The Wolf and the Girl

A Cautionary Note When you enter the Garden, inevitably, and perhaps none too surprisingly, you will find that you leave something behind. When you are in the Garden, you may find – to your surprise or indeed unwittingly – something different. That something different you may take out of the Garden if you so please. …

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An Adventure in the Woods

Upon the Wood or Woods Whatever books of grammar might say, the question has always baffled me. What is the difference between a wood and the woods? And which trees are thicker or denser? The trees of a wood or the trees of a woods? Of course, a day does not go by when one …

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Beautifully and Handsomely

Upon Unicorns The Greeks of Antiquity believed that they were real creatures that hailed from India, horse like beasts with the head of a stag and a large black horn in the middle of the forehead. Of the alicorn, as the horn of the unicorn is known, it was thought that it had magical and …

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Don’t Stray from the Path

The Wolf’s Howl The Wolf is a strange and fearsome beast; it hunts in packs and kills without mercy. Many creatures in the Garden are afraid of the Wolf. When they hear the howl of the wolf, they quake in their boots, cover their eyes with their hooves or wake crying from a nightmare they …

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The Pathless Paths

The Garden Paths One cannot deny, as the poet once said, there is pleasure in the pathless woods. Here in the Garden the pathless parts of the wood are not always safe, although I have no doubt they contain many pleasures. These pleasures one can enjoy from the safety of the paths, and yet the …

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