_There was a yellow light--it came from the evening lamp. There were people of flesh and blood around--my own dear people--and they were talking together. There was the library with the rows of books looking silently out from their shelves. There was the fire of hickory logs crackling and snapping in the fireplace, and throwing a wavering, yellow light on the wall._ _Had I been asleep? No; I had been in Twilight Land._ _And now the pleasant Twilight Land had gone. It had faded out, and I was back again in the work-a-day world._ _There I was sitting in my chair; and, what was more, it was time for the children to go to bed._ THE END Transcribers Notes: Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Hyphenation used inconsistently was not changed: Both “anteroom” and “ante-room” are used in the text. Both “byways” and “by-ways” are used in the text. Both “livelong” and “live-long” are used in the text. Both “merrymaking” and “merry-making” are used in the text. Both “passageway(s)” and “passage-way(s)” are used in the text. Apparent printing errors in hyphenation and spelling were repaired: page 117: “door-way” changed to “doorway” (through an arch doorway into a garden) page 358: “twelve-month” changed to “twelvemonth” (had I known that in a twelvemonth it would all come tumbling down) page 384: missing “e” added (All Things are as Fate wills.) page 437: “ana” changed to “and” (His voice had been fading away thinner and thinner) End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Twilight Land, by Howard Pyle