Children's Book of Children's Fables (Not for Children)
Carpet-Bones and the Painter's Painting That Was a Dance
Carpet-Bones once met a beautiful painter in the wood. He asked her to be his wife, and come with him to Where Grandfather Went, but she said, "Though you are a worthy gentlemen Mr. Carpet-Bones, I am busy creating my masterpiece."
"But no painting can have the scarlet of your hair," Carpet-Bones said, and the painter heard this knew and it was true. She sheared her hair with hungry teeth and made a brush from the locks. "And no painting can have the pink of your cheeks," Carpet-Bones said, and the painter heard this and knew it was true. She slashed her cheeks with fingernails and painted with the pigments she found inside. "And no masterpiece could ever have the crimson of your insides," and the painter heard this and knew it was true. She opened herself up to Carpet-Bones and his many gardens.
And dressed in her bridal-gown, the painter finally that she wasn't a painter; she was a dancer. She gave her brush and pigments to her many sons, and she was called Raggedy-Bones for always, and she danced and she danced and she danced and she danced and she danced and she danced and she danced and they all lived everafter.