28/32 It had on it every kind of flower and fruit that you can think of, all growing together. There were gold oranges and white orange flowers, pink apple-blossom and red apples, cherries and cherry-blossom, strawberry flowers and strawberries, all growing together, wild and sweet. He passed through the lovely orchards and came to a lake. And he remembered that, in the island he had heard of, there was a lake ready for skating even when the flowers and fruit were on the trees. |