. Tales of fantasy . herlike our porter in the face ! What has become of thatboozy vagabond ? And the housemaid came andscrubbed his nose with sandpaper. And once-, when thePrincess Angelicas little sister was born, he was tiedup in an old kid glove; and, another night, some lark-ing young men tried to wrench him off, and put him tothe most excruciating agony with a turnscrew. Andthen the Queen had a fancy to have the color of thedoor altered; and the painters dabbed him over themouth and eyes, and nearly choked him, as they paintedhim pea-green. I warrant he had leisure to repent ofhaving bee
. Tales of fantasy . herlike our porter in the face ! What has become of thatboozy vagabond ? And the housemaid came andscrubbed his nose with sandpaper. And once-, when thePrincess Angelicas little sister was born, he was tiedup in an old kid glove; and, another night, some lark-ing young men tried to wrench him off, and put him tothe most excruciating agony with a turnscrew. Andthen the Queen had a fancy to have the color of thedoor altered; and the painters dabbed him over themouth and eyes, and nearly choked him, as they paintedhim pea-green. I warrant he had leisure to repent ofhaving been rude to the Fairy Blackstick ! As for his wife, she did not miss him; and as he wasalways guzzling beer at the public-house, and notoriouslyquarrelling with his wife, and in debt to the tradesmen,it was supposed he had run away from all these evilsand emigrated to Australia or America. And whenthe Prince and Princess chose to become King andQueen, they left their old house, and nobody thoughtof the porter any The Rose and the Ring 249
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