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    The Story of a Dewdrop
    The Story of a Dewdrop
    The Story of a Dewdrop
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    The Story of a Dewdrop

    By John R. (John Ross) Macduff

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Story of a Dewdrop - John R. (John Ross) Macduff

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Story of a Dewdrop, by J. R. Macduff

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      Title: The Story of a Dewdrop

      Author: J. R. Macduff

      Release Date: November 14, 2006 [EBook #19809]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF A DEWDROP ***

      Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Janet Blenkinship

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      The Story of a Dewdrop

      J. R. Macduff D D

      With FOUR COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS

      London Marcus Ward & Co Belfast

      1881

      FOREWORDS.

      To Charlie.

      Dewdrop is a small affair; and the world would not be the least interested, nor a bit the wiser, by knowing how I come affectionately to dedicate the story I have written about it to you. I may tell you it was one line of eleven words, read one night from a musty old volume of last century, which suggested it.

      Everybody must have their play-hours and moments of recreation. I think I have gone back to other and more serious work all the better after writing a page or two of what follows. I am happy thus to have had my little holiday along with you in this ideal region of quaint conceits.

      Shall we hope that others may share our pleasure?

      Let us try.

      The Story of

      A DEWDROP.

      CONTENTS

      List of

      ILLUSTRATIONS.

      CHAPTER THE FIRST.

      hree birds of very favourable repute in these regions met together one evening—a Thrush, a Lark, and a Nightingale. And all for what purpose, think you? It was a queer one—to hold a solemn conference about a Dewdrop!

      Yes, it must be allowed it was an original thought which brought these three feathered friends thus into council; and a pretty talk to be sure they had about it.

      They selected, as an appropriate time for preliminaries, the

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