StNicholas [serial] . 2 1 mm | SHE RAISED HER HAND AND THE SOLDIERS STOPPED SHORTER THAN IF THE KING HIMSELF HAD CRIED, HALT ! THE PROUD PRINCESS AND THEUGLY PRINCE *. ?? BY B. J. DASKAM mm, ^•-3 4> :1 t¥W: ,?? 1 if ONCE upon a time there wasa king who owned half ofthe whole world and claimedthe rest of it. So you may be surethat no princess ever had sucha christening as his only child ;but there was not a single fairyinvited, for, if you will believeme, the King was so foolish thathe said there were no such thingsas fairies in the whole world !It would have been a sorry day for the Princes
StNicholas [serial] . 2 1 mm | SHE RAISED HER HAND AND THE SOLDIERS STOPPED SHORTER THAN IF THE KING HIMSELF HAD CRIED, HALT ! THE PROUD PRINCESS AND THEUGLY PRINCE *. ?? BY B. J. DASKAM mm, ^•-3 4> :1 t¥W: ,?? 1 if ONCE upon a time there wasa king who owned half ofthe whole world and claimedthe rest of it. So you may be surethat no princess ever had sucha christening as his only child ;but there was not a single fairyinvited, for, if you will believeme, the King was so foolish thathe said there were no such thingsas fairies in the whole world !It would have been a sorry day for the Princessif the fairies had taken him at his word, but theyknew that she was not to blame for the folly ofher father, so every last one of them brushed upher invisible cloak and carried some gift to thechristening. But the oldest fairy of all did not wear an in-visible cloak, for she considered that there was something due to fairy dignity and she came justas she happened to be, as an old, old woman in aragged cloa
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