Chapter 110
The Thistle's ExperiencesBELONGING to the lordly manor-house was beautiful,
well-kept garden, with rare trees and flowers; the guests of the
proprietor declared their admiration of it; the people of the
neighborhood, from town and country, came on Sundays and holidays,
and asked permission to see the garden; indeed, whole schools used
to pay visits to it.
Outside the garden, by the palings at the road-side, stood
a great mighty Thistle, which spread out in many directions from
the root, so that it might have been called a thistle bush. Nobody
looked at it, except the old a*s which drew the milk-maid's cart.
This a*s used to stretch out his neck towards the Thistle, and say,
"You are beautiful; I should like to eat you!" But his halter was
not long enough to let him
