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And often after going to bed she would lie for a long time listening to the stories the moon had to tell, or she would imagine herself riding on the back of the north wind to unknown lands, or playing the part of some other hero or heroine of the dear old Dane. By the time she was eight years old Beta could read fairy tales for herself, and great was her joy when, on her last birthday, because she was eleven years old, her mother had given to her the volume of Homer's "Odyssey, " which she hers...elf had read when she was a girl of twelve. She had often told Beta how she had stood beside her mother and read aloud from it while her mother stitched and mended for a family of eleven. They were "Southern gentry, " these forefathers of Beta, and had felt that they must have the "world-culture" which their ancestors had had, even if deprived of the leisure of that former time. So Beta's mother had read from Homer and Milton and Shakespeare to her mother when they lived on the old Kentucky farm.
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