120 Old Primrose

old Primrose before them, to decide whether
he was like a primrose or not.

They arranged a little bank of grass in the
court, and placed some twigs behind it to
represent a hedge; but old Primrose’s bar-
rister objected that that was not a fair test,

because his client always looked
more like a primrose when he
sat among trees. So the Council
had a number of trees brought
and set up in court; and then
the barrister insisted on the
floor being covered with
moss and bracken ; and this
was done.
$ Then old Primrose sat
down in the moss under
ei the bracken, and covered
his toes with grass, and
spread out his hands like leaves, and tried hard
to sit in a group and look butter-coloured ;
and his barrister asked the Council to go to
the further corner of the room and look at
his client with one eye shut and their heads
sideways.