title: What Dreams Are Made Of
author: Autumn Dawn
description: Autumn Dawn currently lives in Nevada with her family and is busy working on her second novel.
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  Why the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the Dawn  
    
  
  
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  # Why the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the Dawn
  
  
  ### By Lord Dunsany
  
  
  
  
  
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  In the Hall of the Ancient Company of Milkmen round the great fireplace at the
  end, when the winter logs are burning and all the craft are assembled they
  tell to-day, as their grandfathers told before them, why the milkman shudders
  when he perceives the dawn.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  When dawn comes creeping over the edges of hills, peers through the tree-
  trunks making wonderful shadows, touches the tops of tall columns of smoke
  going up from awakening cottages in the valleys, and breaks all golden over
  Kentish fields, when going on tip-toe thence it comes to the walls of London
  and slips all shyly up those gloomy streets the milkman perceives it and
  shudders.
  
  
  
  
  
  