164 Make-Believe

and take them to market. So he madea
little money.

‘“He loved to Re a gardener but for
some strange reason he wanted to be a
king, too, aad he was always trying to find
a kingdom. I think he would have done
rather well, even if they had put him on
the throne of England, for he seems to
have thought that a proper king is really a
sort of servant to his subjects. And he
was not particular either: he would have
been quite contented if he could have
found a kingdom with only one person—
and himself—in it. He only wanted to be
a king,

‘Of course he went on searching vainly.
Sometimes he thought he had found his
kingdom, but he never did. He was just
a gardener really, and the people laughed
when they heard of what he desired. ‘If
it comes to that,’ said the blacksmith one
day, ‘why should not every one be a
king, and make a kingdom for himself in
his own back yard ?’”