Chapter 1. "Once on a Time"
_ I am going to tell a story, one of those tales of astonishing adventures that happened years and years and years ago. Perhaps you wonder why it is that so many stories are told of "once on a time", and so few of these days in which we live； but that is easily explained.
In the old days, when the world was young, there were no automobiles nor flying-machines to make one wonder； nor were there railway trains, nor telephones, nor mechanical inventions of any sort to keep people keyed up to a high pitch of excitement. Men and women lived simply and quietly. They were Nature‘s children, and breathed fresh air into their lungs instead of smoke and coal gas； and tramped through green meadows and deep forests instead of riding in street cars； and went to bed when it grew dark and rose with the sun--which is vastly different from the present custom. Having no books to read they told their adventures to one another and to their little ones； and the stories w

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