The thought came into my mind, Write a book for the children; and
while I listened, it became a desire and a pleasant one, for I
would dearly love to become the household friend of many little
children who are growing up within the homes of the Saints. If they
are willing to listen, I will tell them a few true stories, not
fairy ones, indeed, of which little ones are so fond, so
fascinating, but, alas so false. No, these must be true. Many
pleasant hours have I spent in story-telling, and surely my
pleasure was as great as theirs; stories to sleepy eyes, out in the
summer moonlight on the veranda, with great patches of flowers
faintly showing in the shadows of wide branches, and night-birds
singing over us; story-telling on rainy afternoons, or by roaring
hearth-light; at home and abroad-how many listeners there have
been. But I must not tell you what I have read, as I did those
little hearers, it must be some things that I have known. If I
could only show to my little friends of the present time, the sweet
faces remembered looking anxiously into mine, it would be the best
part of the book; those-no story could equal. Would that I could
make these, also, my friends, as the authors I so loved were mine.
Pleasant smiles and kind words from good hearts are sometimes worth
more than silver and gold. AUGUSTA JOYCE CROCHERON Bountiful, Davis
County, Utah September 3, 1890
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