【国外英文文学】All the Way to Fairyland.doc

PAGE PAGE 1 【国外英文文学】All the Way to Fairyland THESE STORIES ARE FOR GEOFFREY AND CHRISTOPHER TRISTAN AND ISEULT MARGARET AND BOY AND EVERARD AND ALL THE OTHER CHILDREN WHO WOULD LIKE TO GO ALL THE WAY TO FAIRYLAND Contents CHAPTER I. THE COUNTRY CALLED NONAMIA II. WHY THE WYMPS CRIED III. THE STORY OF HONEY AND SUNNY IV. THE LITTLE PRINCESS AND THE POET V. THE WONDERFUL TOYMAKER VI. THE PROFESSOR OF PRACTICAL JOKES VII. THE DOLL THAT CAME STRAIGHT FROM FAIRYLAND VIII. THOSE WYMPS AGAIN! List of Illustrations BY MRS. PERCY DEARMER I. A PRINCESS FLOATING ABOUT ON A SOFT WHITE CLOUD . _Frontispiece_ II. THE WYMPS SAY THAT QUEER BEGAN IT III. SUNNY WAS SO ASTONISHED THAT SHE STOPPED CRYING AT ONCE IV. COME WITH ME, POET, SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS V. THE ROCKING-HORSES RUSHED OVER THE GROUND VI. HE CURLED HIMSELF UP IN THE SUN AND CLOSED HIS EYES VII. THE LADY EMMELINA IS ALWAYS KEPT IN HER PROPER PLACE NOW VIII. WILL YOU COME AND PLAY WITH ME, LITTLE WISDOM? The Country Called Nonamia Ever so long ago, in the wonderful country of Nonamia, there lived anabsent-minded magician. It is not usual, of course, for a magician tobe absent-minded; but then, if it were usual it would not have happenedin Nonamia. Nobody knew very much about this particular magician, forhe lived in his castle in the air, and it is not easy to visit any onewho lives in the air. He did not want to be visited, however; visitorsalways meant conversation, and he could not endure conversation. This,by the way, was not surprising, for he was so absent-minded that healways forgot the end of his sentence before he was half-way throughthe beginning of it; and as for his visitors remarks--well, if he hadhad any visitors, he would never have heard their remarks at all.So,when some one did call on him, one day,--and that was when he had been living in his castle in the air for seven hundred and seventy-seven years and had almost forgotten w