Caught me before bed! The panels are numbered but are roughly left-to-right, top-to-bottom anyway.
1. Willie dreamt that the tree trunk which looked so like an elephant came into his bedroom and offered to take him away fo a while.
2. It was a funny looking animal, to be sure, covered with bark all over, and its tail was a little sprouting twig. The elephant strode also in a very wooden manner, but very fast. There was a sign-post standing in the midst of a green plain. ``To the Squinting House’’ read Willie Winkie. ``We must go there,‘’ said the elephant. The road was very crooked and ran back and forth in the strangest way; but, as the elephant remarked: ``The more the road runs, the quicker it will take us there.’’
3. And really, very soon the Squinting House appeared, and Willie went up to it.
4. ``Why do you squint so?‘’ said Willie. ``Have you noticed it, also?’’ said the house, and commenced to weep in a heartrending manner. ``It’s because they forgot to paint the mortar on my nose when they bricked up my chimney, and it makes me look cross-eyed.’’
5. ``O, don’t please, cry so hard,‘’ said Willie Winkie, and suddenly the house was quite little and was sitting on Willie’s knee, and Willie comforted it and wiped all the salt tears off its face.
6. Suddenly Willie Winkie heard something coming in back of him and behold! wadding havily along on short little legs, came a windmill, followed by the moon, and both were agog with amazement at Willie’s painting.
7. They seemed to admire it so much, that Willie offered to paint them also; so they came alongside the little house, which no longer squinted, but was now most pleasant to look at. Willie painted the mill a beautiful pea-green, and then the moon begged to be painted likewise.
8. Well! You see how Willie painted the moon. Wasn’t it terrible? And the moon squalled so that Willie ran back home.
Caught me before bed! The panels are numbered but are roughly left-to-right, top-to-bottom anyway.
1. Willie dreamt that the tree trunk which looked so like an elephant came into his bedroom and offered to take him away fo a while.
2. It was a funny looking animal, to be sure, covered with bark all over, and its tail was a little sprouting twig. The elephant strode also in a very wooden manner, but very fast. There was a sign-post standing in the midst of a green plain. ``To the Squinting House’’ read Willie Winkie. ``We must go there,‘’ said the elephant. The road was very crooked and ran back and forth in the strangest way; but, as the elephant remarked: ``The more the road runs, the quicker it will take us there.’’
3. And really, very soon the Squinting House appeared, and Willie went up to it.
4. ``Why do you squint so?‘’ said Willie. ``Have you noticed it, also?’’ said the house, and commenced to weep in a heartrending manner. ``It’s because they forgot to paint the mortar on my nose when they bricked up my chimney, and it makes me look cross-eyed.’’
5. ``O, don’t please, cry so hard,‘’ said Willie Winkie, and suddenly the house was quite little and was sitting on Willie’s knee, and Willie comforted it and wiped all the salt tears off its face.
6. Suddenly Willie Winkie heard something coming in back of him and behold! wadding havily along on short little legs, came a windmill, followed by the moon, and both were agog with amazement at Willie’s painting.
7. They seemed to admire it so much, that Willie offered to paint them also; so they came alongside the little house, which no longer squinted, but was now most pleasant to look at. Willie painted the mill a beautiful pea-green, and then the moon begged to be painted likewise.
8. Well! You see how Willie painted the moon. Wasn’t it terrible? And the moon squalled so that Willie ran back home.