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Mother Goose with her five Children.

The Day is very warm with hardly a cloud in the sky, in Fairyland all is as it usually is the fairies are busy painting colours onto all of the new flowers, trees and bushes. The old fox is making his daily rounds to see if there was anything to eat. The mother deer with her young slowly moved through the woods stopping here and there to eat fresh young grass and leaves from some of the different bushes. As I say a normal day for Fairyland suddenly the fairies became aware that something was different, something out of the ordinary. All stopped what they were doing and gazed around, there was nothing out of the ordinary to be seen.

From behind a tree waddled a Mother Goose with five of her children this was indeed something new for the fairies. Geese as everyone knows either live on farms or live wild in the freedom of nature. Excitedly the fairies spoke to one another, for a while one could hardly hear what the fairies were saying. The mother goose let out a cackle of sound. This caused the fairies to stop talking and one of the older fairies went to the goose. The goose had no fear and softly began to cackle again.

The fairies did not understand this goose although they had, had many encounters with geese and understood the speech or language that geese use. One of the smaller fairies called out “Let us call Her Majesty she will understand what language this goose speaks perhaps it is from a country that we do not know” One of the fairies waved her magic wand and a very good meal was placed before the five young geese or perhaps I should say Goslings. The goslings ate their fill of the good food and their mother was given a large plate of food for herself, she too was very hungry.

The Fairy Queen Feeanna appeared dressed in a most beautiful robe of pale green. Flowers had been embroidered into the robe and Her Majesty looked very beautiful. “Why have you called me away from my duties”, she asked? Before the fairies could say anything the Mother Goose burst out with a very loud cackle. Her Majesty waved her magic wand that she took from the sleeve of her robe. Many coloured sparks shot from the end of the magic wand and settled over the Goose Mother. Now all of the fairies could hear and understand what she, the goose mother was saying.

I am really a poor woman and live with my five children in Ashford in Kent. One day the Witch Ulangara came to my house and told me that I was to bring a loaf of bread and a bottle of milk to her house. I am a very poor woman and can hardly feed my children. I could never give the Witch Ulangara a loaf of bread and a bottle of milk every day. I told the witch that I could not help her and she spoke in a strange language and threw some white powder over my children and me. We all turned into Geese. If I had been on my own I would have flown here to Fairyland but with my five Goslings we have had to walk from Ashford to Dartford Heath or Fairyland to ask for help.

Her Majesty looked long at the family of Geese then she smiled and waved her magic wand once again. The Geese turned back into a human Mother with her five children three girls and two boys. The Mother looked at her children all were dressed in new clothes. Looking down at herself the Mother saw that she too had new clothes. What is more her pockets were heavy with gold pieces. The children also had pockets filled with gold. Smiling again Her Majesty waved yet once again Her magic wand. The Woman and her five children were transported back to their home in Ashford.

In the Woman’s back garden was a goose. On seeing the goose the Woman said to her children. Now we have a goose I will always be able to make us a meal. On hearing these words the Goose let out a loud cackle. The cackle sounded very much the voice of the Witch Ulangara. I am still wondering why Her Majesty smiled as she turned the Mother goose and her five children back into humans. Did she turn Ulangara into a goose as punishment for using magic to enrich herself?