About selecting a free input file for the nettle testsuite, I wrote: > It would be better to shop around at project gutenberg.
I think I've found a worthy candidate text: The short story "The Gold-Bug" written by Edgar Allan Poe. The author died in 1849, so until the US decides to extend copyright even further, the text is in the public domain. See http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2043. Regards, /Niels