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THE FAIRY OF THE DAWN
'You are grown up, Florea,' said Petru one day to his eldest brother; 'do go and ask father why one eye laughs and the other weeps.'
![The Emperor whose right Eye laughed while his left Eye wept](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/The_Violet_Fairy_Book_-_Page_166.png/400px-The_Violet_Fairy_Book_-_Page_166.png)
But Florea would not go. He had learnt by experience that this question always put the emperor in a rage.