Excerpt from What Good Does Wishing Do?
It would seem hard at first thought to find a connecting link of interest between four such diverse works as Chambers" Book of Days, Hawthorne"s Mosses from an Old Manse, Marshall"s Economics, and Andrew Murray"s With Christ in the School of Prayer. Yet each of these books has a word to say in regard to wishing; each answers, in its own way, the question, What Good Does Wishing Do?
In the Book of Days there is related the legend of the Wishing-Wells of Walsingham. In the old days there were, in Norfolk, England, two wells, between which lay a stone. Upon that stone, said tradition, one must kneel with his right knee bare. He must plunge one hand in each well, so that the water reaches the wrist, and while doing so, may wish for anything he desires. After this, he must drink as much of the water of the wells as may be held in the hollow of his hands. If he never tells his wish to any other, - never utters it aloud, even to himself, - within a year his wish will come true!
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