Three Tales

By John Gordon Jenkins

Three tales for children and some adults.

The Magician, The Lion, And The Mouse - is a fable style tale about a young man looking for a little protection that he could have done without.

DreamDancer - a young girl wants to dance and gets her chance with results greater than she expected.

Marshall And the Mathematician - Marshall, a number-loving cat, with the innocent help of a mathematician friend, stirs up some trouble in the neighborhood.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Gordon Jenkins
• Release date: Dec 20, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311105080

John Gordon Jenkins

I enjoyed writing at an early age and was an avid sci-fi reader pre teen and then into my teens. I have always been what I now name - a non-centrist, perhaps referred to as an individualist. I was guided into early inner experience with Gurdjieff teaching then trappist monasteries, Franciscan brotherhood and working in the world and ultimately reaching my continual overstanding that an inner and loving path is my personal way to the realms of higher consciousness. My journey to God began with lifetimes before this present one . . . and is never ending.

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Three Tales

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The Magician, The Lion, And The Mouse

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DreamDancer

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Marshall And The Mathematician

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Contents

The Magician, The Lion, And The Mouse

DreamDancer

Marshall and The Mathematician

The Magician, The Lion, And The Mouse

After many, many years of research and study I discovered the one volume that is now my entire library. This special book is named The Book of All Things That Have Ever Happened.

Today I go into my library and open the book at random. It opens to page 2,159,223. On this page is the event I am about to tell you, it is the story of the Magician, the Lion, and the Mouse.

Howard was a young man when he travelled to a distant land, a land across the sea and across a desert and beyond a vast range of mountains. He traveled on a ship as ship's boy and with a caravan as camel handler and finally with a troop of performers as water carrier. It was with the performers that he first learned he had a small talent for magic.An old, very old woman, perhaps as old as the road they walked, showed him a few tricks. So his heart expanded with pride and his mind grew painfully aware of how unimportant he was and how magic could make him very, very important and win the love of princesses and the envy of all people.

As things happen he left the performers at the edge of a kingdom where they turned left and he, because he was weary of traveling, turned right, so he entered the land of Fair King Clyde. And this is where the story truly begins, deep in the forest of the Hidden Mountains of King Clyde's realm.

The day was warm, even through the forest cover of summer green, so Howard took off his cloak and put it in his traveling shoulder sack where there was also some food and a poor map of the mountains. Howard whistled as he walked along the narrow trail, too narrow for a wagon, and too wide for deer. This was a trail made by men for men and the thought cheered him into a happy, brisk pace. These were called the Hidden Mountains because the forest was so thick that even those that sought the top of the peaks could hardly ever see them, unless they climbed a very high, very tall tree.

Howard whistled and thought, and how he thought was to use his mind to examine the magic spell that the very ancient, quite elderly lady of the performing troop had taught him. It seemed a plain and ordinary thing, just three