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Updated: May 21, 2025
She heard again the thud of the rhinoceros-whip on the cringing back of the Boer; she heard the moan of the victim as he stumbled across the threshold into the street; and again she felt that sense of suffocation, that excitement which the child feels on the brink of a wonderful romance, the once-upon-a-time moment. They were nearing the hospital. The driver silently pointed to it.
The week before they left for home she had completed a book of "once-upon-a-time stories," which she read aloud to all the children as they clustered around her in the "air-castle." She called it "Lucy in Fairyland," though she meant Bab just as much as Lucy.
It was a beautiful morning in June, in that period of the world's history which is ambiguously styled "Once-upon-a-time," when the "Kittereen" the clumsy vehicle above referred to rumbled up to the Star Inn and stopped there.
"Ah, Basil, I wish it was we, there!" "And if they knew that we, on our wedding journey, stood outside, would not they wish it was they, here?" "I suppose so, dearest, and yet, once-upon-a-time was sweet. Pass on; and let us see what charm we shall find next in this enchanted city."
The female lobbyist is a character that "once-upon-a-time" flourished at the national and in State capitals, but modern methods have made her, to a large degree, superfluous, and now the high-priced lawyer, representing the Trust, deals directly with the party boss instead of the individual lawmaker. It is cheaper and quicker. Mr. Tarkington's friends, Boss Gorgett and Mrs.
Her mind went racing back to the "once-upon-a-time days," the days when chivalry walked abroad before it took up its permanent residence between the covers of story-books when poets and saints, kings' sons and tinkers journeyed afar to prove their manhood in deeds instead of inheritances; when it was no shame to live by one's wits or ask hospitality at any strange door. Ah those were the days!
Now I'm fast becoming a specialist in 'Once-Upon-a-Time' stories." "I'd like to read some of them," said Wade. "I'm awfully fond of fairy stories." "Oh, but these are very young fairy stories, like like this one." Eve pulled a pencilled sheet of paper from the pages of her book, smiled, hesitated, and read: "'Once upon a time there was a Fairy Princess whose name was Dewdrop.
"Ah, Basil, I wish it was we, there!" And if they knew that we, on our wedding journey, stood outside, would not they wish it was they, here?" "I suppose so, dearest, and yet, once-upon-a-time was sweet. Pass on; and let us see what charm we shall find next in this enchanted city."
Then, "Well er " "Isn't it a fath-er-and-moth-er question?" "Why, yes, my baby. But I " "Father will tell you, dear." He was seated beside her once more. "You see it's this way:" "Can you tell it like a story, fath-er?" "Yes." "A once-upon-a-time story?" "I'll try. But first you must understand that law and order are not two people. Oh, no.
"Some 'once-upon-a-time stories, Auntie Vi. Make believe we two girls go all about among the fairies, just as Alice did in Wonderland; only there are two of us together, and we shall have a better time!" "Oh, fie! How could I take real live little girls into the kingdom of the elves and gnomes and pixies? I shouldn't know how!" But she was so obliging as to try.
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