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+Project Gutenberg's Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories, by Edith Howes
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+Title: Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories
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+Author: Edith Howes
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+Illustrator: Alicea Polson
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+Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20366]
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+Language: English
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+Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories
+
+by
+
+EDITH HOWES
+
+Author of "The Sun's Babies," "Fairy Rings," "Stewart Island," "Where
+the Bell Birds Chime," "Marlborough Sounds," etc.
+
+
+Illustrated by Alicea Polson
+
+
+Whitcombe & Tombs Limited Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin and
+Wellington, N.Z. Melbourne and London.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+  CONTENTS
+
+
+                                     Page
+  Wonderwings                          7
+
+  The Magic Mirror                    17
+
+  Fairy Tenderheart                   31
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: "Come then," said Wonderwings. She took the little
+fairy's hand and up they rose into the clear air.]
+
+
+
+
+Wonderwings
+
+
+Poppypink sat up in bed and yawned. "Why is everybody getting up so
+early?" she asked. "Is it a holiday?"
+
+The older fairies were dressing themselves and brushing their long fine
+hair. "Wonderwings is coming to see us," they said. "Jump up, little
+Poppypink."
+
+"Who is Wonderwings?" she asked.
+
+"You will see when you are dressed. Hurry, or you will miss her."
+
+[Illustration: "The older fairies were dressing themselves and combing
+their long fine hair."]
+
+"Oh dear! I am so sleepy," said Poppypink, and she yawned again. "I
+don't care about Wonderwings." She snuggled down into the bedclothes
+again, and went to sleep.
+
+Presently she was awakened by the sound of the sweetest singing she had
+ever heard, and a flash of brilliant colour went past her window pane of
+crystal set in pearl.
+
+"That must be Wonderwings," she said. "Oh, I must see her. I hope I am
+not too late."
+
+She sprang from bed and dressed so hurriedly that I am afraid her hair
+did not receive its due amount of brushing. Then she ran out into the
+garden.
+
+The older fairies stood all in a group, saying loudly "I will go," and
+"I will go." And before them, scarcely touching the ground with the tip
+of her foot, stood poised a glorious fairy, taller than any other there.
+She was altogether beautiful; and her wings--as soon as Poppypink saw
+them she knew why the visitor had been called Wonderwings. For they
+reached high above her head and almost to the ground, and they glowed
+with so many colours that it seemed as if a million jewels had been Hung
+upon them and had stuck, growing into a million flashing stars that
+made a million little rainbows with every sway and movement of her body.
+
+"How lovely! Oh, how lovely!" cried Poppypink. She crept nearer to the
+beautiful fairy and sat among the daisies at her feet. "See," she cried.
+"My wings are small and colourless. Tell me how I may grow wings like
+yours." Just as little girls adore beautiful hair, so do little fairies
+adore beautiful wings.
+
+Wonderwings smiled down at her. "Such wings as mine are only to be won
+in sadder lands than these," she said. "If you would have them you must
+leave your fairyland and come where humans live, and where hunger and
+sorrow and death trample the city streets."
+
+"I will come!" cried Poppypink. "I will come!"
+
+"Come then," said Wonderwings. She took the little fairy's hand, and up
+they all rose into the clear air, flying far and far away till they left
+their fairyland behind and came at last to the sadder lands where humans
+lived. There Wonderwings showed them where hunger and sorrow and death
+trampled the city streets, and the band of fairies flew lower and lower
+to look.
+
+"The children tumble and fight in the dirty lanes, and cry for bread,"
+cried Poppypink. "The little ones, I cannot bear to hear them sob."
+
+"Perhaps you can help them," said Wonderwings.
+
+"I am only a little fairy. What can I do?" asked Poppypink. "I have no
+bread to give them."
+
+She flew a little lower, to gaze at them more nearly. "What can I do?"
+she asked again.
+
+No answer came. She looked around, and found herself alone. Wonderwings
+and the older fairies had in a moment gone from sight.
+
+Below, a crippled child sat among rags in a dark corner of a dreary
+room, and tears ran down her cheeks. "The sunshine, the pretty yellow
+sunshine!" she wailed. "If only I could run and play in the pretty
+sunshine!"
+
+"Here is something I can do," thought Poppypink. She gathered armfuls of
+the golden sunbeams, and flying with them through the glass as only a
+fairy can fly, herself unseen, she heaped them over the twisted hands
+and pale thin face of the child, and left her playing with them and
+smiling happily.
+
+[Illustration: Poppypink laughed with joy. "I am so glad, so very glad!"
+she said. "I had forgotten all about my wings."]
+
+Lower she flew to help the little ones who cried about the gutters. She
+led the starving and shelterless to comfort, the toddlers to safety; she
+brought a flower to the hopeless, ease to sick ones racked with pain; at
+night she flew with glittering dreams from room to room, so that even
+sad-eyed feeble babies laughed for pleasure in their sleep. Day after
+day, night after night she toiled, for weeks and months and years. There
+was so much to do! The time passed like a moment. So busy was she that
+she had forgotten all about her wings.
+
+One day there came a flash of colour in the air beside her, and
+Wonderwings and all the older fairies stood around her. "Dear
+Poppypink," cried one, "how your wings have grown! And how beautiful
+they are! They are so tall that they reach above your head and almost to
+the ground, and they glow with so many colours that it seems as if a
+million jewels had been flung upon them and had stuck, growing into a
+million flashing stars that make a million little rainbows with every
+sway and movement of your body."
+
+Poppypink laughed with joy. "I am so glad, so very glad!" she said. "I
+had forgotten all about my wings."
+
+"Yet they have grown with use," said Wonderwings; "and for every deed of
+kindness done a star has sprung, to shine in beauty there for evermore."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: The Queen-mother looked over the garden wall. There an
+old woman hobbled, muttering to herself.]
+
+
+
+
+The Magic Mirror
+
+
+There was once a wise old king in a far-off land who said to himself, "I
+have a daughter as well as a son; why should she not have a kingdom too?
+I will see to it at once."
+
+He called the chief map-maker to him, and said: "Make a map of my
+kingdom and divide it by a line so evenly that each part shall be
+exactly half. There must not be one hair's breadth more on the east of
+the line than on the west."
+
+The chief map-maker worked hard, and soon had the map ready, and it was
+divided so evenly that there was not a hair's breadth more on the east
+of the line than on the west. Then the king made a law that when he died
+the Prince should rule over all the country on one side of the line, and
+the Princess should rule over all the country on the other side. The
+Prince's land he called Eastroyal, and the Princess's land he called
+Westroyal, and from that day to this there have always been kings over
+Eastroyal and queens over Westroyal.
+
+But it was soon noticed that in Eastroyal the people became discontented
+and quarrelsome and poor, and were always finding fault with the
+government; whereas in the west country over the border they were so
+happy and kindly that they praised each queen from the beginning of her
+reign to the end. Nobody knew why there should be so great a difference,
+but a great difference there was. Things grew worse and worse in
+Eastroyal, until at last the people rose and turned the reigning king
+off his throne and set his little son in his place. "Perhaps we shall be
+better satisfied now!" they said.
+
+The new king's mother walked alone, deep in thought; and she was very
+troubled. "How can I teach my little son to please his people better
+than his father did?" she wondered. "It would break my heart if he too
+angered them and lost his crown, yet already he is showing a haughty
+temper in his treatment of his lords, and I know not what to do."
+
+"I know! I know!" said a voice.
+
+The Queen-mother was much startled; though she had not spoken aloud, the
+words seemed an answer to her thought. She looked over the low wall of
+the garden into the road. There an old woman hobbled, leaning on a
+stick, and muttering to herself. She was poor and ragged, and bent with
+age. "I know, I know!" she said again.
+
+"What do you know?" asked the Queen-mother gently.
+
+The old woman looked up at her. "Go to Westroyal," she said; and she
+hobbled away.
+
+"Ah, a witch!" thought the Queen-mother; "and she is right. The Queens
+of the West have undoubtedly some secret means of making their people
+love them. I will find out what it is."
+
+She prepared for a visit to Westroyal, and arrived a few days later at
+the palace of the reigning queen. Here she was welcomed and feasted and
+treated right lovingly, but though she kept her eyes and her ears as
+wide open as it was possible for eyes and ears to be, she could not
+discover the secret. She grew sad with disappointment.
+
+The young queen saw that she was sorrowful. "You are not happy here.
+What is the matter?" she asked. "What can I do to make you glad?"
+
+The Queen-mother held out her hands imploringly. "Only give me your
+secret," she begged. "Tell me how you gain the love of your people and
+keep it through all the years. Tell me so that I may teach my young son
+how to hold his throne?"
+
+"Is that all?" exclaimed the Queen. "Come, I will show you."
+
+[Illustration: "She led the way to her own lovely sleeping-chamber."]
+
+She led the way to her own lovely sleeping-chamber, hung with rose silk
+and panelled with polished silver and amethyst, and she pointed to a
+great mirror set strongly into the wall. "Look within!" she said.
+
+Wonderingly, the Queen-mother obeyed. On the surface of the mirror the
+faces and forms of herself and the young queen were reflected; but
+after a few moments, as she gazed, these faded away, and in their places
+came a picture of a mine, with blackened toilers filling tracks with
+coal. That, too, faded, and a golden cornfield showed upon the polished
+glass; under the hot summer sun the busy reapers moved, wiping the sweat
+from their brows when they stopped a moment to rest. A third picture was
+of weavers making cloth. A cottage home came next, and a lordly mansion
+of the rich, and a homeless child seeking shelter under a city bridge.
+So scene followed scene, beautiful, or sad, or sordid, sometimes wild
+and violent, and sometimes gay and peaceful, showing in the main a
+people happy and content.
+
+"What is it?" asked the amazed Queen-mother at last. "How come these
+pictures here?"
+
+"They are the life of my state reflected on this magic mirror for my
+help," replied the Queen. "Long ago, when the first queen came to rule
+the new kingdom of Westroyal, the fairies brought this mirror and set it
+in the wall as here you see it. Faithfully ever since it has reflected
+the daily happenings through-out the land, the people's toil and
+pleasures, their dangers and their comforts and rewards. So each queen
+has known her country. Your son, looking in his mirror, sees but
+himself; I see the sufferings of my people and know what things they
+need, and so plainly are these pictures set before me that I cannot rest
+till I have used my power to give relief."
+
+"Oh!" cried the Queen-mother, "now I see why you are loved. How can I
+get such a mirror for my son?"
+
+"That I know not," replied the Queen.
+
+Then the Queen-mother returned sad at heart to the kingdom of her son,
+pondering on what she had seen.
+
+Once again she walked in her garden alone. "How shall I get such a
+mirror?" she wondered. "What should I do?"
+
+As once before, a voice replied "I know! I know!"
+
+The Queen-mother looked over the garden wall. Hobbling along the road
+was the old woman who had bade her go to Westroyal. "You who helped me
+before, help me again!" cried the Queen-mother. "I have obeyed you. How
+now shall I get a magic mirror for my son?"
+
+The old woman looked up at her. "Go to the Deeps," she said, and she
+hobbled off.
+
+Now this was a dreadful command to the Queen-mother, for the Deeps was a
+horrible black pool in the roughest and most dangerous part of the
+country. It was said to be formed of the country's tears and to be also
+bottomless, and to be haunted by beings of strange shape. There were
+stories of their mysterious power and evil ways. Yet go she must, if
+going meant the gaining of a magic mirror for her son. And she must go
+alone, for only so could any seeker find the pathway to the pool, so it
+was said.
+
+"I will go at once, before my courage fails," she said, and she left her
+sheltered garden and set off across the land.
+
+She had many weary miles to travel, past villages and towns and fields,
+and she was footsore and faint when at last she reached the winding
+track that led between the darkening hills. Yet on she went, following
+the murmur of a tiny stream that dropped through thick-set bushes into a
+shadowed valley. On she went still, and now the darkness came, and she
+had lost her way. She stumbled over fallen logs, pushed with bleeding
+hands and torn clothes through bramble wildernesses, and found at last
+her way again to the narrow track beside the little stream that murmured
+in the dark.
+
+On she went, and down. The stream suddenly widened into a round
+blackness open to the sky, but walled in by jagged rocks. It was the
+pool. Utterly spent through weariness and fear, she sank down among the
+rocks to rest, and waited there for what might come to her.
+
+Strange rustlings sounded round the rocks, strange forms loomed close
+beside her, strange voices asked her: "What are you? Why come you to our
+haunts?" Though her heart was sick with dread she answered boldly in a
+firm clear voice. "Give me a magic mirror for my son, that he may learn
+to rule."
+
+There was a flash, and the pool and all the rocks were lit by a light
+brighter and softer than that of moon or stars. All round her stood the
+beings who had loomed so strangely in the darkness. They were fairies,
+exquisite in shape and fineness, robed in flowing gossamer of many
+colours. They smiled at her, and touched her with their gentle hands,
+and immediately she was well. "Your love has brought you nobly through
+much fear and hurt," they said. "You shall have your due reward. Look
+into the Deeps."
+
+[Illustration: She rose into the air a shining queen of fairies, holding
+in her hands a tiny gleaming mirror.]
+
+One took her hand and led her to the edge, and the Queen-mother,
+fearless and smiling now, looked down into the fathomless water of the
+pool. As she gazed, ripples came upon its surface. They broke away into
+shining cascades of diamonds and pearls, and between them appeared the
+face and shoulders of the old woman of the road. "I have your magic
+mirror," she cried. "It is formed of the lowest teardrops of the Deeps."
+
+She sprang out and trod the water to the shore, and as she went her rags
+fell from her and she rose into the air a shining queen of fairies, more
+beautiful than any other there, holding in her hand a tiny gleaming
+mirror. "Come," she said, "let us set it in its place."
+
+She touched the Queen-mother's hand, and in a flash they were all at the
+palace, within the young king's sleeping chamber of turquoise and gold.
+There as he lay asleep the fairies set the mirror in its place with
+magic words, and as it touched the wall it lengthened out and widened
+till it stood as large as that of the young queen across the border
+line. Over the polished glass began to float the pictures of the
+country's life. "How can I show my gratitude?" the Queen-mother asked;
+but the fairies were gone.
+
+Next morning when the little king awoke he ran to see the fine new
+mirror in his room. He gazed and gazed upon the strange entrancing
+pictures that came on it, and every day he spent long hours at the
+mirror. And as he learned to recognise the hardships and the sufferings
+of his people his heart grew hot to give relief, and he was no more
+haughty, but used his power to ease their woes. So in Eastroyal as in
+Westroyal there was content, and the people loved their king and praised
+him through all his days until the end. And all the kings who followed
+after him ruled wisely and were loved.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: "Look closely at my flowers," she said, "and tell me
+which you think most beautiful."]
+
+
+
+
+Fairy Tenderheart.
+
+
+Little Fairy Tenderheart was weeping. She sat on a ledge that overlooked
+the world, and her tears fell fast. In twos and threes her sisters flew
+from Fairyland to put their arms about her, but none could comfort her.
+"Come, dance and sing with us and forget your grief," they said. She
+shook her head. "The terrible fighting!" she said. "See where far below
+men rage, killing each other. Rivers run red with blood, and the sorrow
+of weeping women rises through the air to where I sit. How can I dance
+and sing?"
+
+"It is the world at war," said an older fairy sadly. "I too have wept in
+earlier days when men have fought. But our tears are wasted, little
+sister. Come away."
+
+Fairy Tenderheart looked eagerly at her. "You who have watched the world
+so many years," she said, "tell me why such dreadful deeds are done down
+there."
+
+The older fairy bent her eyes on the blackened plains of earth. "I
+cannot tell you that," she slowly said. "We watch and pity, but we
+cannot know what works in the hearts of men that they should gather in
+their millions to destroy their brothers and themselves. No other
+creature turns on its own kind and kills so terribly as man."
+
+[Illustration: In twos and threes her sisters flew from Fairyland to put
+their arms about her, but none could comfort her.]
+
+"What can we do? It must be stopped. What can we do?"
+
+"We can do nothing, little sister. See where the women of the world
+stretch out their hands, imploring men to live in peace. They beg the
+lives of fathers, husbands, sons; they point to ruined homes and
+desolated lands. 'War wrecks our lives!' they cry. Yet even for those
+they love men will not give up battle. What, then, can fairies do? Tears
+are useless. Come away."
+
+"I must stay here. I must think of something I can do," said Fairy
+Tenderheart; and she would not go.
+
+Her tears had stopped. She searched with anxious eyes across the world
+to find some means of helping men to better things, but no way could she
+find. And still the fighters shot and stabbed, and the dying and the
+dead lay piled upon the fields.
+
+Another fairy flew to her. "Come away, little sister!" she said. "I
+cannot bear to see you sorrowing. Come, or you will forget the merry
+ways of Fairyland and grow like the Oldest Fairy of All, who spends her
+life brooding over this dreary earth."
+
+Fairy Tenderheart sprang up. "Where is she? Tell me where to find her.
+Why did I not know of her before? I will go to her that we may be
+companions in our sorrow. Perhaps together we may find a way to help."
+
+"Ah, do not go. Listen! She is so old that she has watched the world
+since the beginning of wars, yet, as you see, she has found no way of
+stopping them. How then can you?"
+
+"I must go."
+
+"She left our joyful Fairyland for a Magic Garden, and whoever enters
+that Garden can never come back to us. There she dwells for ever alone,
+at work or in thought, or preparing for her mysterious journeys to the
+earth. Do not go, or you too will be cut off from our life of dance and
+song, never to return."
+
+"I will go. Tell me the way."
+
+The fairy flew off. "I will not tell you," she said. "You shall not go."
+
+"I will go," said Fairy Tenderheart again. With steadfast steps she
+searched through Fairyland until she found a narrow track that led
+between the winding mountains and far out across wide, shimmering
+plains. This track she followed till she came upon the Magic Garden.
+
+The Oldest Fairy of All sat thinking among her flowers, and her eyes
+were filled with peace. She looked at Fairy Tenderheart standing at the
+gate. "Who enters here can never return to Fairyland," she said, and her
+voice was sweeter than the songs of birds.
+
+Fairy Tenderheart pushed open the gate and stepped within the Garden.
+"Who enters here finds joy," said the Oldest Fairy of All, and a crown
+of happiness sat on her hair.
+
+"You come to work?" she asked.
+
+"I come to learn what I may do to help the suffering earth," said Fairy
+Tenderheart. "Its cries of agony have beaten on my heart until there was
+no rest for me in Fairyland. Is there no way to make war cease? I come
+to you for wisdom."
+
+The Oldest Fairy of All rose up and smiled, and her face was brighter
+than the moon and stars. "Look closely at my flowers," she said, "and
+tell me which you think most beautiful."
+
+The flowers bloomed on every side, in every lovely hue--crimson and gold
+and orange, blue and purple and pink and softest lavender. All were
+scented, and all were beautiful; but there was one plant that pleased
+the little fairy more than any other. It grew no taller than the rest,
+made no great show of colour, yet through its stems and leaves there
+shone a radiance as if a light hid in them. Its flowers were clear as
+crystal--one could see quite through them--but the sunlight falling on
+them was broken into glowing colours, so that every blossom was a little
+bunch of flashing rainbows. And where the flowers had closed and grown
+to fruit they hung golden as the sun and fragrant with a scent that
+stole upon the wind and made the heart heat high with happiness.
+
+"This is the most beautiful," said Fairy Tenderheart.
+
+"You have chosen well," said the Oldest Fairy of All. "You are fitted to
+help me in my work. That is the Plant of Knowledge; its crystal
+blossoms are called the Flowers of Understanding, and its fruit is Love.
+By it alone can war be made to cease."
+
+She pointed far below. "I have planted it upon the earth in many spots,"
+she said. "Here and there it has flourished and spread, and its fruit
+has sweetened all the air. But, alas!" her eyes grew sad, "too often it
+has been trampled under foot and killed, and war has broken out afresh.
+If only men would care for it and let it grow the world would soon be
+wrapped in peace."
+
+"Can we not plant more and more until it spreads across the world in
+spite of all neglect?" asked Fairy Tenderheart.
+
+The Oldest Fairy shook her head. "I have done my best," she said; "but
+while men tramp it down it cannot spread across the world. Even when it
+has grown well it cannot do the good it ought to do: a nation which has
+eaten of its Fruit of Love and has learned to scorn the littleness of
+war is yet forced by that same Love to fight, that it may rescue a weak
+and helpless country from the greedy clutches of those who have refused
+to let my dear plant bloom. In the end it shall spread, no doubt, and
+my work shall be complete; but the time is long, the time is long."
+
+She mused, and Fairy Tenderheart gazed thoughtfully upon the earth.
+Presently she raised her eyes, and they were bright with hope.
+
+[Illustration: "In the children's gardens ... they planted the seeds."]
+
+"See where a group of children gathers round your precious plant!" she
+said. "How eagerly they stretch their hands towards it, and how they
+look into its flashing flowers. They will never tread it in the mud, for
+they have seen its splendour. Let me take seeds to all the children's
+gardens in the world. The Children! They will welcome your Plant of
+Knowledge with its Flowers of Understanding, and when they have tasted
+its Fruit of Love they will grow up scorning war, and the world will
+live in peace."
+
+The Oldest Fairy laughed with joy. "Oh, little sister, you have come to
+help indeed!" she said. "You are right. The Children! It is to them we
+must take our plant. Come, let us gather seeds and start at once."
+
+They gathered the golden seeds and carried them swiftly down. In the
+children's gardens across the world they planted them, and everywhere
+the children ran to gaze at the wonder of the springing plants, and to
+watch the flowers unclose. And when through later days they ate and ate
+again of the fragrant golden fruit, Love filled their veins and they
+became a new race, scorning the littleness of war. And the world was
+wrapped in peace.
+
+[Illustration]
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