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Tonight, I will be reading another Greek myth from the wonder book by Nathaniel Hawthorne,

The Chimera.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

Once, in the old, old times, for all the strange things which I tell you about, happened long before

anybody can remember, a fountain gushed out of a hillside in the marvellous land of Greece.

And for all I know, after so many thousands of years, it is still gushing out of the very

self-same spot.

At any rate, there was a pleasant fountain, welling freshly forth, and sparkling

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