The Wishing Tree (Juvenile Fiction) by William Faulkner

Author:William Faulkner
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Literary, Juvenile Fiction, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780307799630
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 1964-01-01T12:00:00+00:00

It was a horn they heard, and they rode on and came to a huge gray castle. The redheaded boy stopped again. “Which way now?” he asked.

“That way,” the little old man answered, pointing. A soldier on the wall of the castle was blowing the horn. They rode on and passed the castle, and a little further on they came to a curious tree beside the road. It was a white tree, and at first they thought it was a dogwood tree in bloom. But when they came up to it they saw that the leaves were white.

“What a funny tree,” Dulcie said. “What kind of tree is it?”

“It’s a—a mellomax tree,” the little old man said. “There are a lot of them in this forest.”

“I never saw a tree with white leaves before,” Dulcie said, and she pulled one of the leaves off, and as soon as she touched it, the leaf changed its color and became a lovely blue. Then they all pulled a leaf off the tree. George’s leaf turned purple, and the redheaded boy’s was gold; and Alice took one and hers became bright red, and she held Dicky up and he got one, and his was not any color especially—kind of faint pinks and greens and mostly the same shade of blue as Dulcie’s, but paler.

“What color is yours?” Dulcie asked the old man, who showed them his leaf, and it was almost exactly like Dicky’s except for the blue.

“That’s the color of everybody’s wishes,” the redheaded boy told them. “Dulcie’s are blue, and Dicky’s are not very much of anything yet, because he’s little, but they’ll be blue when he gets bigger, because he is Dulcie’s brother; and Alice’s are red wishes, and George’s are purple, and mine are gold ones; and yours—” to the little old man “—are the same as Dicky’s because you don’t have many wishes either.”

“Why, this may be the Wishing Tree,” Dulcie said.

“No, no,” the little old man answered. “This is not the Wishing Tree: I’ve been to the Wishing Tree too many times. This is a mellomax tree.”

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