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Also known as "A Double Story" or "The Wise Woman."
BY GEORGE MACDONALD.
NEW YORK:
A DOUBLE STORY I.
There was a certain country where things used to go rather oddly. For
instance, you could never tell whether it was going to rain or hail, or
whether or not the milk was going to turn sour. It was impossible to
say whether the next baby would be a boy, or a girl, or even, after he
was a week old, whether he would wake sweet tempered or cross. In strict accordance with the peculiar nature of this country of
uncertainties, it came to pass one day, that in the midst of a shower
of rain that might well be called golden, seeing the sun, shining as it
fell, turned all its drops into molten topazes, and every drop was good
for a grain of golden corn, or a yellow cowslip, or a buttercup, or a
dandelion at least; while this splendid rain was falling, I say, with
a musical patter upon the great leaves of the horse chestnuts, which
hung like Vandyke collars about the necks of the creamy, red spotted
blossoms, and on the leaves of the sycamores, looking as if they had
blood in their... Continue reading book >>
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Fairy tales |
Fiction |
Literature |
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