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with them; but, as he was forced to take care of his shop,
that excellent father resigned himself to necessity, and re-
mained behind at Nuremberg.

 

PART V.

END OF THE HISTORY OF PRINCESS PIRLIPATA.

THE mechanician and the astrologer, on reaching the capital,
took good care to leave young Drosselmayer at the inn where
they put up. They then proceeded to the
palace to announce that having vainly
sought the Crackatook nut all over the
world, they had at length found it at
Nuremberg. But of him who was to crack
it, they said not a word, according to the
arrangement made between them.

The joy at the palace was very great.
The king sent directly for the privy coun-
cillor who had the care of the public mind,
and who acted as censor in respect to the
newspapers; and this great man, by the
king’s command, drew up an article to be