Wednesday’s (late) daily moomin
Oct 8, 2003 Read/heard/seen
We’ve been on the run ALL DAY and now is my first chance to be at home to type something up! So here you go. This is from the book Finn Family Moomintroll. I believe it is first in the series but it’s not the one that gives you the moomin origins. We’ll save that one for another time, I think. One thing I really liked about the moomin books is that at the top of the page is a little one line synopsis and at the front of each chapter is another small summary. This is from the first chapter “In which Moomintroll, Snufkin, and Sniff find the Hobgoblin’s Hat; how five small clouds unexpectedly appear, and how the Hemulen finds himself a new hobby.”
The clouds were hanging in front of them without moving or changing shape, as if they were waiting for something, and the Snork Maiden put out her paw very cautiously and patted the nearest one. “It feels like cotton-wool,” she said, in a surprised voice. The others came nearer and felt it, too.
“Just like a little pillow,” said Sniff.
Snufkin gave one of the clouds a gentle push. It floated on a bit and then stopped again.
“Whose are they?” asked Sniff. “How did they get onto the verandah?”
Moomintroll shook his head. “It’s the queerest thing I’ve ever come across,” he said. “Perhaps we ought to go in and fetch mother.”
“No, no,” said the Snork Maiden. “We’ll try them out ourselves,” and she dragged a cloud onto the ground and smoothed it out with her paw. “So soft!” said the Snork Maiden, and with the next minute she was rocking up and down on the cloud with loud giggles.
“Can I have one, too?” squealed Sniff jumping onto another cloud. “Hup-si-daisy!” But when he said “hup” the cloud rose and made an elegant little curve over the ground.
“Golly!” burst out Sniff. “It moved!”