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The Magic Wishing-Tree
(after D.Bisset)
The sun shone on the tree in the garden, the wind blew gently through its
branches and the leaves whispered, "Wish-wish-wish."
It was a magic tree. And whoever stood beneath it and wished would have
their wish come true.
In the house next to the tree there lived a fat old man. His name was William
Cadogar Smythe. He sold soap in the village; and he didn't like girls and boys.
One day he stood underneath the tree and said, "I wish all the girls and boys
who live near me were on the moon!"
As soon as he said it all the girls and boys were on the moon.
It was very cold and lonely up there and some of the younger children began to
cry. But they were too far away from their mothers and they didn't hear them.
As soon as the children had gone all the birds in the tree stopped singing.
A blackbird looked down at Mr. Smythe and said. "I wish all the children were
back again!"
Mr. Cadogan Smythe said, "I wish they were all on the moon." And the blackbird
said, "I wish they were all back again."
The children were getting very confused; they didn't know where they were.
Mr. Smythe stamped his foot and said, "I wish..." but he didn't say any
more because the blackbird said, very quickly, "I wish Mr. Smythe was good"
And Mr. Smythe, who had just been going to say "I wish all the children
were on the moon," suddenly changed his mind, scratched his head, and said:
"I wish a l l the children would come to tea this afternoon and we'll have
cakes and orange jelly and lemonade for tea. And I'll stop selling soap and open
a sweet shop instead, and I won't let anybody call me William Cadogan Smythe,
I'll just be called Bill Smith. Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!"
And immediately all the birds in the tree started to sing again.
The sun shone, the wind blew gently through the branches of the tree, and
the leaves whispered, "Wish-wish-wish."
Notes:
the magic wishing-tree – волшебное дерево желаний
I wish they all were on the moon – Я бы хотел, чтобы они все были
бы на Луне (здесь используется сослагательное наклонение –
Subjunсtive II)
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