He was always looking for a way to do a better job. I don't

"You did not know, any better! Ignorance upon ignorance indeed!"

The poor swineherd took these words to heart, for they were

addressed to him; he knew not that there were others who were

equally ignorant. Not even a leaf of the plant could be found. There

was one, but it lay in the coffin of the dead; no one knew anything

Then the king, in his melancholy, wandered out to the spot in

the wood. "Here is where the plant stood," he said; "it is a sacred

place." Then he ordered that the place should be surrounded with a