Enid Blyton by The Magic Faraway Tree

Author:The Magic Faraway Tree
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Children & Teens
Published: 2011-10-18T18:00:00+00:00

"Mother, that was a Toffee Shock!" said Jo, giggling. "Would you like to try a Pop Biscuit- or a Google Bun?"

"No, thank you," said Mother at once. "The Toffee Shock tasted delicious-but it did give me a shock!"

It was fun having Moon-Face and Saucepan staying with them in their cottage for a few days. The children simply loved it. Moon-Face was very,

very good in the garden, for he dug and cleared away rubbish twice as fast as anyone else. The old Saucepan Man wasn't so good because he suddenly went deaf again and didn't understand what was said to him. So he did rather queer things.

When Mother said: "Saucepan, fetch .me some carrots, will you?" he thought she had asked for sparrows, and he spent the whole morning trying to catch them by throwing salt on their tails.

Then he went into the kitchen looking very solemn. "I can't bring you any sparrows," he said.

Mother stared at him. "I don't want sparrows," she said.

"But you asked me for some," said Saucepan, in surprise.

"Indeed I didn't," said Mother. "What do you suppose I want sparrows for? To make porridge with?"

When Saucepan and Moon-Face had been at the children's cottage for two or three days, Silky came in a great state of excitement.

She knocked at the door and Jo opened it. "Oh, Jo! Have you still got Moon-Face and Saucepan here?" she asked. "Well, tell them they must come back to the tree at once."

"Gracious! What's happened?" said Jo. Everyone crowded to the door to hear what Silky had to say.

"Well, you know the Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe, don't you?" said Silky. "Her land has just come to the top of the tree, and the Old Woman came down the ladder through the cloud to see Dame Washalot, who is an old friend of hers. And when she saw that Moon-Face's house was empty, she said she was going to live there! She said she was tired of looking after a pack of naughty children."

"Oh, my!" said Moon-Face, looking very blue. "I don't like that Old Woman. She gives her children broth without any bread, and she whips them and sends them to bed when they are just the very littlest bit bad. Couldn't you tell her that that house in the tree is mine, and I'm coming back to it?"

"I did tell her that, silly," said Silky. "But do you suppose she took any notice of me at all? Not a bit! She just said in a horrid kind of voice: 130

'Little girls should be seen and not heard.' And she went into your house, Moon-Face, and began to shake all the rugs."

'"Well!" said Moon-Face, beginning to be in a temper. "Well! To think of somebody shaking my rugs! I hope she falls down the slippery-slip."

"She won't," said Silky. "She peered down it and said: 'Ho! A coal-hole, I suppose! How stupid! I shall have a board made and nail that up.'"

"Well, I never!" cried Moon-Face, his big round face getting redder and redder.

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