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Do you believe in fairies?

Chapter 21: THE DELICATESSEN SHOP
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About This Book

A collection of short fantasies and lyrical poems written with a childlike eye, presenting whimsical encounters with fairies, goblins, and other small marvels set against ordinary streets and countryside. Narrative vignettes follow children and curious adults into secret glades, enchanted stones, and musical charms, while interleaved rhymes, ballades, and reflective sketches touch on adolescence, religion, city nights, and domestic humor. The pieces blend playful imagination with mild melancholy and moral observation, inviting readers to rediscover wonder in commonplace scenes through concise storylets and musical verse.

THE DELICATESSEN SHOP

You must have noticed, on a Sunday night,
The line of husbands, forming on the right, ...
A bent old fogey, and a spatted fop
Are rubbing shoulders in the crowded shop
Where lurid signs proclaim a pale green tea
Or shriek in praise of chicken fricassee.
Furtively they take their places in line
And meditate the where-withall to dine ...
Then whisper it quite deprecatingly,
And steal away as humble as can be!