said Felicity , turning very red . `` As if I would let a hired boy kiss me ! I guess Master Peter wo n't try anything like that again in a hurry . '' The Story Girl came out of her shadows and sat down beside us on the grass . `` Well , in that case , '' she said gravely , `` I think you did right to slap his ears -- not because he is a hired boy , but because it would be impertinent in ANY boy . But talking of kissing makes me think of a story I found in Aunt Olivia 's scrapbook the other day . Would n't you like to hear it ? It is called , ` How Kissing Was Discovered . ' '' `` Was n't kissing always discovered ? '' asked Dan . `` Not according to this story . It was just discovered accidentally . '' `` Well , let 's hear about it , '' said Felix , `` although I think kissing 's awful silly , and it would n't have mattered much if it had n't ever been discovered . '' The Story Girl scattered her roses around her on the grass , and clasped her slim hands over her knees . Gazing dreamily afar at the tinted sky between the apple trees , as if she were looking back to the merry days of the world 's gay youth , she began , her voice giving to the words and fancies of the old tale the delicacy of hoar frost and the crystal sparkle of dew . `` It happened long , long ago in Greece -- where so many other beautiful things happened . Before that , nobody had ever heard of kissing . And then it was just discovered in the twinkling of an eye . And a man wrote it down and the account has been preserved ever since . `` There was a young shepherd named Glaucon -- a very handsome young shepherd -- who lived in a little village called Thebes .
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