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Alice's Godmother was written by Walter de la Mare (1873-1956), and was included in his Collected Stories for Children (1947).
Title: Collected Stories for Children -- Alice's Godmother Author: Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) Date of first publication: 1947 Place and date of edition used as base for this ebook: London: Faber & Faber, 1962 (reprint of 1957 edition) Date first posted: 21 April 2008 Date last updated: 21 April 2008 Project Gutenberg Canada ebook #108
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Alice's Godmother
by Walter de la Mare (from his Collected Stories for Children) [1947]
Though Alice sat steadily looking out of the small square pane of glass in the railway carriage, she was not really seeing the green and hilly country through which the train now clattered on its way. While everything near--quickening hedges, grazing cattle, galloping calves, wood, farm and stony foaming brook