“I am so glad, dearie; as soon as you are ready, we will go, and you may carry these beautiful roses that you have picked, for I know that flowers always cheer the sick and make them feel brighter and happier.”
“Yes, I will, and then I’ll be a sure-enough Sunshine fairy, and not a dream one!” laughed Alice.
WHAT THE STUPID SON LEARNED
The stupid are not always really so, but only appear so. There is always something they can learn.
In Bavaria there lived an Earl who had one son who seemed never to learn anything. He could not remember even the simplest thing he was told by his teacher. Everybody said:
“He is too stupid to bother with. The Earl should send him away,” and that is exactly what the Earl did. He sent him to Switzerland to a great school.
At the end of a year he came back home. “What have you learned in Switzerland, my son?” asked the Earl.
“I have learned why the dogs bark,” the son replied.