The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 125
the river. Puss stepped up to the royal carriage,and informed his majesty, that, during the timehis master was bathing, some robbers had stolenhis clothes, although he had cried out Stopthief ! with all his might. The rogue had reallyonly hidden them under a large stone. The kingimmediately ordered… … looked so ele-gant that theking took him for a very fine gentleman, andsaid the politest things in theworld to him, while the prin-cess was so struck with his ap-pearance, that my Lord Mar-quis of Carabas had scarcelymade his obeisance to her,and looked at her once ortwice with a very tender…
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