. The pot of gold, and other stories . t, and the noblesand the court-ladies toiled and ate, day and the little stolen Princess and the Kings son, thelittle Prince, could not pop corn, for they were onlybabies. When the people across the river had been pop-ping corn for about a month, the Pop-corn man wentto the King of Romalias palace, and sought an audi-ence. He told him how he had discovered his daughterin the palace of the King across the river. The King of Romalia clasped his hands in despair. I must make war, said he, but my army is nothingto his. However, he at once went about
. The pot of gold, and other stories . t, and the noblesand the court-ladies toiled and ate, day and the little stolen Princess and the Kings son, thelittle Prince, could not pop corn, for they were onlybabies. When the people across the river had been pop-ping corn for about a month, the Pop-corn man wentto the King of Romalias palace, and sought an audi-ence. He told him how he had discovered his daughterin the palace of the King across the river. The King of Romalia clasped his hands in despair. I must make war, said he, but my army is nothingto his. However, he at once went about making war. Heordered the swords to be cleaned with sand-paperuntil thev shone, and new bullets to be cast. The THE POP-CORN MAN. 65 Bee Guards were drilled every day, and the peoplecould not sleep for the drums and the fifes. When everything was ready the King of Romaliaand his army crossed the river and laid siege to the had expected to have the passage of the river op-posed, but not a foeman was stationed on the opposite. BOTH THE KING AND QUEEN WERE OBLIGED TO POP. bank. All the spears they could see were the wavinggreen ones of pop-corn fields. They marched straightup to the city walls and laid siege. The inhabitantsfought on the walls and in the gate-towers, but not verymany could fight at a time, because they would have tostop and pop corn and eat. 66 THE POP-CORN MAN. The defenders grew fewer and fewer, some werekilled, and all of them were growing too tired andweak to fight. They could not eat enough pop-corn togive them strength and have any time left to filled their pockets and tried to eat pop-corn asthey fought, but they could not manage that verywell. On the third day the city surrendered with verylittle loss of life on either side, and the little PrincessRosetta was restored to her parents. There was greatrejoicing all through Romalia; in the evening therewas an illumination and a torch-light procession. Thenurses marched with their bonnets
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