AN APOLOGY Dear Boys and Girls,-This is not the book you asked for-it is not the book that any of you have asked for, and I hope that you will not be very much disappointed. But in case you should be I will tell you how this book came to be written, and that may make you feel less disappointed. Long, long ago I said, ' If ever I have two brass farthings to rub one against the other I know what I shall do-I shall write an English Literature for Boys and Girls.' But the days and months and years went on, and I never saw even one brass farthing. I wonder if ever any one did. Did you ? Still I kept the hope and kept the wish ready. And at last one day a Magician came. I can't stop to tell you what he was like, but he wasn't a bit like any Magician I ever read about. He put two golden pennies into my hand and said in a very solemn voice, ' Rub them one against the other and the first wish you wish shall be granted to you. Be careful. Remember, only one wish. So cho
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