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J. C. Fulton</p> -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online -at <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a>. If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> - -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: No-Time-Land</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: M. J. C. Fulton</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: September 7, 2021 [eBook #66237]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from scans of public domain works at The National Library of Australia.)</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO-TIME-LAND ***</div> - - -<div class="figcenter" id="cover"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="cover" title="cover" /> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<div class="figcenter" id="title_pg"> - <img src="images/title_pg.jpg" alt="title page" title="title page" /> -</div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<h1>No-Time-Land . .</h1> - -<p class="p2 noi subtitle">A STORY</p> - -<p class="noic">FOR . . .</p> - -<p class="noi subtitle">GIRLS AND BOYS.</p> - -<p class="p2 noic">. BY .</p> - -<p class="noi author smcap">M. J. C. Fulton.</p> - -<p class="p4 noic"><span class="oldenglish">Tasmania:</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Printed at The Examiner Office, Launceston</span>.<br /> -1901.</p> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<div class="blockquot"> -<div class="pad2"> -<div class="figcenter" id="i_003a"> - <img class="illowe10" src="images/i_003a.jpg" alt="decoration" title="decoration" /> -</div> -</div> - -<div><img class="drop-cap illowe3" src="images/t_dropcap.jpg" alt="T" title="T" /></div> -<p class="drop-cap">To all my dear little Nephews, Nieces, -and other little boys and girls, this -Story is dedicated, trusting they will derive both -amusement and profit from its pages.</p> - -<p>Wishing them all a “Happy New Century.”</p> - -<p>From their affectionate Aunt and Friend,</p> - -<p class="right">MARY J. C. FULTON.</p> - -<p class="noi"><span class="smcap">Leith,</span><br /> -<span class="ident1 smcap">Tasmania,</span><br /> -<span class="ident2 smcap">December, 1900.</span></p> - -<div class="pad2"> -<div class="figcenter" id="i_003b"> - <img class="illowe10" src="images/i_003b.jpg" alt="decoration" title="decoration" /> -</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a>[5]</span></p> - -<p class="noi title">A STORY OF NO-TIME-LAND.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_005"> - <img class="illowe10" src="images/i_005.jpg" alt="chapter decoration" title="chapter decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_I">CHAPTER I.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">“Guy, come and play with me.”</p> - -<p>“Oh! I can’t, Tina, I have no time; -I am going fishing soon with Urie Cass.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, dear!” said the little voice; “you -never get time, Guy, to have a game.”</p> - -<p>“Cannot you have one game with her, -sonny!” said his mother; “the wee girlie is -dull playing by herself all day.”</p> - -<p>“But mother, dear, I have no time now,” -and so saying, Guy shouldered his fishing -rod and walked off.</p> - -<p>But his mother’s sad, grieved expression -seemed to haunt him all day, and his little -sister’s voice echoed so in his ears, that the -fishing was not altogether such an enjoyable<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6"></a>[6]</span> -time as he expected. He got back tired -and hungry, and soon after tea he was glad -to go to bed.</p> - -<p>He was just dropping off to sleep, when his -eyes seemed to wander to the open window, -where the moonbeams were dancing in, as -if they had come to see what sort of a room -it was, and what the inmate was like. They -are inquisitive little things, you know; both -moonbeams and sunbeams. They like to -get into all the odd dark corners, and if -people are dirty and slovenly in their work, -they show up the dust, and dirt, as much as -to say: “Oh, fie, for shame, you slovenly -creatures!”</p> - -<p>Just as Guy’s eyes alighted on the windows -<a href="#i_006fp">he saw two ladies come floating in on the -moonbeams</a>. “There he is,” one of them -whispered, “that is the little boy who has no -time. Let us carry him off to No-Time-Land.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_006fp"> - <img src="images/i_006fp.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noic"><a href="#Page_6">“<i>He saw two ladies come floating in on the moonbeams.</i>”</a></p> - </div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a>[7]</span></p> - -<p>Guy was fascinated at the beauty of his -visitors; so much so that he never thought -of hiding under the bed-clothes; but it would -have been little use if he had done so, for -these kind of ladies see everything, like the -fairies of fairyland. They lifted him up; it -was no use his struggling, for he seemed -quite powerless and unable to move a limb. -While they were carrying him, Guy noticed -they were very pretty. Gueldine, as her -companion called her, had golden hair and -large brown eyes, with golden brown lashes -and eyebrows, the other had chestnut brown -hair, and large blue eyes, with dark brown -lashes and eyebrows; her name was Crystal.</p> - -<p>They ought to have changed eyes, he -thought: but perhaps they would not have -looked so nice? His eyes next went to their -dresses. Gueldine’s dress was pure white, -with a gold thread interwoven through it, and -a gold sash with long ends. It gave her<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span> -a very dazzling appearance. On her hair -she wore a crescent moon of diamonds and -rubies. Crystal’s dress was white, with -silver interwoven, a silver sash with long -ends; in her hair were stars made of -diamonds and sapphires.</p> - -<p>Away they went, over hills and water, then -he caught sight of dim grey hills in the -distance, as they drew nearer to them the -two ladies exclaimed—“Here we are in No-Time-Land.”</p> - -<p>They floated across to the nearest town, -and placed him on a bench in the middle of -one of the parks, as it was getting daylight, -and said, “Good-by, little boy, we have no -time to stop,” and away they went. Guy -watched them till he could see them no -longer, and as it was fast getting daylight, -and things were becoming clearer every -minute, he roused himself, as he found now -he could move, and looked around. Dear<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span> -me! What a dreadful untidy-looking place; -and so it was, for papers were lying about -everywhere. In the centre of the square -was a fountain, but it was broken; the wall -round the basin was crumbling and falling -to pieces; the water seemed stagnant, the -flower beds, and grass lawns were overgrown -with weeds, and everything looked -sadly neglected and forlorn. A boy came -sauntering along, so Guy said to him—“Boy; -why does your park look so neglected -and untidy?” The boy stared at him.</p> - -<p>“Are you a stranger?” he asked at last.</p> - -<p>“Yes,” said Guy.</p> - -<p>“Well,” said the other; “no one has time -here to put it right.”</p> - -<p>“Are they so busy,” asked Guy.</p> - -<p>“Too busy to answer your questions,” replied -the other, and walked off.</p> - -<p>“No time either for manners,” shouted -Guy; but the boy was out of earshot, so did -not hear.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span></p> - -<p>“I will go into the town,” he thought, “and -see what it is like,” so got up and strolled -about; but everywhere he went the same -neglect met his eyes. He became very hungry -after a while, and seeing a young woman -hurrying along, went up to her.</p> - -<p>“Is there any place here where I can get -something to eat, please ma’am,” asked Guy.</p> - -<p>“Oh! I have no time to talk to little -boys,” she said.</p> - -<p>Again and again he asked the same question, -and received the same reply. He at -last saw a pastry cook’s shop, and went in. -People kept coming in and ordering things, -and, eating them, went out, saying, “I have -no time to pay, put it down.” A little girl -came in and asked for two penny buns.</p> - -<p>“Why don’t you pay for them?” asked -Guy.</p> - -<p>“No one pays here,” she said, “we have no -time.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[11]</span></p> - -<p>How dreadfully dishonest, he thought.</p> - -<p>“Please ma’am,” said Guy, “I am so hungry, -can you give me some bread and butter -and milk? but I have no money to pay for -it.”</p> - -<p>She handed him a couple of rolls and -some butter on a plate, also a large tumbler -of hot milk.</p> - -<p><a href="#i_011fp">“Never mind about money,” she said; “I -have no time to take it.</a> I will just put it -down,” and she immediately started to eat a -cake.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_011fp"> - <img src="images/i_011fp.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noic"><a href="#Page_11">“<i>Never mind about money,” she said; “I have no time to take it.</i>”</a></p> - </div> -</div> - -<p>Guy began to laugh, saying—“That’s a -funny way to put it down.”</p> - -<p>“No time for anything else,” she replied.</p> - -<p>Guy sighed. I am getting quite tired -hearing those words, he thought to himself, -“No time, no time,” always dinned into one’s -ears. As he had finished his meal he went -out.</p> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12"></a>[12]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_II">CHAPTER II.</h2> -</div> - - -<p>Seeing a number of children going to -school, he followed them in, and sat down -with them.</p> - -<p>They all started as the schoolmaster came -in to sing—</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">We have no time to learn our lessons,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">No time! no time at all,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">We do not want to gain any sense,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">As we have no sense like Paul.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p>“I suppose Paul is the schoolmaster,” said -Guy to the girl sitting next to him.</p> - -<p>“What is your name?” she asked.</p> - -<p>“Guy,” he answered.</p> - -<p>Then they all began to sing again—</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There was a little boy,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And he was called a guy,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He wished to know Oom Paul;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But like the rest of us,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He had no sense at all.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span></p> - -<p>Guy became very angry upon hearing this, -and began himself to sing—</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">You have no sense at all!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">You need not tell me so.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I’ve no time to talk to you,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">So I’ll take my hat and go.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p>“School is dismissed,” said the schoolmaster, -“I have no time to-day to hear lessons.”</p> - -<p>Guy went down a narrow lane, or passage, -it seemed, as it was carpeted; he saw -a little boy crying.</p> - -<p>“What’s the matter?” said Guy.</p> - -<p>“I have no time to tell you,” he said.</p> - -<p>“Oh, rubbish,” said Guy; “make time.”</p> - -<p>The boy looked up in surprise.</p> - -<p>“Why that is what they used to say to me -before I came down here. But I am not -clever, and I cannot make anything, not -even time.”</p> - -<p>Guy was disgusted.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a>[14]</span></p> - -<p>“No;” he said, “stupids like you want a -good beating, and I would like to give you -one, only I think it would be a waste of time -to give you even that.”</p> - -<p>“I did not know time had a waist,” said -the boy. “I thought it was only people.”</p> - -<p>“You thickhead,” said Guy, and walked -off.</p> - -<p>“What funny words he uses,” said the boy -“I wonder where he comes from? But, oh -dear; I have no time to think.”</p> - -<p>Almost at the end of the passage Guy -came to a large eight-day clock; he stood -and gazed at it with surprise; and well he -might. For the clock was fixed upon a -long stick; in the centre of the clock the -eyes and lips moved as if it was alive. Outside -the face it had figures all round, in order -to tell the time of day. The arms and hands -protruded from the sides of the clock like -numerous arms and hands; which gave it<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15"></a>[15]</span> -rather an odd look. The pendulum hung -below, swinging backwards and forwards. -Just as Guy was looking at him, the clock -opened his mouth, rolled up his eyes, and -began to sing—</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tick, tick, I’m a clock upon a stick;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Never on a shelf I’ll stay;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But in this no-time-land</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Upon a stick I’ll stand,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And my pendulum will wag all day.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p>“Dear me,” said Guy; “I’ve heard something -like that before; but it sounds all -wrong?”</p> - -<p>“Everything is wrong in this land,” said -the clock.</p> - -<p>“How is that?” asked Guy.</p> - -<p>“No time,” said the clock.</p> - -<p>“Did you ever study?” again asked Guy.</p> - -<p>“Study?” questioned the clock, in a tone -of surprise. “I have heard of a person -being in a brown study, if that is what you -mean.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16"></a>[16]</span></p> - -<p>“No, no! Study the time,” said Guy. “If -you studied time you might manage to get -along better, you know.”</p> - -<p>“Oh! I get along alright,” said the clock; -“only if there is no time, how can you study -it?” He gave such a loud tick, and pulled -such a funny grimace that it frightened Guy, -so he began to run; and, as he turned the -corner, seeing no one was after him, he -stopped to take breath, and there right in -front of him was a large open piece of -ground, in the centre of which was a summer -house, and roads branching all ways -from it, and sign-posts saying where each -road led to.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_016"> - <img class="illowe10" src="images/i_016.jpg" alt="chapter decoration" title="chapter decoration" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17"></a>[17]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_III">CHAPTER III.</h2> -</div> - - -<p>Guy read some of the signs. One was to -the land Selfishness, another to Forgetfulness. -To the land of Put-off, and By-and-by. -Another was I Can’t and I Won’t.</p> - -<p>“Oh, dear! They are all as bad as the one -I am in, and I’ve no time to read any more. -Dear! Dear! I am always saying no time -myself now;” and, feeling very miserable, -he entered the arbour, sat down on one of -the cane chairs, and, putting his arms on the -table, rested his head on them.</p> - -<p>“What a dreadful muddle things have got -into.”</p> - -<p>“Perhaps you have stirred up the mud,” -said a voice.</p> - -<p>Guy started! “The only sensible thing I -have heard yet,” he thought; and, looking<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18"></a>[18]</span> -up, saw on the mantelpiece—he never noticed -a fireplace in the arbour before—a little old -man holding a scroll.</p> - -<p>“May I ask your name, please sir?” said -Guy.</p> - -<p>“Mr. Memory-Pricker,” replied the little -man; “but I am called M.P. for short.”</p> - -<p>“Why, that stands for member of Parliament -too,” said Guy.</p> - -<p>“Well, it is the same thing,” answered the -little man. “You see, ‘Parle’ in French -means to speak. So it is meant, that I, -an active member, speak to, and prick up, -people’s memories; it is what people would -call a play upon words; only you have a way -of putting it backwards.”</p> - -<p>“Please, sir, can you tell me why this is -called No-Time-Land; at least, how it got -its name?”</p> - -<p>“Well, I think I can,” said the M.P. “You -must have noticed people hurrying along<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19"></a>[19]</span> -bent on some great purpose, but they never -seem to attain that purpose; or to put it still -plainer, they want to do some great thing, -or even little things, but they never get time, -they say, to do them, so all their great and -little ideas end in simple talk. Consequently, -and in fact, all lazy people who say they -have no time, are sent to No-Time-Land.”</p> - -<p>“Do they ever leave here? Mr. M.P.”</p> - -<p>“Sometimes,” said the little man, “when -they stray into my arbour, I prick up their -memories; they occasionally turn over a new -leaf then, if they wish to overcome their -bad habits; but it is not often,” sighed he, -“not often!”</p> - -<p>“May I ask what you use the scroll for, -please sir?”</p> - -<p>“Yes; this is my scrap book. I am a -collector of poetry, wise sayings, and various -other things of interest. Here is a piece—you -may like to read.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20"></a>[20]</span></p> - -<p>Guy got up and went close to the scroll, -and read these lines—</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">No time like the present</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To do the things that are right;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If you let your chances slip,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">They may vanish from your sight.</div> - </div> - - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Then do the thing that’s right,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Find time to help another;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Let love be the golden rule,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">No time lost in endeavour.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p>“I like that,” said Guy. “I think I will -have a try, too.”</p> - -<p>“Small beginnings may lead to great endings,” -said the Memory Pricker.</p> - -<p>Ting, ting, went a bell. A great noise -arose. Guy hurried out to see what it was -all about. People were hurrying along, -shouting “Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!”</p> - -<p>“Kill who?” cried Guy, running up to a -small boy.</p> - -<p>“Time, of course;” said the boy.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21"></a>[21]</span></p> - -<p>“But why kill him,” cried Guy. “What -has he done?”</p> - -<p>“You simpleton,” said the other, “have -you never heard of ‘People killing time’ or -‘Murdering the time’?”</p> - -<p>“Yes I have,” remarked Guy; “but instead -of ‘Killing’ him, suppose you try and ‘Keep’ -time my boy?” so saying, Guy stuck out his -leg and tripped him up. Guy heard Mr. Time -laugh and shout out—</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Tick, tick, said the clock upon a stick,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Pride will have a fall,” they say.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p>But Guy heard no more, for he had to -run, as the little boy was chasing him. He -ran and ran till he was nearly out of breath, -and thought the boy would soon catch him, -as he was gaining on him fast.</p> - -<p>When he heard someone shaking him, -and saying, “Guy, dear! Guy, wake up! the -breakfast bell has rung, and you will be late -for school.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22"></a>[22]</span></p> - -<p>“Oh! Mother,” said Guy, “can it all be -only a dream?”</p> - -<p>“Yes, sonny; you have been very fast -asleep; but hurry, now, and you can tell me -your dream as soon as you are dressed.”</p> - -<p>While he was eating his breakfast, he told -his mother his dream.</p> - -<p>“Was it not a strange dream, Mother?”</p> - -<p>“Yes, dearie; but strange dreams are often -sent us for some wise purpose, if we have -only the wisdom to understand the meaning -of them.”</p> - -<p>“You mean, Mother, it was sent to break -me of my fault of always saying ‘I have no -time.’”</p> - -<p>His mother smiled, and said “Just that, -sonny!”</p> - -<p>In after years, Guy used to say that dream -of his was at the bottom of all his success -in life, as he mastered a bad fault, and at last -quite gave up saying “I have no time,” but<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23"></a>[23]</span> -always “found time” for everything, not -only in doing his own work, but also in -helping others, so that his life became a truly -happy and useful one.</p> - -<p>And now, dear little readers, will you also -try and overcome your faults? Not in your -own strength, for then you will surely fail; -but in the strength of Him, who said “Be -ye perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is -perfect.” Then you, too, can claim the promise, -which is this:—“He that overcometh -shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, -and he shall be my son.”—Rev. xxi. 7.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Time is short,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">If idly spent, no art or care</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Time’s blessing can restore;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And God requires a strict account</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For every misspent hour.”</div> - </div> -</div> - - -<p class="p2 noic"><i>Printed at The Examiner Office,<br /> -Launceston, Tasmania.</i></p> - - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="tnote"> -<p class="noi tntitle">Transcriber’s Note:</p> - -<p class="smfont">Punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected.</p> -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO-TIME-LAND ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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