Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere : Blog

Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere : Blog: "Thu, 24 Feb 2011

The Happy Family, when mum and dad realise they are the only ones of their kind left... they decide to take things into their own houses.

Diddily Dee Dot's Dreamland for Children Everywhere

Fairy Stories and Rhymes

THE HAPPY FAMILY

by Hans Christian Andersen.

The largest green leaves that you can find in the country are the burdock leaves; if a little girl takes one of them and holds it in front of the skirt of her frock, it serves her as an apron; and if she places it on her head, it is almost as good a shelter against the rain as an umbrella, it is so large. never is a burdock leaf found growing alone; wherever one grows a whole colony grows. They are beautiful too, but all their beauty is for the snails.

Those large white snails, of which great folks in olden times made fricassees, dined off Snail on Burdock leafthe burdock leaves. They ate greedily of them, saying all the while, 'Hum, how nice, how exquisite!' for they thought the snails delicious. These snails lived upon the burdock leaves, and they imagined the burdock leaves had been sown for their sakes.

There was an old-fashioned manor house where snails were no longer cooked and eaten, because not only had the custom dies away, but the owners of the house had died, and no one lived in it. But burdock leaves grew near, and they had not died. They grew and multiplied; and as there was no one to weed them out, they spread over all the paths and all the beds till the garden at last became a wilderness of burdock leaves. Here and there might still be seen a solitary apple or plum tree, otherwise no one could possibly have guessed that this had ever been a garden, for on all sides you saw nothing but burdock leaves. ...... more at Fairy Stories, diddilydeedotsdreamland .

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Dr Dodiddily and the Dee-Dot's : Jack and Jill?

Dr Dodiddily and the Dee-Dot's : Jack and Jill?: "JACK AND JILL
wants you to read this lovely, little story

Henny Penny


[Henny Penny]

One day Henny Penny was scratching in the farmyard looking for something good to eat when, suddenly, something hit her on the head.
'My goodness me!' she said.
'The sky must be falling down. I must go and tell the king.'


She had not gone far when she met her friend Cocky Locky.Cocky Locky
'Where are you going in such a hurry?' he called out.

'I am going to tell the king that the sky is falling down,' said Henny Penny.
'I will come with you,' said Cocky Locky.
So Henny Penny and Cocky Locky hurried along together towards the king's palace.
On the way they saw Ducky Lucky swimming on the pond.

'Where are you going?' he called out.

'We are going to tell the king the sky is falling down,' replied Henny Penny. 'We must go quickly, as there is no time to lose.'

ducky lucky'I will come with you,' said Ducky Lucky, shaking the water off his feathers.

So Henny Penny, Cocky Locky and Ducky Lucky hurried on together towards the king's palace. On the way they met Goosey Loosey, who called out,

'Where are you all going in such a hurry?'

'We are on our way to tell the king the sky is falling down,' said Henny Penny.
'I will come with you,' said Goosey Loosey.goosy loosy

So Henny Penny, Cocky Locky, Ducky Lucky and Goosey Loosey hurried on together towards the king's palace.
Round the next corner they met Turkey Lurkey. 'Where are you all going on this fine day?' she called out to them.

'It won't be a fine day for long,' replied Henny Penny. 'The sky is falling down, and we are hurrying to tell the king.'
Turkey Lurky'I will come with you,' said Turkey Lurkey. So Henny Penny, Cocky Locky, Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey and Turkey Lurkey all went on towards the king's palace.

Now on their way they met Foxy Loxy who asked, 'Where are you going in such a hurry?'

'We are going to the king's palace to tell him the sky is falling down,' replied Henny Penny. 'That is a very important message,' said Foxy Loxy.

'I will come with you. In fact if you follow me I can show you a short cut to the king's palace, so you will get there sooner.'

So Henny Penny, Cocky Locky, Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey and Turkey Lurkey all followed Foxy Loxy. He led them to the wood, and up to a dark hole, which was the door to his home. Inside his wife and five hungry children were waiting for him to bring home some dinner.Foxy Loxy

That, I am sorry to say, was the end of Cocky Locky, Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey and Turkey Lurkey, for one by one they all followed Foxy Loxy into his home, and they were all eaten up by the hungry fox family.

Foxy LoxyHenny Penny was the last to enter the Fox's hole and she heard Cocky Locky crowing in alarm in front of her. Squawking with fright and scattering feathers, she turned and ran as fast as she could for the safety of her own farmyard. There she stayed there and she never did tell the king that the sky was falling down.

All of these stories will have an explanation from Wikipeadia, maybe even other places if I find them on my travels. I knew this story as Chicken Licken when I was small.

Diddily. xx

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The Golden-Headed Fish, fro the Olive Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. I do love all the pictures of the Goldfish on the page. Diddily Dee Dot xxx

DIDDILY DEE DOT'S DREAM LAND

THE GOLDEN-HEADED FISH

by Andrew Lang - Olive Fairy Book

             Once upon a time there lived in Egypt a king who lost his sight from a bad illness. Of course he was very unhappy, and became more so as months passed, and all the best doctors in the land were unable to cure him. The poor man grew so thin from misery that everyone thought he was going to die, and the prince, his only son, thought so too.
             Great was therefore the rejoicing through Egypt when a traveller arrived in a boat down the river Nile, and after questioning the people as to the reason of their downcast looks, declared that he was court physician to the king of a far country, and would, if allowed, examine the eyes of the blind man. He was at once admitted into the royal presence, and after a few minutes of careful study announced that the case, though very serious, was not quite hopeless.
                'Somewhere in the Great Sea,' he said, 'there exists a Golden-headed Fish. If you can manage to catch this creature, bring it to me, and I will prepare an ointment from its blood which will restore your sight. For a hundred days I will wait here, but if at the end of that time the fish should still be uncaught, I must return to my own master.'
                The next morning the young prince set forth in quest of the fish, taking with him a hundred men, each man carrying a net. Quite a little fleet of boats was awaiting them, and in these they sailed to the middle of the Great Sea. During three months they laboured diligently from sunrise to sunset, but though they caught large multitudes of fishes, not one of them had a golden head.
            'It is quite useless now,' said the prince on the very last night. 'Even if we find it this evening, the hundred days will be over in an hour, and long before we could reach the Egyptian capital the doctor will be on his way home. Still, I will go out again, and cast the net once more myself.' And so he did, and at the very moment that the hundred days were up, he drew in the net with the Golden-headed Fish entangled in its meshes.
              'Success has come, but, as happens often, it is too late,' murmured the young man, who had studied in the schools of philosophy; 'but, all the same, put the fish in that vessel full of water, and we will take it back to show my father that we have done what we could.' But when he drew near the fish it looked up at him with such piteous eyes that he could not make up his mind to condemn it to death. For he knew well that, though the doctors of his own country were ignorant of the secret of the ointment, they would do all in their power to extract something from the fish's blood. So he picked up the prize of so much labour, and threw it back into the sea, and then began his journey back to the palace. When at last he reached it he found the king in a high fever, caused by his disappointment, and he refused to believe the story told him by his son...... more