YOU know , teacher .<br>And then I wanted to tell them to somebody and there was nobody but Mary Joe .<br>Mary Joe was in the pantry setting bread and I sat down on the bench beside her and I said , ` Mary Joe , do you know what I think ?<br>I think the evening star is a lighthouse on the land where the fairies dwell . '<br>And Mary Joe said , ` Well , yous are de queer one .<br>Dare ai n't no such ting as fairies . '<br>I was very much provoked .<br>Of course , I knew there are no fairies ; but that need n't prevent my thinking there is .<br>You know , teacher .<br>But I tried again quite patiently .
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