StNicholas [serial] . ng to help, but he could not swing anax with his little hands. Ah, he said that night to his friend the Owl,if I were a great knight, perhaps I could rideto the city and win the Prize for Good Luck. And what is the Prize for Good Luck?asked the Owl, who knew everything in theworld except that. Then Robin explained that the lovely princess,whose hair was like spun gold and whose eyeswere like the blue forget-me-nots by the brook,had lost her precious amulet, given to her by hergodmother, which kept her, as long as it lay onher neck, healthy and beautiful and happy. One day
StNicholas [serial] . ng to help, but he could not swing anax with his little hands. Ah, he said that night to his friend the Owl,if I were a great knight, perhaps I could rideto the city and win the Prize for Good Luck. And what is the Prize for Good Luck?asked the Owl, who knew everything in theworld except that. Then Robin explained that the lovely princess,whose hair was like spun gold and whose eyeswere like the blue forget-me-nots by the brook,had lost her precious amulet, given to her by hergodmother, which kept her, as long as it lay onher neck, healthy and beautiful and happy. One day, when she was playing in the flower-garden,the little gold chain snapped and the amuletrolled away. Everybody in the palace had searched,the soldiers had been called out to help, and allthe small boys had been organized into an amuletbrigade, for what they cannot see is usuallynot worth seeing at all. But no one could findit, and in the meantime the princess grew pale,and, truth to tell, rather cross. Her hair dulled. THE OWL CALLED A COUNCIL OF ROBINSBEST FRIENDS. a little, and her eyes looked like forget-me-notsdrowned in the brook. When the court philoso-pher reasoned the matter out and discoveredthat the amulet had been carried far away, per-haps outside the kingdom, the king offered thePrize for Good Luck for its return. Now, if I could win the Prize for GoodLuck, said Robin, we should have bread and 634 ROBIN OF THE LOVING HEART 635 milk all the time, and Mother need not work sohard. Then the Owl in her wisdom called a councilof Robins best friends, and asked them whatthey going to do about it. They waitedrespectfully for her advice; and this was herwonderful plan: Robin could win the Prize for Good Luck,declared the Owl, if only he were wise andswift and clear-sighted and strong enough. NowI will lend him my wisdom, the Hare shall lendhis swiftness, the Eagle shall . lend his eyesight, and theLion shall lend his thus it was agreed. Then the Owl went b
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