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 229
red nothing but P! — and that meantnothing. There is said to be a wonderful bird herecalled a Nightingale I said tlie emperor. Theysay it IS the best thing in all my great empire.Why have I never heard anything about it? I have never heard him named, replied thecavalier. He has never been… … cavalier. I will seek for him. I will findhim. But where was he to be found ? The cavalierran up and down all the staircases, through hallsand passages, but no one among all those whomhe met had heard talk of the Nightingale. And thecavalier ran back to the emperor, and said that itmust be a fable…
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