A Child’s Dream of a Star by Charles Dickens Illustrated by Hammattt Billings.

A CHILD’S DREAM OF A STAR

A CHILD’S DREAM OF A STAR.

By CHARLES DICKENS.

By

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HAMMATT BILLINGS.

 BOSTON: FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO. 1871.

 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, BY FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge.

University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Engraved by W. J. Linton. 

Engraved by W. J. Linton.

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A CHILD’S DREAM OF A STAR.

 THERE was once a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; they wondered at [Pg 6]the goodness and the power of God, who made the lovely world.

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God

They used to say to one another, sometimes, Supposing all the 

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