"Now we will eat," said the boy, and he pulled a piece of strange, dark food from his pocket. He broke it in two and gave half to the Prince who ate it in hungry mouthfuls.
It tasted better than anything he had ever eaten before!
"It is the best food in the world. Thank you," said the little Prince. "I shall see that you are made a page, and I will take back part of this food to share with my mother, the Queen."
But the Queen and all the other people were very much surprised at what the little Prince brought them.
It was a piece of brown bread and butter!
THE FIELD
The field was small, and full of stones, and barren. Although it lay beside a much travelled road and not far from the town, no one had noticed it except to say how useless it was.
"It would take a great deal of time to cultivate that field," the farmer said as he drove by in the fall with his team full of ripe vegetables and fruit for market. He had bought a farm that was ploughed and planted. There had been no stones for him to dig out and take away.
"That would be a fine field to play in," said the children as they passed by on their way to school, "only it is too rough. It would hurt our feet."