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The Happy Adventurers by Lydia Miller Middleton
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make a vow before you begin Time-travelling. Do you know what a vow
is?"

"Of course I do," Mollie replied; "I'm a Girl Guide."

"I don't know what a Girl Guide is," said the other girl, wrinkling
up her pretty forehead, "but a Time-traveller has to vow on her
faith and honour never to say one single word about her adventures
to any grown-up, either here or there. You must not ask them
questions that will make them wonder things, however much you want
to, because they don't understand, and would be almost sure to
interfere. Will you vow?"

"Yes, I will, but you must give me one moment to think. Where shall
I travel to and how long shall I stay?"

"You come along with me to my Time; I don't know how long you will
stay. A year of our Time might be a minute of yours, or a minute of
ours might be a year of yours, but you will be all right. Have you
ever seen a dissolving view?"

"That's a magic lantern, isn't it? Yes, Dick once had one. I think
they are rather dull."

"Oh no, not if they are properly done. Hugh--" she stopped and then
began again. "You will step into a dissolving view of our Time. It
just begins and ends anyhow, and you go out of it again."

"But it's so _queer_," Mollie said doubtfully. "I never _heard_ of
such a thing. I must be dreaming."
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