. The pot of gold, and other stories . ay faint-ing on the floor beside her basket. It was contrary to the rules of etiquette for any oneexcept the nurses to approach nearer than five yardsto her Royal Highness before she was taken from herbasket. So they crowded together at that distanceand craned their necks. What can ail the nurses? they whispered in ter-rified tones. They could not go near enough to thebasket to see what the trouble was, and still it seemedvery necessary that they should. I wish I had a telescope, said the lady with thehair-brush. But there was none in the room, and it was
. The pot of gold, and other stories . ay faint-ing on the floor beside her basket. It was contrary to the rules of etiquette for any oneexcept the nurses to approach nearer than five yardsto her Royal Highness before she was taken from herbasket. So they crowded together at that distanceand craned their necks. What can ail the nurses? they whispered in ter-rified tones. They could not go near enough to thebasket to see what the trouble was, and still it seemedvery necessary that they should. I wish I had a telescope, said the lady with thehair-brush. But there was none in the room, and it was contraryto the rules of etiquette for any person to leave ituntil the Princess was taken from the basket. 50 THE PRINCESS ROSETTA. There seemed to be no proper way out of the diffi-culty. Finally the first fiddler stood up with an airof resolution, and began unwinding the green silk sashfrom his waist. It was eleven yards long. He doubledit, and launched it at the basket, like a lasso. There is nothing in the code of etiquette to pre. THE PRINCESS WAS NOT IN THE BASKET! vent the Princess approaching us before she is takenfrom her basket, he said bravely. All the ladiesapplauded. He threw the lasso very successfully. It went quitearound the basket. Then he drew it gently over THE POP-CORN MAN. 51 the five yards. They all crowded around, and lookedinto it. The Princess was not in the basket I II. THE POP-CORN MAN. That night the whole kingdom was in a Bee Guards were called out, and patrolled thecity, alarm-bells rung, signal fires burned, and every-body was out with a lantern. They searched everyinch of the road to the park where the Bee Festivalhad been held, for it did seem at first as if the Prin-cess had possibly been spilled out of the basket, al-though the nurses were confident that it was not they searched carefully, and the nurses were in themeantime placed in custody. But nothing was people held their lanterns low, and looked underevery bush
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