Page 43 - Tree of Happiness

I interrupted Edgar’s storytelling to say that I had often had the same kind of fear that the Queen was experiencing. When I am someplace new or I am around others I don’t know, I become scared. But here the Queen was doing something she never thought she could do, getting a 1,000 best books and she was far away from home. Talk about scary. Now, Edgar continued the story.
Some nights the Queen’s fears and frustrations got the best of her and she would pack her bags to return home. But then she would remember the Elf and the TREE OF HAPPINESS and would say to herself, “Look how far you have come. You have built the Road and the Monument. You have gathered many of the books already. Why quit now? If you quit, you will never get the key and never get into the TREE.”
Some nights the Queen, in frustration and fatigue, would cry herself to sleep. But each morning she would get up, look at the large stack of books on her desk then begin to read. It took a long time and it was difficult. But she did get the 1000 best books.
She returned to her kingdom and placed the books in the Monument. To her surprise, when she returned to the castle, a great festival was given by the common people to welcome her. She used this opportunity to tell them that she had placed the books in the monument so that they could go there and study the books if they wished.
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