id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt yonge-secret-1861 yonge yonge-secret-1861 1861 .txt text/plain 62006 2656 82 Though hide-and-seek on the lawn with Papa was the supremest bliss that life had yet offered to the young Merrifields, and though Susan, Bessie, Annie, and Johnnie, had all severally burst into the room to proclaim it and summon Sam, he had refused them all; but this call settled it; he broke off in the middle of his rectangle, and dashed down stairs, to the great relief of kind Miss Fosbrook, who, with all her good-will, found her head beginning to grow weary of angles and right-angles on a hot evening in the height of summer. Mary, Mary, quite contrary, was Sam's cry, in so funny a voice, that Miss Fosbrook could only laugh; is this bread and scrape the fare for a rising young family of genteel birth? Oh! with a pathetic grimace, cried the pretty-faced though sandy-haired Henry, the next to him in age, if our beloved parents knew how their poor deserted infants are treated A fine large infant you are, Hal! cache/yonge-secret-1861.txt txt/yonge-secret-1861.txt