Emily of New Moon

low was "a mile from

situated in a grassy

uilt like other houses

hroom. It was reache

om view by an encirc

se could be seen from

l. Ellen Greene said

vowed that she wouldn

at she pitie

he was being pitied

he had plenty of compa

al. The Wind Woman w

-Adam-and-Eve, and th

dly lady-

r knew when it might come, And the possibi

ay in the chilly twi

ery vividly all her li

that was in it--perha

ime in weeks--more l

er she came

ld day in early May, t

had lain on the sitti

talked much to Emily, Which was a very unu

under his head and hi

ly and unseeingly on t

boughs of the two bi

ey always called those

Emily had traced betwe

pple-tree between them

owledge in an old-fash

The Tree of Knowled

e-tree, and Adam and

and rigidly as d

ther was thinking of,

n his cough was bad.

Ellen Greene wouldn't

grunt, and grunts

hing. She had grunte

to her in the kitchen

bedtime snack of bre

molasses, but she ate

eelings. It was not o

fore going to bed, and

or other she wanted

vo

nting attack would wea

had not, so no compa

e was a great deal to

e, in a fit of exaspe

at, lazy old thing of

looked at Ellen af

r to a hair. So Emil

table old wing-chair

rnoon. Emily loved T

walked the straight

ana--although she nev

ll as Christian's. F

with Christiana.

olitary, intrepid fig

rk Valley and the enc

lins were nothing w

LONE--ah, Emily shive

or o

hat supper was ready D

out

to-night. I'll just

gain we'll have a

s old, beautiful smile

found so sweet. She

sn't a good supper.

, but for a wonder sh

e sitting, one on each

ly fed them wee bits

ay of sitting up on hi

, and Saucy Sal had

almost human touch whe

d them both, but Mike

grey cat with huge ow

fluffy. Sal was alw

on her bones. Emily

roke her because of h

eauty about her that

ry white and very slee

and very green eyes.

cats were vanquishe

fire would even atta

erl

es. She had brought

d been given to her wh

y-school

o nice, " she told Ell

icer all

erably because Saucy S

doesn't, " she compl

ave more kittens tha

th

nt in and found that

glad of this; she knew

he was a little disap

"real talk." "Real"

l things. But next b

nesome walk through t

was so long since

d and mind you scoot

"YOU can't monkey w

s c

asked rather indignan

ing with colds" if ot

't f

d. Emily muttered un

u are a fat old thing

t her hood--rather rel

hood on over her long, Heavy braid of gloss

tle greenish glass.

ce in a slow, subtle, Very wonderful way,

the thing that had ca

seen Juliet Murray. I

itance from her mot

the Starrs--in her lar

lashes and black brow

r beauty--in the deli

nsitive mouth, in the

it to show that she

lan

with the Wind Woman, d

, too. Do you EVER g

n is going to be out i

, with thin, grey, si

ike a bat's--only you

stars looking through

night she will walk

T friend of mine--the

I was six. We're OLD

nd I, little Emily-in

LWAYS, ha

little Emily-in-the-g

was

iting for her outside

ss that were sticking

window--tossing the b

the misty green bran

Pine" behind the hous

culous rooster, with a

rown back

Emily had been out fo

oy of it. The winter

she was never allowe

nd; so on this May e

here should she go?

pruce barrens? Emi

rther end of the long, Sloping pasture. Tha

iry birthright there t

kimming over the bare

and pale and poorly

acket; yet a queen mig

--her dreams of wonde

t were velvet piles.

under which she pause

a marble column in a

the ramparts of a cit

l the fairies of the

here--the fairies of

tle green folk of the

tes of wind and wild

en there--everythin

such a splendid place

d Woman. She was so

uickly enough aroun

er could--you would S

ere she was--that WAS

ghing up in the very t

gain--till, all at onc

-and the evening was

was a sudden rift i

y, pale, pinky-green

in

ed at it with claspe

She must go home and w

count-book, where the

y." It would hurt her

en she would read it t

f the trees on the hi

the edge of the

orious, supreme mome

, although she felt

ed--not even to Father, Who always seemed a

y one

o Emily, ever since sh

r to a world of wonder

y a thin curtain; sh

metimes, just for a m

if she caught a glim

limpse--and heard a no

y--went swiftly, leavi

ght of it. She could

end it; but the wonde

ame twice with the sa

hat far-off sky had g

e of wind in the nigh

h a greybird lighting

ng of "Holy, holy, ho

fire when she had com

s on a twilit pane, With a felicitous new wo

ays when the flash cam

, mysterious thing o

he house in the hollow

get home and write d

cture of what she ha

t how she would begin

mind: "The hill call

lled bac

ene waiting for her

o full of happiness th

fat things of no impo

knees and hugged the

little face, where ex

ush, and said, wit

r pa has only a week