Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection by P. L. Travers

Author:P. L. Travers [Travers, P. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Family, Siblings, Fantasy, Magic
ISBN: 9780544340473
Google: -eyqBAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014-04-14T23:00:00+00:00

Out of the glowing core of light emerged a curious figure

Behind them the Matchman gave a cry and ran through the Park Gates.

The curious figure was drifting now to the tops of the naked trees. Its feet touched the highest bough of an oak and stepped down daintily through the branches. It stood for a moment on the lowest bough and balanced itself neatly.

Jane and Michael began to run and their breath broke from them in a happy shout.

“Mary Poppins! Mary Poppins! Mary Poppins!” Half-laughing, half-weeping, they flung themselves upon her.

“You’ve c-come b-back, at l-last!” stammered Michael excitedly, as he clutched her neatly shod foot. It was warm and bony and quite real and it smelt of Black Boot-polish.

“We knew you’d come back. We trusted you!” Jane seized Mary Poppins’ other foot and dragged at her cotton stocking.

Mary Poppins’ mouth crinkled with the ghost of a smile. Then she looked at the children fiercely.

“I’ll thank you to let go my shoes!” she snapped. “I am not an object in a Bargain Basement!”

She shook them off and stepped down from the tree, as John and Barbara, mewing like kittens, rushed over the grass towards her.

“Hyenas!” she said with an angry glare, as she loosened their clutching fingers. “And what, may I ask, are you all doing—running about in the Park at night and looking like Blackamoors?”

Quickly they pulled out handkerchiefs and began to rub their cheeks.

“My fault, Miss Poppins,” the Sweep apologised. “I been sweeping the Drawing-room chimbley.”

“Somebody will be sweeping you, if you don’t look out!” she retorted.

“But-but! Glog-glog! Er-rumph! Glug-glug!” Speechless with astonishment, the Park Keeper blocked their path.

“Out of my way, please!” said Mary Poppins, haughtily brushing him aside as she pushed the children in front of her.

“This is the Second Time!” he gasped, suddenly finding his voice. “First it’s a Kite and now it’s a—You can’t do things like this, I tell you! It’s against the Law. And, furthermore, it’s all against Nature.”

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