Once upon a sunny morning a man who sat in a breakfast nook looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a golden horn quietly cropping the roses in the garden the man went up to the bedroom where his wife was still asleep and woke her there's a unicorn in the garden he said eating roses she opened one unfriendly eye and looked at him the unicorn is a mythical beast she said and turned her back on him the man walked slowly downstairs and out into the garden the unicorn was still there he was now browsing among the tulips here unicorn said the man and he pulled up a lily and gave it to him the unicorn ate it gravely