Lovelorn
Welcome to another adventure from the Thousand Acre Woods. A place on the edge of Trollheim deep within the mysterious NJ Pine Belt! Tales Chronicled by Christopher Jonathan Hulton...That's me! In today's tale, Karl tries to cheer up Gramps who is moping about.
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"Did you hear Bjorn tell Nasruddin's story about why he looked so sad and worried?" Karl asked.
"No," answered Gramps who was moping, and poking his stick into the dirt.
"His friend asked him if he was worried about his donkey's or wife's health; since both of them were feeling unwell. He said he was bracing himself for his donkey's death.."
Gramps just poked his stick into the dirt like Ashlad.; the original male Cinder Ella.
"A philosopher said to the Mullah that he should give equal treatment to everything," Karl explained, " The Mullah said by treating his donkey and wife equally he got a good donkey, but got 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 and was feeling quite confused.
"The villagers asked the Mullah Nasruddin why he was still grieving over his donkey?"
"Yeah?"
"He answered that when his wife died, unfortunately they found him a new one, but nobody found him a new donkey."
"Oh, quit it…"
Bjorn came around to check in on him.
But the Great Horned Serpent was skulking about. When he was about to cross, the serpent stuck out his tail and used him as a back scratcher.
When he was done, he just dropped him. Bjorn fell from the top of the tallest tree into the pond. Luckily for Bjorn, he shrunk down to the size of an acorn , since the pond was only a foot deep.
Karl rolled into the Disappearing Pond, laughing up a storm.
Gramps didn't crack a smile.
Karl got out of the water on the other side; "I give up; you try to cheer him up."
Bjorn sat beside his father. Gramps just looked at him for a second, and went back to his stick. Then he adjusted his weight closer to his son, and sighed.
Bjorn pointed up toward the first star shining bright that night, nodded, and gave him his wish. Gramps looked up and smiled and felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked back, and Venus granted him his wish for 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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