The Flight of the Golden Bird by Duncan Williamson

Author:Duncan Williamson [Duncan Williamson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782500278
Publisher: Floris Books
Published: 2013-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Freddy Far-off

A long time ago there lived a poor widow lady who had one little son, and she had a small house away out in the forest. She was very poor and her one little son she loved very dearly. His daddy had been killed in the forest a long time before and the boy never had any memory of his daddy. This little boy’s name was Freddy. And, of course, Freddy was very fond of his mother, and he always, always did everything his mother told him to do – inside the house. But when Freddy went out of doors he would not look anywhere but high up in the sky. He spent all his time staring at the white fleecy clouds. At night–time he’d lie and watch the stars in the sky. He spent all his time – up there. Freddy never looked around his feet. He would walk in his mummy’s garden, crush all the strawberries and stand on all the little creatures; he never paid attention to them. He didn’t want anything around his feet, he wanted up there in the white fleecy clouds. Till one morning things were about to change for Freddy.

Freddy was out walking in his mummy’s garden watching the white fleecy clouds passing by, when a little voice at his feet said, “Be careful, you nearly walked on me!” For the first time Freddy looked down at his feet. And there to his amazement was a tiny little man dressed in green, and he was very angry. He had a little beard and said, “You nearly walked on me with your big feet!”

“Well,” Freddy said, “it’s your own fault – you should not be under my feet.”

And the little man said, “It’s not my fault. You watch where you’re going in future; you nearly trod on me. And you tread on the little creatures. Why are you staring at the sky all of the time?”

“Oh,” Freddy said, “I’d love to be up in the sky among those white fleecy clouds. Everything is up there!”

And the little man said, “There’s nothing up there but clouds.”

“Oh,” Freddy said, “if I could only be up there...”

And the little man said, “Would you like to be up there?”

“Oh,” Freddy said, “I would love to be up there. I’d do anything just to be up among those white fleecy clouds.”

Then the little man said, “Very well then, Freddy, up there you shall be.” And he pointed his finger at Freddy, and Freddy got smaller and smaller and smaller, and soon he was the size of the little man. The little man pulled a leaf from the garden and bent it over with his fingers, made a little boat.

“Now,” he said, “Freddy, climb into the boat!” And Freddy was small. He climbed into the little boat made of the leaf. Now the little man came up and said, “Freddy, you want to go to the sky, don’t you?”

“Oh,” Freddy said, “I’d love to go up there among the white clouds, everything’s up there.

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