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- Herausgeber: Books on Demand
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
In the city of my dreams children don’t get ill and there are no cages. Hunters and arrogant people are not welcome here.
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Seitenzahl: 49
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
The pool
A Strange Tale
How the lie was punished
The chair in the garden
The dream of a butterfly hunter
The dreamer
The eyes
The heart
The moon
The Painter
The poplar
The specs
The stone
The street lamps
The tale with a sad ending
The taleteller
How the traffic lights fell asleep
The woman who was the enemy of kind fairy-tales
Why the acorns put on caps
Why the fir-tree is evergreen
Why there are stars in the sky
Two leaves
The fireman
The cage
The poet
The merry-go-round and the yellow leaf
The Snake With a Red Ribbon
THE POOL
It was a warm spring day. The swallows flew over a narrow street, where the lawn grass was still in possession of some rain drops, fallen the day before.
“Aha! May God be with you!”, a tall linden blessed the birds, “It enlightens my heart to hear their voices!”.
“How happy they must be!”, a stout plane-tree quickly kept up the conversation, “they will fly away, visit some distant land and the come back home along with spring!”.
“How wonderful it must be to have wings!”, a willow said to herself.
“What difference will they make for you! Even if you could get them as a present from someone, you’ll still look gloomy!”, the plane exclaimed.
“How can you know how I would look, if I had wings?!”, the willow thought but said nothing.
“I wonder what other streets look like”, the linden said.
“Must be the same! Every street is a continuation of another one!”, the plane said, “though the stars should know the truth better, as everything is clearly visible from the sky”.
“I am acquainted with one star”, someone’s voice came from the lawn.
The bushed and trees looked down and saw a little pool under the willow.
“You must have come with yesterday’s rain!”, the linden was the first to make the right guess.
At midnight, when the rain stopped and the clouds dispersed, a star got reflected in the pool. The naïve pool thought that the star was its guest and held its breath, as it didn’t want to scare it. But in spite of all its efforts, the strange guest vanished at dawn.
Nobody believed that the pool and the star knew each other.
“How can we believe you? Your time is very short, the midday sun will evaporate you in no time!”.
Such words wounded the pool’s heart and it was on the verge of crying, but got to the senses just in time. “I am so tiny, if I shed tears, I won’t last till midday”, the pool claimed itself down. Only the willow showed sympathy to the pool and arranged with its branches a better shade, for it to prolong its existence on the earth. Suddenly a little puppy turned up from nowhere and stopped in front of the pool looking miserably.
“What do you want?”, the pool asked in a friendly tone.
“I lost my way home and now, because I ran a lot searching for it, I got so thirsty that my mouth is dry…
The pool didn’t think twice as it offered itself to the puppy.
“Come on, drink me!”. The puppy got embarrassed, but when the pool insisted, “Don’t be shy! Soon the sun will dry me up, so I prefer to do at least one good deed!”. Then the puppy quickly started lapping the water.
The pool was becoming smaller and smaller, but it didn’t feel sorry for itself, as it really wanted to help the puppy. When the puppy killed its thirst, it thanked the remainder of the pool and went on its way… Meanwhile the sun rays grew hotter and the kind-hearted pool felt that there was not much time left for it…
“I hardly had enough time to take a full breath and I have to go too soon!”, the pool thought and closed its eyes…
But at that moment, a little sunray, which witnessed how the pool gave away its precious water to the thirsty puppy, decided to help…
In a twinkling of an eye, he rushed to the pool before it was gone, threw it up and then dropped it gently in happy tears, down on the leaves of the sad willow…
A STRANGE TALE
In one town, there once lived a man, whose strange kindness caused an unbelievable story to unfold.
He used to spend all days in his orchard and whatever work he did, whether it was digging of soil or watering of fruit trees, he did it with utmost care.
In autumn, when harvest was over, every person passing by his orchard got everything free! His household fell into despair and they decided to keep him away from the orchard somehow. In this way, they thought he would not be able to ruin his family’s well-being.
The man had to oblige their persistent request and began to work as a salesman in a little shop. But alas! Any poor customer entering the shop at a price of one could get five, or any child, who failed to make their mother buy an item, would get it as a present from the salesman. So pretty soon all, who knew him realized that the man, being so unnaturally kind, would not fit such a job. They thought and discussed the matter for a long time and then all as one decided to put him in charge of a little chicken farm in the outskirts of town. The old and the young alike, said with certainty: “It is true that the man is very king, but when he raises chicks himself, neither will he let them become a prey for the fox, nor will give them away to anybody!”.
