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SHADOW BROOK

AFTER THE STORY

Well, children,’ inquired Eustace, who was very fond of eliciting a definite opinion from his auditors, ‘did you ever, in all your lives, listen to a better story than this of “The Golden Touch”?’

‘Why, as to the story of King Midas,’ said saucy Primrose, ‘it was a famous one thousands of years before Mr. Eustace Bright came into the world, and will continue

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