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THE WONDROUS WISE MAN. 27
too.
Come, turn round, and run with might and main,
old gentleman."
" Which way, which way ? Oh, my eyes, my eyes ! "
screamed the man, dancing about first on one foot and
then on the other.
" Straight forward as yon are now ; one, two, three
and away you go run
"
!
So the man who was so wondrous wise, still holding
his hands over his eyes, ran straight forward as hard as
he could, until he tumbled into another thorn-bush growing
near by : after floundering round in it for a few
moments, he broke through upon the other side, and
walked away in a very dignified manner, calling over his
shoulder :
" Eyes
! who says I haven't eyes
! I fancy I can see
as far into a millstone as most men, at any rate/'
" Fve read about him, and the Man in the South, and
and you too, sir," exclaimed Khoda suddenly ;
u all in
Mother Goose : that is just what the Chimney-Elf said \ n
" What that the stories people down there call fairystories,
and Mother Goose, in fact stories, are all true
up here ? Yes, that is correct, quite correct," said the
Man in the Moon, stooping to pat his dog, and looking up
sideways at Ehoda. " All fancies, and a great many
ideas, come from the moon. The moonbeams go when
people are asleep, and put them into their heads, and
when they wake up they write them down, and call
them their own."