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I4 MOONFOLK. call unreal ; and all the unreal true stories come from the moon, and are real stories there." " Oh, Chimney-Elf, I wish I could go to the moon " ! exclaimed Khoda, catching her breath. ' Well, why not " ? " Why not " go to the moon ? " Yes." " Because I can't get there." " Oh, yes, you can, if I tell you how." k> Can ! Oh, do tell me how, dear, good Chimney- Elf." " There, none of that. I don't like coaxing, and I am no dearer or gooder than if I didn't know how to go to the moon." " But will " you tell me how ? " Perhaps I will. You can only go once a month, and, as it happens, to-night is the very night for this month." " " Why only once a month ? " Because the moonglade only comes right once a month." Bhoda knew the moonglade. for she lived upon the sea-shore ; she had often watched the broad, shining track of light, which, at a certain point of the full moon's upward course, seems to lead straight across the sea, from the earth to the sky, if only one knew how to pass over it ; sometimes, also, the rising or setting sun produces a sunglade, like a river of molten gold, or rather of pure fire, flowing across the ocean toward the earth ; but few
TUB 3IOONGLADE. 15 JOB cm bear the awful splendor of this sight, and few hearts are BO brave as to wish to tread that fiery path and explore the fierce wonders of the son. The moonglade is Tery different, and a great many people, not altogether children, have longed to make a bridge of it Ehoda had often wished so, and when the Chimney-Elf suggested the idea, she seized upon it at once : " Oh, can we go up the moongladef " cried she; and the Chimney-El^ puckering his queer little face into a hard knot, winking his bright little eyes very fast, and nodding his head until the cockVfeather in his pointed hat waved wildly to and fro, replied : "Yes, we can go up the moonglade, if jon will behave like a sensible child, and not be frightened. All that you hare to do is to come down to the beach a few minutes before sunset, for yon know the full moon rises just as the sun sets, get into the dory, and paddle a little waj out from the shore. I win be there, and do all the rest. Ton must not tell a mortal creature where /ou are going. I don't want everybody rushing to the moon, and making it common." "Nobody will care what I do," said Ehoda, a little sadly. Father is going to marry the Widow Merriam, and he goes to see her every night as soon as we have done tea; and my sister Susy IB so busy getting the house ready for father's wedding and her own, that she don't remember me when she don't see me; and Mrs. Manh, who helps her, only says:
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TUB 3IOONGLADE. 15<br />
JOB cm bear the awful splendor of this sight, and few<br />
hearts are BO brave as to wish to tread that fiery path<br />
and explore the fierce wonders of the son. The moonglade<br />
is Tery different, and a great many people, not<br />
altogether children, have longed to make a bridge of it<br />
Ehoda had often wished so, and when the Chimney-Elf<br />
suggested the idea, she seized upon<br />
it at once :<br />
" Oh, can we go up the moongladef " cried she; and<br />
the Chimney-El^ puckering his queer little face into a<br />
hard knot, winking his bright little eyes very fast, and<br />
nodding his head until the cockVfeather in his pointed<br />
hat waved wildly to and fro, replied<br />
:<br />
"Yes, we can go up the moonglade, if jon will<br />
behave like a sensible child, and not be frightened. All<br />
that you hare to do is to come down to the beach a few<br />
minutes before sunset, for yon know the full moon rises<br />
just as the sun sets, get into the dory, and paddle a<br />
little<br />
waj out from the shore. I<br />
win be there, and do<br />
all the rest. Ton must not tell a mortal creature where<br />
/ou are going. I don't want everybody rushing to the<br />
moon, and making<br />
it common."<br />
"Nobody will care what I do," said Ehoda, a little<br />
sadly. Father is going to marry the Widow Merriam,<br />
and he goes to see her every night as soon as we have<br />
done tea; and my sister Susy IB so busy getting the<br />
house ready for father's wedding and her own, that she<br />
don't remember me when she don't see me; and Mrs.<br />
Manh, who helps her, only says:
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