““It was the best advice Francie ever got. Truth and fancy were so mixed up in her mind -- as they are in the mind of every lonely child-- that she didn't know which was which. But Teacher made these two things clear to her. From that time on, she wrote little stories about things she saw and felt and did. In time, she got so that she was able to speak the truth with but a slight and instinctive coloring of the facts.””
