Five Children and It (Dramatic Reading)

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1>FIVE CHILDREN</h1> <h1>AND IT</h1> <h3>BY</h3> <h2>E. NESBIT</h2> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div class='center'> <span style="margin-left: 5em;"><i>TO</i></span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 5em;"><big>JOHN BLAND</big></span> <br/> <br/></div> <div class='center'> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="My Lamb"> <tr><td align='left'><i>My Lamb, you are so very small,<br/> You have not learned to read at all;<br/> Yet never a printed book withstands<br/> The urgence of your dimpled hands.<br/> So, though this book is for yourself,<br/> Let mother keep it on the shelf<br/> Till you can read. O days that pass,<br/> That day will come too soon, alas!</i><br/></td></tr> </table></div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h2>NOTE</h2> <div class='center'>Parts of this story have appeared in<br/>the <i>Strand Magazine</i> under the title of<br/><br/> "THE PSAMMEAD."<br/></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />