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In The Garden, Part 1
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Chapter 27 Part 1 of the Secret Garden. This liberal box recording is in the public domain, recording by Karen Savage. The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett. Chapter 27 in the garden. In each centuries since the beginning of the world, wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century, more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century,
hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refused to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done, then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts, just mere thoughts, are as powerful as electric batteries, as good for one a son-nighters, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind, is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay
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