I tell you what , Miss Lavendar '' ... Paul 's voice and face were as solemn as a judge 's ... `` I think you would make a splendid mother . You have just the right look in your eyes ... the look my little mother always had . I think it 's a pity you have n't any boys of your own . '' `` I have a little dream boy , Paul . '' `` Oh , have you really ? How old is he ? '' `` About your age I think . He ought to be older because I dreamed him long before you were born . But I 'll never let him get any older than eleven or twelve ; because if I did some day he might grow up altogether and then I 'd lose him . '' `` I know , '' nodded Paul . `` That 's the beauty of dream-people ... they stay any age you want them . You and my beautiful teacher and me myself are the only folks in the world that I know of that have dream-people . Is n't it funny and nice we should all know each other ? But I guess that kind of people always find each other out . Grandma never has dream-people and Mary Joe thinks I 'm wrong in the upper story because I have them . But I think it 's splendid to have them . YOU know , Miss Lavendar . Tell me all about your little dream-boy . '' `` He has blue eyes and curly hair . He steals in and wakens me with a kiss every morning .
Then all XXXXX he plays here in the garden ... and I play with him .
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