Lovelorn
Welcome to another adventure from the Thousand Acre Woods deep within Trollheim of the NJ Pine Belt! Tales Chronicled by Jonathan Hulton... That's me! In today's tale, Karl tries to cheer up Gramps who is moping about.
"Did you hear Bjorn tell his friend Nasruddin's story about when he was worried about his wife's health?" Karl asked.
"No," answered Gramps, moping, poking his stick into the dirt.
"His friend went up and asked if his donkey or wife was sick; he said he was bracing himself for his donkey's death by degrees."
Gramps just poked his stick like an Ashlad. The original male Cinder Ella.
"A philosopher said to the Mullah that he should give equal treatment to everything," Karl told, "The Mullah said by treating his donkey and wife equally he got a good donkey, but made a poor wife."
Gramps just sneered at him.
Since there were sightings of Gramps' wife, he has been quite distracted. He hasn't talked to her in a few hundred years.
"When the villagers asked the Mullah Nasruddin why he was still grieving over his donkey?"
"Yeah?"
"He answered that when his wife died, they found him a new one, but what was more important, nobody found him a new donkey.""Oh, quit it…"
Bjorn came around to check on him.
But the Great Horned Serpent was skulking about. When he got to the edge on the other side, the serpent stuck out his tail and grabbed him to scratch his back with.
When he was done, he just dropped him from the top of the tallest pine behind them up the hill. Luckily for Bjorn, he shrunk down to the size of an acorn, since the pond was only a foot deep.
Karl laughed so hard, he fell into the Disappearing Pond.
Gramps didn't crack a smile.
Karl got out of the water on Bjorn's side; "I give up; you try to cheer him up."
Bjorn sat beside his father. Gramps just looked at him for a second, and then back at his stick, but he did adjust his weight closer to his son, and sighed.
Bjorn pointed up toward Venus, the first star out that night. He nodded at his father and gave him his wish. Gramps looked up and smiled and felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked back, and there was his wife.
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Following the Harry N. Abrams, Inc. tradition of the series that created Brian Froud's and Alan Lee's Faeries and Gnomes by Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet, we present you with what would have been the next book in the series: Trolls: A Compendium. Trolls—do you think you know what they are? Could you be wrong?
Trolls within Scandinavian lore, myth, saga, fantasy, and folktales are actually anything magical within our northern neighbor's culture. Richly illustrated in this volume are the tales of faeries, dwarves, nissen, huldras, gods, Jotuns, draugar, ghosts, and more. Also, this book introduces our readers to the world of Trollheim, populated by Nattrolls that escaped the 17th-century Swedish colony within the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Narrated by Christopher Jonathan Hulton, who lives in the Thousand Acre Woods just after the Civil War, their tales are filled with Native American lore and tales of their neighbor, the Jersey Devil.
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