`` If you had to read seven chapters of it every time you were naughty I do n't believe you would like it either , '' retorted Sara Ray with a flash of spirit . `` I shall try to believe only half of what I hear , '' was Cecily 's concluding resolution . `` But which half ? '' scoffed Dan . `` The best half , '' said sweet Cecily simply . `` I 'll try to obey mother ALWAYS , '' wrote Sara Ray , with a tremendous sigh , as if she fully realized the difficulty of keeping such a resolution . `` And that 's all I 'm going to make . '' `` Felicity has only made one , '' said the Story Girl . `` I think it better to make just one and keep it than make a lot and break them , '' said Felicity loftily . She had the last word on the subject , for it was time for Sara Ray to go , and our circle broke up . Sara and Felix departed and we watched them down the lane in the moonlight -- Sara walking demurely in one runner track , and Felix stalking grimly along in the other . I fear the romantic beauty of that silver shining night was entirely thrown away on my mischievous brother . And it was , as I remember it , a most exquisite night -- a white poem , a frosty , starry lyric of light . It was one of those nights on which one might fall asleep and dream happy dreams of gardens of mirth and song , feeling all the while through one 's sleep the soft splendour and radiance of the white moon-world outside , as one hears soft , far-away music sounding through the thoughts and words that are born of it . As a matter of fact , however , Cecily dreamed that night that she saw three full moons in the sky , and wakened up crying with the horror of it . CHAPTER V . THE FIRST NUMBER OF `` OUR MAGAZINE '' The first number of Our Magazine was ready on New Year 's Day , and we read it that evening in the kitchen . All our staff had worked nobly and we were enormously proud of the result , although Dan still continued to scoff at a paper that was n't printed . The Story Girl and I read it turnabout while the others , except Felix , ate apples . It opened with a short EDITORIAL With this number Our Magazine makes its first bow to the public .
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