We do not spend the pleasant summer days in idleness and pleasure , but each one labors for the happiness and good of all . If our home is beautiful , we have made it so by industry ; and here , as one large , loving family , we dwell ; no sorrow , care , or discord can enter in , while all obey the voice of her who seeks to be a wise and gentle Queen to them . If you will stay with us , we will teach you many things . Order , patience , industry , who can teach so well as they who are the emblems of these virtues ? `` Our laws are few and simple . You must each day gather your share of honey , see that your cell is sweet and fresh , as you yourself must be ; rise with the sun , and with him to sleep . You must harm no flower in doing your work , nor take more than your just share of honey ; for they so kindly give us food , it were most cruel to treat them with aught save gentleness and gratitude . Now will you stay with us , and learn what even mortals seek to know , that labor brings true happiness ? '' And Thistle said he would stay and dwell with them ; for he was tired of wandering alone , and thought he might live here till Lily-Bell should come , or till he was weary of the kind-hearted bees . Then they took away his gay garments , and dressed him like themselves , in the black velvet cloak with golden bands across his breast . `` Now come with us , '' they said . So forth into the green fields they went , and made their breakfast among the dewy flowers ; and then till the sun set they flew from bud to blossom , singing as they went ; and Thistle for a while was happier than when breaking flowers and harming gentle birds . But he soon grew tired of working all day in the sun , and longed to be free again . He could find no pleasure with the industrious bees , and sighed to be away with his idle friends , the butterflies ; so while the others worked he slept or played , and then , in haste to get his share , he tore the flowers , and took all they had saved for their own food . Nor was this all ; he told such pleasant tales of the life he led before he came to live with them , that many grew unhappy and discontented , and they who had before wished no greater joy than the love and praise of their kind Queen , now disobeyed and blamed her for all she had done for them . Long she bore with their unkind words and deeds ; and when at length she found it was the ungrateful Fairy who had wrought this trouble in her quiet kingdom , she strove , with sweet , forgiving words , to show him all the wrong he had done ; but he would not listen , and still went on destroying the happiness of those who had done so much for him . Then , when she saw that no kindness could touch his heart , she said : -- `` Thistledown , we took you in , a friendless stranger , fed and clothed you , and made our home as pleasant to you as we could ; and in return for all our care , you have brought discontent and trouble to my subjects , grief and care to me . I can not let my peaceful kingdom be disturbed by you ; therefore go and seek another home . You may find other friends , but none will love you more than we , had you been worthy of it ; so farewell . '' And the doors of the once happy home he had disturbed were closed behind him .
Then he was very angry , and determined to bring some great sorrow on the good XXXXX .
Lily-Bell Queen Thistle Thistledown day days discord emblems heart labor