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Tonight I'll be reading the snoozy opening chapters from How a

Dear Little Couple Went Abroad. opening chapters from how a dear little couple went abroad.

This cutsy turn of the century children's book was originally published in 1900 by Mary Dow Br, a New York-based author who published several works in Harper's magazine in the 1800s. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a over her surprise. Polly opened her blue eyes, one lovely morning in May and found the Sun Fairies as she called them,

dancing all about her wee bedchamber and telling her in their own bright way that it was high time

little girls were up and dressing for breakfast. At first, she was sure she had been having a beautiful dream,

for what else could make her feel so happy and so sort of all overish, as if something very nice and unusual had come upon her.

She was sure she had dreamed that a splendid surprise had happened and it was something about going away too.

Polly lay still in her little white nest of a bed and thought over her dream and low on a sudden as she

grew more and more awake the real cause of her new and glad sensations came into her curly head, and

she bounced like a little rubber ball right out of bed and danced a wee lively jig on the floor. Why, of course it wasn't a dream.

No indeed, it was a real. Oh, as real as Polly darling herself, and no wonder she had felt so all

overish, and so glad all inside of her.

She sat down on the soft carpet and drew her stockings and shoes on,

but it was slow work because Polly was thinking, and she had a great deal to think about you see.

First, oh how it all came back to her now. First she remembered that last night after supper Papa

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