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60 Chit-Chat by Puck.
such a longing to get out into the world. If you
agree with me we will set out at once. The whole
world lies open before us.”
Anna pointed to papa’s globe, which stood on the
top of the bookcase, and which had become won-
derfully changed in the moonlight. It was no longer
a mapped-out globe on coloured paper, but it had
become a world of real nature, filled everywhere with
life. The sea roared, green woods appeared, and
giant mountains towered in the air. The glaciers of
the Alps glistened as if they were of silver, and
mighty rivers leapt forth from the hills, and wound
their course through the valleys to the sea.
“Oh, how beautiful !” Axel cried out, and clapped
his hands with delight. “I should like to look at
this quite near.”
“That is just what we are about to do,” said
Anna, and nodded,
“But how are we to do it?”
“T will manage that for you,” whispered a voice
behind them; and when they looked round they
beheld a bright apparition of a beautiful woman,
with a pair of party-coloured wings in her hands.
“My name is ‘Phantasy,’ and whoever I give
wings to can fly wherever he likes.”
Phantasy fixed the wings to the shoulders of the
little people, and after having expressed their thanks
to her, they were soon on their way.
Their airy journey crossed vast snowy fields and
forests of firs and pines, where the trees carried
heavy burthens of new-fallen snow; they soared
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