CHAPTER I.

How the Fairtes were not Invited to -Gourt.

NCE upon'a-time there reigned in
jy Pantouflia a king and a queen. With
» almost everything else to make them

happy, they wanted one thing: they
7 had no children. This vexed the king:

even more than the. queen, who. was’
very clever and learned, and who had hated
dolls when she was a child. . However, she too,
in spite of all the books she read and all the
pictures she--painted, would have been glad
enough to be the mother of a little prince. The
king was anxious to consult the fairies, but the
queen would not hear of sucha thing... She did

 

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