The Hollow Tree and Deep Woods Book / being a new edition in one volume of "The Hollow Tree" and "In The Deep Woods" with several new stories and pictures added

by Albert Bigelow Paine

"I'm afraid not," he answers.

"And won't you never know any more? Not ever—in a thousand days?"

"I—no, I'm afraid not."

"I wish we lived in a Hollow Tree," says the Little Lady.

From the House of Many Windows the Story Teller looks down on the dazzling lights and the clatter and jangle of the street. Then he remembers cool, musky ways in the dim woods, down which the padded feet of the forest people pass silently to hidden homes of peace. The Story Teller sighs.

"Yes, sweetheart," he says, "I have wished that sometimes, too."

THE END

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The Three Friends, page 136.