Reading Diary Week 11 Continued: Owen Goes a-Wooing

Yet another really interesting story! In this one, a man goes looking for his love and falls deep into a lake. He found he could breath underwater just as good as on land upon falling deeper and deeper. Eventually the water cleared and he was at the bottom of the deep lake. An entire village was down there and a short fat old man had showed him to his very own mansion where others were frolicking. Bring in a hurry the man did not stay but rather told the short fat man he needed to find his love. The man lead him to a stone that raised upon coming to it. The man looking for his love was immediately in his kitchen with her. She was terrified at the sight of him for she thought he was a ghost! He thought he had been gone for only an hour or two, but it had been over an entire month...this story cannot help but remind me of a strange mixture between The Twilight Zone and Alice and Wonderland! I am definitely using this one for my storytelling this week. 

Owen's Underwater Mansion, Source

These were the thoughts and short summary after reading the story entitled Owen Goes a-Whooing, written by W. Jenkyn Thomas in 1908.