title: Houghton Mifflin Reading: Flat Stanley Level 4 Imp FLAT STANLEY (Literature Experience)
author: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
description: Houghton Mifflin Reading: Flat Stanley Level 4 Imp FLAT STANLEY (Literature Experience)
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  # Parnassus On Wheels
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Christopher Morley
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  H.B.F. and H.F.M.
  
  
  "Trusty, dusky, vivid,true"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  
  
  A LETTER TO
  
  
  David Grayson, Esq.
  
  
  OF HEMPFIELD, U. S. A.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  MY DEAR SIR,
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Although my name appears on the title page, the real author of
  
  
  this book is Miss Helen McGill (now Mrs. Roger Mifflin), who
  
  
  told me the story with her own inimitable vivacity. And on her
  
  
  behalf I want to send to you these few words of acknowledgment.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Mrs. Mifflin, I need hardly say, is unskilled in the arts of
  
  
  authorship: this is her first book, and I doubt whether she
  
  
  will ever write another. She hardly realized, I think, how
  
  
  much her story owes to your own delightful writings. There
  
  
  used to be a well-thumbed copy of "Adventures in Contentment"
  
  
  on her table at the Sabine Farm, and I have seen her pick it
  
  
  up, after a long day in the kitchen, read it with chuckles,
  
  