Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 188
Not so the King. These plans are old-Our royal dinner >s getting cold;Unless some new device we see,Quick as a wink you 11 banished be. The pygmies cried with cruel joy:You 11 be quite right, my royal boy! Despairing silence, like a pall,Settled ou the wisemen all. … The Princess then, with blushing cheek,Bashfully dared a word to speak,Saying softly that she thought herNurse would favor running water;For pygmies, fays, and elves, it seems,Can not cross the running streams.Perhaps a ditch, if deep and wide, Would guard the land on every side. /la. Here the…
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