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Excerpt from Number Stories of Long Ago
These are the stories that were really told in the crisp autumn evenings, the story-teller sitting by the fire that burned in the great fireplace in the cottage by the sea. These are the stories as he told them to the Tease and the rest of the circle of friends known as the Crowd. Sitting by the fire and listening to the stories, in the lights and shadows of the dancing ?ames they could see the forms of Ching and Lugal and all the rest with their curious dress of long ago.
Night after night he told these tales of the ages past, stories unlike the make-believes they had often heard, stories of what might really have happened when the world was young, stories that the Crowd said were different because they told of much that was new, much that was curious, and much that was interesting.
So the Crowd learned many strange things that have happened in Number Land, but they learned much more than this for the story-teller told them much that was interesting about the way in which boys and girls used to write in centuries long past how Ching wrote on palm leaves, and Lugal on bricks.
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These are the stories that were really told in the crisp autumn evenings, the story-teller sitting by the fire that burned in the great fireplace in the cottage by the sea. These are the stories as he told them to the Tease and the rest of the circle of friends known as the Crowd. Sitting by the fire and listening to the stories, in the lights and shadows of the dancing ?ames they could see the forms of Ching and Lugal and all the rest with their curious dress of long ago.
Night after night he told these tales of the ages past, stories unlike the make-believes they had often heard, stories of what might really have happened when the world was young, stories that the Crowd said were different because they told of much that was new, much that was curious, and much that was interesting.
So the Crowd learned many strange things that have happened in Number Land, but they learned much more than this for the story-teller told them much that was interesting about the way in which boys and girls used to write in centuries long past how Ching wrote on palm leaves, and Lugal on bricks.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - David Eugene Smith
Hardback
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780266172116
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Page Count - 174
Paperback
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ISBN - 9781332061297
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1 cm
Page Count - 176
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