. In happy far-away land . : Why, this seems almost too good to be true! Run, somebody, andfetch Dr. Foster at once. This is his long-lost daughter come back again. And almost before Daffy-Down-Dilly, or Florabel, for that was herreal name, knew what was happening, Dr. Foster had come running up, hadlooked into her face, and with a great cry of joy had taken her in his armsas if he meant never to let her go again. How happy Dr. Foster and his wife were to have back again thedaughter they had mourned so long as lost, only the people in Far AwayLand can tell. Dr. Foster sent for Tommy Tittlemous
. In happy far-away land . : Why, this seems almost too good to be true! Run, somebody, andfetch Dr. Foster at once. This is his long-lost daughter come back again. And almost before Daffy-Down-Dilly, or Florabel, for that was herreal name, knew what was happening, Dr. Foster had come running up, hadlooked into her face, and with a great cry of joy had taken her in his armsas if he meant never to let her go again. How happy Dr. Foster and his wife were to have back again thedaughter they had mourned so long as lost, only the people in Far AwayLand can tell. Dr. Foster sent for Tommy Tittlemouse, and gave him acomfortable home for all the rest of his life, where he could be near Florabel,whom he called Daffy-Down-Dilly to the last clay he lived. It was Tommy Tittlemouse who made the song they sing in Far AwayLand about Florabels visit to the Queen, and this is how they sing it: Queen Anne, Queen Anne, she sits in the sun,As fair as a lily, as brown as a bun ;I bring you three letters, and pray you read one. .JL. ~J^ GREAT many years ago, in the time which is known as the Days of / \ Chivalry, there lived a King in Far Away Land who was called V^) William the Good. There is nothing about him in any of the histories, for the grown-up people have forgotten him, and only the children speak of him when they play a game and sing a song which begins : King William was King Jamess son,And from a royal race he sprung;Upon his breast he wore a starWhich points away to the ocean far. 44 THE WHITE KNIGHT King William was the kindest and bravest gentleman in all the land, andthe fathers and mothers far and near wanted so much to have their sons o-row o up to be like him, that many of them sent their boys to live at his court. Among the boys who lived at the palace, there was one, however, who hadno father nor mother. His name was Tom Stout, and he had come to live inthe Kings castle when he was only seven years old. At first he was called apage, and served the Queen and her ladie
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