The Golden Dreydl by Ellen Kushner

Author:Ellen Kushner [Kushner, Ellen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60734-503-9
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Published: 2007-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

“Is that so?” Sara said, a little annoyed. She’d thought the peacock was pretty nice, actually. Friendly, and sympathetic. This guy was—well, he certainly said whatever he was thinking. “And what about you?”

“You can trust me. I’m the Fool.”

“You’re a fool?”

“The Fool!” He pulled off his undershirt, scrubbing at the dust on his jacket with it. “There are plenty of fools in the world, but they don’t do it full-time. And believe me, it takes work. It’s my job to make people laugh, to turn the world upside down, to shake it and see what comes out. You know the old saying: ‘Better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you’re a fool, than to open it and let them know it’? Well, when I open my mouth, I sure let them know it! But I don’t mind. How can you do any good in the world if you’re always worried about what people might think of you? Just standing around being scared—it’s almost as bad as going backward, like the demons!”

“Ohmigosh!” Sara cried. “I’m supposed to be chasing the demon army and rescuing the Golden Dreydl!”

“Demons have captured King Solomon’s daughter?” He waved his arms about, running around in tiny circles, kicking up sand. “We must get a move on! As quickly as possible! Without delay! This very minute—if not sooner!”

“But how do we find the demons?”

“How do we find the demons?” he repeated. “We fool them—by making them think we’re going backward, like them!”

And he put his sock on his head backward and both shoes on his feet backward.

“Come on,” he said, “follow me!”

Sara didn’t even see a path, but the Fool rushed forward. “Come on,” he repeated, “it’s a shortcut!”

And there before them, suddenly, were bushes and trees and a path that hadn’t been there before, and Sara was running down it.

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