connell during cache = ./cache/19220.txt txt = ./txt/19220.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 9250 author = Hawthorne, Nathaniel title = A Book of Autographs date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 6035 sentences = 229 flesch = 61 summary = We have before us a volume of autograph letters, chiefly of soldiers and There are several letters from John Adams, written in a small, hasty, nature was adapted to stand in relation to his country, as man stands Another letter from the same famous hand is addressed to General Palmer, Next, we come to the fragment of a letter by Samuel Adams; an autograph From General Warren we have a letter dated January 14, 1775, only a few of these letters, it was a far more formal age than the present. young men, members of the old colonial families,--gentlemen, as John Lincoln was the type of a New England soldier; a man of fair abilities, General Schuyler writes a letter, under date of February 22, 1780, Their letters, therefore, come to us like material things out of the would History be put to the blush by a volume of autograph letters, like cache = ./cache/9250.txt txt = ./txt/9250.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 46933 author = Pearson, Edmund Lester title = The Librarian at Play date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 38560 sentences = 3203 flesch = 89 summary = "Mrs. Crumpet," I said, "Miss Bixby knows more about that subject in Mrs. Crumpet agreed to wait, while Miss Bixby went for the books. Miss Larkin came into the room just then and asked me to come over to "Now, Willie," she said, "which do you like best, story-books or nature Bunkum." The Library of Congress card went on to say that the book was I told Miss Anderson to keep the book, anyhow, and to have this copy "Will you please ask Miss Bixby to look it up, and let me know as soon sweet' or 'Horrid old thing!' on the fly-leaves of library books. "Please look up the call numbers of any books that you wish in the card Miss V.: "Those books are not allowed to go out of the library." Miss V.: "What book do you want?" Miss Grant: "I'm sure we have some other books that he'll like better cache = ./cache/46933.txt txt = ./txt/46933.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 53691 author = Bagot, A. G. title = Men We Meet in the Field; or, The Bullshire Hounds date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 53832 sentences = 2621 flesch = 83 summary = Minstrel, old boy; ay, Harbinger, good old man," says Sir John, a word "'Say, Harry, the old man killed his fox well to-day," says Charles, the And as Sir John, nodding to the Huntsman, says: "High field Gorse, Tom," that young horse who was pulled out on all occasions;" and old Tom comes "Good morning, Tom. Got the dog-pack out to-day, I see, looking none the Sir John laughs and says: "All right, old boy, you won't see her again Next in order came two hard-riding members with Sir John and Mrs. Talford, and then a whole crowd of horses and ponies, a good many of Last season things very nearly came to a climax, for after drawing Mr. Betteridge's coverts blank three times running, Sir John vowed he would old Tom to Sir John, as the hounds dash into cover. As the word "Home" is given by Sir John, and old Tom rides off amid the cache = ./cache/53691.txt txt = ./txt/53691.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 53882 author = Washington, Amanda Alcenia Strickland title = How Beauty Was Saved, and Other Memories of the Sixties date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 6372 sentences = 343 flesch = 84 summary = Nest." To that school came two young girls to complete a course of This horse the girls rode to school. When she reached the house she noticed a horse and buggy under an old Turning to a soldier he said, "Take that horse from the "Try that horse." Like a flash a thought came to the girl. ordered the girl to get back on that horse and return to the Colonel. of blankets was used by a little colored girl who slept in the house, One day a little girl was reading a story-book on the green lawn in By that time the Federal officers and some of the men were in the house There were five or six bright, pretty girls in the house, In a little while the Federals, the girls, and the family were all After some time the soldiers began to mount their horses, the servant cache = ./cache/53882.txt txt = ./txt/53882.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 44422 author = Timbs, John title = Eccentricities of the Animal Creation. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 89570 sentences = 3914 flesch = 71 summary = Like all animals which live upon insects, the Ant-eaters are Society's Great Ant-eater: the hinge-like manner in which the animal their young animal was their next anxiety; he liked neither fish, flesh, other observations, that certain animals, especially Birds, have not At this time the male bird goes to sea, and collects food for the nature is about to pass from the birds to the fishes. The bird lives on fish, which it darts upon from a considerable height. Birds and quadrupeds, and even fish, are the food of Owls, according to these birds finding food; and they may be observed at this time feeding fish upon which the birds prey go deep into the water during storms, the Fishes, like all other animals, have a very delicate sense of the Little fishes are ordinarily the food of larger marine animals; but a cache = ./cache/44422.txt txt = ./txt/44422.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 38208 author = nan title = The Animal Story Book date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 99995 sentences = 4754 flesch = 82 summary = licked the man's hands, and fawned upon him like a great dog. 'The children call the dog Pritchard,' he said; 'but if you don't like bridge in front of us, Michel,' I said, 'there is a dog very like Next time we came upon Pritchard pointing, Vatrin said, 'I wonder how I think that the time has now come to tell my readers a little about At dinner-time Pritchard came in, followed by an unknown dog, who, Finally came a sad day when the Bishop went away, and dog-life This was good news, and the little dog started home gaily, running, as safer place the following year when nesting time came round again; but The dog watched his master till he disappeared over the little bridge One more story of a little dog--this time an English one--and I have her mistress would care for her little dog to the end of its days. cache = ./cache/38208.txt txt = ./txt/38208.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 9249 author = Hawthorne, Nathaniel title = Dr. Bullivant (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches") date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 2972 sentences = 83 flesch = 51 summary = An old man, his head as white as snow, totters in When therefore the old original stock, the men who the increasing commercial importance of the colonies, whither a new set dissenters no longer dreaded persecution at home, the people of New the people of New England than to those of any other part of the British rather a pleasant idea of New England manners, when this change had the country than in the seaports, and until the people lost the elective old men who had so long possessed their confidence. great influence in the new government, and assisted Sir Edmund Andros, the latter became known, Sir Edmund Andros, Governor-General of New smell, as if it had been kept close prisoner for half a century, and had The New Englanders, years, a gray old man with a stoop in his gait, he continued to sweep cache = ./cache/9249.txt txt = ./txt/9249.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 2284 author = Seton, Ernest Thompson title = Animal Heroes date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 57750 sentences = 3244 flesch = 88 summary = see, not the Dog, but a huge Black Thing with a blazing red eye coming in the loft at the time called: "Here comes that old sap-headed Blue and at times the old longing to get away, came back with twofold power, Dog would have trotted right up to the carcass, an old-time Wolf might The old Wolf crouched a little but sniffed hard with swinging nose; the for a little Coyote, but they could not face the big Wolf last night." With cool weather for the Dogs and Horses to run; with the big Wolf not the snow to the fence of the big black Dog. The hen-hole was shut, and Warhorse, not a little puzzled, sneaked Out leaped the Little Warhorse,--black and white his great ears, easy Wolf went at speed now, but within a mile the white Dog was right cache = ./cache/2284.txt txt = ./txt/2284.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 27887 author = Seton, Ernest Thompson title = Wild Animals at Home date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 45500 sentences = 2937 flesch = 87 summary = are unknown, they find the wild things half tame, little afraid of man, Each time I have come to the Yellowstone Park I have discovered the feet away, they scuttle down out of sight the moment a man, dog or near hills when night time had come. The Prairie-dog range ends near the Park gates. his home, for it is a far-reaching sound, heard half a mile away at Winter was coming on, work was scarce, and Josh went to Gardiner to see a big-tailed form came near and made a little bark at the lantern. a little knoll near a drinking place, we came suddenly on a mother One day as I came into camp in the Shoshonees, east of the Park, an old The old man said: "Well, you sure got it this time. the Bears which came and went in greater numbers as the day was closing. cache = ./cache/27887.txt txt = ./txt/27887.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 58781 author = Wood, Norman B. (Norman Barton) title = Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs From Cofachiqui, the Indian Princess, and Powhatan; down to and including Chief Joseph and Geronimo. Also an answer, from the latest research, of the query, Whence came the Indian? 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Uncle Abe "Seems to me, Jeff," said Uncle Abe, "you got the Chicago platform "Yes," said Uncle Abe, looking severely at Bob, "that''s the difference "Good morning, Mr. H------," said Uncle Abe. "But you know the reputation of the place--the kitchen?" said Uncle Abe. "Yes," said Uncle Abe, "we''ve got too many old officers in the army, and "Well, then," said Uncle Abe, with a smile of good humor, "I can do "Let us have the story, Uncle Abe," said one of the crowd, who evidently a good Time coming," a countryman stepped up to Uncle Abe, and said: "Well," said Uncle Abe, "if you think a drop would do him good, let it id: 34038 author: Alcott, William A. (William Andrus) title: Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician date: words: 123682.0 sentences: 6402.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/34038.txt txt: ./txt/34038.txt summary: fast." A young physician had in the mean time come into the place, and medicine, our good family doctor proposed a tea made from certain sweet then a little water applied to it is as good as any thing."--"But is patient insane with his medicine about half the time, and greatly till he too, like the old man before mentioned, began to beg for cold life long,--I relied not a little on medicine, in various forms, be required by a reasonable man, and till that time, it had not entered recovered in a reasonable time, and is, I believe, alive to this day. In this general way things went on for some time. strong, he said; and had used it in this way for a long time. She returned, at times, to medical advice and medicine; but, so far as I by no means, at the present time, what she had been in her best days. id: 10347 author: Alvares, Rahul title: Free from School date: words: 35342.0 sentences: 2227.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/10347.txt txt: ./txt/10347.txt summary: It''s not every day that a 16 year old writes a book. lot of time observing the fish at Ashok''s shop and getting practical All through the three days I was assigned simple jobs like watching sprayed with water three times a day with a shower pointing upwards so the Pune Snake Park and the idea of my one year sabbatical took root. My first day at the snake park and what an experience! spiders, earthworms and my all-time favourites, crocodiles and snakes. "Sir" as everyone calls him, suggested I start work from the next day Croc Bank is home to thousands of crocodiles, all of them housed in There is, in fact, a big snake pit at the Croc Bank, Much later, when I visited Croc Bank a second time, it was the breeding And on the last day of my stay at Croc Bank the red-eared turtle which id: 19220 author: Anonymous title: Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O''Leary and O''Connell date: words: 45010.0 sentences: 2375.0 pages: flesch: 73.0 cache: ./cache/19220.txt txt: ./txt/19220.txt summary: SWIFT, CURRAN, O''LEARY AND O''CONNELL. "Ha, friend," said the Dean, "sharp is the word with you, I fellow?" said the dean, putting his head out of the window; "come up said, "At what time did I order you to open and read a paper directed to Lady Carteret, wife of the Lord Lieutenant, said to Swift, "The air of Dean Swift having preached an assize sermon in Ireland, was invited to Dean Swift is said to have jocularly remarked, that he never preached ladies of the castle were present in the gallery, to witness what Mr. Curran called, in the course of the debate, "this exhibition by "Mr. Yelverton said, that he was proud to call such a man as Dr. O''Leary Like Dean Swift, Father O''Leary relieved, every Monday morning, a number occasion, an old friend of his, who had once belonged to the bar, Mr. K----, a member of a most respectable family, called on O''Connell during id: 30396 author: Anonymous title: Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches date: words: 45139.0 sentences: 3244.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/30396.txt txt: ./txt/30396.txt summary: late times, one of whose plays, in the original manuscript, is said to said nothing for a long time; but he nodded his head, and Coleridge villa in which the work was written, and which to this day is called The author of this very successful work, (originally published in year, and "as old as the hills;" having led a long life and a merry one. Of all the great original works which appeared during his time, considered four lines a day good work, and was seven years in beating poet was the work of Lord Rochester, and originated in a mistake not THE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D. Carefully selected, with Life of the Author, and original and authentic NIMMO''S POPULAR EDITION OF THE WORKS OF THE POETS. Popular Works by the Author of ''Heaven our Home.'' A Book for Fragments of Time on each Lord''s Day of the Year. id: 48343 author: Anonymous title: Clergymen and Doctors: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches. date: words: 44727.0 sentences: 2728.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/48343.txt txt: ./txt/48343.txt summary: Doctor Hill, a notorious wit, physician, and man of letters, having attendants, the duke said, "That young man shall have the first good Doctor, afterwards Bishop, Kennet preached the funeral sermon of the preaching on Sunday began immediately after the church service ended; Mr. Jeaffreson, in his amusing _Book about Doctors_, tells a good story that from very early times the fee of the physician (like that of the said with much earnestness, ''Good Doctor, give me my sermon, and know usefulness by preaching every year in London, where he excited great day the Doctor, coming to see his patient, asked him if he had followed be more than two days about it, "for," said he, "I shall not live sir," said the Doctor, "take it to him to-night. Fragments of Time on each Lord''s Day of the Year. book is to show how little of the good man can die, and how thoroughly id: 53691 author: Bagot, A. G. title: Men We Meet in the Field; or, The Bullshire Hounds date: words: 53832.0 sentences: 2621.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/53691.txt txt: ./txt/53691.txt summary: Minstrel, old boy; ay, Harbinger, good old man," says Sir John, a word "''Say, Harry, the old man killed his fox well to-day," says Charles, the And as Sir John, nodding to the Huntsman, says: "High field Gorse, Tom," that young horse who was pulled out on all occasions;" and old Tom comes "Good morning, Tom. Got the dog-pack out to-day, I see, looking none the Sir John laughs and says: "All right, old boy, you won''t see her again Next in order came two hard-riding members with Sir John and Mrs. Talford, and then a whole crowd of horses and ponies, a good many of Last season things very nearly came to a climax, for after drawing Mr. Betteridge''s coverts blank three times running, Sir John vowed he would old Tom to Sir John, as the hounds dash into cover. As the word "Home" is given by Sir John, and old Tom rides off amid the id: 21755 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Personal Reminiscences in Book Making, and Some Short Stories date: words: 53254.0 sentences: 2862.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/21755.txt txt: ./txt/21755.txt summary: Ramsgate boat, a lion-like as well as lion-hearted man, who rescued One day, soon after the men had commenced work, it began to blow hard, ring comes to the alarm-bell, and a man or a boy rushes in shouting At such times I came to know that "man wants but thunder comes rolling over the sea, men with hard hands and bronzed The ladder-way by which the men descend to their work is 1230 feet deep. "It''s only the kibbles," said Captain Jan. Up came one and down went the other, passing each other with a dire Here the Captain told me men were at work not far off and he wished to "Looks like dirty weather, skipper," said Dick, pointing to windward. passing a broken-boned man out of a little boat into a smack or steamer which stand in the way of a young man''s success in life, not only id: 40758 author: Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray) title: Genius in Sunshine and Shadow date: words: 83493.0 sentences: 4608.0 pages: flesch: 73.0 cache: ./cache/40758.txt txt: ./txt/40758.txt summary: Buffon''s definition is nearly the same; he says, "Genius is only great great reader, but said that "a man who attempts to read all the new Dr. Darwin, the ingenious English poet, wrote his works, like some eminent English author, tells us that he passed much time in London in poet and dramatist, who wrote the well-known story of his prison life, English poet, experienced a life which reads like fiction.[110] The William Thom was an English poet of genius, but very humbly born. day," says Carlyle; "but the writer of a true poem, like the apostle of who was a hearty admirer and personal friend of the poet, said, "Yes, letters she says, "My life, since the age of fifteen years, has been one Molière''s domestic life, like that of only too many men of genius, and [Footnote 154: Jerrold was but twenty-five years of age when he wrote id: 18934 author: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) title: My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke date: words: 52137.0 sentences: 3458.0 pages: flesch: 86.0 cache: ./cache/18934.txt txt: ./txt/18934.txt summary: At that time I was a school-boy, living with my brother, who was a man. to this day I look so young that people who remember me as a boy now knows it was Jimmy who wrote that?" was what we said when we had lighted wait until the owner returns, no doubt a man who smokes the Arcadia I have said that I always took care not to know how much tobacco I with it--he gazed at the garden tobacco for a time, and then took a pipe Strathmore smoking a good cigar, though we are not told how he came by three times a day, and you yourself admit that it made a new man of you. "''Well, now that I think of it, I was only smoking one cigar a day at "Do you know," said Marriot, looking a little scared, "I thought I would thought--that I was smoking my last pipe. id: 39777 author: Benton, Frank title: Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack Being an Extremely Humorous & Sarcastic Story of the Trials & Tribulations Endured by a Party of Stockmen Making a Shipment from the West to the East. date: words: 36112.0 sentences: 1612.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/39777.txt txt: ./txt/39777.txt summary: and Dillbery Ike got into the ranch with a drive of cattle we found that Eatumup Jake was for getting a can of tomatoes, but old Chuckwagon said Well, we got on the way-car, were hitched on to the cattle train and off The conductor said we would start right away soon as he got where to feed and how much, but Dillbery said the cattle had got used One day while waiting on a sidetrack old Chuckwagon got to telling about got to telling about the breed of their saddle hosses, and some said But old yellow had got trained to going around that mountain, and started for the ranch, old Buck came by again, looking like he was and finally went to sleep; but every time I and the bull got to As time went on Dillbery got times cattle were so tired when they got to Omaha and they were so long id: 24263 author: Billinghurst, Percy J. title: A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 17185 author: Bingley, Thomas title: Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits date: words: 34573.0 sentences: 1386.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/17185.txt txt: ./txt/17185.txt summary: Uncle Thomas resumes his Stories about the Instinct of Animals.--Tells Uncle Thomas relates some Very Remarkable Stories about the Cat; points Uncle Thomas concludes Stories about Instinct with several Interesting Animals.--Tells about the Horse, and of the Immense Herds which are The animal proceeded cautiously, and safely for some time, till coming "But, Uncle Thomas, what can be the use of such animals as white ants? Uncle Thomas relates some Very Remarkable Stories about the Cat; cat kind, such as the lion, tiger, &c.; and though these animals differ Uncle Thomas tells about the Migrating Instinct of Animals.--Of the Uncle Thomas tells about the Migrating Instinct of Animals.--Of the "Uncle Thomas, I heard to-day of a swallow which for many years returned "Which animals do you mean, Uncle Thomas?" "Where do such animals come from, Uncle Thomas." 174 "Where do such animals come from, Uncle Thomas." should end with ? id: 5407 author: Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison title: The Recreations of a Country Parson date: words: 136022.0 sentences: 6123.0 pages: flesch: 75.0 cache: ./cache/5407.txt txt: ./txt/5407.txt summary: put things in the right point of view: but the moral effort to look It is a great thing to write leisurely, and with a general feeling my reader, know better than to think that life is a lottery; but 1. Thinking an artisan a sensible right-minded man, knowing his my readers as a great and thoughtful man, I might here give an You would like to sit here, and look, and think, all day. Still, the great thing about man is the mind; and when I set out come to think as the man who wrote against stooping thought. nature, thinking it to be inert, as ''dead matter.'' To say that man and such a thing is, or is not, ''the true life of man.'' And when living men, and that man has not true and absolute life, are not And sometimes, looking out into days to come, you think id: 21111 author: Brightwen, Mrs. (Eliza Elder) title: Wild Nature Won By Kindness date: words: 45424.0 sentences: 2817.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/21111.txt txt: ./txt/21111.txt summary: In many cases I have kept a wild animal or bird for a few days to learn loss of the cheery little bird, who seemed like a bright ubiquitous returning, the dear little bird lay dead beneath the window, against Whilst I was watching it, a little bird darted with all its force kept in a cage with but little sand and an outside water-glass which box down a little way from the cage on the floor, and placed a small log after year, a lock was placed to the box to protect the little bird; but and with a long feather soon attracted the little animal''s attention; he catch the agile little creature; but one day we saw a cat watching an Autumn is the best time to begin taming such a little friend. a mealworm, four or five times a day, when the bird appears. id: 16945 author: Burke, Kathleen title: The White Road to Verdun date: words: 16736.0 sentences: 814.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/16945.txt txt: ./txt/16945.txt summary: French Commander of the camp told us that the German love of holding On the battlefields the kindness of the French medical men to the German Verdun." General Pétain appeared slightly surprised, and turning to me, The men of the French army have named their kilometres from Verdun, we came on a line of men waiting their turn to of the soldiers of France, whilst her wounds are daily treated and a German cannon there were certainly ten answers from the French guns. same time by the French and the Germans. the men talking little of war, but much of their homes and their hundred shells a day still fall on Verdun, but at the time of the great so there, in the citadel of Verdun with a small French flag before me, I She is indeed a General, saving men for France. Because these women of France have sent their men forth to die, eyes id: 11679 author: Burke, Kathleen title: The White Road to Verdun date: words: 16911.0 sentences: 845.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/11679.txt txt: ./txt/11679.txt summary: The French Commander of the camp told us that the German love On the battlefields the kindness of the French medical men to the France of a French doctor who was attending a wounded German men in a French regiment; he serves many ends. The men of the French Army have named their red wine "pinard," indomitable soul of the soldiers of France, whilst her wounds are find the men talking little of war, but much of their homes and their Ottawa, so there, in the citadel of Verdun with a small French flag French cook who, seeing an English soldier standing by, began to General, saving men for France. small men and women of France. for the men of France. I have spoken much of the men of France, but the women have Because these women of France have sent their men forth to die, id: 23733 author: Burnett, Alfred title: Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive date: words: 79124.0 sentences: 4937.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/23733.txt txt: ./txt/23733.txt summary: Brigadier-General (then Colonel) Lytle, who commanded a brigade during ''He''s a big man, is General Banks,'' said of the rebels, thus placing every able-bodied white man of the South General''s aids, seeing two rebels a little way off, on a by-road, put his horse, when, to the infinite amusement of the staff, young Lu. Steadman (a son of the General, and, though but sixteen years of age, 51st Indiana Regiment, saw one of the old man''s daughters, and said Old Stonnicker and Colonel Marrow, of 3d Ohio -General Old Stonnicker and Colonel Marrow, of 3d Ohio -General "O, come, be a man," said the Colonel; "any thing I can do for you It was said by the boys that at the battle in which General Garnett of the men said he would like something to eat, and went in the house, In the fight at Murfreesboro, General Rosecrans said the 74th Ohio id: 42270 author: Cambridge, Ada title: The Retrospect date: words: 87859.0 sentences: 3769.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/42270.txt txt: ./txt/42270.txt summary: matter of course to us, young and old, in those far-distant days. our England of all places--at this time of day! Over the road from my bedroom window in her house stood a fine old The other day I saw that house again, and, looking up at the windows, house, young ladies of the old days, I found living still, to remember way with the history of the old families whose homes we passed and with It struck me, as I stood up in Mr B.''s carriage to look at the old house do not for a moment think--that the old times on the whole were better old home--one day so like another that I could not lose myself amongst As I said, the last time I saw the old man was on a Sunday--probably our Naturally I walked away towards the Old End every time. id: 1890 author: Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) title: "Speaking of Operations--" date: words: 10466.0 sentences: 597.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/1890.txt txt: ./txt/1890.txt summary: As I look back it seems to me that in childhood''s days all the doctors I asked whether he was acquainted with Doctor Y--Y being a person whom I Being ethical among doctors is practically the same thing Doctor Z also wore whiskers, carefully pointed up by an expert hedge mentioning them to you one by one, whereas any good, live surgeon knows experienced surgeon has you all apart in half the time the tailor takes these times share but one common instinct: If you go to a new surgeon or time I take the head of the table and start in to carve it is fitting many persons who are still living can remember when the doctors were a picture of a person whose stomach was sliced four ways, like a I know not how it may be in the world at large, but in a hospital, id: 38423 author: Conwell, Russell H. title: Why Lincoln Laughed date: words: 25243.0 sentences: 1566.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/38423.txt txt: ./txt/38423.txt summary: I first met Lincoln at the White House during the Civil War. To-day it One day when I was at the White House in conversation with Lincoln a man As we sat there Lincoln opened Artemus Ward''s book and read several things "Because," said Mr. Lincoln, "Old Grimes is dead, that good old man!" The two stories long accredited to Ward at which Mr. Lincoln laughed most Ward once stated that Lincoln told him that he was an expert at raising Lincoln said to me that day, "One glimpse of Ward would make a culprit "The old man came to the door several days after that and said, ''Marse "Good for you, old man!" sed I; "giv that air a conspickius place in the Lincoln said that much of Ward''s humor was of the educational sort. President''s death on April 15, 1865, said that Abraham Lincoln''s humorous id: 41595 author: Crabtre, Addison Darre title: The Funny Side of Physic Or, The Mysteries of Medicine, Presenting the Humorous and Serious Sides of Medical Practice. An Exposé of Medical Humbugs, Quacks, and Charlatans in All Ages and All Countries. date: words: 199735.0 sentences: 13663.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/41595.txt txt: ./txt/41595.txt summary: FEMALE DOCTOR.--A WHITE BLACK MAN.--SQUASHY.--MOTHER''S doctor, who, without a known patient, harnessed his bare-ribbed old horse doctor, spending my days in coffee-houses (where physicians were wont to the entire winter the old doctor made daily visits to his patient. "No, no,--a little more wine, doctor,--some old women, whom any smart man "Have you got any money, young man?" growled the old doctor, wheeling "Sir," said a physician visiting a patient in the suburbs of this city, to if the good old doctor had a moment to spare, he would retail some little Still the old doctor pulled for dear life, and still rose the ghost-like The following day the minister carried the patient to the spanker doctor, "Alas, doctor," said an unfortunate old gentleman, some seventy-four years An old lady once said, "I''ve hearn say that doctors either are, or are old man, eighty years of age, whose father lived at the time while id: 16926 author: Cumming, R. D. (Robert Dalziel) title: Skookum Chuck Fables: Bits of History, Through the Microscope date: words: 37631.0 sentences: 2157.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/16926.txt txt: ./txt/16926.txt summary: She read it fifty times, placed it next her heart and pranced about like intentions Johnny spent the whole day in idleness at the home of Mrs. Peter; and, as it is no insult among the Indians for a buck to propose Hard Times Hance was living on first principles; but then, if a man is his wife, and Hance had fallen into the trap in the usual man-like Sure Man opened his eyes and his ears and his mouth all at the same time dollars in fifty years, which is not very long to a man if he can start Once upon a time in Ashcroft a very foolish young man married a very Once upon a time in Ashcroft there lived a lady who had the wool pulled short time hubby began to consider her in the light of a "white man''s present, but our time becomes the aggregate days and years. id: 889 author: Der Ling, Princess title: Two Years in the Forbidden City date: words: 92920.0 sentences: 4868.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/889.txt txt: ./txt/889.txt summary: Young Empress, wife of the Emperor Kwang Hsu. She said: "Her Majesty has Her Majesty sat talking, we standing, for some little time and she asked When we commenced to eat, Her Majesty ordered the eunuchs to place Majesty, the Young Empress and the Court ladies, and after a long and Her Majesty''s order, so we returned to the Palace three days later. was half over a eunuch came and told me that Her Majesty wanted to see look like." At the same time Her Majesty gave orders for the Imperial The day after our arrival at the Summer Palace Her Majesty said that Please do not move." I told Her Majesty what Miss Carl said, The Young Empress said to me one day: "Her Majesty is very said: "You should not have told Her Majesty about the eunuchs, they are Her Majesty said that the head eunuch had told id: 31078 author: Disraeli, Isaac title: Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 date: words: 232322.0 sentences: 11152.0 pages: flesch: 67.0 cache: ./cache/31078.txt txt: ./txt/31078.txt summary: curious book-lovers will be interested in the personal history of an secret places, and appearing at night, like King Hugon, the great great a work, as his History of the World." Now when the truth is known, the passage, as a curious instance where the secret history of books is secret history of two great works so well known is as sufficient as strictures; the secret history of Rawleigh''s great work had never man of letters, deeply conversant with secret and public history, and a one hand, Sir George Carew, observing the French King''s hesitation, appears by a curious fact noticed in the anonymous life of Sir Philip fatal word _Death_, especially when applied to kings and great people. If we possessed the secret history of the literary life of George history of our English authors, Steevens allowed the good man to insert in Grose''s words, who says:--"He was a man of great good-nature, id: 21615 author: Disraeli, Isaac title: Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 date: words: 202700.0 sentences: 10183.0 pages: flesch: 69.0 cache: ./cache/21615.txt txt: ./txt/21615.txt summary: The success of this work was eminent; and its author appeared for the moral, gloom, to prepare a new edition of his work on the Life and Times Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the writing, having published several curious works on this subject, they In those times, it was a common opinion to suspect every great man of an of his character," observes Prince Hoare, in the life of this great book is a mere play on words, concerning a little volume containing the the present day men of letters are subject to similar misfortunes; for To observe the ridiculous attitudes in which great men appear, author of 109 different works; but it is curious to observe how far our great author of little books_! great taste and spirit, has written on poetry and poets, but he composed From such works these great poets, id: 16349 author: Dunderdale, George title: The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the Early Colonial Life of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, and Others Who Left Their Native Land and Never Returned date: words: 118847.0 sentences: 6136.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/16349.txt txt: ./txt/16349.txt summary: station at Port Fairy, went with two men, named Wilson and Gibbs, in man-of-war that had arrived at Port Jackson, three old men who had a small public-house kept by a man named Burke, a little way down tall stranger came near looked at the group, and said: canal, went away whistling "Old Dan Tucker," and left the question of true-born native of New England, a good young man, always seen at came every day, picking and scratching like an old hen, and went away A beggarly looking young man came a few days That night the two men had a long talk about old times. Davy took a long and steady look, and said: "I am blowed if they One of the men on shore said, "Look at that white-fellow." It is not every man that has a friend like Jack; many men At that time I went with a man from Port Albert to id: 32227 author: Field, Chester title: The Cynic''s Rules of Conduct date: words: 2481.0 sentences: 230.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/32227.txt txt: ./txt/32227.txt summary: be at his office desk making the money to pay for the blow-out. Should the lady''s husband remove his hat keep yours on. Beware of the man who never buys a gold brick. Tell your rich relations how fast you are making money--your poor If you would make a lifelong friend of a man who lives in a hall When playing poker, it is as bad form to wear a coat as it is to be The father gives the bride away, but the small brother would like to. watch a man sitting in a street car where women are standing. It is not good form for a young girl to go to the theatre with a Don''t forget to tell her that she''s "not like other girls." It always Don''t tell a girl that she looks best when wearing a veil. It is not good form to congratulate a girl friend upon her engagement. id: 38752 author: Firebaugh, Ellen M. title: The Story of a Doctor''s Telephone—Told by His Wife date: words: 52762.0 sentences: 5430.0 pages: flesch: 98.0 cache: ./cache/38752.txt txt: ./txt/38752.txt summary: "Poor old fellow!" said Mary as she turned from the ''phone, "but I don''t She had taken down the receiver when a man''s voice said, "The doctor "All right, Mary," said the doctor, gently, seeing that she was quite minutes the doctor was gone and Mary went to bed. When the door had closed behind her Mary asked the other doctor''s wife "What is it?" asked the doctor, looking around, and Mary told him with a The doctor''s voice came to Mary from the room of the patient. "If the telephone would permit," said Mary, as the doctor answered the "Please ''phone your complaints to the doctor," said Mary, calmly "I was just saying," said Mary, "that the doctor ''phoned me a few The doctor said he would like Mary to go in and she followed him Mary, smiling down at the little questioner, said, "The doctor didn''t id: 46400 author: Foster, Sophie Lee title: Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends date: words: 118508.0 sentences: 6186.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/46400.txt txt: ./txt/46400.txt summary: Indian War Period Forts, Battle Fields and Treaty Spots 370 nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress thirty years old, the father of four little ones, stately in person, a General James Jackson had a brother, John, who was in the British Navy All day long there had been a vague unrest in the old colonial home, that time up rode a gallant revolutionary soldier named Captain John On February 14th, 1779, at War Hill, Wilkes County, Georgia, the battle and served as one of Georgia''s soldiers line in the Revolutionary War. He was three times married, raised a large family of children whose Many years ago there lived in Virginia a little boy whose name was John of his life, his home was near Augusta at a beautiful country place All this time General Elijah Clarke''s right hand man Colonel Hawkins, patriot, soldier, United States senator and Indian id: 42247 author: Gooch, Richard title: Nuts to crack; or Quips, quirks, anecdote and facete of Oxford and Cambridge Scholars date: words: 72918.0 sentences: 4659.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/42247.txt txt: ./txt/42247.txt summary: behind St. John''s College, Cambridge, wherein the _old Doctor John Franklin, Fellow and Master of Sidney College, Cambridge, Upon the death of a provost of King''s College, Cambridge, the fellows Sir Thomas Clayton, whose lady, says Wood, "did put the college to The late vice-master of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Rev. William of Cambridge, says, one of the colleges was at one period so full, "Dining in Pembroke College Hall, New Year''s Day, College, Oxford, says Chalmers, the gift of the hospitable Sir Watkins great critic, Dr. Richard Bentley, at Trinity College, Cambridge, for late Master of Trinity College, Bishop Mansel, like himself a wit of The men of St. John''s College, Cambridge, like every other society in The present Vice-Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, being told that Taylor, fellow of St. John''s College, Cambridge. Is recorded of the celebrated Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, id: 33687 author: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) title: Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom date: words: 94158.0 sentences: 4056.0 pages: flesch: 73.0 cache: ./cache/33687.txt txt: ./txt/33687.txt summary: MAMMALIA, or sucking animals; as, man; bats, monkeys, bears, animal had probably travelled some distance to the place where he was Once, however, the animal escaped, and followed his master to the having discovered the retreat of the animal, takes his dog along with "In the year 1749," says Kahn, "one of these animals came near the farm yet, the moment the man''s voice was heard, the faithful animal set up This animal, which is the size of a large dog, belongs to Africa. piece for some time, and the ball fell before it reached the animal. himself; but the affectionate animal soon discovered his hiding-place, animals, with their heads and trunks just appearing above the water. animals in the night, they kept close within their houses till Some animal, it appeared, had taken fright at a dog, and, by a sudden dog, animal, or man, can approach the nest without being attacked. id: 747 author: Gould, George M. (George Milbrey) title: Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine date: words: 399137.0 sentences: 18605.0 pages: flesch: 66.0 cache: ./cache/747.txt txt: ./txt/747.txt summary: years to the ordinary time of puberty, many cases are recorded. child; and Warner''s case of the Jewish girl three and a half years old, Smellie mentions the case of a black woman who had twins, one child case of a two-year-old child, born in the sixth month of pregnancy. out successfully four times in the same woman; Chisholm mentions a case speaks of a case in which a child was born half an hour after the death reported the case of a healthy woman, thirty-five years old, 5 feet 1 Weil reported the case of a man of twenty-two years who was born with who lived four days; and Le Duc records a case of a child born without of a case of a child twenty-two months old, who suffered for some time Thomas has reported the case of a man sixty-five years old who in an id: 42228 author: Hamilton-Browne, G. title: Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion date: words: 86577.0 sentences: 3617.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/42228.txt txt: ./txt/42228.txt summary: "Then the white chief sent word: ''Save your women, let them come I have frequently talked to Maori warriors of their old-time wars, In those good old days, when the inmates of a pah or kainga saw a blood, shed in old-time wars, and on this island they determined, of either white man or Hau Hau, yet that said fighting must be enjoyed them good men, on the ridge to observe the enemy, mounted his horse white men rest, the Hau Haus, far away in the recesses of the bush, staff at that time consisted of six white men, all good and to be went up the hill after the white men, who, having heard the shots, We lost numbers of men this way; and although no officer or man was I had plenty of old hands among my men, both black and white, and on id: 9249 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Dr. Bullivant (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches") date: words: 2972.0 sentences: 83.0 pages: flesch: 51.0 cache: ./cache/9249.txt txt: ./txt/9249.txt summary: An old man, his head as white as snow, totters in When therefore the old original stock, the men who the increasing commercial importance of the colonies, whither a new set dissenters no longer dreaded persecution at home, the people of New the people of New England than to those of any other part of the British rather a pleasant idea of New England manners, when this change had the country than in the seaports, and until the people lost the elective old men who had so long possessed their confidence. great influence in the new government, and assisted Sir Edmund Andros, the latter became known, Sir Edmund Andros, Governor-General of New smell, as if it had been kept close prisoner for half a century, and had The New Englanders, years, a gray old man with a stoop in his gait, he continued to sweep id: 9250 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: A Book of Autographs date: words: 6035.0 sentences: 229.0 pages: flesch: 61.0 cache: ./cache/9250.txt txt: ./txt/9250.txt summary: We have before us a volume of autograph letters, chiefly of soldiers and There are several letters from John Adams, written in a small, hasty, nature was adapted to stand in relation to his country, as man stands Another letter from the same famous hand is addressed to General Palmer, Next, we come to the fragment of a letter by Samuel Adams; an autograph From General Warren we have a letter dated January 14, 1775, only a few of these letters, it was a far more formal age than the present. young men, members of the old colonial families,--gentlemen, as John Lincoln was the type of a New England soldier; a man of fair abilities, General Schuyler writes a letter, under date of February 22, 1780, Their letters, therefore, come to us like material things out of the would History be put to the blush by a volume of autograph letters, like id: 42398 author: Holland, Rupert Sargent title: Historic Adventures: Tales from American History date: words: 71185.0 sentences: 3441.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/42398.txt txt: ./txt/42398.txt summary: Far in the forests of western New York was the camp of a great Indian While the men were building a new boat of skins, Captain Lewis spent a small United States flag to a pole to be carried by one of the men, great Missouri River, a place never before seen by white men. stated that three of Burr''s armed boats were anchored near the city, Country people along the river saw the flotilla pass, and sent word United States, and in time Burr saw the men of Texas begin a struggle beside the _Polly_, and the Americans saw a large number of men, Moors asked some friends to come to his house, and ten men, well armed, spent missionary sent to England brought many men and women from that country Some men in the country were insisting that the time had come for the id: 27933 author: Hulbert, William Davenport title: Forest Neighbors: Life Stories of Wild Animals date: words: 54536.0 sentences: 2356.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/27933.txt txt: ./txt/27933.txt summary: the woods of Northern Michigan, my father came upon a little lake which My brother came in one day from a long tramp on snow-shoes, which a certain old beaver always left the water in going to his night''s about the time he left his old home; and this, by the way, is a very The Beaver was at work in the woods not very far away, and presently he One bright February day the Beaver and his wife left their lodge to look all round the wood-pile, looking for a way out, and poking his little beaver-trap, jumped for deep water, and was drowned like his father river was working night and day to carry the water out of the woods. pleasant time, and enjoying the touch of the cold water as it went The summer passed, and half the autumn; the first snow came and went, id: 29020 author: Hutton, Laurence title: A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs date: words: 21594.0 sentences: 1039.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/29020.txt txt: ./txt/29020.txt summary: the great wonderment of The Boy, who to this day, after many years of The Boy was always a little bit afraid of his father, while he loved and The Boy was red-headed and long-nosed, even from the beginning--a shy, 1848 or 1849, and The Boy went to his father''s store in Hudson Street, In his mind''s eye The Boy, at the end of forty years, can see it all; [Illustration: THE HOUSE OF THE BOY''S GRANDFATHER--CORNER OF HUDSON moved to Hubert Street, when The Boy was about ten years old; and for this day The Boy would go miles out of his way rather than pass Dr. Castle''s house. In later years, when Bob and The Boy could swim--a little--and had The Boy never walked along the streets of London by his father''s side [Illustration: THE BOY''S FATHER] put his gentle hand upon The Boy''s little red head, and said: "Whatever id: 27785 author: Jeaffreson, John Cordy title: A Book About Lawyers date: words: 136253.0 sentences: 5395.0 pages: flesch: 65.0 cache: ./cache/27785.txt txt: ./txt/27785.txt summary: Having won the lady and married her, Mr. Philip Yorke brought her home to a ''very small house'' near Lincoln''s In Milk Street, Cheapside, lived Sir John More, judge in the Court of died on April 15, 1733; twelve years after Sir John Pratt, Lord Camden''s On becoming Lord Ellenborough and Chief Justice, Edward Law moved to a first time in the Old Bailey, when Sir William Scott and Lord The common law chiefs were slow to follow in the Lord Keeper''s steps, houses or mansions to live in, as they have now (called Inns of Court), In Lord Chancellor King''s time, amongst the fees and perquisites which judges, called Lord Justices, two additional Vice Chancellors, and a palaces, the Inns of Court set apart certain days of the year for Any person familiar with the Inns of Court at the present time will see id: 858 author: Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) title: Stage-Land date: words: 19395.0 sentences: 1173.0 pages: flesch: 86.0 cache: ./cache/858.txt txt: ./txt/858.txt summary: The stage hero never talks in a simple, straightforward way, like a mere myself, murder the good old man, get the hero accused of the crime, The chief duty of the comic man''s life is to make love to servant-girls, The good stage lawyer also wipes away a tear when sad things happen; and The good stage lawyer is never by any chance a married man. the stage young man who is coming home to see his girl. She is going to marry the man-servant, is the stage servant-girl, as They quarrel a good deal over their love-making, do the stage The comic lovers are often very young, and when people on the stage are your mother''s hair," says the good old man, feeling the girl''s head all The people on the stage think very highly of the good old man, but they similarities, is that the good old man is in reality the stage hero id: 43419 author: Jones, Walter title: Jiglets: A series of sidesplitting gyrations reeled off— date: words: 15875.0 sentences: 1518.0 pages: flesch: 95.0 cache: ./cache/43419.txt txt: ./txt/43419.txt summary: "Look here," says Percy, "I never drink water unless it''s absolutely "Look here," says he, "I thought you said this water was healthy. Percy finally got enough pancakes and paid his ten cents like a man. "That''s all right," says the grocer, "it knows its own way around the "Assulting you?" says he; "you wanted some of the usual and you got it One day a friend of mine came to me and says: "Hello, old man!" says he, "come and have a drink." "I know it," says I, "but I want to know where he''s got to." "Sorry, old man, to see you in such a condition last night," says he. "What has her feet got to do with it?" says he, "I''m marrying the girl, "Let me tell you how I got engaged to her," says he. "Ha!" says one of them, "we''ve got you. id: 20352 author: Lemon, Mark title: The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings date: words: 113740.0 sentences: 9768.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/20352.txt txt: ./txt/20352.txt summary: politely making way, replied, "Pass, O Pigmy!"--"O, sir," said the madam," said he, "I have _dropt a guinea_."--"No, sir," replied the written, "Pray, my Lord Chief Justice," said a gentleman present, "what IT has been said that a lady once asked Lord B--g--m who was the best said the minister, "that''s my place."--"Come ye up, sir," replied Jamie; "Then," said his friend, "you know him by sight."--"Yes," replied Fraser, to leave this _old_ place."--"Psha, sir," said George, "don''t "NATURE has written ''honest man'' on his face," said a friend to Jerrold, "PRAY, sir," said Lady Wallace to David Hume, "I am often asked what age JERROLD said to a very thin man, "Sir, you are like a pin, but without attendants, the duke said, "That young man shall have the first good "Quite out, sir, indeed," said her maid in reply, then, you know, a man may be both."--"_So I see, sir_," said Cannon, id: 1864 author: Lodge, Henry Cabot title: Hero Tales from American History date: words: 53000.0 sentences: 2401.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/1864.txt txt: ./txt/1864.txt summary: to be a great nation whenever her young men cease to possess energy, States, all men turned to Washington to stand at the head of the new country through a great civil war, was then able to build up a new and a great force of Indians from the lakes, Boone commanded the left wing. hundred fighting men-British regulars, French partizans, and Indians. army of over seven thousand men, and accompanied by a large force of a neutral port, when four British war-vessels, a ship of the line, a men of iron courage and great bodily powers, skilled in the use of their Hyde gave the orders to left face and forward and the Maine men marched regiment just in time to see a long line of men in gray rise from behind great ironclad rams as the men of the Union did in building the monitors id: 10389 author: Long, William J. (William Joseph) title: Northern Trails, Book I. date: words: 30324.0 sentences: 1152.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/10389.txt txt: ./txt/10389.txt summary: record of a big white wolf killing a young caribou by snapping at the record of a big wolf killing a young caribou by biting into the chest moonlight; far away, like a vague shadow, a handful of little gray look, and the old wolf in her daily hunts often crossed the deep path little Mooka and Noel could listen for hours to Old Tomah''s animal she knew, the old she-wolf, like most mother animals in the presence of A new experience had come to the little wolf cubs in a single away easily with the cubs, circling to join the mother wolf, which back, driving the cubs and the old he-wolf away like a flock of sheep. kill, the cubs, led by the mother wolf, would hunt half of the day and had been a good time for the wolf cubs, as for most wild animals; and id: 36879 author: Meller, Henry James title: Nicotiana; Or, The Smoker''s and Snuff-Taker''s Companion date: words: 25919.0 sentences: 1427.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/36879.txt txt: ./txt/36879.txt summary: Now, in regard to snuff, that like smoking is so much abused, coming under Snuff was manufactured and consumed in great quantities in France, long Tobacco is a lawyer--his pipes do love long cases, But no tobacco or snuff shall be And no tobacco or snuff shall be imported, except at London, Bristol, Every manufacturer of tobacco or snuff shall take out a licence from the Every person who shall first become a manufacturer of tobacco or snuff, And every dealer in tobacco and snuff shall take out a licence in like Every person who shall manufacture or deal in tobacco or snuff without "For the taking of fumes by pipes, as in tobacco and other things, to tobacco, whether smoked or taken as snuff, exercises a very considerable who was remarkable for the quantity of tobacco he smoked, that though he _Pipes._--In reference to these essentials to smoking tobacco, a great id: 28101 author: Paine, Albert Bigelow title: The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a Home date: words: 26620.0 sentences: 1642.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/28101.txt txt: ./txt/28101.txt summary: Metropolis the Little Woman bought papers of the train boy and began to ground-floor flat--a gaudy little place--the only one in the house both said some things that I suppose we shall regret to our dying day. We were settled at last, and our little place looked clean and more like As I have said, the Little Woman selected our next home. The Precious Ones began to demand food and the Little Woman Little Woman when we went, and gave the Precious Ones some indigestible days of anxious waiting, the Little Woman went out to discuss the The Little Woman said that in the morning she altogether certain that the Little Woman and the Precious Ones could But the Little Woman declared she would never live in another place point these things out to the Little Woman. I suggested to the Little Woman one day that it would be in the nature id: 46933 author: Pearson, Edmund Lester title: The Librarian at Play date: words: 38560.0 sentences: 3203.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/46933.txt txt: ./txt/46933.txt summary: "Mrs. Crumpet," I said, "Miss Bixby knows more about that subject in Mrs. Crumpet agreed to wait, while Miss Bixby went for the books. Miss Larkin came into the room just then and asked me to come over to "Now, Willie," she said, "which do you like best, story-books or nature Bunkum." The Library of Congress card went on to say that the book was I told Miss Anderson to keep the book, anyhow, and to have this copy "Will you please ask Miss Bixby to look it up, and let me know as soon sweet'' or ''Horrid old thing!'' on the fly-leaves of library books. "Please look up the call numbers of any books that you wish in the card Miss V.: "Those books are not allowed to go out of the library." Miss V.: "What book do you want?" Miss Grant: "I''m sure we have some other books that he''ll like better id: 7427 author: Pittenger, William title: Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way date: words: 31755.0 sentences: 2193.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/7427.txt txt: ./txt/7427.txt summary: any man can make a good speech of this character. utterance, if he can tell a good story, the average dinner party will SOME A B C DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING SPEECHES, TOASTS, AND RESPONSES SOME A B C DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING SPEECHES, TOASTS, AND RESPONSES general speech-making, but in pleasant after-dinner talking and addresses "The Nation," to any Great Man of the Past, to "Liberty," to "Free Speech," OUTLINE OF A SPEECH IN RESPONSE TO THE TOAST "THE DAY WE CELEBRATE" Statesman--to The Greatest of Good Men and the Best of Great Men. THOUGHTS FOR A SPEECH IN RESPONSE TO THE TOAST "WASHINGTON: GREAT AS A the great father of his country had a little style about him," said the bad taste to spend more time in telling our guests how good and great we The speech closes with thanks and good wishes in return. id: 29349 author: Rees, Alfred Wellesley title: Creatures of the Night: A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain date: words: 83121.0 sentences: 3094.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/29349.txt txt: ./txt/29349.txt summary: Wild life at night--Long watching--A "set" with numerous inhabitants--The Autumn passed on towards winter, the nights were long, the great harvest diving across-stream, just as an old fox, when hunting in the woods, first, like a young fox that, till he learns the fear of dogs and men, A certain vole, living in the river-bank near the place where the blossomed in the hedge-bank near the field-vole''s home, and the lark, in the winter days far more frequently than did the field-voles. Kweek, the little field-vole, asleep in his hidden nest beneath the woodland home; and even the narrow path from the field-voles'' burrow to autumn night, and lay in the shadow of the stone where the old male vole first the mother badger brought a rabbit home, she placed it close old fox came from the edge of the wood; and then for some time all was id: 28530 author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title: Kings in Exile date: words: 60353.0 sentences: 3334.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/28530.txt txt: ./txt/28530.txt summary: Bull''s, was long, close-haired, and massively horse-faced, with a low-hung head and answer their staring eyes with a kind of heavy fury, [Illustration: "When the grizzly saw her, his wicked little dark eyes When the grizzly saw her, his wicked little dark eyes glowed suddenly Whereupon the tiger half rose, opened his great red mouth like a but it looked like him; and the puma''s piercing eyes grew almost Why had the great gray wolf, who faced and pulled down the bull moose, He turned and looked Kane straight in the eyes. One long look at the great wolf''s disappeared over the edge of a ledge which looked to Horner like a With an obstinate look in his eyes, Horner began to work his way along When Horner resumed his climbing, the great bird turned his head and deliberately, turned his head, and looked him steadily in the eyes. id: 29839 author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title: The House in the Water: A Book of Animal Stories date: words: 52076.0 sentences: 2942.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/29839.txt txt: ./txt/29839.txt summary: night-silence, the Boy at once said to himself, "Beavers, at work!" He The Boy crept forward like a cat, his gray eyes shining with beaver appeared over the edge of the dam, not ten feet away, and "Bless your old heart, Jabe!" said the Boy. the pond, washing up to the Boy''s feet on the crest of the dam, and When Jabe was gone, the Boy went straight up-stream to the dam, taking The Boy had timed his coming none too early; for the pond had dropped From the mended dam the Boy now led Jabe away up-stream in haste, in As Jabe finished they came in sight of a long, rather low dam, with a family," suggested the Boy, when Jabe had come to a long pause, either "I''m glad _you_ don''t trap them that way, Jabe!" said the Boy. FOR three days more the Boy and Jabe remained in the beaver country; id: 25718 author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title: The Watchers of the Trails: A Book of Animal Life date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 34454 author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title: The Secret Trails date: words: 39628.0 sentences: 2292.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/34454.txt txt: ./txt/34454.txt summary: same time watching Fluellyn out of the corner of its wicked little eye. feet of it, it jerked its long tail into the air, and at the same time right fore-hoof high above its head and struck like a flash at Peddler''s forth upon the stillness, the great bull''s eyes and nostrils opened wide moment, with a long, red gash half-way down his flank, he was fighting Her wide-set eyes, like the red bow of her mouth, were kind and The Man came forward to meet her, his eyes paying without stint the to make up their minds that they liked Jackson better than the bears, it, eyeing first the bears and then the rabbits. the victim Buck opened his half-closed eyes and gave a snort of For a good hour Murray followed the trail of the two bears, at times like fire, came into view, following hard upon the rabbit''s trail. id: 32545 author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title: The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life date: words: 70390.0 sentences: 3810.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/32545.txt txt: ./txt/32545.txt summary: the edges of the sea, where the great waters kept air-holes open through the ice-fields, the old she-bear, with her cub close at her heels, moved eyes, as with narrow, snaky head thrust forward and jaws half-parted Among the little stones close to shore, where the water was hardly more By this time the little salmon was between two and three inches long. the night air, a black bear crept down to the water''s edge on one side The little lake, long and narrow, and set in a cleft of the deep forest, When he came to the surface and shook the water out of his eyes, Mahoney eyes, hungry with long loneliness; the little white church, with shining When the white bear, swimming under water outstretched like an otter, saw the big white form swimming at the surface some little distance But the fierce little eyes of the bear, dark and glinting red, were not id: 38675 author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title: Hoof and Claw date: words: 57870.0 sentences: 3087.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/38675.txt txt: ./txt/38675.txt summary: For a little, Brown Bull stood irresolute, half inclined to lead his edged his herd back a little way into the host, so that it no longer copper-colored little five-year-old, his son, whose dark eyes danced As Wind-in-the-Night lifted his head the white wolf stopped howling, Wind-in-the-Night had made good going, and was eating up the long miles Before he had gone half a mile, Wind-in-the-Night saw the trail of the Some little time after, a fussy red-winged blackbird came bustling into the man stop abruptly and raise something that looked like a long brown The great brown ram, his eyes nearly starting from his head, came heavy-jawed and almost dog-like face, inconspicuous ears, dark eyes, and the skull, lips curled up from his long white teeth, and half-open eyes topmost pinnacle of Bald Face, the great white-headed eagle stared Mary like that of Brannigan and Long Jackson, who knew so consummately id: 35513 author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title: The Ledge on Bald Face date: words: 46097.0 sentences: 2963.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/35513.txt txt: ./txt/35513.txt summary: "But we''ll just call you Woolly Billy for short," said Tug Blackstock. gleam of intimate confidence for Tug Blackstock and the big black dog. Come on, Jim," said Blackstock, stepping out But Blackstock only shook his head slowly, and called the big black "Take a good look at him, Jim," said Blackstock. as Woolly Billy, so long as she knew he had Jim to look after him. "It''s all right, Jim. Come with me," said Woolly Billy, tugging at the mill-hands turned away, leaving Long Jackson and big Andy Stevens, the Long an'' Jim an'' me, we''ll follow the trail o'' the bear right round Last of all came in Long Jackson, with Jim. Blackstock slipped the Says I to myself, ef Jim smells Black Dan in that bear trail, "Jim likes the bear, sir, _doesn''t_ he?" suggested Woolly Billy, to Jim stretched at his feet, Tug Blackstock felt that Brine''s Rip, for id: 41036 author: Scoville, Samuel title: Brave Deeds of Union Soldiers date: words: 72133.0 sentences: 3658.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/41036.txt txt: ./txt/41036.txt summary: Union men gave a cheer, followed their little leader, breaking clear rear guard of the Union force and the Confederate''s under General Confederate Army while the rear guard of the retreating Union forces suspect men coming out of a Confederate city to be Union soldiers. little time could be gained the Union men could burn the Oostinaula a little band of men who were brave enough to stand against an army and Confederates had the advantage of the breastworks and the Union men As the news came that the Union men were giving way, they "There was a little city and few men within it and there came a great "General," he said, "those men were Confederates." men who manned the little wall across the path, but the slave regiments Jackson with thirty thousand men marched half-way round the Union Army. Confederate forces long enough to let his men cross. id: 41880 author: Scoville, Samuel title: Wild Folk date: words: 49826.0 sentences: 2307.0 pages: flesch: 83.0 cache: ./cache/41880.txt txt: ./txt/41880.txt summary: spite of his funny face and quiet ways, the little coon came of a The fierce chorus came to the hunted ones like a message of death and That day, as they turned away from the brook, Mother Bear stopped and forward, while her two cubs kept close behind like little shadows. The old bear took one long look while her cubs, terrified, crowded from that day forward the old bear was trailed by three cubs instead that time on the stranger led the little band, and the cubs came to the ears of the great bear pricked up, and his deep-set, little eyes until they looked like a great black-and-white pinwheel. snow-white breast, black head, curved wings, and forked tail. saw a dark little figure come out of the water and rush up the long Then the trio of little heads disappeared, and Mother Fox came out and id: 31880 author: Scrici title: Physiology of the Opera date: words: 18830.0 sentences: 741.0 pages: flesch: 64.0 cache: ./cache/31880.txt txt: ./txt/31880.txt summary: The tenor, basso, prima donna and baritone may be considered as Sometimes the tenor is seen riding out with the prima donna, with whom a winter night; until the young gentlemen have jammed their opera hats Another effect of a beautiful prima donna, is to make young husbands, admiring the courage of the little tenor (the outlaw), which they and the prima donna to follow him up in order to raise his head on her ill-fated young man is placed by the side of Miss Smith''s mother, a that prima donna against the whole world; whereupon Miss Smith with one the word "stupid," Miss Smith makes no reply, but merely looks at Mr. Brown as if she had not the slightest idea whatever that a very personal the point of cutting off his head, but a very prima donna like looking he is just going to be married to the prima donna like looking lady, id: 27887 author: Seton, Ernest Thompson title: Wild Animals at Home date: words: 45500.0 sentences: 2937.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/27887.txt txt: ./txt/27887.txt summary: are unknown, they find the wild things half tame, little afraid of man, Each time I have come to the Yellowstone Park I have discovered the feet away, they scuttle down out of sight the moment a man, dog or near hills when night time had come. The Prairie-dog range ends near the Park gates. his home, for it is a far-reaching sound, heard half a mile away at Winter was coming on, work was scarce, and Josh went to Gardiner to see a big-tailed form came near and made a little bark at the lantern. a little knoll near a drinking place, we came suddenly on a mother One day as I came into camp in the Shoshonees, east of the Park, an old The old man said: "Well, you sure got it this time. the Bears which came and went in greater numbers as the day was closing. id: 14226 author: Seton, Ernest Thompson title: Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen date: words: 30071.0 sentences: 1496.0 pages: flesch: 87.0 cache: ./cache/14226.txt txt: ./txt/14226.txt summary: Redruff''s mother knew it was coming as soon as she saw the frost grapes him on a foolish chase away back down the valley of the Don. But Cuddy, as it chanced, came right along, straight for the brood, and Rag had lived his whole life in the swamp (he was three weeks old) Away she went into the woods and the little one Molly was a good little mother and gave him a careful bringing up. On he came at last and Rag met him like a little fury. _Thud, thud_ they came, and down went poor little Rag. In a moment the Swamp they went till Rag had made sure that his mother was hidden safely old fox going round the pond to meet Molly and led him far and away, We were close to the den where the little foxes were, and the old ones id: 3031 author: Seton, Ernest Thompson title: Wild Animals I Have Known date: words: 52526.0 sentences: 2622.0 pages: flesch: 86.0 cache: ./cache/3031.txt txt: ./txt/3031.txt summary: Next day I was at the same place, and as the crows came near I raised my to sit on went bobbing away through the woods, of course Rag ran his now far-away red-tail, "for there it hides night and day in the runway On he came at last and Rag met him like a little fury. Thud, thud they came, and down went poor little Rag. In a moment the Swamp they went till Rag had made sure that his mother was hidden safely old fox going round the pond to meet Molly and led him far and away, A man living as far away as Petrel said he saw a large black wolf "Bingo--Bing--old--boy--Fetch me the trap wrench!" Away he went and little foxes were, and the old ones were taking turns in trying to lead Her little ones were one day old but already quick on id: 2284 author: Seton, Ernest Thompson title: Animal Heroes date: words: 57750.0 sentences: 3244.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/2284.txt txt: ./txt/2284.txt summary: see, not the Dog, but a huge Black Thing with a blazing red eye coming in the loft at the time called: "Here comes that old sap-headed Blue and at times the old longing to get away, came back with twofold power, Dog would have trotted right up to the carcass, an old-time Wolf might The old Wolf crouched a little but sniffed hard with swinging nose; the for a little Coyote, but they could not face the big Wolf last night." With cool weather for the Dogs and Horses to run; with the big Wolf not the snow to the fence of the big black Dog. The hen-hole was shut, and Warhorse, not a little puzzled, sneaked Out leaped the Little Warhorse,--black and white his great ears, easy Wolf went at speed now, but within a mile the white Dog was right id: 24541 author: Smith, Henry Bascom title: Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 21198 author: Spooner, Shearjashub title: Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) date: words: 76210.0 sentences: 3049.0 pages: flesch: 65.0 cache: ./cache/21198.txt txt: ./txt/21198.txt summary: satisfactory works of Art, and come much nearer to historical painting. This residence for five years among the best works of the great masters painted or stuccoed and statues, tripods, and other works of art, called it ''a sketch for a large picture.'' Sir Thomas said little, but painter was at work on the hand of one of his pictures; he turned to the Salvator Rosa painted history, landscape, battle-pieces, and sea-ports; At the time of Salvator Rosa''s return to Rome says Pascoli, he figured having worked a long time on a picture and finished it with great care, His stated work for a time was making drawings from pictures At another time, having promised to paint a picture for M. painters to Florence, for the purpose of restoring the art of painting, This great artist, one of the fathers of modern painting, was born at Vernet calls it painting pictures, and he is id: 18383 author: Spooner, Shearjashub title: Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) date: words: 83322.0 sentences: 3451.0 pages: flesch: 67.0 cache: ./cache/18383.txt txt: ./txt/18383.txt summary: the finest works of Caravaggio, the Paintings of the great hall, a spent some time at Venice, studying with great attention the works of still desirous of executing some great work, proposed to the king best," replied the Moor; and so Philip sent him Blas de Prado to Fez. There he painted various works for the palace, and a portrait of the he sent him to Portugal, to paint the portraits of King John III., picture which Agostino painted was his celebrated Communion of St. Jerome which Napoleon placed in the Louvre, but is now in the gallery at visited by artists or persons skilled in works of art, "by whose success in painting; some, full of admiration for the works of antiquity his Works as a Painter, iii, 229; his Works at Paris, iii, 276; his Admirable Works, iii, 146; Present Value of his Works, iii, 147; id: 17567 author: St. Mars, F. title: The Way of the Wild date: words: 94071.0 sentences: 4552.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/17567.txt txt: ./txt/17567.txt summary: The owl came up behind, going like a cloud-shadow, and it, and yelling like several shrews, got too close, it turned its head, The hedgehog saw its eyes shining like stars in a little jet of fighting wild-duck coming up from the sea to feed--"spoke" like swords bird-thing of the night cried out suddenly, very far away in the sky, the fact away; and by the time he shot up a tree, like a long, rippling, I like to think of what that little, long, crippled female genet did like a cat, as was his way, what time he was profiting by his enemy''s The owl had only time to turn her cat-like face and--hiss. her--crouched, and with her wings just a little open, like a bird about to himself as he came trotting along towards the cheeky little bird, like tail; but it looked like one, in a way. id: 37328 author: Stables, Gordon title: Medical Life in the Navy date: words: 26565.0 sentences: 1193.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/37328.txt txt: ./txt/37328.txt summary: "Yes, sir," said she, looking pleasedly at it with one eye (so have I orders were, gasped a little, called for a glass of water,--not beer, carrying a large red flag, and with an old grey-haired officer sitting wards, men''s wards, officers'' wards; and thus we spent the time till a of that time my appointment to a sea-going ship came. the water alongside, the boat darts away from the ship like an arrow namely, a little round-faced, dimple-cheeked, good-natured fellow, who "And precious little to dine upon," said the officer on his right. Leaving the men for a short time with the boat, we made our way to the only an assistant-surgeon, where a young medical officer feels all the on the quarter-deck, turn out good service-officers. joined the service; and, poor little man! navy would be a very good service for the medical officer. id: 15544 author: Stone, Barney title: Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie date: words: 10850.0 sentences: 782.0 pages: flesch: 94.0 cache: ./cache/15544.txt txt: ./txt/15544.txt summary: Skinny was doubled up so he looked like a horse Skinny, "I always do a little coastin when I ride a wheel." Believe P.S. Skinny sez this means "poor simp" but lissen, derie, fer you it of a fether gathers no moss"; sumpin like that anyhow; you know Julie lived on a farm (You know Julie dere, I told you my old man was raised Believe you me, Julie, I luv a life on the ocean wave like a burlecue did, and believe you me Julie from other things he said about her, I If there''s one thing in life that Skinny loves its sumpin good to eat. first time I ever eat out in company with Skinny, and believe you me, Believe you me, angel face she looks like a model fer a tent. Skinny has just arrove back in camp from the trenches and got the news id: 44422 author: Timbs, John title: Eccentricities of the Animal Creation. date: words: 89570.0 sentences: 3914.0 pages: flesch: 71.0 cache: ./cache/44422.txt txt: ./txt/44422.txt summary: Like all animals which live upon insects, the Ant-eaters are Society''s Great Ant-eater: the hinge-like manner in which the animal their young animal was their next anxiety; he liked neither fish, flesh, other observations, that certain animals, especially Birds, have not At this time the male bird goes to sea, and collects food for the nature is about to pass from the birds to the fishes. The bird lives on fish, which it darts upon from a considerable height. Birds and quadrupeds, and even fish, are the food of Owls, according to these birds finding food; and they may be observed at this time feeding fish upon which the birds prey go deep into the water during storms, the Fishes, like all other animals, have a very delicate sense of the Little fishes are ordinarily the food of larger marine animals; but a id: 36969 author: Underwood, J. L. (John Levi) title: The Women of the Confederacy date: words: 106021.0 sentences: 5789.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/36969.txt txt: ./txt/36969.txt summary: war, he said he would point to the dear women of his people as he had the women of the Northern States exhibited in that war a devotion and North." Oh that''s about the way men, women and children down South Southern woman could step from a country home to adorn the White House little Southern States sent more men in proportion to population than Northern soldiers killed our young men in war; politicians killed "God bless these Virginia women!" said a general officer from one of with old Southern home life is a day full of restful peace and happy SOUTHERN WOMEN IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES SOUTHERN WOMEN IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES In later years of the war a great many of the wounded soldiers were General Gordon tells of a simple-hearted country Confederate woman who While the patriotic women of New Orleans saw very little of war''s id: 25428 author: Unknown title: Anecdotes of Animals date: words: nan sentences: nan pages: flesch: nan cache: txt: summary: id: 29419 author: Various title: The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. date: words: 78785.0 sentences: 5769.0 pages: flesch: 85.0 cache: ./cache/29419.txt txt: ./txt/29419.txt summary: A MAN, hearing of another who was 100 years old, said contemptuously: A GENTLEMAN asked a friend, in a somewhat knowing manner, "Pray, sir, the chimney-piece, when a gentleman coming up to him, said, "Sir, as "IS Mr. Brown a man of means?" asked a gentleman of old Mrs. Fizzleton, "Why," said the old man, "this here is one cabbage head, ain''t it?" head knowingly, ''Have you got a sorrel horse then?'' ''Yes,'' said the man, "Ah," said the sly old fellow, "and wouldn''t you like to know!" three." "Well, let us hear," said the old man. accident, "My dear Sir," said the old man, "I give you joy of your "O Sir," said he, "where are your _good witnesses_?" the Khazee said to the old man, "He is long--do you think he has got that tree is?" The young man returned and said the tree would not come. id: 15413 author: Various title: The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection date: words: 49888.0 sentences: 2396.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/15413.txt txt: ./txt/15413.txt summary: Racine.--The celebrated French poet, Racine, having one day returned from church-door, the poor man waited for him: "Sir," said he, showing him what doctor observing him, said, "Sir, perhaps you don''t like mutton?" "Oh, yes, no," said he, "he is too great a man for me: go and bring me the village addressed them:--"My friends," said he, "the day of vengeance is arrived; third person came, and asked after an old man who must have passed that said he would have no man refused that came to his house." sir," said the young men, "if you knew our soon put that to the test," said the king, and asking Lord Stair to take an immediately told him; when his majesty good humouredly replied, "My lord, was a young man,'' said he, ''I determined never to go to bed at night, till great you may be," said the Guinea-man, "but I don''t like your looks: I id: 48636 author: Various title: Stories and Letters from the Trenches date: words: 33700.0 sentences: 2113.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/48636.txt txt: ./txt/48636.txt summary: lines--the German trenches were about four hundred yards away--where learned, a German officer came charging at the head of his men into was a wounded German soldier, who, recovering from the delirium of of the French and German trenches. above the trench just like a man, and then the Germans kept shooting war is demonstrated by the stories told by wounded soldiers reaching a German officer fell, wounded by a bayonet. British trenches than the German, but whenever our men began to go out to carry in the wounded man the German snipers got busy. village being shelled by German guns a prisoner of war just being By this time the Prince was with a number of German troops One officer says 500 German bodies already have "With other wounded men and officers I was taken away to a house "Advancing, the French discovered forty dead Germans in the trench, id: 44263 author: Various title: 500 of the Best Cockney War Stories date: words: 78070.0 sentences: 6321.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/44263.txt txt: ./txt/44263.txt summary: A German sniper was busy potting at our men in a front-line trench at mile or so behind the line at Ypres, when German shells began to land B. Finch (late London Regiment), 155 High Road, the "bags" and saw our Cockney pal rushing, head down, towards our line One day a heavy shell came over and knocked down my Cockney chum, Tubby The Cockney turned round and replied, "Blimey, ain''t I in this blinkin'' It came from a little Cockney, a so-called "walking" wounded case. The little Cockney looked up and despite his pain he smiled and said, a section of front line trench near the La Bassée road when a German "One day a young Cockney in the line for the first time was Cockney said: "You''re orl right on the old banjo, sergeant, but when it The officer replied in the negative, whereupon the Cockney said, "Well, id: 53882 author: Washington, Amanda Alcenia Strickland title: How Beauty Was Saved, and Other Memories of the Sixties date: words: 6372.0 sentences: 343.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/53882.txt txt: ./txt/53882.txt summary: Nest." To that school came two young girls to complete a course of This horse the girls rode to school. When she reached the house she noticed a horse and buggy under an old Turning to a soldier he said, "Take that horse from the "Try that horse." Like a flash a thought came to the girl. ordered the girl to get back on that horse and return to the Colonel. of blankets was used by a little colored girl who slept in the house, One day a little girl was reading a story-book on the green lawn in By that time the Federal officers and some of the men were in the house There were five or six bright, pretty girls in the house, In a little while the Federals, the girls, and the family were all After some time the soldiers began to mount their horses, the servant id: 15938 author: Watson, Henry C. (Henry Clay) title: The Yankee Tea-party; Or, Boston in 1773 date: words: 44833.0 sentences: 2531.0 pages: flesch: 80.0 cache: ./cache/15938.txt txt: ./txt/15938.txt summary: affair was conducted," said one of the young men, named Hand, filling "You must tell us what took place at Concord, also," said young Hand. said Pitts, pointing to one of the old men, named Jonas Davenport. "I heard the story, and saw the old man on his white horse," remarked "The old man immortalized himself," said Hand. "Now," said Kinnison, "I expect that some of you men who know something losing men, and I saw many an old friend fall near me. "Never mind the shirk," said Pitts: "tell us how the men of the right Colonel Arnold ordered Hanchet and fifty men to march by land "I thought General Stark belonged to New Hampshire," said Hand. lessen the sufferings of the men, and many an old man wanted to join the hands of men whose calling he knew not, his good sword was soon in his id: 11506 author: Watson, Henry C. (Henry Clay) title: The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776 date: words: 44001.0 sentences: 2253.0 pages: flesch: 76.0 cache: ./cache/11506.txt txt: ./txt/11506.txt summary: by one these feeble old men came up and took the General by the hand, As old Harmar concluded these remarks, the old men standing near the "But the little boy wants to hear a story about Washington," said "I wonder the men didn''t all desert," remarked Mrs. Harmar. "Yes," said old Harmar, "General Washington was the main pillar of the "Now I''ll tell you a story that I have just called to mind," said old "Let me see," said old Harmar; "where did I first meet you, Higgins? which could prompt the deeds of men," said young Harmar, growing quite "Come, no slander on the women of the present day," said Mrs. Harmar. times?" said old Harmar. "Tell us anything to pass time," said young Harmar. "Those times are gone," said old Harmar mournfully. "What bloody creatures war can make men," remarked young Harmar. Edwards'' men, used to tell it," replied old Harmar. id: 20001 author: Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy) title: The English Spy: An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life date: words: 218849.0 sentences: 10738.0 pages: flesch: 72.0 cache: ./cache/20001.txt txt: ./txt/20001.txt summary: By Frolic, Mirth, and Fancy gay, Old Father Time is borne away. Bernard Blackmantle''s Visit to Tom Echo--Oxford Phraseology--Smuggled Dinners--A College Party described-Ride and Drive--Kensington Gardens--Belles and BeauxStars and fallen Stars--Singularities of 1824-Tales of TonOn Dits and Anecdotes--Sunday Evening--High Life and said my aunt, "and tell him an old friend of his father''s, on whom "Come, old fellow," said Tom, "turn to--no ceremony. "The welcome of Isis to you, sir," said the old man. ~159~~ Handing the note to old Mark--"Pray," said I, not a little said the honourable, "I know that leg," eyeing a divine little foot and a little fat man, remarkable for his love of good living. in the lads, Mark." "Now we shall have a little sport, old fellows," "Bear a hand, old fellow!" said Horace Eglantine one morning, coming respectable-looking old lady to my friend Transit, who was at that id: 58781 author: Wood, Norman B. (Norman Barton) title: Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs From Cofachiqui, the Indian Princess, and Powhatan; down to and including Chief Joseph and Geronimo. Also an answer, from the latest research, of the query, Whence came the Indian? Together with a number of thrillingly interesting Indian stories and anecdotes from history date: words: 223145.0 sentences: 11026.0 pages: flesch: 74.0 cache: ./cache/58781.txt txt: ./txt/58781.txt summary: famous Indian chiefs from the Colonial period to the present time. the neighboring forest when a party of Indian chiefs and warriors entered His house, like his father''s, was the Indian''s and the white man''s home, Among other captives the Indians carried away, at this time, a man named of their great war-chief, Captain Brant, whose name was a terror to white This great chief was born at the old Indian town of Piqua, Ohio, on the Mad In this the great chief showed his shrewdness, knowing the Indian''s love of Great warriors among the Indians, like those of the favored white race, Ellis, in his "Indian Wars," informs us that "For a time the old chief great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that Brant, principal chief and warrior of the Six Nations, Indians, by his Brant, principal chief and warrior of the Six Nations, Indians, by his id: 34946 author: Worthington, Frank title: The Witch Doctor and other Rhodesian Studies date: words: 60022.0 sentences: 4819.0 pages: flesch: 91.0 cache: ./cache/34946.txt txt: ./txt/34946.txt summary: "Tell the man to come to-morrow," he said, and walked off in the The head messenger turned to the man sitting in the yard and said: "The Chiromo said nothing, but the look in his eye made Mokorongo''s hand fly The white man looked across his table at the witch doctor. "There is Lizizi," said his guide, pointing to an old man sitting on a First, they turned at a walk towards the right-hand wall: a man stood Two days before the "Great Man" was due to arrive, old Garamapingwe, the Great Man kill a good cow and have done with it when, looking to the the third man, led by a little native boy, was blind and empty handed. Chief, when it came to the turn of the old man with the ivory. The old man turned his face towards me and, as he said good-bye, I saw a id: 15667 author: nan title: Best Short Stories date: words: 45707.0 sentences: 4133.0 pages: flesch: 88.0 cache: ./cache/15667.txt txt: ./txt/15667.txt summary: "Ah ain''t got no lawyer, jedge," said the old man. "Well, jedge, Ah''ll tell you, suh," said the old man, waving his "Yes, dear," said the mother patiently, "but wait a day or so until she way--called the young fellow in to him one day and said: Turning to Mr. Gloom, the old man said: "At least," the young man said ruefully as he left the court, "father''s "I got son in army," said a wrinkled old chief to United States Senator "No," said the old man, "I was born two good miles from here." replied: "Yes, malaria, you know." "Well," said the old gentleman, "we "I can, sir," said the young man, "but I am not mean enough to do it." "Young man," said Manager Woods sternly, "you should know that it is "Listen," said the young man, "judge, we were on our way to have you "Yes, sir," said the boys. id: 21267 author: nan title: Our American Holidays: Lincoln''s Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln''s Own Writings date: words: 85951.0 sentences: 4871.0 pages: flesch: 77.0 cache: ./cache/21267.txt txt: ./txt/21267.txt summary: Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States, was born at the vivid portrayal of Lincoln''s adroitness as a politician by Col. McClure in Abraham Lincoln and Men of War Times; Whitney''s Life on the Mr. Lincoln wielded a great influence among the people of New Salem. Abraham Lincoln was living at New Salem, a little village of the class long wrote to Lincoln and Herndon that Douglas was "like the man''s boy thoughtful, God-fearing man, said to me, as we went home to supper, the civil war, I believe President Lincoln was the man to have done to the affairs and the men of the United States, said: "Mr. Lincoln Mr. Lincoln is acknowledged to have been a great man, but the question is, "But was not Mr. Lincoln a man of great humanity?" asks a friend at my BOYS REPRESENTING LINCOLN: Washington was a great and good man, and id: 29022 author: nan title: Mr. Punch Awheel: The Humours of Motoring and Cycling date: words: 17061.0 sentences: 2310.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/29022.txt txt: ./txt/29022.txt summary: Illustration: _Owner of violently palpitating motor car._ "There''s no The cycling scorcher and the motoring road-hog are two taking notes from his motor-car whilst proceeding at top-speed. Illustration: "Wouldn''t yer like ter ''ave one o'' them things, Liza Ann?" "But I thought he didn''t like motor-cars!" The constant strain of driving motor-cars is said to be responsible for Illustration: _Old Lady_ (_describing a cycling accident_). looked on the motor-car in the light of a visitation. Illustration: MEMS FOR MOTORISTS.--If your car suddenly appears to drag ["British lady motor-drivers," says _Motoring Illustrated_, "must look life in an encounter with a motor-car, he shall not be liable to Illustration: MY STEAM MOTOR-CAR _Driver of Motor-car_ (_hired by the hour_). Illustration: _Cyclist._ "Why can''t you look where you''re going?" THE MUGGLETON MOTOR-CAR; OR, THE WELLERS ON WHEELS Illustration: _Motor Fiend._ "Why don''t you get out of the way?" A motor car I shall never afford id: 25918 author: nan title: Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. date: words: 93618.0 sentences: 5525.0 pages: flesch: 79.0 cache: ./cache/25918.txt txt: ./txt/25918.txt summary: Sir William Gell''s Dog, which was said to speak 101 The horse and dog referred to, were the first animals on which this Beside horses and dogs, the poet Byron, like his own Don Juan, had a present day, with but few exceptions, dogs are treated with great Sydney Smith''s comment was, ''_I should like to hear the dog''s account of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton was very fond of dogs; his son[59] tells an house of friend or stranger, "Don''t be afraid of the dog, sir, he never bear in warfare, a dog excited great attention by its attachment to the him sick.'' I called one day on Mrs ----, and her lap-dog flew at my leg short time that he regularly attended the dinner-table like a dog, and in the Haymarket; the horse, the dog, the monkeys, and the cats went dog life." No two animals are better agreed when kept together. id: 7347 author: nan title: The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form date: words: 73924.0 sentences: 4860.0 pages: flesch: 78.0 cache: ./cache/7347.txt txt: ./txt/7347.txt summary: Mrs. Lincoln, the first to weigh this man justly, said proudly, that President Lincoln to a party of friends in the White House executive Adams, in a position to know, published in the New York _Press_: "Mr. Lincoln told my father that he was exactly six feet three inches." This reason--strange in a man knowing how to bide his time to win--Lincoln but Lincoln recited his grievance to the men, and said to his friend President Lincoln was wont to carry his mother''s old Bible about with It was the regular habit of President Lincoln to read the day''s President Lincoln in case the European allies'' declared war. Despite Chase''s political enmity to him, President Lincoln said of On New-year''s morning, 1864, President Lincoln entered the War merely said to President Lincoln: ''Everything is drifting into the war, "Well," drawled Mr. Lincoln, "I feel very much like the man who said he id: 48273 author: nan title: Lincoln Day Entertainments Recitations, Plays, Dialogues, Drills, Tableaux, Pantomimes, Quotations, Songs, Tributes, Stories, Facts date: words: 38480.0 sentences: 3761.0 pages: flesch: 94.0 cache: ./cache/48273.txt txt: ./txt/48273.txt summary: Right nobly do you lead the way, Old Flag. They march forward in two lines, carrying flags, pause and sing. Gun held in right hand, top resting on shoulder, raise left Mrs. Lincoln: Yes, you children like to laugh at the things I say about Mrs. Lincoln (_to girls_): Don''t tell pa that John was waiting for Abe John (_running off at right_): Come on, Tom, I hear the boys forming At the front the boys turn to right, girls to left, pass to left of stage now leads the boys along the line of girls, going in right line reaches front of stage, when the first one of the left-hand The little girls in white who carried flags now march in and stand in a girls march on in two lines, half coming from right and half from left. Boy dressed as Lincoln stands in center of stage. id: 47811 author: nan title: "Abe" Lincoln''s Anecdotes and Stories A Collection of the Best Stories Told by Lincoln Which Made Him Famous as America''s Best Story Teller date: words: 28461.0 sentences: 1752.0 pages: flesch: 81.0 cache: ./cache/47811.txt txt: ./txt/47811.txt summary: President Lincoln said he did not know where to place him, and that "General Blank asks for more men," said Secretary of War Stanton and doing things," said President Lincoln one day, "and he is often President''s order, the Secretary said: "Did Lincoln give you an order One day an old lady from the country called on President Lincoln, Ward Lamon told this story of President Lincoln, whom he found one day "By the way," remarked President Lincoln one day to Colonel Cannon, a great many people would like to see how ''Abe'' Lincoln looked, and, "Come," said Mr. Lincoln, "wait a bit and I''ll tell you a story;" Mr. Lincoln once said in a speech: "Fellow citizens, my friend, Mr. Douglas, made the startling announcement today that the Whigs are all "That reminds me of a story," President Lincoln said one day to a "Look here, old gentleman," remarked President Lincoln, who was id: 44518 author: nan title: Points of Humour, Part 2 (of 2) date: words: 15316.0 sentences: 625.0 pages: flesch: 68.0 cache: ./cache/44518.txt txt: ./txt/44518.txt summary: remaining dead body--"you are right, friend," said she, "he must be "Good God!" involuntarily exclaimed the young man, "and there they are!" knocked a second time: the master of the house asked again and again, came down, opened the door, and asked the man what he wanted? replied the master of the house; "yes, to my sorrow," answered Backbac. "Good blind man," replied the master of the house, "all that I can do "And why, fool," said the man of the house, "do not you answer at first, with me then?" asked Backbac; "I tell you again," said the man of the As Backbac went out of the house, three blind men, his companions, were seated, Backbac said to them, "brothers, we must shut the door, and take robber, who sat at Backbac''s right hand, picked out the best, and eat us the half."--"You shall have but a quarter," said Brandt. id: 44517 author: nan title: Points of Humour, Part 1 (of 2) date: words: 9867.0 sentences: 703.0 pages: flesch: 84.0 cache: ./cache/44517.txt txt: ./txt/44517.txt summary: London late in the evening, he stumbled over the body of an old man, King sat, who threw it at the young prince and continued to write. miller had some suspicions, and determined to set them at rest one way As the village clock struck one that night, and as the loving pair were an equally loud; scream from the lady of the miller, who now gave all up She yelled and screamed till the poor man in despair knew not what "_The Devil I have_," returned the miller, in a tone which came up like John of Mengden; a worthy old man, who loved his glass of wine, and had "Let the venerable Lady Abbess come down to me," said the general, as The lady Abbess entreated the old man not to undertake so rash an was allowed; and a knight might tremble in the dark like an old woman, id: 38208 author: nan title: The Animal Story Book date: words: 99995.0 sentences: 4754.0 pages: flesch: 82.0 cache: ./cache/38208.txt txt: ./txt/38208.txt summary: licked the man''s hands, and fawned upon him like a great dog. ''The children call the dog Pritchard,'' he said; ''but if you don''t like bridge in front of us, Michel,'' I said, ''there is a dog very like Next time we came upon Pritchard pointing, Vatrin said, ''I wonder how I think that the time has now come to tell my readers a little about At dinner-time Pritchard came in, followed by an unknown dog, who, Finally came a sad day when the Bishop went away, and dog-life This was good news, and the little dog started home gaily, running, as safer place the following year when nesting time came round again; but The dog watched his master till he disappeared over the little bridge One more story of a little dog--this time an English one--and I have her mistress would care for her little dog to the end of its days. id: 43355 author: nan title: Mr. Punch''s Book of Sport The Humour of Cricket, Football, Tennis, Polo, Croquet, Hockey, Racing, &c date: words: 13881.0 sentences: 2032.0 pages: flesch: 89.0 cache: ./cache/43355.txt txt: ./txt/43355.txt summary: CRICKETERS WHO OUGHT TO BE GOOD HANDS AT PLAYING A TIE.--"The Eleven of RIDDLE MADE "ON THE GROUND."--Why are cricket matches like the backs of You may play the game of Cricket, like the men well known to fame, Ye must yield once more to Woman, for the Ladies now play Cricket! [Illustration: OUR VILLAGE CRICKET CLUB.--We had thirty seconds left [Illustration: SUGGESTION FOR THE CRICKET SEASON [Illustration: "CRICKETING INTELLIGENCE."--_Sporting Old Parson_ (_to [Illustration: OUR VILLAGE CRICKET CLUB.--Tom Huggins, of the local fire [Illustration: CRICKET--THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE [Illustration: "DONKEYS HAVE EARS."--_Emily_ (_playing at lawn-tennis [Illustration: LAWN-TENNIS UNDER DIFFICULTIES--"PLAY!" [Illustration: LOVE GAME] [Illustration: A NICE QUIET GAME FOR THE HOME.--This is only a little [Illustration: AN OBJECTIONABLE OLD MAN.--_Young Ladies._ "Going to make [Illustration: Di got me to play hockey. [Illustration: HAPPY THOUGHT.--The good old game of "Hare and Hounds," [Illustration: _Uncle Dick._ "Ah yes, cricket is a fine game, no id: 45748 author: nan title: Mr. Punch with Rod and Gun: The Humours of Fishing and Shooting date: words: 12902.0 sentences: 1969.0 pages: flesch: 94.0 cache: ./cache/45748.txt txt: ./txt/45748.txt summary: [Illustration: "ONE GOOD TURN," ETC.--_City Man_ (_to one of his clerks [Illustration: MISSED.--_Angus._ "Eh, man, that wass a splendid cod! [Illustration: _Friend._ "Hullo, old chappie! [Illustration: OUR FRIEND BRIGGS CONTEMPLATES A DAY''S FISHING.--He is [Illustration: _Robson._ "Do you think fishes can hear?" [Illustration: _Brown (enthusiastic angler, who has brought his friend [Illustration: HINTS TO BEGINNERS.--When casting with a fly rod, be sure [Illustration: RELIEF.--_Piscator_ (_about the end of a very bad day_). [Illustration: Deep C fishing] [Illustration: Di would go sea-fishing to-day. [Illustration: HIS FIRST PARTRIDGE SHOOT] [Illustration: SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY--THE OLD DOG POINTS CAPITALLY [Illustration: DAMAGED GOODS.--_Sportsman_ (_invited to help shoot some [Illustration: A BLANK DAY.--_First Friend._ "The birds are terribly [Illustration: HIS "FIRST."--_Brown_ (_good chap, but never fired a gun [Illustration: _Sportsman_ (_who has just shot a duck_). 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