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How Roses got their Thorns by Shlynn
Deep in the bushes were a whole family of roses, hidden by such bushes as hawthorn, blackberry and holly.
The bears who lived in the bushes would regularly eat the roses and the villagers who lived nearby were frightened. If they tried to stop the bears, they would attack. You see, in those days, the hawthorn, blackberry and holly bushes were protected from the bears as they didn't like the prickly bits.
One little girl, who was actually called Rose herself, suddenly came up with an idea. She visited a patch of bush which the bears never went to and sliced off all the prickly bits off the hawthorn. She and her friends crept, in the middle of the night (bears like to sleep at night you see), armed with the prickly bits and a tube of superglue into the bushes.
The very next morning the bears leaped into the bush, looking forward to a nice snack of roses. They all took one massive bite each, jumped high in the air making the most peculiar groaning sound (kind of squeaky if you know what I mean) and ran as fast as they could to the nearest river where they spent quite the next four hours spitting politely into the fast flowing water (they had, actually, been brought up quite well you see!).
THAT is how roses got their thorns!
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