sends a complete and correct version. Willie H. Paul and
Bertha Paul straightened out all of the story except the part about
Lord Nelson. The versions sent by E.J. Smith, Charlie W. Jerome, Lulu
Way, and John N.L. Pierson, were correct, as far as they went, but they
explained only the parts that referred to King Alfred himself.]
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Here is a little story sent to ST. NICHOLAS as a companion to "The
Story that Wouldn't be Told," in the November number:
THE STORY NOBODY KNEW.
Once there was a little story that nobody knew, and nobody could tell
it, because nobody knew it, and yet this little story wanted dearly to
be told. It used to wait about where people were telling stories, and
when a story was ended and the merry laugh went round, it would say to
itself, "Now they will certainly tell me," but they never did. So at
last this little story got quite low-spirited and wandered off by
itself out of the house, and through the garden into the orchard, and
there in the orchard, under an apple-tree, there was a little girl
lying fast asleep among the buttercups and daisies.
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