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 to get the miserable spectacles off; but they fell back tighter over my eyes and I couldn't loosen them anyway I tried.

"And after that I went pretty nearly crazy. I thought that I would have to wear those dreadful things forever and ever, and I couldn't break them and I couldn't tear them off, and I struggled and struggled and—and then I waked up."

"Whew!" said the Dream. "That was a pretty tough one!"

"It certainly was," said Marjorie. "What made you bring me anything like that? You must have known all about it before I told you."

The Dream looked at her with his head on one side and his mouth pursed up. "Well," he said, "it wasn't pleasant; but sometimes folks learn things from experiences that are not exactly pleasant."

"But can't they learn just as well from pleas—ant ones?"

"Perhaps they can, but it isn't always that they will."

"Well, what did I learn from that?"

"How do I know?"

Marjorie sat still and thought. "I suppose,"