Excerpt from Our First Columbian: Four Hundred Years Ago
My Dear Young Readers:
I have a little niece and nephew who wished very much to attend the great World"s Fair at Chicago, but were told by their parents that, although kind people had taken a great deal of pains to have things nicely arranged for those children who should come, it would not be a wise plan to take children where there would be such great crowds of people; so, as they could not see the White City built for the World"s Colombian Exposition, to please them I promised to write a little story about the great man in whose honor the great Fair was held. Soon I was reminded of the many, many children in our country who would never see any of the beautiful sights of the great Fair at Jackson Park, and said. "I will write my story for all of the little children who must stay at home." If you like this little story, look at the frontispiece, and remember that if it had not been for these two little ones, I would never have thought of writing it.
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