Identifier: dreamdays00grah2 (find matches)
Title: Dream days
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932 Lenski, Lois, 1893- ill
Subjects: Brothers and sisters Country life -- England
Publisher: London : J. Lane, The Bodley Head
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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A SAGA OF THE SEAS 121 Yes, that was undoubtedly the usual bell forschool-room tea. And high time too, I thought,as I tumbled out of the bath, which was beginningto feel very hard to the projecting portions of myframework. As I trotted downstairs, hungriereven than usual, farewells floated up from thefront door, and I heard the departing voices ofour angular elderly visitors as they made theirway down the walk. Man was still catching it,apparently—Man was getting it hot. And muchMan cared ! The seas were his, and their islands ;he had his frigates for the taking, his piratesand their hoards for an unregarded cutlass-stroke or two ; and there were Princesses inplenty waiting for him somewhere—Princesses ofthe right sort.
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THE RELUCTANT DRAGON FOOTPRINTS in the snow have been un-failing provokers of sentiment ever sincesnow was first a white wonder in thisdrab-coloured world of ours. In a poetry-bookpresented to one of us by an aunt, there was apoem by one Wordsworth in which they stoodout strongly with a picture all to themselves, too—but we didnt think very highly either of thepoem or the sentiment. Footprints in the sand,now, were quite another matter, and we graspedCrusoes attitude of mind much more easily thanWordsworths. Excitement and mystery, curi-osity and suspense—these were the only sentimentsthat tracks, whether in sand or in snow, wereable to arouse in us. We had awakened early that winter morning,puzzled at first by the added light that filled theroom. Then, when the truth at last fully dawnedon us and we knew that snow-balling was nolonger a wistful dream, but a solid certainty J22 THE RELUCTANT DRAGON 123 waiting for us, outside, it was a mere brute fightfor the necessary clothes, an

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