Excerpt from The Story Hour: A Book for the Home and the Kindergarten The motherly little sister stands by the side of her chair, two or three of the smaller fry perch on the arms, and the baby climbs up into her lap (such a person always has a capa cions lap), and folds his fat hands placidly. Then there is a deep sigh of blissful expecta= tion and an expressive silence, which means, N ow we are ready, please; and if you would be kind enough to begin it with Once upon a time, ' we should be much obliged; though of course we understand that all the stories in the world can't commence that way, de lightful as it would be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.