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"Sad case it is, as you may think / For very cold to go to bed; / And then for cold not sleep a wink. " / WORDSWORTH'S _Goody Blaks_
"Grandmother," said Ralph, when they were all sitting at breakfast the next morning, "didn't you say that your grandmother once had an adventure that we might like to hear? It was at the beginning of the story you told us -- I think it was something about the corkscrew staircase. I liked the story awfully, you know, but I'm fearfully fond of adventures."