Stories and Anecdotes - Anonymous

A German allegory tells of two little girls.  They had been playing together in a strange garden, and one ran to her mother full of disappointment, “The garden‘s a sad place mother.” “Why, my child?” “I’ve been all around, and every rose-tree has cruel, long thorns upon it!” Then the second child came in breathless. “O Mother, the garden’s a beautiful place!” “How to, my child?”  “Why, I’ve been all around, and every thorn-bush has lovely roses growing on it!” And the mother wondered at the difference in the two children.