The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame (English) Paperback Book

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Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours. In a poetry-book presented to one of us by an aunt, there was a poem by one Wordsworth in which they stood out strongly with a picture all to themselves, too-but we didn't think very highly either of the poem or the sentiment. Footprints in the sand, now, were quite another matter, and we grasped Crusoe's attitude of mind much more easily than Wordsworth's. Excitement and mystery, curiosity and suspense-these were the only sentiments that tracks, whether in sand or in snow, were able to arouse in us. We had awakened early that winter morning, puzzled at first by the added light that filled the room. Then, when the truth at last fully dawned on us and we knew that snow-balling was no longer a wistful dream, but a solid certainty waiting for us outside, it was a mere brute fight for the necessary clothes, and the lacing of boots seemed a clumsy invention, and the buttoning of coats an unduly tedious form of fastening, with all that snow going to waste at our very door. When dinner-time came we had to be dragged in by the scruff of our necks.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Details ISBN198538194X Author Kenneth Grahame Pages 34 Language English Year 2018 ISBN-10 198538194X ISBN-13 9781985381940 Format Paperback Publication Date 2018-03-08 Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing Platform DEWEY FIC Audience General We've got this

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