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    By the Roadside
    By the Roadside
    By the Roadside
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    By the Roadside

    By Katherine M. (Katherine Merritte) Yates

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      By the Roadside - Katherine M. (Katherine Merritte) Yates

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, By the Roadside, by Katherine M. Yates

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: By the Roadside

      Author: Katherine M. Yates

      Release Date: May 17, 2006 [eBook #18409]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BY THE ROADSIDE***

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      Copyright, 1908

      by

      KATHERINE M. YATES

      By the Roadside

      It's time to go to work, said the little brown Dream.

      I'm not ready to go to work, said Marjorie, crossly, turning over and snuggling her head more comfortably into her pillow.

      The Dream said nothing. He only sat on the foot-board and swung his feet.

      By and by Marjorie turned over again,—and then again,—and then at last she sat up, exclaiming angrily: I wish you wouldn't bother me! I want to go to sleep.

      Well, said the Dream, how am I preventing you from sleeping?

      You said it was time to go to work.

      That was half an hour ago, said the Dream. I haven't spoken since.

      That doesn't make any difference, said Marjorie. When you once say a thing that I know is true, it stays with me, and you might as well keep shouting it all the time as to have said it once;—I can't get away from it.

      If it is true, why do you want to get away from it? asked the Dream.

      Because— Marjorie hesitated, —because I'm sleepy, she said petulantly.

      There are ever so many sleepy folks in this world, observed the Dream.

      Then one more can't make much difference, said Marjorie.

      That's what the others think,—and that's why there are so many. Suppose every one thought that!

      Marjorie pondered for a moment,—then she laughed. Just think what a great big alarm-clock it would take to wake them all up! she said.

      The Dream rubbed his chin thoughtfully. An alarm-clock is a pretty noisy article, he observed, and it never says anything; and besides, I don't like its name. But one good, wide-awake person— he looked directly at Marjorie, —one good, wide-awake person could waken a very great many people—if he wanted to. But go on to sleep if you choose. I won't bother you.

      I'm not sleepy any more, said Marjorie; and anyway, I slept only a little while after you spoke.

      The Dream nodded. Only a little while,—just long enough to let your work pass you by.

      "My

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