CLEARBLUE AND THE MAGIC MIRROR
Clearblue was a small pixie boy, he wore pointed blue shoes and a
pointed
blue hat with tiny bells on the points of the shoes and hat, a blue
jerkin
and light blue close fitting trousers. He was a merry little pixie and
he was on his way home from seeing a game called 'Fairydown' being
played,
the game was played by many players and was won by the one who could
blow
the Fairydown the furthest and the longest, these were small balls of
fluff
left over from the dandelion flowers.
Clearblue was thinking he had chosen his side well and was
still wondering
about it when he saw a flash pass him so quickly, but not wanting to be
ignored he called out to the passerby. "Hi! which way are you
going
so quickly,"

Soon there was a noise like stopping and a small head popped up, who
would it be but Bouncer the rabbit. "Sorry Clearblue, just on my way to
tea," and before the pixie could say more Bouncer had gone. "Well I
never."
said Clearblue aloud. "These young rabbits, just because they take part
in races nearly run one over." He then continued on his way, now the
path
he had to take was along side of a forest and it was known that fairies
and gnomes lived in the forest and for some nights recently, there was
such a lovely sound of music and laughter coming from the trees, which
were lit up by many coloured lanterns.
This made the forest very interesting to Clearblue and he
would peep
in as he walked along the outside path, today was no different than any
other. He nearly stepped on something shiny on the path. "What could it
be," thought Clearblue, bending down to pick up what looked like a
small
hand mirror, with a silver handle he wondered who it must belong to. He
felt very happy finding such a lovely mirror. Holding it up he looked
into
it, to his suprize the little mirror was glowing yellow and as he
looked
again he became puzzled as the mirror now shone blue, then he felt sad,
thinking who could have lost such an unusual mirror. They must be
worried
and sad at losing it, this made the glass to shine purple. All in a few
seconds these colours changed. Clearblue stopped looking in the mirror
and thought. "This must be a magic mirror, for if I feel happy or sad
it
changes colour now how odd." He carefully wrapped it in
some
leaves he found and walked home.
Now it happened that in the forest lived a most beautiful fairy
Princess
called Silverstream and Princess Silverstream was feeling very sad for
the silver mirror belonged to her. It really was a magic mirror for the
fairy princess would go from flower to flower and shine the mirror on
to
the flowers by day, so she knew if the flower was sad or happy by the
colours
the mirror glowed, then the Princess would smile and laugh into the
back
of the mirror and all of a sudden the colours would change to golden,
then
a beam of silver would flow towards the flowers and they would smile
and
beam back, so you see the mirror being lost was quite a problem, as all
the flowers missed the Princess and her magic mirror.
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So
all the fairies
in the forest had a meeting and decided to offer a reward of a lovely
'Red
Ball' in return for the Silver Mirror' they printed little posters and
leaflets saying.
'Lost one Silver Mirror,
If found and returned'
A reward of one Red bouncing Ball.
Signed. Princess Silverstream.

Now Clearblue was not aware of what had happened and he was
showing
this lovely mirror to his friend when Clearblue showed Greenmist
the mirror his friend looked at it and said. "Clearblue, I know
where
this comes from and who it belongs to," He seemed quite excited as he
carried
on. "There is a fairy princess in the forest who uses this mirror to
help
the flowers and trees, she's called Silvercharm." "Oh dear, she
will
be missing it," said Clearblue, "Will you come with me to see her
and return the mirror," said Clearblue to Greenmist not mentioning to
his
friend that he was a little afraid of going into the forest alone. The
two friends set out going along the same path that Clearblue had just
come
from, at the edge of the forest they noticed a small piece of paper
attached
to a tree, and it was asking if someone had found the Silver Mirror.
"Oh
look, there's a reward,"
said Greenmist. "Come on, lets find out where they live. Moving into
the
forest they came upon a long large building and on the gate it said
"Palace",
Clearblue read the title looked at his friend. "Here we are, it says
Palace."
"I can read," muttered Greenmist and then pulled the bell
at the gate. A fairy guard came out and said. "Yes." "We'd like to see
the princess," said Clearblue. "Why!" growled the guard at the gate,
looking
stern. "We've come about the Silver Mirror." put in Greenmist. "Wait
here,"
said the guard. Soon he was back and opening the gate he showed them
into
a large hall, at the end of the hall was a throne with a lovely young
fairy
sitting there so pretty, all in silver and pink, the friends walked
towards
her so shy and a little afraid. She smiled at the pixies. "Don't be
afraid."
said the Princess for that was who it was. "The guard said you have
news
of my lost mirror."
"Yes" said Clearblue pulling the leaves off
the little silver mirror and handing it to the Princess. "Oh thank
you."
She said very pleased to get the ' Magic Mirror' back. "I really
thought
I'd lost the mirror forever." then looking at Clearblue she asked
"Where
did you find it," Clearblue explained how he had come across the
mirror on his way home. Silver stream then called a guard and asked him
to bring the Redball in for Clearblue and his friend,. "This is a
special
Ball." said the Princess. "If you lose it, it will always come back to
you." The pixies thanked the Princess for the very unusual gift, then
Clearblue
and Greenmist went on their way. If you see a small red dot in the
trees
it may just be the Pixy friends playing with their special Red Ball, or
if you see a silver flash among the flowers it could be Princess
Silverstream
using her magic mirror to help the flowers and trees.
Ann Pettersen 1994

 
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