Top o' the World: A Once Upon a Time TaleSwan, Mark
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Top o' the World: A Once Upon a Time Tale
Swan, Mark
Fantasy fiction; North Pole -- Juvenile fiction
They had a lovely supper of cocoanuts and breadfruit, with bananas and
oranges for dessert; but when they prepared to resume their journey to
Illusia they were confronted by a new difficulty,--Kankakee could no
longer guide them. He knew the way across the Forbidden Land of course,
after leaving Arcturia you go to the third iceberg, and turn to the
left, then straight ahead, six hundred miles--so forth and so on. He
knew all that, but all his landmarks had been swept away; he could not
guide them through a tropical jungle. Then Maida had a brilliant idea.
For such a little girl Maida was always thinking lots and lots of
clever things. She called Santa Claus who came over, took her on his
knee, and chucked her under the chin.
“When you go about at Christmas time,” she said, “how do you get up on
the roofs?”
“My reindeers are marvels,” chuckled Santa Claus. “They can run on the
snow, in the water, or in the air.”
“Splendid, splendid!” shouted Maida in great glee. “Now I’ll tell you
what to do. Take the Man with the Growly Voice in your sledge, and go
back to where our flying machine fell. It’s big enough to hold all of
us, and we’ll be in Illusia in no time.”
“But my flying ship is broken,” objected the Man with the Growly
Voice. “The starboard wing is smashed, and there is a hole in the
taffrail.”
“I thought of that, too,” Maida answered. “Santa Claus, you just
imagine it’s a great big toy and think it mended. Then it will fly.”
Whereupon everybody shouted for joy. Santa Claus sat back laughing till
he shook like a jelly.
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