Tove Jansson by Moominland Midwinter 6

Author:Moominland Midwinter 6 [6, Moominland Midwinter]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-10-03T23:23:54+00:00

that he liked least he had hung upside-down. (Or perhaps they were those that he thought best of, who knows?)

Not a single piece of furniture stood in its old place, and the alarm clock lay in the slop-pail. Indeed he had carried down a heap of old junk from the attic and piled it high around the stove.

Too-ticky came over to look. 'I believe he's done that to feel more at home,' she said and rubbed her nose. 'He's tried to build himself a nice thicket around his house. So that he can be left alone.'

'But what'll Mother say?' said Moomintroll.

Too-ticky shrugged her shoulders. 'Well, why did you have to let him out?' she said. 'In any case this troll never eats anything. Very practical for him, and for you. You'll have to think the whole matter's fun, I suppose.'

Moomintroll nodded.

He thought for a while. Then he crawled inside the thicket of broken chairs, empty boxes, fishing nets, cardboard tubes, old baskets and gardening tools. Very soon he discovered that it was a cosy kind of place.

He decided to sleep the night in a basket of wool that stood under a useless rocking-chair.

As a matter of fact he had never felt really secure in the dim-lit drawing-room with its empty windows. And to look at the sleeping family made him melancholy.

But here, in the small space between a packing case, the rocking-chair and the back of the sofa, he felt at ease and not at all lonely.

He could see a little of the blackness inside the stove, but he was careful not to disturb his ancestor and built walls around his nest as quietly as he could.

In the evening he took the lamp there with him and lay for a while listening to the ancestor's rustling in the chimney.

'Perhaps I lived like this a thousand years ago,' Moomintroll thought happily.

He half thought of shouting something up the chimney. Just a word of secret concord. But then he thought better of it, blew out his lamp and curled up deep in the wool.

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