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 234
in his imperial robes, which he hadput on himself, and pressed the sword which washeavy with gold to his heart. One thing I beg of you : tell no one that youhave a little bird who tells you everything. Then 197And the Nightingale it will go all the better.flew away. The servants came in to look to… … he traveled about, all through the world, to finda real one, but everywhere there was somethingin the way. There were princesses enough, butwhether they were real princesses he could notquite make out: there was always something thatdid not seem quite right. So he came home again,and was quite sad…
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