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14 BEAVER: I call my first witness, Mrs. Apple Tree. (APPLE TREE
comes forward.)
15 CROW: Raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
16 APPLE TREE (Raising hand): I do.
17 BEAVER: Mrs. Tree, will you tell the court, please, why you are all
dressed in drab brown, instead of the bright green you usually wear this
time of year?
18 APPLE TREE: Because there is no spring this year. King Bartholomew
has forbidden spring to come to this kingdom.
19 BEAVER: And is that why you are not wearing your pretty bonnet,
decked with blossoms?
20 APPLE TREE: Yes, and I miss it so, not only because every tree likes to
look her prettiest, but also because it means I won’t have any apples this
year. The apples come from those spring blossoms.
21 BEAVER: And do you speak for the other fruit trees as well?
22 APPLE TREE: I do. There won’t be any pears or peaches or cherries
or plums. No spring—no blossoms—no fruit.
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