THE WHALE AND THE BUTTERFLY
Once on an evening a man and a woman found themselves together in a stagecoach. They had
met before.
The man was a poet, and as he sat beside the woman he sought to amuse her with stories, some
that were of his own weaving, and some that were not his own.
But even while he was speaking the lady went to sleep. Then suddenly the coach lurched, and
she awoke, and she said, "I admire your interpretation of the story of Jonah and the whale."
And the poet said, "But Madame, I have been telling you a story of mine own about a butterfly
and a white rose, and how they behaved the one to the other!"
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