Pavol Dobsinsky
The Three-Blossomed Rose
The story, adapted from Pavol Dobšinský’s collection, tells us that love is not about beauty but about being kind and human.
Once upon a time, there
His younger brother, Albert, was the exact opposite of Martin. He was always kind and helpful to everyone, no matter who they were. He gave to others even though he was so poor he sometimes didn’t even have food to eat himself. He always saw the good in things.
On one particularly freezing night, Albert went to his older brother’s house to ask him for help. It was in the middle of the winter. Poor Albert had no coal for heat and no food
He hadn’t eaten in three days, he told his brother, but Martin didn’t care that Albert was cold and hungry, and he laughed at him cruelly and slammed the door shut. “Starve or freeze, it’s nothing to me!” he called through the door as he locked it.
Albert decided to go to the forest to look for
It was completely quiet except for the lonely hooting