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The Maker of Rainbows, and Other Fairy-Tales and Fables
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By Richard Le Gallienne 26 Sep, 2020
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"Rainbows!" mocked their fathers and mothers—"rainbows! Much good are rainbows to a starving village." The old maker of rainbows took their taunts in silence, and made ready to go his way; but as he started once more along the road he said, with a ... Read more
"Rainbows!" mocked their fathers and mothers—"rainbows! Much good are rainbows to a starving village." The old maker of rainbows took their taunts in silence, and made ready to go his way; but as he started once more along the road he said, with a cynical smile: "Have you never heard that there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?..." "A pot of gold?" cried out the whole village of Twelve-trees. "Yes," he answered, "a pot of gold! I know where it is, and I am going to find it." And he moved on his way. Then the villagers looked at one another, and said over and over again, "A pot of gold!" And they took cloaks and walking-staves and set out to accompany the old visitor; but when they reached the outskirts of the village there was no sign of him. He had mysteriously disappeared. But the children never forgot the rainbows. Less
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Richard Le Gallienne
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Richard Le Gallienne (20 January 1866 – 15 September 1947) was an English author and poet. The British-American actress Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991) was his daughter, by his second marriage to Dan...
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