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WHEN after the publication of The Boy through the Ages my publishers, my critics, and my friends united in urging me to do for his little sister what I had just done for him the idea did not appeal to me very strongly. I feared that a certain amount of overlapping and duplication would be inevitable, and I had no wish to serve I up what the Romans called crumbe repetita and the Scots call -cauld kail het again. However, I was soon convinced that this was an ill-founded fear.