How to Feed a HUNGRY DRAGON
ONCE, LONG AGO, there lived dragons. They were wild, these dragons, and scaly and scary, breathing fire at every living creature they met and then gobbling them up. Why? Because they were hungry, of course.
“Could we feed them?” someone finally asked. A dragon that was full wouldn’t have to gobble people up! So a number of brave souls got busy finding out what dragons would eat. Naturally, mistakes were made. A dragon’s displeasure at being served cabbage, for example, was truly terrifying to behold.
It finally turned out that what dragons really needed, what they really flourished on if fed twice a day forever, were cherries, especially the sweet, pink-gold cherries from the dragoncherry tree.
This was wonderful. The dragons relaxed. They grew tame and became family dragons. A dragon would spend much of its life curled in a comfortable basket beside a hearth, eating, sleeping, and,
