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were? You may have heard it, but I scarcely
fancy you have ever thought over the great.
difference between yourselves and long-ago-
children in this respect. Nowadays, when you.
have galloped through all the brilliant blue and.
green and scarlet little volumes that have been
given to you on birthdays and Christmas Days,.
you come with a melancholy face to your
mother, and tell her you have “nothing to
read.” And then, most likely, when your
mother goes to the library she chooses a book

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for you out of the “juvenile department ;” and.
when it is done you get another, till you can
hardly remember what you have read and what:
you haven’t. But as for reading any book

twice over, ¢hat is never to be thought of.

 

Not so was it long ago? Not only had no.

children many books, but everywhere children

gor “; had the same. There was seldom any use in
: we little friends lending to each other, for it was

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ay, at Home,” “Sandford and Merton,’ “Orna--
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