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The Golden Scarecrow

PROLOGUE
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Yes, by Csar, you may.

How do you know what's best worth doing?
If you'd listened a little more to the things you were told when you were a baby, you'd be a more intelligent man now." "When I was a baby," said Mr.Lasher, incredulously, as though that were a thing that he never possibly could have been, "my _dear_ Pidgen!" "Ah, you think it absurd," said the other, a little cooler again.

"But how do you know who watched over your early years and wanted you to be a dreamy, fairy tale kind of person instead of the cayenne pepper sort of man you are.

There's always some one there, I tell you, and you can have your choice, whether you'll believe more than you see all your life or less than you see.

Every baby knows about it; then, as they grow older, it fades and, with many people, goes altogether.


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