Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 691
t answers for them. The fine ladies and gentlemen were not the onlyones who tested their wits with the Kings rid- 421 422 THE JOYOUS TRAVELERS [ M \xrn, dies, for the news of his offer traveled fast, andmany who had nothing to do with the courtcame there to try the guessing. But still the silver… … money-hags unclaimed; and the geese had keepersin plenty. Now, there was in the Kings country a littleshepherdess who fed her flock in a fair meadownot far from the palace; and she too heard ofthe riddles and longed to guess them. Others try, and why not I? she said to her- When she came there and…
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