In the old days, when the world was young, there were no automobiles nor flyingmachines to make one wonder; nor were there railway trains, nor telephones, normechanical inventions of any sort to keep people keyed up to a high pitch of excitement.Men and women lived simply and quietly. They were Nature's children, and breathed freshair into their lungs instead of smoke and coal gas; and tramped through green meadowsand deep forests instead of riding in street cars; and went to bed when it grew dark androse with the sun--which is vastly different from the present custom. Having no books toread they told their adventures to one another and to their little ones; and the stories werehanded down from generation to generation and reverently believed
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