Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 63
place now-adays which seem not only wonderful to us, but atwhich the people of old times would have staredtheir eyes out. On the whole, I regard our owntimes as the stranger of the two; but, however thatmay be, I must go on with my story. Midas was enjoying himself in his treasure-roomone day as… … THE FIGURE OF A STRANGER IX THE SUNBEAM was a young man with a cheerful and ruddy face.Whether it was that the imagination of King Midasthrew a yellow tinge over everything, or whateverthe cause might be, he could not help fancying that The Golden Touch 47 the smile with which the stranger regarded…
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