", So he sprang ashore, and said to the boat, "Stay just where you are, will you?" At last they heard words, very I am a queen of alien birth, and did not I come against my will? So saying, the parrot-wife whisked herself round on the perch, and lo! she said, and she turned and and every one digs a little hole. ", "That's no business of yours," answered one of the women. "You will never see them any more," said the old themselves.". Then she jumped upon the perch, and held it with one foot, looking precisely like an old lady with a parrot's head. "Mopsa! Hark! The market-place ", "I like this little child better," said Jack; "I love this little Mopsa. said, "Good-morning! The parrots had been wheeling in the air, hundreds and hundreds of them, high above her head; and as she ceased speaking, she fell shuddering on the ground, drew her cloak over her face, and down they came, swooping in one immense flock, and settled so thickly all over her that she was completely covered; from her shoes to her head not an atom of her was to be seen. a deputation coming; but if I were to begin to sing, Yes, a turnip! This set it violently swinging backwards and forwards, but did not stop the parrot, who screeched out, "How delightful it is to be swung!" said Jack. ", "Oh, yes, master," replied the hound; "whatever you can do in Fairyland you may do. Read less. mine. Then she combed again, and it all turned gold-color, and came tumbling down to her waist; and then she stood up in the boat, and combed once more, and shook out the hair, and there was such a quantity that it reached down to her feet, and she was so covered with it that you could not see one bit of her, excepting her eyes, which peeped out, and looked bright and full of tears. So he parted from the apple-woman,–who took Mopsa with her, and said he would find her again when he wanted her at her apple-stall,–and went down to the boat, where he saw that his faithful hound was there before him. In fact, so coarse was their shaggy hair that they looked as if they were dressed in door-mats; and when they stood still and shook themselves, such clouds of dust flew out that, as it swept over the river, it almost stifled Jack and Mopsa. ", "You are a queen already," answered the real Queen; " ", "Yes," said Jack; "I took them out, and laid them in a row, to see that they were safe, and this one I kissed, because she looked such a little dear.". Compra Mopsa the Fairy. They have sap in them: that's why they can't blush.". boat, and, turning her lovely face towards Mopsa, Mopsa thanked the shooting fairy, and, taking the wing, began to stretch it, till it was large enough for her and Jack to sit upon. Mopsa the Fairy. "There's a brave boy!" I dare not say the words with my eyes open. sounded again and again. immensely long stable; but it was nearly Take me down.". but no fairy can ever give a reason for anything. Read more. a cheat!". which Mopsa stepped up close to Jack, and whispered in ", "I'm a fairy," observed the parrot, in a confidential tone. She was crying gently, for she knew that she must soon pass over the little stream, and part with these whom she called her dear children. By this time he began to feel very tired and sleepy; so, having looked at his fairies, and found that they were all safe and fast asleep, he lay down in the bottom of the boat, and fell into a doze, and then into a dream. This sounds like nonsense to us, but it is all right to them. she said, "Now you can stamp. Jack thought that go on!" I wonder what will be done to all your people for driving, and working, and beating so many beautiful creatures to death every year that comes? They you; and therefore I am obliged to say that if I were ', "He said, 'Throw that into the lake also. describe it? Jack was so astonished at this that he stared at that he was afraid to take them, and answered,–, "I shouldn't like to wear them if you think I had By this time the apple-woman began to feel very sad. ", "She was a beautiful fleet creature, of the race-horse breed," said the groom; "and she won silver cups for her master, and then they made her run a steeple-case, which frightened her, but still she won it; and then they made her run another, and she cleared some terribly high hurdles, and many gates and ditches, till she came to an awful one, and at first she would not take it, but her rider spurred and beat her till she tried. Dopo aver visualizzato le pagine di dettaglio del prodotto, guarda qui per trovare un modo facile per tornare alle pagine che ti interessano. Now I can be free." "Are those young fairies awake yet?" I think you must be tired, for you know you are so very old.". ", "Do I?" She had no sooner spoken than the largest of the bats bit off one of his own long wings, and laid it at Mopsa's feet. Each cage contained a parrot and his mate, and they all seemed to be very unhappy indeed. ", "Never mind, Queen dear," said Jack. Mopsa pointed to a group of stones, and then to another group, and as Jack looked he saw that in shape they were something like people,–stone people. "I wonder what has become of my stockings," said Prime Carrello. So, if he asked Mopsa; but she still hid the keyhole.". HEN Jack at length opened his eyes, he found that it was night, for the full moon was shining; but it was not at all a dark night, for he could see distinctly some black birds that looked like ravens. "Jack and I want to look at you.". Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! since that they have been obliged to make their legs They climbed till the trees of the forest looked no bigger than gooseberry bushes, and then they climbed till the whole forest looked only like a patch of moss; and then, when they got a little higher, they saw the wonderful river, a long, way off, and the snow glittering on the peaks overhead; and while they were looking and wondering how they should find a pass, the moons all went down, one after the other, and, if Mopsa had not found some glowworms, they would have been quite in the dark again. Read Online. A banquet was going on inside. Addeddate 2016-12-14 12:19:25 Boxid 0005002930A Call number EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? The consequence was, that when they chanced to sail within this great bay they got becalmed; the fairies came and picked all the sailors out and threw them into the water; they then took away the flags and pennons to make their best coats of, threw the ship-biscuits and other provisions to the fishes, and set all the sails. So now Mopsa had got a crown and a robe, and she was so beautiful that Jack thought he should never be tired of looking at her; but it was nearly dark now, and he was so sleepy and tired that he could not keep his eyes open, though he tried very hard, and he began to blink, and then he began to nod, and at last he fell fast asleep, and did not awake till the morning. Now while Mopsa told her story the wand speak. Mopsa, the fairy Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. ', "While they were throwing it in, there came a great flight of the wood fairies, fairies of passage from over the sea. Then he looked in at the Suddenly he perceived that reeds were growing up between him and the great door: the grass, which had all day grown about the steps, was getting taller; it had long spear-like leaves, it pushed up long pipes of green stems, and they whistled. Then, after he had mill,–the mill which grinds the corn for the town; "I am the black fairy. ", "London!" exclaimed Jack; "and oh, how rosy they have all turned! wall was three feet thick, and he could walk upon it quite comfortably and And then she paused, and said, She had walked beside the river with the Queen and her tribe till they came to a little tinkling stream, which divides their country from the sandy land, and there they were obliged to stop; they could not cross it. "Wake up!" "Silence, sire! "I hope not, dear; for you Jack stood with the crowd, and peeped in. Oh, the joy of that meeting! said Jack. ", So the apple-woman said, "I have heard, but I don't know how true is it, that in that country they shut up their queen in a great castle, and cover her with a veil, and never let the sun shine on her; for if by chance the least little sunbeam should light on her she would turn into a doe directly, and all the nation would turn with her, and stay so.". While this was going on, Jack felt that the cobwebs which had seemed to float about his face were all gone; he did not care at all any more about the gypsy, and began to watch the parrots with great attention. Jack had a dog-whistle, so he took it off and gave it to her. His baby sister was asleep, and the nurse was reading a story-book, so it could not have been either of them who called. Each of the boys would now have been This ran rapidly through numerous editions and was set to music, proving popular for English domestic entertainment. I thought they were mountains.". It makes a great bedtime story for children, if you have Gothic Victorian sensibilities and like plots featuring numerous strong female characters.. may be a keyhole," she said, "but there is This is your world, as you can see; but none of your people are here, because they are not made yet. Fairies by dozens came up to Mopsa, the fairy by Ingelow, Jean, 1820-1897. "I wouldn't be you when they tell how you've used them.". He drew a little nearer. she knew anything about his stockings. the apple-woman called him, and said breakfast was "I shall, for one; that I Only Jack, and the apple-woman, and Mopsa were left sitting on their chairs, with the Queen between them. The first that has of wood.". asked one old woman of the other. ", "They'll TELL," proceeded the white horse. pleases, for I am completely in his power. spell should come upon them again. into it to buy a slave, but I did not see one that I She was not sailing, for she had no sails, and he was not rowing, for he had no oars; so I am obliged to call her motion swimming, because I don't know of a better word. Mopsa the Fairy was written in the early 1900s before the wars and reflects the Edwardian "long golden afternoon" of Great Britain before WW1. Upon this, to the astonishment of Jack, every one of the guests began to cry and sob too. said Jack. "You can't take her down the river," replied the woman; and Jack thought she laughed and was glad of that. Mopsa the Fairy. "You don't suppose, surely, that we can go forever? Then she came to him and kissed him, and his father said, "I think it must be time this man of ours was in bed.". Jack had just decided to dream of something else, when, with a noise greater than fifty trumpets, the elephants, having shaken out all the dust, came thundering down to the water to bathe in the liquid mud. You will dream that you see before you a roasted fowl, some new potatoes, and an apple-pie. of a key turning in the hole, and out burst You can see all his ribs. Jack was very much astonished, but he went on eating his cake, and was so delighted to see the young fairy climb up the side of the hollow and scramble again into her nest, that he laughed heartily; upon which all the nestlings popped up their heads, and, showing their pretty white teeth, pointed at the slice of cake. Jack was delighted to see them, but he did not say a word, and he wondered whether they would be surprised at his having stayed away so long. Jack touched his hat, and said, "Yes, sir," and then called out to his boat, "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running down these little live fishing-vessels so carelessly. Whereupon the apple-woman snatched up Mopsa, and seizing Jack's hand, hurried him off, exclaiming, "Come away! sitting, while in front of them stood the slaves. "A word in your ear: 'Share and share alike' is a fine motto.". precipice, which rose sheer up for more than "Unlock the door!" All the fairy stuff, the magic, and the world Ingelow built is just so cute! "When you are tired," she said, "eat the seeds, and they will enable you to go running on. When they had been playing some time, and Mopsa was getting quite clever at the game, the lovely slave said, "Master, it is a long time since you spoke to me. time to time, and at last one shot close by them, and fell in the soft moss on before. Queens in one hive. She was trembling dreadfully, and her dark eyes, which had been so bright and piercing, had become dull and almost dim; but when she found there was no help for it, she said,–, "Well, pass out Jack's handkerchief. "Set me on your shoulder, Jack, and let me see the end of it.". they seemed, if one may judge by their looks, Hark! Good-by! then he had nothing to do. ", "I don't think our world is much larger than yours," answered the groom. herself had mistaken the one for the other. leave, and so got on to the carpet, while at the same "There are no such things as hairy elephants," said Jack, in his dream; but he had hardly spoken when out of a wood close at hand some huge creatures, far larger than our elephants, came jogging down to the water. amused himself with throwing it up several times and She is a fairy, as we have just found out, and all fairies have two forms.". There were blocks with things that you might have mistaken for stone ropes twisted round them, but looking at the shadows, you could see distinctly that they were trees, and that what coiled round were snakes. "Are you sure you brought it with you ", "Well, then, jog on, there's a dear," continued the old woman. "And how long do you think you have been a slave, Queen?" nursery at home. and nothing happened, and all the next day BOY, whom I knew very well, was once going through a meadow, which was full of buttercups. Several fairies tumbled into it almost head over There was a very large dish standing before the Queen; for though the people were small, the plates and dishes were exactly like those we use, and of the same size. There was a table ", "I tell you, Raven," said Jack laughing, "that I KNOW there is never more than one moon in my country, and sometimes there is no moon at all!". to offer Mopsa the crown; and, Jack, it is fated that It was very dangerous, she said, to fairies to be envied. standing among them, and came rushing wildly forth behind them. Mopsa The Fairy | Ingelow, Jean, Dora Curtis and Diana Stanley | ISBN: | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. "How curious! grand hall, which was quite full of knights ", "There are two spades," continued the Gee!" A large fleet of the pearly nautilus was collected close under the vessel's lee. continued the little woman, "I shall give you some ", "Well," said Jack, "I will go there and take Mopsa. landing-place, jumped into Jack's boat without asking such a flock of Guinea-hens would gather round that ", "Harm!" No, not that I know of; but if you are a stranger here you had better look out. In fact, Jack had been out all night, and now it was morning. When boys go to Fairyland, their parents never are uneasy about them. She did nothing at all, and she said nothing at all; but she had a sorrowful face, and she looked up. to be. At last the blue washer-woman said, "I shall leave off now; I've got a pain in my works. "Don't argue with me; I am older now than you are,–nearly grown up, in fact. Oh! ever heard; but as everybody else looked Welcome to She did not see, she said, that one thing was more wonderful than another. Meer informatie ", "I see boats and vessels, "answered Jack, "and all their sails are set, but they cannot sail, because there is no wind. "Can I buy you with this?" and he ran after the old women, calling to them,–, "Is there any law to prevent my coming into your country? When he came to the end of the verse he pretended to burst into a violent fit of sobbing and crying, and screeched out to his wife, "Mate! as well as they could. asked Jack; but she only hung down her they flew away. "Buy me a handkerchief," sobbed the parrot. As it finished striking they came out at the farther edge of the great said to Jack, "What was the name of the great bird of sunshine shall bring it down. He poked them, and they took no notice; but when he snatched one of them out of the nest, it gave a loud squeak, and said, "Oh, don't, Jack!" not be safe till we see our new Queen. dear." and they crowded about him, so that he soon lost sight of the moth, and forgot everything else in his surprise at the booths. At that moment his friend in the moss petticoat and feather cloak came up with a little measure of maize, and poured it into the cage. The nurse and his baby sister were with him; and when they got to an old hawthorn, which grew in the hedge and was covered with blossom, they all sat down in its shade, and the nurse took out three slices of plum-cake, gave one to each of the children, and kept one for herself. "Is their money like this?" glad and thankful words; people were crying "Why, you have not bought any new clothes!" Now Mopsa, I am sorry to say, was behaving so badly that Jack was quite ashamed of her. and why am I not to follow?" The apple-woman answered, "It's not the fashion to ask questions in Fairyland. asked Jack. your handsome feet on my back, that they may be out of At the same time the wind rose, and rocked the boughs, and made the old tree creak and tremble. no one has ever set eyes on them since. "You are not exactly fairies, I suppose?" ", "Ah!" leaving us till you have quite got over the effects of the fall. cried the fairy woman. ", A chapter of this book is dedicated by Linda C. Schmidt: ", "No; he has a good disposition, has Boney," observed the red old woman. Sit down on the grass and play with Mopsa. that which had looked like a door began to Mopsa was not happy, Jack was sure of "You've seen a I clienti Prime beneficiano di consegne illimitate presso i punti di ritiro senza costi aggiuntivi, Indica il punto di ritiro in cui vuoi ricevere il tuo ordine nella pagina di conferma d’ordine. of mortal coin.". Now, as I have told you before, that river runs up the country instead of down to the sea, so Jack and Mopsa floated still farther up into Fairyland; and they saw the Queen, and the apple-woman, and all the crowd of fawns and fairies walking along the bank of the river, keeping exactly to the same pace that the boat went; and this went on for hours and hours, so that there seemed to be no chance that Jack and Mopsa could land; and they heard no voices at all, nor any sound but the baying of the old hound, who could not swim out to them, because Jack had forbidden the boat to take anything of fairy birth on board with them. Jack flung down the old parrot's head and great beak, for he saw that what he had to do was to clear the fairy of its parrot covering. 4.0 • 1 Rating; Publisher Description. But seated on a couch, where hand up my handkerchief. "It we are faint with our long flight; give us some of that corn which you do not want, that we may peck it and be refreshed. These fairy people were something like the one-foot-one fairies, but song was heard.". Haven't we all done that? with chairs and tables upon them. spoke: what they were thinking of is not uncomfortable, as he had no stockings; but he did not There he seated himself in great state, and the albatross perched herself on the next bench, and faced him. So she stooped forward as she stood on the step, and kissed him, and her tears fell on his cheek. said Jack. " Put me into your pocket again, and whistle as loudly as you can.". "Jack," said the parrot, "do they ever eat handkerchiefs in your part of the country? cried Jack to the boat; and at that instant such a splendid moth rose slowly, that he sprang on shore after it, and quite forgot the fair and the people in his desire to follow it. what a tough old parrot that was, and how Jack tugged before his cunning head would come off! Wait for the dissertation (TBA). fell that came through the keyhole; so he You could go in two minutes by the usual route; but these young fairies want to go before they are summoned, and therefore you and I are taking them." him with his finger to come in. Mopsa the Fairy: Amazon.it: Ingelow, Jean: Libri in altre lingue. Publication date 1901 Publisher New York, T.Y. This was the colors in the world. up and whispered in the boy-king's ear. What is it that you wish to say? "I don't know what you mean," answered Jack; "but I am a real boy, certainly. Has nobody told you? continued to bend, and Mopsa, following, shouted out, "No; they are antlers!". exclaimed Jack. They looked and saw a great dome They were falling so fast that Jack dared not look; but he saw the church, and the wood, and his father's house, which seemed to be starting up to meet him. and her maids about her, and with the child-king ", "I wish the fairies would not disappear for hours," But the fairy woman only smiled, and Jack went on: "I have thought of something that I should like much better than my half-crown. exclaimed Jack; "why, that is in my country. That was not surprising, for she had been out all night. ", So Jack did. repeated the lady; "and pray what reason have you for she said to the other Jack; "so very hot! It was a stone yet, but when Mopsa laid her little warm hand on its bosom it smiled. boat was lying, and the water was so delightfully Mopsa, and sighed. asked Jack. Read CHAPTER XI - Good-morning, sister of Mopsa the Fairy by Jean Ingelow free of charge on ReadCentral. first story, but I cannot.". ", "Yes," said Jack; "I only arrived this morning. 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