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Updated: May 19, 2025
Seven times they sounded. It was from the church over in the town, the big white church with the long finger pointing at the sky. And the Little-Clock-with-the-Wise-Face-on-the-Mantel, answered back. So they obeyed the old yellow Man-in-the-Moon and scampered like little white mice back to bed. "Tell me a story a fairy story," said Jehosophat to his Mother.
"Thank you," replied Marmaduke politely. He was so well brought up that he didn't forget his manners, even up high in the sky. "Well, here's something to play with when you get back to earth," said the Old Man-in-the-Moon. And he reached his hand inside the sack on his back, and pulled out a fistful of bright gold pennies oh, such a lot of them! Marmaduke reached for them.
But though they are thieves, the Black Crows are not night burglars and they were fast asleep in the nests in the wood. The Man-in-the-Moon winked at them three times, once with his right eye, once with his left eye, then again with the right. And the three happy children thought they heard him say three times: "Back to bed, back to bed, back to bed!" Then they heard the sound of bells.
Holbein, who offered to adopt her, and as the captain of the gun-boat had no more notion than the man-in-the-moon who the child belonged to, or what to do with her, he gladly handed her over, so here she has been livin' ever since. Of course attempts have been made to discover her friends, but without success, and now all hope has been given up.
There were some few tolerably good and clear-sighted ones among them, you know: and these all agreed in pointing out how, by changing one or two of their old man-in-the-moon Bedlam arrangements, they could greatly better themselves: but they heard with listless ears: I don't know that they ever made any considerable effort.
So fast they went they scarcely seemed to touch the snow, and on up the hill they rode towards the laughing Man-in-the-Moon. Then suddenly there came such a barking, a yelping, a neighing, a mooing, a clucking, a gobbling, a squealing, a squawling, as you never heard before. Around jerked Marmaduke's head.
After Allee and me go to bed at night, sometimes the moon comes and shines in at our window and we talk to it. I don't care about the man-in-the-moon very much, though Allee likes him. She says he must be so lonely up there by himself all the time that she doesn't see how he can keep on smiling so. But I love the lady in the moon." "The lady in the moon?" "Well, we call her the moon lady.
"I'm sorry that Jehosophat and Hepzebiah are not along," said Marmaduke to himself, "they're going to miss some fun" He looked ahead through the trees Up over the hill the snow path stretched up to the dark blue sky and the stars. Millions of them there were and they were all twinkle-winking at him. And the Old Man-in-the-Moon, just over the hill, kept winking at him too.
She was a timid old cow and she was startled. And she was still more frightened at the howling, the barking, the squawking, which the animals set up, one and all. So frightened was she that she jumped. So hard did she jump that she leaped way over the hill and over the clouds and the stars. "There's that critter again," complained the Man-in-the-Moon.
Through this sardonical mist, the face of the Man-in-the-Moon looking right towards the combatants, as if he were standing in a trap-door of the sea, leaning forward leisurely with his arms complacently folded over upon the edge of the horizon this queer face wore a serious, apishly self-satisfied leer, as if the Man-in-the-Moon had somehow secretly put up the ships to their contest, and in the depths of his malignant old soul was not unpleased to see how well his charms worked.
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