PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
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Complete unabridged public-domain literary work from the Project Gutenberg archive.
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DEDICATION PREFACE CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV
If I were hanged on the highest hill, _Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!_ I know whose love would follow me still, _Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!_
If I were drowned in the deepest sea, _Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!_ I know whose tears would come down to me, _Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!_
If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, _Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!_
This is the story of _The Light that Failed_ as it was originally conceived by the writer.
So we settled it all when the storm was done As comf’y as comf’y could be; And I was to wait in the barn, my dears, Because I was only three; And Teddy would run to the rainbow’s foot, Because he was five and a man; And that’s how it all began, my dears, And that’s how it all began.
“What do you think she’d do if she caught us? We oughtn’t to have it, you know,” said Maisie.
“Beat me, and lock you up in your bedroom,” Dick answered, without hesitation. “Have you got the cartridges?”
Arthur Conan Doyle
