The Princess and the Apple Tree

Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess who loved all lovely things. She most she loved the flowers and the blossoming trees in her father's garden. A humble man called sylvio whose business it was to tend the plants also loved them. The king of that country was a great magician, and many were afraid of him. So he commanded silvio to leave that country and never to be found there again. But Sylvio did not come; so the princess went looking for him but couldn't find him. And when she touched an apple tree which had been his last touch, its blossom fell on her head. Now this story is written by Mary Curnow