New-York tribune., 1902-12-28

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| you can't go away without with your leave or
| by your leave as you came in. Why. you can't
get ont of the tree, and as for climbing the
wall. do it without a white horse to
! help him. So, now, where are you?'
Diggory knew very well where he was-and he
tried at once to be somewhere else-but the old
| man right. He could move ali about the tree
/ from branch to branch. but the tree felt wrong
way up. and ne felt wrong way up-that is to say,
he could not get to the ground except by jumping
much harder than he knew how 10, and then he
knew he would only have fallen back again. just as
you would fall back if jumped up to the ceiling.
| He could have fallen off the tree the other way,
| Of course but then he would have fallen up into
the sky, and there seemed to be nothing there TO
stop his falling for and ever. So he held tight
! and looked at the old And Diggory thought
| he looked nastier than ever.
So he said: ''WeH?'
And the old said: Not at all! HoweI CT,
since you had the sense not to fall off wrong way,
| ! suppose you're the boy l want Now. look here;
you throw me down those ten big aMPples-one apr f. by
out by the Apple Door, that no one but me has
why don't you pick them yourself?' Diggory
I'm too old; you know very well that old mon
don't climb trees: Come is it bargain"
apples within reach without ciimbing-why do you
want these particuarly?''
threw it up and caught it. 1 say up. but 1t
down instead. because of the apple tree being so
''oh, don't, the old man saueaked. like in
nasty; slack baked. smOek frocked son of
Dggorys blood boiled at hearing his father called
a toad. Take that cried he aiming the apple
at the old mans head. Il wish I could get out of
The apple hit the old mans head and bounced on
the ground Diggory found that he could get cut Of
the if he lked-for he felt that he
the proper way up once more, and so was the tree.
So he said These are wish apples, are
NO, no, no, no,'' shrieked the old man. so
earnestly that Diggory knew he was lying. I've
people fall up ont of the tree and YOU didn't SO
! thought I'd let you 20 because I'm nice, kind.
fly They aren't wish appes-indeed. they aren't
truth with that he picked the second apple apple and
threw it. ARD the Old man began to speak the
a child saying a lesson it has just learned and is
afraid of forgetting before it can get it said
dreds Of peoples heads n that tree SO that they
as they have to do when the tide turns make
them en- into apple trees don't know why debut
never did anything useful with my magic, but 1
can hurt, and there's only one way out of this,
and don't mean to show it to you.
IT'S pity you're so wicked" said Diggory. Il
He threw down another apple. and instantly the
magician became so good that he could do nothing
but sit down and cry think how wicked he had
been. He perfectly useless But Diggory
was no longer afraid of him, he gathered the
shirt and came down the tree.
The old couldn't tell him how to get out
and he couldn't disenchant the fruit trees or
anything So Diggory had to spend three wish
man happy; this was done as IT is in Miss Edge
worth's stories, by giving him thatched cottage
and. and a garden. and devoted granddaughter to
the Apple Door. which he had not been able to
find, and he went out by IL. You, of course can
find it on the map. But he had map and be-
sides ii is spelled differently Before he went out
OF the orchard he threw down another apple and
wished the apple trees to be disenchanted. And
they were. And then the red walled orchard was
full Of kings and princesses and swineherds and
goosegirls and statesmen and steyedores and every
kind Of person you can't think of
Diggory left them to find their own ways home
some OF them lived ever long before and ever
so far away-apd he himself went by the Apple
Door and found his good white horse. who had
been eating grass very happily all the time he
been IN the company of the magician, and that had
been two days and night.
50 lnvicta was not hungry, but Diggory was. and,
IN fact be was so hungry that he had to use a
wish apple TO get his supper. and that was very
very Wasteful OF him. and he often regretted IL in
after years II Is true that he wished for the best
supper in the world. and had IT: and ii was only
bread and milk If he had wished for the incest
supper II would have been different. doubt.
Dggory rode on, anxiously arranging what
wishes he should have with the rest of the apples
but in the dusk he missed his way and was nearly
drowned in rain flooded ford, and poor white In
Yicta quite carried away
Then Diggory took off his shirt TO wiring the
water out or It, and as he took IL of he said
CTo be continued)