| Show ii 1 HOW HOW TYLTYL AND i f SOUGHT THE BLUE BIRD t to t o. o Story of nc D Delightful Fairy Tale and of I Tyltyl's Tyltyl s Wonderful ol Diamond by which lIe He Sees Things as The They Really Are Arc in His Iris Own Home J f in ill Fairyland the Land of Memory the Palace of J Night the Churchyard and the Kingdom of the 1 i Future and of No How They Fi Finally lally Found the Blue Bird Bud of oi Happiness at Their TheIl Own Home Rome 1 V a i iV V rt r x UT of all the myriads of birds that Ii I OUT I tJ fly through the sky there Is one I bird as the sky ky Itself ItsoU andI and this bird bIr t e fairies tell u us brings to I it its ts that which Is most desired de tle- j sired In drea In fact It Is the secret of or happiness hap hap- I i 1 pines Tho rho Fairy hobbled in on ChristI Christl Christ- Christ l I ma mas I Eve Ive ve and sent Tyltyl and l to search the world over until they should find the marvelous bird that i Si vas as ft td 10 cure a a. little sick Ick gIrl pirl Best of oC all she furnished them with the magic diamond that I Is more moro u useful I than the strongest microscope that tha t ever everI I was invented for Just one turn will willI I si enable the tho children to see flee things as r Y- Y the they hev really arc Inside even down to tho the bottom of mens men's souls soul It would take far for too long to tell what everything in that room is Is really like e when Tyltyl if has Jias turned the tho diamond lInmond Even x when you ou see it you ou can scarcely look fast t enough from ono olle wonder to tn another as the walls wails glo glow and twinkle like opals j n. n v h. h ci cnn oun thi thA r ln l lr dOors onen and anil out t trip the the laughing dancing l ln Hours I Firo comes leaping out of or the chimi chim- chim i e nc heY nev and arid Water Yater wells up out of ther tho the r barrel and thc they fl fly about after each other In Iii a curious whirling sort of or I dance trying to put pul each other out t. t like e the natural enemies the they are aro Bread rolls out of or tho the bread bowl bOl and careens about tho the room Sugars Sugar's chief 1 charm lies in his hands hand tho the fingers of which ho breaks off with a snap whenever when when- ever cel Tyltyl and u tl want a bit ort of or t 1 barley sugar to to suck stick Milk looks just justas as M l describes her her a frightened lady in a a. white wh nightgown own but she Is Isso so sweet and pure that tho most caret care care- t ful rut doctor in the world could find tind noth- noth J to modify Why b You Dont Don't Trust Milk have o shown After Atter Sugar and I what hat they the are arc really like Cat and arid Do Dog wake up up-I up I mean melin rea really 11 wake all the thet t 1 1 wa way up so that you Imo know all there is 15 isif if 3 I to bo be known mown about them Cat soon lets 1 t pou you see eo wh why it H is you OU have h never tull fully t. t h i I trusted trusted him even eyen when ho he hof purred most l r demurely Dog DoS is Just as adorable in f S n l I 1 nI T. 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I 5 ai I 13 I LL LL 1111 j A L LU I f i j moment Jt hj he Cl leaps P out t of his rs b basket k and d V ct barks out his ea eager er worship of his Hi 1 l' l little master you OU know that you OU have havo I I always ays supplied the right words for fore e j his llis clamorous leaping caresses i I Tho fhe last lost wonderful thing thing- that happens hap- hap o pens lens is the lighted lamp drops dOnS down dOn l S from the tho wall and In Its place stands tt the soul of or Light a love lovely being boing who 4 proves a a. wise and true friend to ther the r 1 children on their daring daring- Journey journe The 3 Fairy alry cuts sh short rt the revelry rC of the 1 newl newly awakened Things s and 1 Animals r I and hurries them off to find the Blue muo I I i Bird She sends Rends them through h the J i window so that no one ono shall see them theta i getting off ort and she very cry thoughtfully I I CS some shadows In the bed bcd so soI I that when Daddy and Mummy lumm Tyl TI 4 l come In a moment later the they suppose I 4 their bo box bov and girl are sleeping quietly Near the Moon I t t. t Before you ou know It there tho they are arc l Jn n the Fairy's palaces palace somewhere a lit lit- le f this tills side of ot I the he lT moba Of co course courset rsc t tt t Is Ia a a. palace because that name of tr f it but if It It weren't for that you ou ouI might ht think It was was' tho the Inside curvo cuno of ofa I I t a wave of or the sea The walls seem to be built hullt of filmy spheres that look as asLI I LI If they might be bo new worlds worldS' not yet et I old enough to be real and through l g thorn you ou can ean see Ice th the moon er very larg large and 11 c lif hC It i hz sn so n If r S 'S j It Ris Is Is at nt the Fairy p Palace l ce while 1 en-t the J- J J I children that aro arc dressing you ou hear the thc Things and Animals jn instigated by the tr treacherous Cat plotting against the children But Cat Is not allowed Ze even ven to mention his nefarious scheme J. J 1 for the faithful Dog DOl barks out hi his loyal loal tt f love and devotion de and declares that he will lot no harm come to them OP 1 rhe The Fairy Fain gives I es every ever one directions and other equipments equipment for the tue Journey journer b f as us she sho is not to go o herself First t of till II she sends Tyltyl a and ad d by a themselves es to the Land Imd of Memory e where sho she says a s 's the they will vilI find their grandparents and their brothers and each one of or whom went vent away 4 one evening and never neer came caine back i HH hiMi- hiMi J- J Laud of or Memory Menior When you ou see the misty forest 1 through which the children must travel 4 to reach the Land of Memory you ou unI un un- I Ji just why It Is so difficult to toi i iJ J remember back hack to things that hap p I I when you Oll much smaller I For there in and out among the spec spec- Jl fl Dat trees trec dance wonderful creatures who spin the mists as they dance on j purpose to befog those who are trying I I to follow the path of memory But T Tyltyl and J. J keep on trying I 3 and tr trying to remember until at la t 1 the drive away the Che fogs ioS's an and ansee see once 1 i more the tIle dear lear old faces fales of Gaffer and 4 Grann Granny T Tyl l It Is Iii nice to see seo the little t. t brothers and sisters Isten the moment they the i r are arc thought 0 of come trooping out of or orthe the cottage and it is reassuring reassuring- to hear Gaffer and anti Grann Granny explain that none non of them are dead ead only sleeping Even ven Grannys Granny's blackbird that thor children have once loved lo comes alive and begins bogins be bo- gins to sing the moment T Tyltyl re remembers remembers To- To members to ask about him The Tue queer thing thing- is that he has grown as blue a. a as a blue glass marble marble there there thereIn In the Land of or Memory Membry Not so queer perhaps when o ono oro c considers that lots lotsof lotsof of or things seem seeni bettor when they aro are aror r remembered than th they really were at atthe atthe the tho time but it Jt seems odd Just at first and of or course Tyltyl begs the bird of or Gaffer Garrer and Granny Grann and puts him In his cage for tor the Fairy's Fahs little girl Then rhen comes a most delicious supper served CI C out In the pretty prett little cottage yard ard of ot cabbage soup and the plum Ium tarts tails that no one but Granny Grann has ever evet known how to make Just right Tho They are arc all so gay ant and noisy at the table that Its it s seems m o a f tn n ln k un nn th flir fun hut Vint I of r course Tyltyl ll nl must tk keep C his P p PI promise I s sto to LI Light ht and so gO off he scampers scamper with l and then you OU see Gaffer Gafter and Granny and all nIl tho the little brothers 1 and sisters dropping dropping- asleep In their chairs And then it gets gradually dark and misty again and you can no longer see the beautiful Land Laud of or Memory emor Som Somewhere where you ou hear asking ing- ing for Light and l Tyltyl's regretful little cry that Grannys Granny's Bird isn't blue any Jon longer longor long long- er or and so of course you ou know that it cant can't be the bird that Fairy wants after all sights sight's Home flome Un Under er the starry starn dome of ot the sl sky y LJ L Is Nights Night's I ht's black basalt lt palace Above the steps where whore she Is sitting are arc two great doors dool's that an i glow low like Immense black opals You hear Cat plotting with Night before th tho children come In and you OU discover tInt thit it Is ij 1 behind those doors that he Ue Blue Bird lives among amonS tho ho dream birds that fe feed feedon l lon on tho the rays of the moon Of course courso Night ht wants to keep cep the tho Blue Bird all to h. h herself l n. n and d s she sho and the thc Cat C scheme cl 10 w Inc ino so 80 mat will leave o without open opening InS InS' the great central doors The palace Is Ss so filled with m mystery and gloom that hat you half haIr fear rear that the conspirators will be bo aye nc c particularly particularly R as the doors los lo's themselves them them- selves In spite of their beauty or perhaps per her haps because of It It seem to suggest I gest gestl l and Infinity and all tho the things s that are so uncomfortable to think about But nut after opening various arlous vaults nulls at atthe atthe the tho sides and letting out an any number of or odd and interesting things s. s from rein a Firefly l to a Cold ln ad Tyltyl l does docs Just what hat you ou would have e lone done in III his place place place-no no chokes down his terror terrol and tho the great rea doors dOIs Then of a n sudden you see sec a ous faIr fairy garden arden with innumerable o fountains fountains foun foun- throwing throwing- up sprays to tIle te Moon and the whole air nil is filled ed with hundreds hundreds hun bun and hundreds of Blue Birds You seo Night and Cat anxiously anxious watching on the steps while the tho Joyful children dash in among the Blue Birds and run off ott with their hands i full ull But later tho the Bl e Birds die In iii the hands hand After T Tyltyl and l have havo gone one Mother Night Ight miraculously brIng i ithem them back to life Perhaps In the Churchyard You next see sec the travelers outside a silent where ro lie lift thosa who have been dead lo Ho so long Jr- Jr th that t n no ono n Inthe in th the tho world remembers them The little group roup before the churchyard gate oate seems thoroughly hl frightened and small WOnder wonder WOn WOn- der It is for even cven the shadows look grim and the great dark trees meet far overhead o as if the they were whispering whIspering- together tog of or all the thc strange sights sight I hey hc have ha seen through the centuries of or midnights It isn't a bit surprising to hear Milk declare that she Is going to turn and one docs does feel teel a little disappointed disappointed pointed in Light when she sa says 8 that T Tyltyl and must go o in iii all alone but of course Lights Light's word is law At first you ou can scarcely see sec a thing In Jn the churchyard but when your OUI eye get ct accustomed to the darkness s you youcan youcan youcan can barely make malic out the tombs tomb and crosses and gra gravestones that stretch on un and on among the tall cypresses The church clock begins to strike and you ou know leno that thu tho graves graes are arc opening opening opening opening- and that in just another another another an an- other moment the dead will come com out and Tyltyl will turn his diamond so EO that you OU will kno v the real truth about death Just as you OU feel that you must shut up your our eyes tight a as I has done you hear bear a faint sound like the tho song son of birds or that strange music of the spheres that one has hay so often orten wondered about It grows stron stronger r and stronger more mOr and more triumphant until finally It bursts out a a- aa a great ireat reat hymn of or praise and all tho tha while tho I I I graveyard arl has been chan changing ln- ln chang n changing ing until finally It Is quite transformed transformed trans trans- formed Into a h heavenly enl a flower fitted garden There arc are no dead at all not oven Cn an any tombs tombs- an more mure but In their place stand hundreds of tall 0 lilies Hiles glistening glistening- with dew lOW In Futures Future Kingdom It is a relief to see Tyltyl and anti next In surroundings surrounding's that are not nOl In Inthe Inthe Inthe the least solemn The fhe Kingdom of th the Future must be ln the heart of or a II mid-June mid sl sky Even LYen more wonderful wonder wonder- ful than the place Itself are re t tio little Inhabitants that thron throng th there thoro r They are arc blue too and you ou soon discover that the they are tho the unborn children awaiting the hour of their birth When hen Times Time's gallery has hilA put off orr for forthe forthe forthe the Earth with the days day's supply of children you ou can hear floating up from froma a very ven great reat distance the glad song of the Mothers l reaching reaching- up to meet their little children Then back through h the forest the tho children go and outside the window Inflow they take leave of their companions the tho Things and Animals that Animals that is to sa say of their thell speaking human forms Corms Of course the they will all meet every day a Just as usual but without till thit diamond T Tyltyl It 1 antI and will not find it I. any easier casler than tho the rest of or us do to un fr stan stan- the mysterious Silence of or Things After ACter they h hive have e slipped through h the window you see seo them theta asleep In tho the cottage lIln living room once more Just Justas as If they the had never neer been heen out of t bed letI bedat cd at all Yon lon See sec Mummy Tyl get gt th theta them up UI for foJ breal breakfast fast and anti best of all th the ther- ther at home when thc they are no longer on er hunting hunt hunt- III lug ing for It the they find the Blue Bird 1 on Ill realize what a wonderful bird It I Is for forth forthe forthe th the little sick girl conics comp d in MS as healthy health and happy as ns possible and al althou although al- al thou though h the Blue Bird Biri flies flics away In tIme tho end it Is nice to know that human luman han hands s have hac held him even en for tor z a. moin mo mo- in ment c a I. 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