David Blaize and the Blue Door

David Blaize and the Blue Door

Ever since he was four years old, and had begun to think seriously, as a boy should, David Blaize had been aware that there was a real world lying somewhere just below the ordinary old thing in which his father and mother and nurse and the rest of the fast-asleep grown-up people lived. Boys began to get drowsy, he knew, about the time that they were ten, though they might still have occasional waking moments, and soon after that they went sound asleep, and lost all chance of ever seeing the real world. If you asked grown-ups some tremendously important question, such as Why do the leaves fall off the trees when there is glass on the lake? as likely as not they would begin talking in their sleep about frost and sap, just as if that had got anything to do with the real reason. Or they might point out that it wasnt real glass on the lake, but ice, and, if they were more than usually sound asleep, take a piece of the lake-glass and let you hold it in your fingers till it became water. That was to show you that what you had called glass was really frozen water, another word for which was ice. They thought that it was very wonderful of them to explain it all so nicely, and tell you at great length that real glass did not become water if you held it in your fingers, which you must remember to wash before dinner. Perhaps they would take you to the nursery window when you came in from your walk, and encourage you to put your finger on the pane in order to see that glass did not become water. This sort of thing would make David impatient, and he asked, Then why dont you put ice in the window, and then you could boil it for tea in the kettle? And if his nurse wanted to go to sleep again, she would say, Now youre talking nonsense, Master David. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 48505
Author: Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
Release Date: Mar 16, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941