New Forest Birds.

On the edge of the New Forest deep in England many years ago there lived a man that spent his time taking young birds from their nests and training them to do various tricks. His main speciality was young Owls also Magpies. The Birds he taught to steal especially the Magpies. The Owls he used as messengers. He was a wicked man that hated anything to do with the Fairies of this world. He often caught glimpses of Fairies while he was robbing the nests of the young Owlets.

His method of teaching was very simple when a bird did, as he wanted he fed it with a piece of raw meat. If the bird was slow or did not understand what was expected of it he did not feed it. Each of the birds had a leather thong tied around its left leg. This thong was long enough to let the bird drink but not long enough to let it fly. Through the cave he had led a small stream of water from a nearby river. This water was so clear that he himself drank of it as well as the birds.

The other smaller birds in the area were afraid of the man but as he left them alone they did not complain. It was a Fairy that brought the attention of the Fairy Queen to this wicked man and asked her to do something about him. The Fairy Queen was reluctant to do anything about the man after all he was a human being and so she asked Mother Nature for her help.

Mother Nature thought about the man and his treatment of the birds. What was she to do? If she caused the waters of the stream that ran through his cave to flood she would harm the birds. If she caused a landslide to block his cave it would still be the birds to suffer. The main problem as she saw it was the leather thongs that kept the birds tied to their perches. She asked the Mice to help her. They should enter the cave and chew away on the thongs until the birds were free. The mice refused. Every one knows that Owls eat mice. Then she had another thought the Weasels could easily chew through the thongs so she asked the weasels to help her. Weasels are awful creatures they rob the nests of eggs and eat young birds. The Weasels were out of question as far as help would go.

Mother Nature told the Fairy Queen Feeana about the problems she had. Queen Feeana said she would think about the matter and for Mother Nature to leave everything to her. In Fairyland there lived a young Leprechaun who was always boasting about how strong he was and how courageous. He would fight anyone and anything in the whole of Fairyland. The Queen Feeana called the Leprechaun to her house and put this plan to him. If he would go into the cave and free all of the birds she would reward him well with some magic gold and a bundle of magic leather. The Leprechaun who had opened his mouth too often to back out agreed with trembling heart to go and free the birds.

One late summer night the man went to catch some more young birds in their nests in the forest. The Leprechaun plucked up courage and went into the cave. He freed all of the birds and turned the cave upside down. The perches where the birds had been sitting he threw onto the fire all the furniture such as it was he also burnt. The bed a table and a chair and one three legged stool all went into the greedy flames. The birds flew off into the woods and were never to be seen again.

The evil man robbed three nests of young Owls and was on his way home to his cave. Now Mother Nature had her chance she uprooted a large tree, which fell onto the man. He died straight away and from this time on the woods of the New Forest has been free of such evil men. The fairy Queen Feeana placed the New Forest out of bounds to all men that capture birds for whatever reasons be they good or bad all birds must be left in freedom.

Fairies.

Fairies are little folk with silvery wings.

Every time I see them my old heart it sings.

I dream of fairies nearly every night,

They come and play with me to my delight.

Moonlight nights are enchanted I know,

Because all of my fairies tell me it is so.

To see the little people one must be pure in heart,

Then in the fairy games one may also take part.

The rules are simple be a good sport,

These rules all of the fairies are taught.

So join in the fun have a good time,

One day you might appear in my rhyme.

One Wish A Day,

The voices of two people came to my ears. I was too far away to really hear what they were saying as I got closer I saw two people a man and a woman. The couple were in a loud conversation and did not seem to worry that they could be overheard. I slowly approached them and so that they could not see me I performed a little trick that I had learned from the Fairies. I moved to an oak tree and merged myself into the tree’s bark. I became a part of the tree.

The couple were waiting for someone and it soon became clear that each were waiting for a wish to be granted. They spoke of other wishes that they had made. How rich they were, how beautiful and how handsome the couple now were, for weeks every day each had made a wish, which was granted. I was now very interested and decided to stay with the tree to see who it was that could grant so many wishes.

The tree had made me very comfortable in its bark and I was in danger of dropping off into a deep sleep. To stop myself from falling asleep I repeated to myself the numbers from one hundred down to one and then back again. If I forgot a number I started all over. The couple were still talking about what wish they would ask for today. The woman said,” I want blue eyes from today not these brown ones from last week.” The man was just as stupid and said, “I want an egg for my breakfast every day not a sausage.” The wishes were getting more and more silly as the time went past.

Then in a flash of blue light and a puff of smoke Her Majesty Queen Feeana appeared and in a tired voice asked the two what wish they wanted. Now this really did surprise me Her Majesty granting these two silly people a wish each day. Something was definitely wrong. I decided to stay hidden in the tree’s bark to see if I could find out what the couple had, that made the Queen grant them a wish each, every day. “I wish for an egg for my breakfast every day.” Said the man. “I want blue eyes from now on.” Said the woman. The Queen Feeana tiredly waved her magic wand and then disappeared the way she had come.

The man boasted to the woman that they could have any thing they wanted. They only had to come to the woods and wait for the queen and each wish would be granted. Then he boasted that as long as they had the Queen’s magic ring she would have to grant them a wish each day. If only the Queen knew that the ring was now lost and that they did not have it any more. The pair then ran off laughing into the woods.

I went to see Her Majesty Queen Feeana and told her my story of what I had seen and heard in the woods. Her Majesty was very angry indeed to know that she had been made a fool of. Waving her magic wand the two suddenly appeared before Her Majesty. “I will grant you no more wishes for it has come to my ears that you no longer have the Queens magic ring.” “What do you have to say for yourselves?” The man tried to tell Her Majesty that they still had the ring, the woman being as silly as the man told the Queen the same story they still had the ring. “ Show me the ring if you still have it said Her Majesty in a very angry voice. The two could only stutter and it soon came out of them that they had foolishly lost the ring. Her Majesty waved her magic wand and her ring that she had lost from her finger, that the two had found, was back on her finger.

Her Majesty now waved her magic wand once more and all of the wishes that had been made to the couple in the past were now taken away. They both now looked very ugly and both had no more money or wealth. Her Majesty also gave the two of them one blue eye and one brown eye this was to remind them of how silly they had been telling their story in the woods so that all could hear.

Her Majesty thanked me for letting her know what the two silly people had been saying in the forest also for telling her that the two had lost the ring, which was then very easy for Her Majesty to get back with the help of the magic wand.

Fairy Trades.

The fairies have decided to improve my old house,

to make it more comfortable for me; and family mouse.

They have painted sweet pictures on all of my walls,

pictures of great beauty that my old heart it enthrals.

Scenes of forests and small sweet fairy glades,

Fairies you know are masters of most trades.

They work in leather to upholster my sofas and chairs,

They stuff the same with their long soft fairy hairs.

Some new carpets for my creaky old wooden floors,

With gossamer silks they have covered all my doors.

On my bedroom ceiling is now a picture of the moon and stars,

in the spare bedroom a large painting of the red planet Mars.

While they were working I strolled through fairyland,

listened to sweet melodies from a Leprechaun band.

In fairyland there are wild animals and many different birds,

It is all so lovely I cannot describe it with any of my words.

Flowers in abundance lining the fair forest ways,

Al is so beautiful my mind is in a real happy phase.

Fairies have a way with the colours it is so profound,

Their magical powers cause flowers to spring from the ground

The wild animals of the woods are not at all shy,

They just look interested as I pass them by.

All are happy in fairyland all are at peace,

This will last forever it will never ever cease.

Morning dew freshens up all in this fairy realm,

Qualified fairies have taken over the guiding helm.

Then it was time to return to my old house,

The decorating is finished this pleased my family mouse.

The pictures are now alive thanks to the magic paints,

It is now a house to live in fit for the saints.

I am most happy with all the new works of art,

That I for one will never from my old house part.

The New Magic Pen.

The Wife and I have been invited down into the forest glen.

The fairies have a present for me it is a new magic pen.

I have to fill it with a special ink of blue and green.

It will write the most beautiful poems man has ever seen.

All of the little folk will be there you know in full force,

Even her Majesty will come riding on the winged horse.

From all over the world they will come in one’s and two’s.

Most will wear their brand new blue and yellow fairy shoes.

The Leprechauns have been asked not to bring their pots of gold.

For in fairy land there is nothing to be bought or to be sold.

The Trolls and the Pixies all I know have promised to behave,

The Fairy Queen has threatened to send them all to the dark cave.

The dark cave it lies hidden in the forest’s deepest glade.

There is no bright light but just the forevermore shade.

My little family mouse have also been invited to the glen.

They are all a little excited about my receiving a new pen.

Finally the great day has arrived to my deepest delight,

I have not been able to sleep more than half of the night.

I have showered and shaved my silly old face once more.

My wife says I look really smart but I was not so sure.

We must not keep the Fairy Queen waiting so off we all went,

my Wife quite lively me with my old back all tottery and bent.

We wandered along the forests green floor to the forest glen.

We all slowly arrived at about quarter past of the ten.

There was an atmosphere of gaiety in the sunlit floor,

A thousand fairies or could it have been a few more.

All were singing and dancing, to the most modern of tunes,

Wine was served it had been made from the freshest of prunes.

Then Her Majesty the Fairy Queen arrived from out of the skies.

Bringing with her my New Magic Pen and lots of fresh fruit pies.

A right royal feast soon got under way down in the forest glen.

With fairy pomp and ceremony the Queen gave me my magic pen.

It was just after midnight that we arrived back at my old house,

My wife very happy I’m delighted and my happy little family mouse.

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