Journeys through Bookland - a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922) (14782922792)

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Title: Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children

Year: 1922 (1920s)

Authors: Sylvester, Charles Herbert

Subjects: Children's literature

Publisher: Chicago : Bellows-Reeve

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and said, I may believe all the rest, but I would bet myhouse and farmyard that you will never marry thekings daughter. Very well, said the hunter, I accept your bet,and if I lose, there are my hundred gold pieces;and he laid them on the table. That same day, when the king and his daughterwere seated at table, the king said, What did allthose wild animals want who came to you to-day,going in and out of my castle? I cannot tell you yet, she replied; but if youwill send into the town for the master of theseanimals, then I will do so. The king, on hearing this, sent a servant atonce to the inn with an invitation to the strangerwho owned the animals, and the servant arrivedjust as the hunter had finished his bet with thelandlord. See, landlord! he cried, the king has sent mean invitation by his servant; but I cannot accept it 288 The Twin Brothers yet. He turned to the man who waited, and said,Tell my lord the king that I cannot obey his com-mands to visit him unless he sends me suitable

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THE PRINCE SHOWS THE DRAGON S TONGUES clothes for a royal palace, and a carriage with sixhorses, and servants to wait upon me. The servant returned with the message, and whenthe king heard it he said to his daughter, Whatshall T do? The Twin 15iu)tiieks 289 I would send for him as he requests, she replied. So they sent royal rohes, and a carriage and sixhorses, with servants, and when the hunter saw themcoming he said to the landlord, See! they have sentfor me as 1 wished. He dressed himself in the kingly clothes, took thehandkerchief containing the dragons tongues, anddrove away to the castle. As soon as he arrived the king said to his daughter,How shall I receive him? I should go and meet him, she replied. So the king went to meet him, and led him intothe royal apartment, and all his animals followed.The king pointed him to a seat by his daughter.The marshal sat on her other side as bridegroom,but the visitor knew it not. Just at this moment the dragons seven heads werebrought into

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