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OT a bright outlook certainly, but then, you see, it is to be only a little chapter.
Some people think that children's books ought to be cheery and bright from cover to cover, and so they ought -- that is, for the very little children; but when they have gotten beyond the days of rhymes and jingles and colored pictures, and have wit enough and appreciation enough to enjoy a chaptered story, then I, for one, think the stories should be true to life. To be sure, the charm of such delightful and purely impossible tales as "Alice in Wonderland" and "Water Babies" lies in the fact that they do not pretend to be true to anything in the world save the enchanting-caprice of the people who write them; but when one comes to place a story in a real time, and put real people in it, then it is bound to be true to the real things.