THE MORNING-GLORY TWINES TO THE RIGHT
"Now, one day in early spring, the sun, who makes the plants grow and gives the colors to the flowers, heard the honeysuckle, which was putting out green leaves on its strong vines, laughing at the bean and morning-glory, that were just peeping from the earth.
"And the sun said, 'This is too bad. It is not fair for one who has so much to make fun of those who have so little. I must give them more.'
"So, lo and behold, when the morning-glory vine began to bloom, instead of having pale little flowers, they were a beautiful white and blue and purple and rose color, and when the bean blossomed, it had a fine scarlet flower, and both were more beautiful than the honeysuckle, though the honeysuckle still had its sweet perfume, and its honey for the humming-birds."
"But what about the twining?" asked Davy. "That is what you started to tell."
"Why, yes, of course. I forgot that. Well, when the sun came to look at them he said, first to the honeysuckle, 'Because you have been so proud, you must follow me,' and to the bean and morning-glory, 'Because you have been meek, you shall turn always to meet me,' and since that day, the honeysuckle has turned always to the left, following the sun, while the bean and the morning-glory have twined always to the right, to meet it on every turn."
The Chief Gardener paused, seeing that Davy was making circles in the air with his finger—first circles to the right, then more circles to the left. Then the circles got slower and slower, showing that he was thinking very hard.
"That's right," he said at last. "If they turned to the right, they would meet the sun every time around, and if they turned to the left they would be following it."