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"Thou will not fail / To listen to a fairy tale. " / _Lewis Carroll._
It _did_ rain the next day! And Cecil did not forget her promise. Just as the old nursery clock was striking four, a full hour still to her tea-time, she marched into the room with a little old brown book in her hand. I wonder if any of you have ever seen that little old book, or one like it, I would say? It was about the size of the first edition of 'Evenings at Home,' which some of you are sure to have in your book-cases. For I should think _everybody's_ grandfathers and grandmothers had an 'Evenings at Home' among their few, dearly-prized children's books.