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aj/HIERE was once upon a time a king
whose wife, the queen, became mother
in the palace of a little son called
Dan. And at the same time, even to
a minute, a mare in the stable hada
little foal. Therefore the king gave
the foal to his son Dan.
When the young prince was old enough, he was
sent to school, where he learned to read and write
and cypher. Now not a single day passed but
before going to school he went into the paddock
where was his foal, and talked to it and patted it.
Now it happened that war broke out, and the king
was obliged to go to battle, and he intrusted his
queen and boy to the care of a prime minister.
Now the queen was a wicked woman, and she
entered into a plot with the prime minister to seize
on the reins of government, and to establish her-
self sole sovereign in the land. But because the
prince was clever and observant, the prime
minister had to be very cautious lest his plans
should be found out. And as the prime minister
schemed to get the king killed and then to marry
the queen, he determined also to get rid of the
Crown Prince. ‘

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