One sunny morning a man sees a white unicorn with a golden horn eating roses in the garden. Positively excited he goes upstairs to tell the woman. The woman being in a very bad mood, barks at the man being a booby and sending him to a booby hatch. The man returns to the garden but the unicorn has gone away. After the man has gone out, the woman calls the police and a psychiatrist. She tells them the story of the unicorn but instead of putting the man in a booby hatch they take the woman with them. The man who alleges to know nothing about that lives happier than before.
Maybe the man in the story is a little bit crazy because of his story with the unicorn in the garden. It is not normal to tell everyone about your appearances of this kind. On the other hand he could be perfidious, because he wants to make his wife crazy with his absurd story. Perhaps he can imagine what will happen if the woman some day believes his stories and tells them somebody else. Possibly he tells her such kind of stories every day so that she goes nutty. But the woman is very perfidious, too, because she is only waiting for a chance to send the man to a booby hatch.
With his fable the author of "The Unicorn in the Garden" wants to make clear the moral "Don´t count your boobies until they are hatched!". I think the man in the story is very clever, because the woman is an unfriendly person with bad intentions against the man. Therefore he can imagine how the woman will react to the story about the unicorn. I think the moral fits the woman because she counts the booby (the man) before it is hatched.
I like the story because of the cleverness and the black humour of the man. (V.N., 11d, 2004)