Once there were three butterflies, a white, red, and yellow, playing in the sunshine. Soon the rain fell and wet them and they hastened to fly home, but the door was shut and the key was nowhere to be found, so they went to the tulip, all gaily striped in red and yellow, and said:
"Tulip open your flower a little, and will you kindly let me slip in, out of the rain?"
The tulip said, "I will open to the red and yellow ones, because they are like me, but I won't let the white one in."
Then the red and yellow butterflies said, "If you won't take in our little brother we won't come in either, thank you." Now it rained harder and harder, and they flew away to the lily.