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The Getting of Wisdom


by

Henry Handel Richardson




  TO MY
  UNNAMED
  LITTLE COLLABORATOR



  Wisdom is the principal thing;
  therefore get wisdom: and with
  all thy getting get understanding.

Proverbs, iv, 7



I.


The four children were lying on the grass.

"... and the Prince went further and further into the forest," said the
elder girl, "till he came to a beautiful glade--a glade, you know, is a
place in the forest that is open and green and lovely. And there he saw
a lady, a beautiful lady, in a long white dress that hung down to her
ankles, with a golden belt and a golden crown. She was lying on the
sward--a sward, you know, is grass as smooth as velvet, just like green
