She felt that Feathertop looked too good to be a scarecrow. "Now what?" she thought, feeling troubled again. She looked at Feathertop and laughed with happiness. She examined him closely, and decided she liked him much better now, dressed up in a beautiful coat, with a fine feather on top of his hat. And in that hat, she stuck the feather of a bird. She covered him with false hair and an old hat. She made a purple coat and put it around her scarecrow, and dressed it in white silk stockings. She wanted to make her scarecrow look better and better, for she was a good worker. But, Mother Rigby was not happy with what she made. He seemed ready to go to work for Mother Rigby and stop those old birds from eating her corn. She made two small holes in the pumpkin for eyes, and made another cut lower down that looked just like a mouth.Īt last, there he was. She put a pumpkin, a vegetable the size of a football, on top of the broomstick. And already, it began to look like a man with arms. She held her magic broomstick straight, and then tied another piece of wood across it. It would fill the birds with fear, and scare them from eating her corn, the way most farmers protect themselves from those black, pesky birds. She was planning to make something that would look like a man. Mother Rigby ate a quick breakfast and then started to work on her broomstick. It was a broomstick, and it helped her to do all sorts of strange tricks.
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Many nights when the moon was full and bright, she could be seen flying over the tops of the houses in the village, sitting on a long wooden stick. She could make water run uphill, or change a beautiful woman into a white horse. She was a witch, a woman with strange powers.
She had a plan to stop those black birds from eating her corn. So, early one morning, just as the sun started to rise, Mother Rigby jumped out of bed. She did not want the black birds to eat her corn. Old Mother Rigby tried to make the noisy and hungry birds go away. And when they saw the little green plants, they flew down to eat them. They pushed through the soil and could now be seen above the ground.Īfter the long winter months, the crows, the big black birds, were hungry. For the first time, green corn plants began to show. Then suddenly, the warm days of spring started to come. At first the cold nights went away slowly.
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Download MP3 Our story today is called "Feathertop." It was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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