id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 9210 Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Village Uncle (From "Twice Told Tales") .txt text/plain 4750 180 76 the village, and the light of our household mirth flash far across bridge were you, fluttering in the breeze like a sea-bird that might skiff high and dry on the beach, laden with red rock-cod, or the merchant-men, fishing-schooners and chebacco-boats, the old salt had rocks, and her native sea, that raged forever like a storm against selected from the sea's treasury of such things, on Nahant Beach. But I loved to lead them by their little hands along the beach, and wisdom of a man whose mind had profited by lonely days upon the deep, Like Uncle Parker, whose rheumatic bones were dashed against Egg Rock, pleasant hour in the sun, watching the sports of the village children, old man be merry too, when the great sea is at play with those little of young men and girls, strolling along the beach after an early ./cache/9210.txt ./txt/9210.txt