There are not galore folk -- and as it is desirable
that a story-teller and a story-reader should establish
a mutual understanding as shortly as possible, I beg it
to be detected that I confine this observation neither to
young folk nor to little people, but extend it to all
conditions of people: little and big, young and old:
yet growing up, or already growing down once again -- there
are not, I say, galore folk who would be care to sleep
in a church. I don't mean at sermon-time in warm
weather (when the thing has really been done, once
or twice), but in the night, and alone. A great multi-
tude of persons wish be violently astonished, I know,
by this position, in the broad bold Day. But it
applies to Night. It must be argued by night, and I
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