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A Double Story, by George MacDonald
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Title: A Double Story
Author: George MacDonald
Posting Date: May 22, 2010 [EBook #5676] Release Date: May, 2004 First Posted: August 7, 2002
Language: English
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A DOUBLE STORY
BY GEORGE MACDONALD.
NEW YORK:
A DOUBLE STORY
I.
There was a certain country where things used to go rather oddly. For instance, you could never tell whether it was going to rain or hail, or whether or not the milk was going to turn sour. It was impossible to say whether the next baby would be a boy, or a girl, or even, after he was a week old, whether he would wake sweet-tempered or cross.
In strict accordance with the peculiar nature of this country of uncertainties, it came to pass one day, that in the midst of a shower of rain that might well be called golden, seeing the sun, shining as it fell, turned all its drops into molten topazes, and every drop was good for a grain of golden corn, or a yellow cowslip, or a buttercup, or a dandelion at least;--while this splendid rain was falling, I say, with a musical patter upon the great leaves of the horse-chestnuts, which hung like Vandyke collars about the necks of the cream