Greedy Gert and the Fairy Godmother

Greedy Gert was lost. She was deep in the forest and she could not find her way. She had gotten herself lost because she was running and crying and not watching or caring where she was going and now she was lost. She sat down on a fallen tree trunk, and she cried.

She remembered what the the children in the village had been saying and she cried even harder. "Greedy Gert, smells like dirt, and no one round here likes her." They should have been singing "Ring around the rosey" but they had made up a song about her, instead. And so she cried.

After a while she noticed a squirrel sitting at the other end of the tree trunk. "Go away", she cried. "I'm sitting here!! This is MY tree trunk!! Now shoo!!"

The squirrel turned and scurried away, and Greedy Gert cried even harder.

"I don't understand", she wailed, to no one in particular. "Why doesn't anybody like me?" And she cried and she cried.

After a while she noticed a bush with some berries. All the crying she had been doing had made her rather peckish, so she went over to the bush and started picking berries to eat. Just then, a robin landed in the top of the bush and started eating berries up there, berries she would never be tall enough to reach. "Go away", she cried. "I'm eating these berries!! This is MY bush!! Now shoo!!"

The robin flew away, and Greedy Gert gorged herself on berries.

After a while, she started crying again, but this time she was crying because her stomach hurt her so much. "I ate too many berries", she wailed to no one in particular. "I'm lost and no one likes me and now my stomach hurts." And she cried and she cried.

She laid down on the ground because her stomach hurt so much and it felt good to lay down. And as she lay there, she cried and cried and finally didn't cry so much, because all the crying had made her so tired and now she was sleepy. And just as she was falling asleep a strange blue glow filled the little clearing where the tree had fallen and she saw it and sat up. And she saw that the blue glow was coming from this little point of light and the point started to grow and grow and it got bigger and bigger, but not really brighter, just bigger. And then in the middle of the blue glow she saw a lady and the lady was beautiful and perfect and she had a wand in her hand with a bright blue star at the end. And the blue lady said, "What's wrong, Gertrude? Why are you lost in the forest?"

"You know who I am?", Gertrude asked.

"Yes, of course I do. I am your Fairy Godmother and I know everything about you."

"You do?", asked Gertrude. "You do? Oh please, Fairy Godmother, can you tell me why no one likes me?"

"I could, yes. But maybe I should let those you have hurt tell you."

"Hurt!! I haven't hurt anyone. Who have I hurt?"

"Look over there, Gertrude, on the tree trunk you claimed as your own. Ask the squirrel if you hurt her. Go ahead. Ask."

There, on the tree trunk, sat the little squirrel she had shooed away earlier.

"Little squirrel, did I hurt you?"

"No, you didn't hurt ME", the squirrel answered in a squeaky little voice. "But my babies are inside this tree trunk and you stopped me from getting home to feed them. They were hungry and they were afraid. You hurt them, not me."

"Oh, I'm sorry little squirrel. I had no idea."

"Now look up in the berry bush", said her Fairy Godmother. "Ask the robin if you hurt her."

"Little robin, did I hurt you?"

"No, you didn't hurt ME," the robin answered in a chirpy little voice. "But my babies are up in a nest, high in the trees, and you stopped me from getting home to feed them. They were hungry and afraid, and they could have fallen from the nest because they were so hungry. You hurt them, not me."

"Oh, I'm so sorry, little robin. I had no idea."

"This is a big world, Gertrude. If we are to live together, and love each other, and like each other, we must learn to share. You weren't willing to share your tree trunk; you weren't willing to share your berries. The squirrel's babies and the robin's babies were hungry because you were greedy and selfish."

"Oh I know Fairy Godmother, and I'm so sorry." But the light was gone. The lady was gone. And Gertrude wondered if she had just had a dream.

"I am still lost," she said, to no one in particular.

Just then she looked down at her feet and the cutest little bunny was right next to her and she said, "Oh, a bunny rabbit!! I always wanted a bunny rabbit of my very own!!" And she bent over to pick it up, and she reached for it .... and she stopped. She looked around and then she saw her. The Momma rabbit. Hiding under a low branch.

"Shoo, little rabbit," she said, gently. "Your momma is looking for you. She's right over there. Go on. That's a boy." And the little bunny hopped over to his momma, who picked him up by the back of his neck, as rabbits are wont to do, and carried him away to her burrow.

"That felt good", Gertrude said, to no one in particular.

Just then she heard her Poppa's voice, calling to her, from a long way away.

"Oh, there's Poppa. I have to go home now."

"Thank you", she said, to no one in particular. "Thank you ... very much."



OHmommy was looking for a fairy tale to help with a little girl who has learned the word "MINE!!!", said with emphasis. I promised her I would write one for her.

I hope this is adequate.

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