MTH 43

MTH 43-1. A Beautiful Word
Jack went outdoors for his homework, and he saw suddenly appeared the letters TK in his notebook.
He and Annie recognized the sign from Teddy and Kathleen.
They ran to the Frog Creek woods.
The magic tree house was there.
The young enchanters, Jack, and Annie hugged.
This time, Jack and Annie will be sent to Galway, Ireland.
Their mission will be to inspire Augusta.
Teddy changed the magic trumpet into an Irish whistle and handed it to Jack.
And he said, if you find the Big House, you should be easy to find Augusta.
Jack and Annie started a new journey to Galway, Ireland, without a research book.

 

MTH 43-2. The Big House

The magic tree house landed in a tree at the edge of a green meadow.
The clothes of Jack and Annie changed into worn ones.
The weather was misty and cold.
Jack had his notebook, pencil, and Irish whistle, and they started to find the Big house.
Annie asked a tired-looking wagon driver how to get to the Big house.
She and Jack went in the direction the driver informed.
At the end of the lane, there was a white mansion that was a Big house.
They could come into the house.
Because a pale teenage girl mistook that Jack and Annie were the ones who the butler sent for.
Jack and Annie were led to the kitchen.
Cook sent for a coach driver and a blacksmith, but Jack and Annie couldn't do anything cook wanted.
He told Jack and Annie, go back.
At that moment, Augusta stepped into the kitchen.

 

MTH 43-3. Miss Augusta

Augusta gave the cake to the poor and came back home.
People called her Miss Augusta, and she was always so kind to the poor.
When Augusta saw Jack and Annie, she felt she had to take care of Jack and Annie.
She led Jack and Annie to the parlor.
They took off their dirty boots and followed her.
When they got into the parlor, there were Augusta's two sisters.
Their name was Gertrude and Eliza.
Gertrude and Eliza didn't welcome Jack and Annie.
But Augusta ignored them and served some tea and potatoes to Jack and Annie.
The room seemed dark and gloomy except for books on a table.
They were The plays of William Shakespeare and The tales of King Authur.
The books belonged to her brothers, and young ladies couldn't read them.
The sister's mother appeared in the room.

 

 

MTH 43-4. What Are You Good For?

Sister's mother looked down on dirty children in her parlor and ordered Auguster to take them out of the house.
She took Jack and Annie out of the Big House, and they followed her.
Auguster asked them what they were good at, but they couldn't say a positive answer to even one of her questions.
She gave them advice and told them not to tell a lie.
Jack was angry because he felt Auguster didn't trust them and didn't help poor people truly.
She led them to a cottage of Mary as her friend and her old nursemaid to prove herself.
Augusta, Jack, and Annie came inside the cottage, and the old woman welcomed them.

 

 

MTH 43-5. A Fireside Tale

Her warm cottage was the opposite of the Big House.
Augusta asked Mary talking to them about how she truly loved the poor and tried to help them.
Mary told Jack and Annie in her soft voice a fairies story, but Augusta didn't attempt to believe it.
She thought it was because people were not educated.
Mary said Jack and Annie were very special, and Agusta was special too, but in a different way.
But she also said Augusta was not happy, and that broke her heart.
Augusta thought Mary liked miserable them than her.
She cried and rushed out of the cottage.

 

MTH 43-6. A Late-Winter's Daydream

Augusta loved Mary's fairies story.
So she looked for fairies' traces but never found them.
Because she looked for them with her head and not her heart.
So She had been a dutiful but sorrowful child ever since.
Mary told Jack and Annie to help her find the magic in the forest.
Jack and Annie rushed after Augusta and told her they wanted to show a play to her.
She thought doubtful but took them to a river near the old forest.
Annie started playing the magic Irish whistle, and Jack sang a song about the fairies story for Augusta.
The music was sand and happy, and the whistle music grew wilder.
Thundering and rumbling sounds came from the old forest.
Small fairies riding small white horses galloped out of the mist.
Their clothes were the colors of nature.

 

MTH 43-7. Willy

When August saw that the Shee flow and galloped, she was in a trance.
But she disappeared with Shee, like Jack's song.
Jack didn't know it, so when he got to know, he blamed himself.
The whistle sound came from, and they ran back the rocks.
One of the Shee - the leprechaun was flowing the magic whistle.
His name was Willy, and he had have married Mary Sheridan years ago.
He suggested taking them to Augusta, and he asked them to teach him how to whistle.
Jack accepted it.
Willy said he'll show them the path to the home of the Shee.

 

MTH 43-8. The Hollow Hill

Willy led Jack and Annie to cross the river and go into the forest.
When they got to the forest, they saw a crow, a rabbit, a fawn.
The High King and Queen let them change from people to animals because the people were rude.
The home of the Shee was beyond a tangle of briars and brambles.
Willy didn't go with Jack and Annie.
He gave them some notice - Be simple, direct, honest, and polite.
Jack and Annie went through the tabled brush and out of the thicket and stepped into a glade.
There was no fell, no wind blew.
They found a small doorway framed by stones.
That was the Hollow Hill.
The very small dancers were dancing.
Jack and Annie saw the High King and Queen and could find Augusta.

 

 

MTH 43-9. Skunks or Weasels?

Augusta shrunk.
Jack and Annie went back to the doorway and peeked inside.
They asked the High King and Queen politely to allow they could take Augusta to her family.  
But she really wanted to stay with the Shee.
The king tried to change Jack and Annie into Skunks because Jack told the king rudely.
They tried to persuade Augusta.
Augusta loved stories and remembered every story Mary told her. Annie said.
Queen Aine told Augusta stories of the Shee and asked her to listen to the stories from the old storytellers and to read the old manuscripts and then write and share them with all the people.
Augusta accepted it, and Anie let Agusta take a sip of the Shee's honey nectar.
A second later, Jack, Annie, and Autustar got out of there.
Augusta was back her size.

 

 

MTH 43-10. Fare-tree-wells

Augusta was so full of joy that she had seen Shee.
She wanted to learn the old language and gather stories at once, as Queen told her.
Before they started to go to Mary's cottage, Jack and Annie looked for Willy, but he wasn't there.
When they got to Mary's cottage, Willy was waiting for them in there.
Jack and Annie said goodbye, but Willy reminded his whistle lesson.
So Annie answered that Merlin gave them missions, and the whistle was magic, and the magic only works once.
As it turned out, Willy and Merlin had known each other since about eight hundred years ago.
Willy started his story, and Augusta began to write it.
Jack and Annie felt they accomplished their mission.
They said goodbye to everyone and went to the treehouse through the rain and wind.

 

 

MTH 43-11. Lady Gregory

Jack and Annie came back to the Frog Creek woods.
They left the magic whistle and Pennsylvania at the treehouse and went home.
When they came home, they found Augusta's last name via searching the Internet.
Augusta Gregory collected Irish stories and legends and shared them with the world.
She wrote over forty plays and many poems and essays.
Jack, Annie, and all kids hardly know what they were good at.
Jack and Annie thought what they were good at.
And Jack started to write his experience for his homework.