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1 1. Wanda Portola, Victoria. 11 : 1 : 14. My dear Sir, I write this in a cottage by the sea, where we have come
with the children for a holiday, after reading your story of your boyhood youth. I read it through leisurely at two sittings,
haven't enjoyed a book more for long. In your other books, which I read in Dunbar I was also carried on to the end by the
simplicity directness of the style; but this is even more full of human interest that at the same time the 'Bible English',
which I fancy you owe illegible y to your early studies in the books . If so, they were not in vain. The present educational
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