Puddleglums Stand - 'The Silver Chair' by C S Lewis
August 16, 2010
My father loves plums and one day went out to buy himself a plum tree. He went to the garden centre and selected a tree with ‘Plum tree’ written on it and drove home thinking about all the lovely plums he and his wife could eat, allow his children to eat and his grandchildren to eat. He got home and his wife dug a hole into which he planted the tree with lots of manure. In the spring one of his friends came visiting and he took her to see the plum tree that was now covered with blossom. ‘Stuart,’ said his friend, ‘this is a very rare and special plum tree and must be the only one in the world because unlike most plum trees, this one is covered in apple blossom.’
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