. In happy far-away land . pleasant in the meadow, with daisies and buttercups and wildstrawberries to gather, and the little princess was happy, because she wasdoing something to please somebody else, which is the best way of all to makeones self happy. She was so busy with the sheep and the flowers and theberries that she did not notice a long procession which was riding along theroad beside the meadow, till the sun glanced from the golden buckles onthe horses, and shone into her eyes. First of all in the procession rode men on horseback in red and whitecoats, with trumpets in their hands. B
. In happy far-away land . pleasant in the meadow, with daisies and buttercups and wildstrawberries to gather, and the little princess was happy, because she wasdoing something to please somebody else, which is the best way of all to makeones self happy. She was so busy with the sheep and the flowers and theberries that she did not notice a long procession which was riding along theroad beside the meadow, till the sun glanced from the golden buckles onthe horses, and shone into her eyes. First of all in the procession rode men on horseback in red and whitecoats, with trumpets in their hands. Behind them were lords and ladies, beau-tifully dressed, riding on horses that pranced and danced as they passed, andafter these came a gilded coach, drawn by eight white horses. It had a redheart painted on the cloor, and by that Bo-Peep knew that it was the carriageof the Kino- of Hearts, who was coming; to visit her father. o As she stood looking at the procession, the men with the trumpets, 12 PRINCESS BO-PEEP. who are calledheralds, raisedtheir trumpets totheir lips and began to blowthem, to let the people at thepalace know the King of Heartswas near. They made a loud noise, and thefoolish old sheep with the bell tied aroundhis neck did not know what it was. It frightened him, for he thought somethingdreadful must be going to happen, so he began to run as fast as he could, withall the sheep after him. Across the meadow he led them, through a hole inthe hedge, over a brook, and into the woods. Bo-Peep ran after them, callingto them to come back, but the foolish old bell-sheep could not understandher, so he ran on and on, and as he could run much faster with his four legsthan Bo-Peep with her two, he was soon far, far away, and so deep in thewood with all the sheep that she could not see any of them. As soon as she saw that she could not bring back the sheep she ran backto the road beside the meadow, for she thought that if any of the men in theprocession were still there, sh
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