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Tonight, I continue one of my favorite stories,

The Blue Castle.

So lie down, close your eyes,

and let me read you a story.

Chapter 13. and let me read you a story. Chapter 30

They didn't spend all their days on the island.

They spent more than half of them wandering at will through the enchanted Muscoca country.

Barney knew the woods as a book, and he taught their lore and craft to Valency. He could always find trail and haunt of the

shy wood people. Valancy learned the different fairly likenesses of the mosses, the charm and exquisiteness of wooden blossoms.

She learned to know every bird at sight and mimic its call, though never so perfectly as Barney.

She made friends with every kind of tree.

She learned to paddle a canoe as well as Barney himself.

She liked to be out in the rain, and she never caught cold.

Sometimes they took a lunch with them and went burying, strawberries and blueberries.

How pretty blueberries were!

The dainty green of the unripe berries, the glossy pinks and scarlets of the half-ripes,

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