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Horsie!, by Clara de Chatelaine + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Up! Horsie! + An Original Fairy Tale + +Author: Clara de Chatelaine + +Release Date: November 15, 2007 [EBook #23477] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK UP! HORSIE! *** + + + + +Produced by Mark C. Orton, Janet Blenkinship and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The University of Florida, The Internet +Archive/Children's Library) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<h2>LILLIPUTIAN LIBRARY.</h2> + +<hr style="width: 35%;" /> + +<h3>NEW SERIES.</h3> + +<hr style="width: 35%;" /> + +<h1>UP! HORSIE!</h1> + +<h3><span class="smcap">AN</span></h3> + +<h2>Original Fairy Tale.</h2> + +<h4><span class="smcap">BY</span></h4> + +<h2>MADAME DE CHATELAIN.</h2> + +<p class="center">JOSEPH, MYERS, & CO., 144, <span class="smcap">Leadenhall Street, London, E.C.</span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3>THE</h3> + +<h3>LILLIPUTIAN LIBRARY.<br /><br /></h3> + +<h1>UP! HORSIE!</h1> + + +<p>A young peasant was riding to market on a stout, well-fed nag, when he +overtook an old Scotch shepherd, who was trudging along on foot.</p> + +<p>"I say, Sandy," cried the young man, "if you go no faster than that, +market will be over before you get to town."</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p><p>The Scotchman turned round, and peered at him from under his bushy +eyebrows, saying in a strong north country accent: "Gin ye think so, +suppose we ride and tie?"</p> + +<p>"A pretty story indeed!" quoth Gilbert—"I keep a horse for myself, and +not for you."</p> + +<p>And as he uttered this ungracious answer, he urged on his nag, and soon +left the old Scotchman in the lurch.</p> + +<p>Scarcely had Gilbert reached the market town, and put up his horse at an +inn, when who should he behold strolling leisurely amongst the market +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span>folks, but the same old shepherd he had left so far behind.</p> + +<p>"Somebody must have given you a lift, Sandy," observed he.</p> + +<p>"Oh," replied the shepherd, "when I asked for a lift, it was only to see +if you were obliging or not—it was all the same to me—for though you +must buy your horses, I can gather mine whenever I choose."</p> + +<p>These words sounded so odd to Gilbert that he begged the stranger to +explain his meaning, when the old man said: "Meet me at yon inn, and +we'll see."</p> + +<p>Gilbert then hurried through his business, and went to join the shepherd +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span>at the inn. But the wary Scotchman would not give his secret for +nothing—and why should he, to a stranger who had been uncivil to him? +Besides, as he observed truly enough, those who are curious may pay for +their curiosity, so if Gilbert wanted to know how to gather horses thus +easily, he must hand him over all the money he had received that +morning, and give him his nag into the bargain. Gilbert thought these +demands exorbitant, and tried to haggle with the stranger, but Sandy +proved too much for him, Northumbrian though he was—and the young +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span>farmer finished by agreeing to his conditions, and after paying down +the money, brought the horse out of the stable.</p> + +<p>"Now I'll tell you," said the Scotchman. "May be you've heard of our +late poet Burns, just over the border? Well, he told of a shepherd lad +who years and years ago learnt of some wise ones, that if you pull a +stem of ragwort, and sit astride it, and cry out: 'Up! Horsie!' it will +carry you through the air."</p> + +<p>"And have you tried it and succeeded?" eagerly inquired Gilbert.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p><p>"Ay—for that shepherd lad was myself, and many a pleasant jaunt have I +enjoyed by that same means," said Sandy, with twinkling eyes. "Only you +must not attempt it till the moon is full, or the horse might throw an +inexperienced rider."</p> + +<p>Delighted at having learnt such a secret, and without pausing to wonder +how, if the shepherd had lived so many years before Burns, he could +still be alive, Gilbert inquired what places he went to?</p> + +<p>"I went to Elf-land," said the Scotchman.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p><p>Gilbert was not learned—indeed he could scarcely read—and he +confessed he did not know the road thither; but the stranger assured him +he need only express the wish to go, and the ragwort would take him. +They then parted, and the shepherd rode away with the horse, after +stowing away the money in his pouch, while Gilbert went home as best he +might.</p> + +<p>After waiting impatiently for the full moon, Gilbert at last went out +one night to work the charm, and to his great delight, had no sooner +bestrided the ragwort, and said: "Up! Horsie!" than it bore him at a +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span>pretty smart pace to Elf-land. Nevertheless it just began to dawn as he +reached his journey's end, and dismounted. He had not proceeded far, +before he perceived a splendid castle on an eminence, and numerous +flocks browsing on the surrounding hills. But what arrested his +attention still more was a very lovely woman, superbly drest, sitting at +the foot of the hill, playing on an ivory fiddle of exquisite +workmanship, with golden strings, from which she drew the sweetest tones +he had ever heard in his whole life. Gilbert stood still, quite +entranced, and could have listened for<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> ever, had not the lady, on +becoming conscious of his presence, stopped short, and blushed with +pretty confusion at having been overheard by a stranger.</p> + +<p>"I never heard anything like it before!" exclaimed Gilbert.</p> + +<p>She raised her soft eyes towards his, and said: "Will you enter my +service?"</p> + +<p>"That I will," answered he, quite bewildered by her beauty. "What shall +I have to do?"</p> + +<p>The lady pointed to the flocks grazing on the hill, saying he would +merely have to tend the sheep, and, above<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> all, to mind that none got +lost. She then gave him the ivory fiddle, saying he need only draw the +bow across the strings, when the sheep, being accustomed to the sound, +would follow at his bidding. "Now roam about wherever you please," added +she, "only mind you return to yonder castle at nightfall, and bring the +flock back with you, and then you shall have your reward."</p> + +<p>Gilbert then set off to join the sheep, though not without looking back +many a time, to take a last glimpse of the lady who still sat near the +bank, smiling more bewitchingly<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> than ever. On reaching the top of the +hill, he perceived that the sheep had already strayed down into the +valley, when he hastened after them, but only to see them enter a narrow +glen helter-skelter, as if they were running for dear life. He now +recollected the fiddle would save him all further trouble, and drew the +bow across the strings as the lady had told him, but instead of the +exquisite music she drew from them, he only obtained a sort of +screeching noise, that seemed to spread a panic amongst the flock, and +after hurrying through the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> glen, the sheep dispersed both right and +left. Gilbert ran after first one group and then another, scraping away +at his fiddle as hard as he could, but it was all of no use—he could +not overtake them. At length he was so tired that he was obliged to sit +down and rest. He began to feel hungry, too, not having eaten since his +ride to Elf-land, and looked about him for some cottage where he could +apply for breakfast. But no buildings of any kind were in sight. However +he soon found some trees laden with delicious fruit, and having appeased +his hunger, felt his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> strength so renovated that he again set out in +pursuit of his flock, which now looked like a mere speck in the horizon.</p> + +<p>Up hill and down dale did Gilbert go the livelong day, till the sun was +beginning to set, and then just as he thought he had come up with the +stray sheep, they seemed to roll away and become clouds, that were drunk +up by the parting rays of the glorious sun. He was now at a loss what to +do, and half ashamed to return to the castle and own to the lady that he +had lost, not merely two or three sheep, but the whole flock. But while +he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> was considering how to put the best face on the matter, he found +himself right in front of the castle, which he had deemed to be at a +great distance, and there still sat the lady, singing most exquisitely, +and holding a goblet of wine in her hand. As soon as Gilbert drew near: +"Drink," said she, "for you must need refreshment after your day's +work."</p> + +<p>"Alas!" said he, "I have lost the sheep."</p> + +<p>"Did I not tell you the fiddle would always bring them back?" rejoined +she with the sweetest smile.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p> + +<p>Then, as she handed him the goblet, she took the ivory fiddle from him, +and drawing the bow across the strings, brought out such thrilling +sounds, that Gilbert listened in amazement, wondering why he had been +unable to elicit any such tones from the instrument when it seemed so +simple to accomplish. In a moment he saw the surrounding heights covered +with sheep or mist, he could not tell which, for the wine that had only +just moistened his lips, seemed already to have confused his brain, and +altered all the features of the landscape. By the time<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> he had drained +the goblet, Gilbert felt elated and delighted to an extraordinary +degree, while at the same time be lost, as it were, the consciousness of +his own identity. All he could remember was, that the lady bid him go +and rest in the castle, and that he went up the hill, and, as he +thought, entered the building, when sinking down on a soft couch he was +quickly lulled to sleep by the snatches of the enchantress's song, the +breeze wafted from below, and lapped in the pleasing visions of +dreamland.</p> + +<p>On waking next morning, he found himself lying on the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> grass near the +castle, with the ivory fiddle beside him, and saw the flocks grazing +quietly around, as if they had never ceased browsing all night. He rose +up refreshed and invigorated, and when the lady came forth from the +castle and again plied him with a draught from the goblet, he felt ready +to go forth and lead the sheep to fresh pastures.</p> + +<p>"Mind you do not lose any of them, and don't forget the fiddle will call +any stragglers back to you," said the lady with a parting smile and wave +of her hand.</p> + +<p>Gilbert thought nothing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> could be easier, having only an indistinct +remembrance of yesterday's disasters, and longing more than ever to do +everything in his power to please the lady of the castle. But in spite +of his good-will, the sheep strayed away as before, and he spent a +toilsome day in vainly running after them, and fiddling away to no +purpose. As before they seemed to merge into mist at the close of the +day, and it was with a heavy heart he presented himself at the foot of +the hill where the lady was awaiting him. Again she gave him a draught +of the delicious wine, and again took<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> the fiddle and drew the bow +across the strings, when the flock began to return as before, but she +looked very grave as she said: "Some of them are lost—you must seek +them to-morrow. Go now and rest in the castle."</p> + +<p>Then Gilbert, whose wits were in a still more confused state than the +first time he quaffed that richly flavoured wine, went up the hill and +fell asleep as before, and slept soundly till morning, when again the +lady brought him a bumper, bidding him be sure and bring back all the +sheep, or he would fall under her dis<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span>pleasure, while on the other hand, +if none were found missing, she would not only give him his evening's +draught, but a kiss into the bargain. On hearing this, Gilbert thought +no exertions would be too great for such a reward, and he set off in +high spirits; but he had not gone a hundred yards before the flock +dispersed three different ways, and let him fiddle as he would, he found +it impossible to gather them together again. Nevertheless, he followed +one of the three groups, and in the heat of the chase, was led into a +wild district amongst rocks<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> and cascades, with overhanging trees, where +the sheep seemed to turn quite wild, and subdividing into yet smaller +bands, some were seen scaling the steep crags and looking down from +dizzy heights, while others dashed into the water and swam across the +mountain streams. Gilbert ran about almost like one possessed, vainly +striving to collect the scattered fragments of the flock entrusted to +his care, and in despair at the thought of the sorry figure he should +cut on returning to give an account of his day's work to the lady, and +sorely troubled at the prospect of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> losing the promised kiss which he +would not have exchanged for a kingdom.</p> + +<p>At length, after having scaled one of the highest crags, where he made +sure of catching a sheep, which seemed just as he tried to seize it to +merge into the spray of the waterfall that leaped down a kind of natural +staircase of rocks, he felt so exhausted that he lay down on a knoll in +the fissures of the rock, exclaiming: "Surely I must be bewitched!"</p> + +<p>A loud laugh reverberated from the rocks below, and Gilbert slightly +raised his head to see whence it proceeded.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> Seeing no one, he concluded +it must be the cry of some strange bird, caught up by the echo, and then +to drive away a kind of grisly feeling of terror that began to creep +upon him, he took up his fiddle as he lay stretched on the grass, and +fell to scraping away without the slightest regard to time or tune, more +as if he were sawing a piece of wood, than playing on a musical +instrument. He then became aware of a very curious thing, which was that +the sheep all returned as he drew the bow backwards, tho' they were off +again the moment he drew it forwards. This<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> convinced him he had not +attended to the manner in which the lady drew the bow, and accounted for +his losing the sheep every evening. "Now," thought he, "I am sure of +obtaining the kiss and the cup of wine, and I need take no further +trouble about the flock."</p> + +<p>Bye and bye what he had taken for the gnarled and knotted branches of a +tree, at a short distance from the spot where he was lounging, gradually +assumed a human shape, and he saw the old Scotch shepherd advancing +towards him.</p> + +<p>"So you have found it out<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> at last!" said he with a merry twinkle in his +eye, "and what are you going to do next?"</p> + +<p>"Do?" echoed Gilbert, "why I shall roam about all day, and bring the +sheep home every evening without a bit of trouble; and then the lady +will be pleased with me, and who knows, as there seems to be no other +young men hereabouts, but what she may make me the lord of her fine +castle."</p> + +<p>The Scotchman laughed loud and long, and it was not till Gilbert had +nearly lost his temper that he could be induced to explain the cause of +his mirth, and then he said:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> "Why, man, you have gone clean mad, and no +wonder, as this fine lady of yours has been drugging you with Elfin wine +to make a fool of you. If you don't mind she'll keep you here like a +horse in a mill all the days of your life, running after clouds you +mistake for sheep."</p> + +<p>Gilbert winced at this, and did not half like to be told he was a +day-dreamer. He maintained he saw the flocks all round him, while Sandy +explained that morning mists were to be seen on the tops of all +mountains, then become dispersed during the day, till they gather once +more at the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> approach of night, and that mists also hover over +waterfalls—and this was the whole history of Gilbert's flock. He had +been served the same way himself the first time he came to Elf-land, +only not being quite so soft-pated as his new acquaintance he had found +out the tricks that were played upon travellers; and he now asked +Gilbert whether he should help to extricate him from running after +clouds, or whether he was determined to make a fool of himself for the +rest of his life? Gilbert answered gravely that he was set upon wooing +the beautiful<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> lady, and becoming the lord of the castle. "The castle is +about as solid as those built by youngsters with playing cards, and as +to this beautiful lady of yours, she is only an Elle-maid," said the +Scotchman contemptuously.</p> + +<p>"Suppose she is?—What then?" returned Gilbert philosophically. For the +fact was he did not exactly know what sort of a creature that might be, +never having travelled so far before. "Come, I must take pity on you, +and save you in spite of yourself,"—said Sandy. "Here is some wax with +which you must stop up<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> your ears to-night, when you return to the lady, +that you may not hear that singing of hers which bewitches your sober +senses, and then if you draw the bow lengthways up and down the middle +string of the fiddle, in this fashion (taking up the fiddle and showing +him) as you approach her, and refuse both the wine and the kiss, you +will see what an Elle-maid really is."</p> + +<p>He then laid the ivory fiddle down again, and by the time Gilbert had +raised himself on one elbow to take it back, the shepherd was clean out +of sight. Gilbert thought this very<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> strange, and he began scraping once +more on the fiddle to see if the branches of the tree would again sprout +into his singular acquaintance, but they did not stir any more. Though +not believing in the full truth of Sandy's sneers about the castle and +the lady, Gilbert thought he would just follow his advice out of +curiosity, to see what it might bring to light, and perceiving it was +now time to retrace his steps, he descended from the rocks, and +following the course of the stream, returned to his night quarters by a +different road to any he had taken before. He<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> now stopped his ears with +the wax Sandy had given him, and it was well he did, as he had just come +within hearing of the Elle-maid's enchanting strains. He then drew the +bow rapidly across the strings in a backward direction, when all the +sheep instantly appeared on the surrounding heights, and next drew it +lengthways up and down the middle string as the Scotchman had shewn him +how to do. He had now come upon the rear of the stately castle he longed +to call his own, when he perceived it had neither a court-yard nor +back-premises<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> of any sort, and consisted solely of a front wall with +windows, but no rooms behind, like a ruin, though he had hitherto +entertained the notion that he had slept beneath its roof, and on soft +cushions too, which he now plainly perceived could only have been clouds +like his fabulous flock. Eager to pursue his discoveries still further, +he went on fiddling as he came down the hillock towards the lady, when +what was not his horror and surprise on perceiving that the face he had +so much admired was hollow as a mask behind!</p> + +<p>On hearing him playing in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> so unusual a manner, the lady turned round +her head sharply, exhibiting her bewitching countenance to his gaze, and +singing more sweetly than ever, as she offered him a goblet of wine. It +was fortunate he could not hear her sing, or that voice would have +melted all his resolutions, instead of which, he boldly dashed down the +proffered cup, and on her offering to give him a kiss, he dealt her a +box on the ear, which upset her like a card figure, when he became so +horrified at the spectral unreality of the objects about him, that he +ran off as fast as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> his legs would carry him, fiddling like mad as he +went along. In his frantic flight he passed by streams of water that +seemed to be nothing but tinfoil, and rocks that looked as if they were +made of pasteboard, and hollow like the Elle-maid's face, nor did he +stop to take breath till after all the objects in the landscape had +resumed their natural consistence, and clouds were clouds, and sheep +real woolly sheep, which shewed him to be beyond the limits of Elf-land.</p> + +<p>Meantime evening had waned into night, and the moon was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> beginning to +rise, when Gilbert flung himself down on a bank to rest after his +headlong scamper. The cool air blew refreshingly over his fevered brow, +and he felt like one restored to reason after a fit of madness, or +awaking after a strange uneasy dream. "Now," thought he, "I need only +gather some ragwort and go home." And he looked all about for some, but +as it happened to be very rare in that neighbourhood, he walked on a +good way, peering about in the moonlight before he could find any. When +at last he hit upon the wished for herb,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> great was his joy, and he +plucked it as triumphantly as if he held in his hand the bridle of the +finest steed mortal ever looked upon, crying out: "Up! Horsie!" in a +loud voice. But no horsie answered to the appeal, and the ragwort +remained the simple herb it was before. Again and again he called out +the magic formula in tones now commanding and now entreating, and lastly +quite passionately, only there was no spur nor whip that could move the +ragwort to serve as his horse. He now perceived old Sandy had tricked +him after all, and sent him to Elf-land without<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> giving him the means of +coming back. So there was nothing for it but to trudge all the way back +on foot,—and a long way it was I can tell you! It is true Gilbert +retained a hope that kept up his spirits a good while, that he should +still find some of the right sort of ragwort, and accordingly in each +new district he came to, he industriously gathered some specimens to try +the experiment, but with no better success. And after each fresh +disappointment, he could not help saying to himself: "I wish I had given +Sandy a lift, and then I should never have got<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> into this scrape." The +worst of it was that Gilbert had scarcely any money about him, and when +that little was spent, he was at his wit's end to know how to pay his +way home. Luckily he still had the fiddle, and though he could not play +a single tune, its tones were so sweet that people liked to hear them, +and village children enjoyed having a scrape upon it, so that he always +managed to get a night's lodging and a supper as he journeyed along, and +even to get carried across the sea, for the sailors said it was as good +as listening to a mermaid.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p> + +<p>When at last he reached home, he hung up the fiddle in his cottage, but +that same night it cracked right through with a loud moan, and fell in +shivers on the floor. Gilbert tried to mend it, but he never could +manage to restore it to its right shape again. It was like a puzzle that +baffles a child's attempts to put it together. However, he made a sort +of box of it, something like an Eolian harp, across which he stretched +the golden strings, and whenever the wind blew from Elf-land they would +play sweet mournful tunes, as the instrument lay on the window-sill.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p> + +<p>For years Gilbert had a hankering to return to Elf-land and see a little +more of life amongst the Elle-maids and men, if there were any, but he +could never obtain a conveyance, and he knew he should not be able to +find the way on foot. And though as long as he lived he could not resist +pulling up some ragwort at every full moon, just to see if it possessed +the wished for quality, and muttering, "Up! Horsie!" certain it is he +never again obtained a horse out of the same stables, wherever they +happen to be situated.</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Up! 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Gutenberg EBook of Up! Horsie!, by Clara de Chatelaine + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Up! Horsie! + An Original Fairy Tale + +Author: Clara de Chatelaine + +Release Date: November 15, 2007 [EBook #23477] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK UP! HORSIE! *** + + + + +Produced by Mark C. Orton, Janet Blenkinship and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The University of Florida, The Internet +Archive/Children's Library) + + + + + + + +LILLIPUTIAN LIBRARY. + +NEW SERIES. + + +UP! HORSIE! + +AN + +Original Fairy Tale. + +BY + +MADAME DE CHATELAIN. + + +JOSEPH, MYERS, & CO., 144, LEADENHALL STREET, LONDON, E.C. + + + * * * * * + + + + +THE + +LILLIPUTIAN LIBRARY. + +UP! HORSIE! + + +A young peasant was riding to market on a stout, well-fed nag, when he +overtook an old Scotch shepherd, who was trudging along on foot. + +"I say, Sandy," cried the young man, "if you go no faster than that, +market will be over before you get to town." + +The Scotchman turned round, and peered at him from under his bushy +eyebrows, saying in a strong north country accent: "Gin ye think so, +suppose we ride and tie?" + +"A pretty story indeed!" quoth Gilbert--"I keep a horse for myself, and +not for you." + +And as he uttered this ungracious answer, he urged on his nag, and soon +left the old Scotchman in the lurch. + +Scarcely had Gilbert reached the market town, and put up his horse at an +inn, when who should he behold strolling leisurely amongst the market +folks, but the same old shepherd he had left so far behind. + +"Somebody must have given you a lift, Sandy," observed he. + +"Oh," replied the shepherd, "when I asked for a lift, it was only to see +if you were obliging or not--it was all the same to me--for though you +must buy your horses, I can gather mine whenever I choose." + +These words sounded so odd to Gilbert that he begged the stranger to +explain his meaning, when the old man said: "Meet me at yon inn, and +we'll see." + +Gilbert then hurried through his business, and went to join the shepherd +at the inn. But the wary Scotchman would not give his secret for +nothing--and why should he, to a stranger who had been uncivil to him? +Besides, as he observed truly enough, those who are curious may pay for +their curiosity, so if Gilbert wanted to know how to gather horses thus +easily, he must hand him over all the money he had received that +morning, and give him his nag into the bargain. Gilbert thought these +demands exorbitant, and tried to haggle with the stranger, but Sandy +proved too much for him, Northumbrian though he was--and the young +farmer finished by agreeing to his conditions, and after paying down +the money, brought the horse out of the stable. + +"Now I'll tell you," said the Scotchman. "May be you've heard of our +late poet Burns, just over the border? Well, he told of a shepherd lad +who years and years ago learnt of some wise ones, that if you pull a +stem of ragwort, and sit astride it, and cry out: 'Up! Horsie!' it will +carry you through the air." + +"And have you tried it and succeeded?" eagerly inquired Gilbert. + +"Ay--for that shepherd lad was myself, and many a pleasant jaunt have I +enjoyed by that same means," said Sandy, with twinkling eyes. "Only you +must not attempt it till the moon is full, or the horse might throw an +inexperienced rider." + +Delighted at having learnt such a secret, and without pausing to wonder +how, if the shepherd had lived so many years before Burns, he could +still be alive, Gilbert inquired what places he went to? + +"I went to Elf-land," said the Scotchman. + +Gilbert was not learned--indeed he could scarcely read--and he +confessed he did not know the road thither; but the stranger assured him +he need only express the wish to go, and the ragwort would take him. +They then parted, and the shepherd rode away with the horse, after +stowing away the money in his pouch, while Gilbert went home as best he +might. + +After waiting impatiently for the full moon, Gilbert at last went out +one night to work the charm, and to his great delight, had no sooner +bestrided the ragwort, and said: "Up! Horsie!" than it bore him at a +pretty smart pace to Elf-land. Nevertheless it just began to dawn as he +reached his journey's end, and dismounted. He had not proceeded far, +before he perceived a splendid castle on an eminence, and numerous +flocks browsing on the surrounding hills. But what arrested his +attention still more was a very lovely woman, superbly drest, sitting at +the foot of the hill, playing on an ivory fiddle of exquisite +workmanship, with golden strings, from which she drew the sweetest tones +he had ever heard in his whole life. Gilbert stood still, quite +entranced, and could have listened for ever, had not the lady, on +becoming conscious of his presence, stopped short, and blushed with +pretty confusion at having been overheard by a stranger. + +"I never heard anything like it before!" exclaimed Gilbert. + +She raised her soft eyes towards his, and said: "Will you enter my +service?" + +"That I will," answered he, quite bewildered by her beauty. "What shall +I have to do?" + +The lady pointed to the flocks grazing on the hill, saying he would +merely have to tend the sheep, and, above all, to mind that none got +lost. She then gave him the ivory fiddle, saying he need only draw the +bow across the strings, when the sheep, being accustomed to the sound, +would follow at his bidding. "Now roam about wherever you please," added +she, "only mind you return to yonder castle at nightfall, and bring the +flock back with you, and then you shall have your reward." + +Gilbert then set off to join the sheep, though not without looking back +many a time, to take a last glimpse of the lady who still sat near the +bank, smiling more bewitchingly than ever. On reaching the top of the +hill, he perceived that the sheep had already strayed down into the +valley, when he hastened after them, but only to see them enter a narrow +glen helter-skelter, as if they were running for dear life. He now +recollected the fiddle would save him all further trouble, and drew the +bow across the strings as the lady had told him, but instead of the +exquisite music she drew from them, he only obtained a sort of +screeching noise, that seemed to spread a panic amongst the flock, and +after hurrying through the glen, the sheep dispersed both right and +left. Gilbert ran after first one group and then another, scraping away +at his fiddle as hard as he could, but it was all of no use--he could +not overtake them. At length he was so tired that he was obliged to sit +down and rest. He began to feel hungry, too, not having eaten since his +ride to Elf-land, and looked about him for some cottage where he could +apply for breakfast. But no buildings of any kind were in sight. However +he soon found some trees laden with delicious fruit, and having appeased +his hunger, felt his strength so renovated that he again set out in +pursuit of his flock, which now looked like a mere speck in the horizon. + +Up hill and down dale did Gilbert go the livelong day, till the sun was +beginning to set, and then just as he thought he had come up with the +stray sheep, they seemed to roll away and become clouds, that were drunk +up by the parting rays of the glorious sun. He was now at a loss what to +do, and half ashamed to return to the castle and own to the lady that he +had lost, not merely two or three sheep, but the whole flock. But while +he was considering how to put the best face on the matter, he found +himself right in front of the castle, which he had deemed to be at a +great distance, and there still sat the lady, singing most exquisitely, +and holding a goblet of wine in her hand. As soon as Gilbert drew near: +"Drink," said she, "for you must need refreshment after your day's +work." + +"Alas!" said he, "I have lost the sheep." + +"Did I not tell you the fiddle would always bring them back?" rejoined +she with the sweetest smile. + +Then, as she handed him the goblet, she took the ivory fiddle from him, +and drawing the bow across the strings, brought out such thrilling +sounds, that Gilbert listened in amazement, wondering why he had been +unable to elicit any such tones from the instrument when it seemed so +simple to accomplish. In a moment he saw the surrounding heights covered +with sheep or mist, he could not tell which, for the wine that had only +just moistened his lips, seemed already to have confused his brain, and +altered all the features of the landscape. By the time he had drained +the goblet, Gilbert felt elated and delighted to an extraordinary +degree, while at the same time be lost, as it were, the consciousness of +his own identity. All he could remember was, that the lady bid him go +and rest in the castle, and that he went up the hill, and, as he +thought, entered the building, when sinking down on a soft couch he was +quickly lulled to sleep by the snatches of the enchantress's song, the +breeze wafted from below, and lapped in the pleasing visions of +dreamland. + +On waking next morning, he found himself lying on the grass near the +castle, with the ivory fiddle beside him, and saw the flocks grazing +quietly around, as if they had never ceased browsing all night. He rose +up refreshed and invigorated, and when the lady came forth from the +castle and again plied him with a draught from the goblet, he felt ready +to go forth and lead the sheep to fresh pastures. + +"Mind you do not lose any of them, and don't forget the fiddle will call +any stragglers back to you," said the lady with a parting smile and wave +of her hand. + +Gilbert thought nothing could be easier, having only an indistinct +remembrance of yesterday's disasters, and longing more than ever to do +everything in his power to please the lady of the castle. But in spite +of his good-will, the sheep strayed away as before, and he spent a +toilsome day in vainly running after them, and fiddling away to no +purpose. As before they seemed to merge into mist at the close of the +day, and it was with a heavy heart he presented himself at the foot of +the hill where the lady was awaiting him. Again she gave him a draught +of the delicious wine, and again took the fiddle and drew the bow +across the strings, when the flock began to return as before, but she +looked very grave as she said: "Some of them are lost--you must seek +them to-morrow. Go now and rest in the castle." + +Then Gilbert, whose wits were in a still more confused state than the +first time he quaffed that richly flavoured wine, went up the hill and +fell asleep as before, and slept soundly till morning, when again the +lady brought him a bumper, bidding him be sure and bring back all the +sheep, or he would fall under her displeasure, while on the other hand, +if none were found missing, she would not only give him his evening's +draught, but a kiss into the bargain. On hearing this, Gilbert thought +no exertions would be too great for such a reward, and he set off in +high spirits; but he had not gone a hundred yards before the flock +dispersed three different ways, and let him fiddle as he would, he found +it impossible to gather them together again. Nevertheless, he followed +one of the three groups, and in the heat of the chase, was led into a +wild district amongst rocks and cascades, with overhanging trees, where +the sheep seemed to turn quite wild, and subdividing into yet smaller +bands, some were seen scaling the steep crags and looking down from +dizzy heights, while others dashed into the water and swam across the +mountain streams. Gilbert ran about almost like one possessed, vainly +striving to collect the scattered fragments of the flock entrusted to +his care, and in despair at the thought of the sorry figure he should +cut on returning to give an account of his day's work to the lady, and +sorely troubled at the prospect of losing the promised kiss which he +would not have exchanged for a kingdom. + +At length, after having scaled one of the highest crags, where he made +sure of catching a sheep, which seemed just as he tried to seize it to +merge into the spray of the waterfall that leaped down a kind of natural +staircase of rocks, he felt so exhausted that he lay down on a knoll in +the fissures of the rock, exclaiming: "Surely I must be bewitched!" + +A loud laugh reverberated from the rocks below, and Gilbert slightly +raised his head to see whence it proceeded. Seeing no one, he concluded +it must be the cry of some strange bird, caught up by the echo, and then +to drive away a kind of grisly feeling of terror that began to creep +upon him, he took up his fiddle as he lay stretched on the grass, and +fell to scraping away without the slightest regard to time or tune, more +as if he were sawing a piece of wood, than playing on a musical +instrument. He then became aware of a very curious thing, which was that +the sheep all returned as he drew the bow backwards, tho' they were off +again the moment he drew it forwards. This convinced him he had not +attended to the manner in which the lady drew the bow, and accounted for +his losing the sheep every evening. "Now," thought he, "I am sure of +obtaining the kiss and the cup of wine, and I need take no further +trouble about the flock." + +Bye and bye what he had taken for the gnarled and knotted branches of a +tree, at a short distance from the spot where he was lounging, gradually +assumed a human shape, and he saw the old Scotch shepherd advancing +towards him. + +"So you have found it out at last!" said he with a merry twinkle in his +eye, "and what are you going to do next?" + +"Do?" echoed Gilbert, "why I shall roam about all day, and bring the +sheep home every evening without a bit of trouble; and then the lady +will be pleased with me, and who knows, as there seems to be no other +young men hereabouts, but what she may make me the lord of her fine +castle." + +The Scotchman laughed loud and long, and it was not till Gilbert had +nearly lost his temper that he could be induced to explain the cause of +his mirth, and then he said: "Why, man, you have gone clean mad, and no +wonder, as this fine lady of yours has been drugging you with Elfin wine +to make a fool of you. If you don't mind she'll keep you here like a +horse in a mill all the days of your life, running after clouds you +mistake for sheep." + +Gilbert winced at this, and did not half like to be told he was a +day-dreamer. He maintained he saw the flocks all round him, while Sandy +explained that morning mists were to be seen on the tops of all +mountains, then become dispersed during the day, till they gather once +more at the approach of night, and that mists also hover over +waterfalls--and this was the whole history of Gilbert's flock. He had +been served the same way himself the first time he came to Elf-land, +only not being quite so soft-pated as his new acquaintance he had found +out the tricks that were played upon travellers; and he now asked +Gilbert whether he should help to extricate him from running after +clouds, or whether he was determined to make a fool of himself for the +rest of his life? Gilbert answered gravely that he was set upon wooing +the beautiful lady, and becoming the lord of the castle. "The castle is +about as solid as those built by youngsters with playing cards, and as +to this beautiful lady of yours, she is only an Elle-maid," said the +Scotchman contemptuously. + +"Suppose she is?--What then?" returned Gilbert philosophically. For the +fact was he did not exactly know what sort of a creature that might be, +never having travelled so far before. "Come, I must take pity on you, +and save you in spite of yourself,"--said Sandy. "Here is some wax with +which you must stop up your ears to-night, when you return to the lady, +that you may not hear that singing of hers which bewitches your sober +senses, and then if you draw the bow lengthways up and down the middle +string of the fiddle, in this fashion (taking up the fiddle and showing +him) as you approach her, and refuse both the wine and the kiss, you +will see what an Elle-maid really is." + +He then laid the ivory fiddle down again, and by the time Gilbert had +raised himself on one elbow to take it back, the shepherd was clean out +of sight. Gilbert thought this very strange, and he began scraping once +more on the fiddle to see if the branches of the tree would again sprout +into his singular acquaintance, but they did not stir any more. Though +not believing in the full truth of Sandy's sneers about the castle and +the lady, Gilbert thought he would just follow his advice out of +curiosity, to see what it might bring to light, and perceiving it was +now time to retrace his steps, he descended from the rocks, and +following the course of the stream, returned to his night quarters by a +different road to any he had taken before. He now stopped his ears with +the wax Sandy had given him, and it was well he did, as he had just come +within hearing of the Elle-maid's enchanting strains. He then drew the +bow rapidly across the strings in a backward direction, when all the +sheep instantly appeared on the surrounding heights, and next drew it +lengthways up and down the middle string as the Scotchman had shewn him +how to do. He had now come upon the rear of the stately castle he longed +to call his own, when he perceived it had neither a court-yard nor +back-premises of any sort, and consisted solely of a front wall with +windows, but no rooms behind, like a ruin, though he had hitherto +entertained the notion that he had slept beneath its roof, and on soft +cushions too, which he now plainly perceived could only have been clouds +like his fabulous flock. Eager to pursue his discoveries still further, +he went on fiddling as he came down the hillock towards the lady, when +what was not his horror and surprise on perceiving that the face he had +so much admired was hollow as a mask behind! + +On hearing him playing in so unusual a manner, the lady turned round +her head sharply, exhibiting her bewitching countenance to his gaze, and +singing more sweetly than ever, as she offered him a goblet of wine. It +was fortunate he could not hear her sing, or that voice would have +melted all his resolutions, instead of which, he boldly dashed down the +proffered cup, and on her offering to give him a kiss, he dealt her a +box on the ear, which upset her like a card figure, when he became so +horrified at the spectral unreality of the objects about him, that he +ran off as fast as his legs would carry him, fiddling like mad as he +went along. In his frantic flight he passed by streams of water that +seemed to be nothing but tinfoil, and rocks that looked as if they were +made of pasteboard, and hollow like the Elle-maid's face, nor did he +stop to take breath till after all the objects in the landscape had +resumed their natural consistence, and clouds were clouds, and sheep +real woolly sheep, which shewed him to be beyond the limits of Elf-land. + +Meantime evening had waned into night, and the moon was beginning to +rise, when Gilbert flung himself down on a bank to rest after his +headlong scamper. The cool air blew refreshingly over his fevered brow, +and he felt like one restored to reason after a fit of madness, or +awaking after a strange uneasy dream. "Now," thought he, "I need only +gather some ragwort and go home." And he looked all about for some, but +as it happened to be very rare in that neighbourhood, he walked on a +good way, peering about in the moonlight before he could find any. When +at last he hit upon the wished for herb, great was his joy, and he +plucked it as triumphantly as if he held in his hand the bridle of the +finest steed mortal ever looked upon, crying out: "Up! Horsie!" in a +loud voice. But no horsie answered to the appeal, and the ragwort +remained the simple herb it was before. Again and again he called out +the magic formula in tones now commanding and now entreating, and lastly +quite passionately, only there was no spur nor whip that could move the +ragwort to serve as his horse. He now perceived old Sandy had tricked +him after all, and sent him to Elf-land without giving him the means of +coming back. So there was nothing for it but to trudge all the way back +on foot,--and a long way it was I can tell you! It is true Gilbert +retained a hope that kept up his spirits a good while, that he should +still find some of the right sort of ragwort, and accordingly in each +new district he came to, he industriously gathered some specimens to try +the experiment, but with no better success. And after each fresh +disappointment, he could not help saying to himself: "I wish I had given +Sandy a lift, and then I should never have got into this scrape." The +worst of it was that Gilbert had scarcely any money about him, and when +that little was spent, he was at his wit's end to know how to pay his +way home. Luckily he still had the fiddle, and though he could not play +a single tune, its tones were so sweet that people liked to hear them, +and village children enjoyed having a scrape upon it, so that he always +managed to get a night's lodging and a supper as he journeyed along, and +even to get carried across the sea, for the sailors said it was as good +as listening to a mermaid. + +When at last he reached home, he hung up the fiddle in his cottage, but +that same night it cracked right through with a loud moan, and fell in +shivers on the floor. Gilbert tried to mend it, but he never could +manage to restore it to its right shape again. It was like a puzzle that +baffles a child's attempts to put it together. However, he made a sort +of box of it, something like an Eolian harp, across which he stretched +the golden strings, and whenever the wind blew from Elf-land they would +play sweet mournful tunes, as the instrument lay on the window-sill. + +For years Gilbert had a hankering to return to Elf-land and see a little +more of life amongst the Elle-maids and men, if there were any, but he +could never obtain a conveyance, and he knew he should not be able to +find the way on foot. And though as long as he lived he could not resist +pulling up some ragwort at every full moon, just to see if it possessed +the wished for quality, and muttering, "Up! Horsie!" certain it is he +never again obtained a horse out of the same stables, wherever they +happen to be situated. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Up! Horsie!, by Clara de Chatelaine + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK UP! 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