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Oil on Canvas - Painting 4 of 5.

Painting inspired by an anonymous retelling of Lucy Clifford's story "The New Mother", found in the Neil Phillips Penguin Collection of English Folktales as "The Pear Drum".

The section of the fairytale that corresponds to this painting reads:

Next morning they got up very early and went out on the moor. There was the Gypsy Girl, but she had no pear-drum. "Where is the pear-drum?" they cried. The Gypsy Girl laughed. "It is gone. We Gypsies are all going away today. I am the last to leave." "But we did as you told us"—and they told her all the things they had done. The Gypsy Girl laughed again. "Yes," she said, "you have been really naughty, and now your mother has gone away, far, far away to find your father, and instead you have a mother with glass eyes and a wooden tail."
Blue-Eyes and Turkey wandered about on the moor all day...

Description
Oil on Canvas - Painting 4 of 5.

Painting inspired by an anonymous retelling of Lucy Clifford's story "The New Mother", found in the Neil Phillips Penguin Collection of English Folktales as "The Pear Drum".

The section of the fairytale that corresponds to this painting reads:

Next morning they got up very early and went out on the moor. There was the Gypsy Girl, but she had no pear-drum. "Where is the pear-drum?" they cried. The Gypsy Girl laughed. "It is gone. We Gypsies are all going away today. I am the last to leave." "But we did as you told us"—and they told her all the things they had done. The Gypsy Girl laughed again. "Yes," she said, "you have been really naughty, and now your mother has gone away, far, far away to find your father, and instead you have a mother with glass eyes and a wooden tail."
Blue-Eyes and Turkey wandered about on the moor all day...