Unknown Artist Les Vins BlancsGeorge Stubbs Horse Attacked by a LionSalvador Dali The Land of Milk and Honey
As for where they took these lost children, no two stories agreed. Some said it was to Hell, under the ground, to Fairyland. Others said to a farm where the children were kept and fattened for the table. Others said that the children were Gobblers'11 get you!"
"My cousin in Northampton, she knows a woman whose little boy was took by the Gobblers...."
"The Gobblers've been in Stratford. They say they're coming south!"
And, inevitably:
"Let's play kids and Gobblers!"kept and sold as slaves to rich Tartars....And so on.But one thing on which everyone agreed was the name of these invisible kidnappers. They had to have a name, or not be referred to at all, and talking about them-especially if you were safe and snug at Home, or in Jordan college-was delicious. And the name that seemed to settle on them, without anyone's knowing why, was the Gobblers."Don't stay out late, or the
2009年2月16日星期一
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