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 LAURA BRIDGMAN. 255 Light is finer than gold, and even finest gold. Joy is a real light. Joy is a blazing flame. Darkness is frosty. A good sleep is a white curtain. A bad sleep is a black curtain.* ♦ Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman. By Mary Swift Lamson. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1881. 16