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Then G &J
were brought steaming cups of something that
smelled like cherry blossoms in Spring. While
Granma, Julio and King Cat downed all this
food, the fairies continued with their harp
and violin show. A few fairies were dancing
in little rings upon the hearth, an irridescent,
goldish green light seeming to shine from within
them.
Granma & Julio were feeling very content by now
and more than a little sleepy. Was it the food? Granma
sat bolt upright, because some fuzzy thing was licking
her face. It was da Muff, smelling like warm puppy
milk. Da Muff laid down on the ground in front of the
hearth and an aproned fairy brought her something like
a bone with a rat’s head at the end. "Yuck!" said
Julio and promptly fell asleep on a big soft velvety
pillow.
King Cat was already snoring. While the fairies continued
playing heavenly music, Granma dozed slightly. But
she kept catching glimpses of two snakey eyes at the
back of Julio’s switch and belt loop ~ they were still
tied together you see. Then the eyes seemed to go to
sleep too, and so did Granma. She didn’t know if she
dreamed it or if it was real, but the fairies were
now talking in plain English. Or maybe Granma could
now understand fairy.
They slept on and on; musta been an enchanted sleep.
Couldn’t have been more than 5 o’clock in the afternoon
by now. They didn’t wake up til dawn. And what a different
site they beheld!
The inside of the mushroom was all lit up with golden
light and not a fairy in sight. King Cat was still
in the same position and sawing logs. Yes, sawing logs!
The logs were beginning to pile up so high around him
that you could hardly see his face. But he didn’t seem
to mind at all.
Julio yawned and stretched and so did da Muff
who still had the bone hanging out of her mouth.
When Julio saw King Cat almost covered to the
top of his head, he began frantically throwing
logs everywhere. I guess King Cat's sawing was
how they got logs for their hearth fireplace.
He was sawing them just the right lengths, too.
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