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Tell Me Another Story: The Book of Story Programs
Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs Author:Carolyn Sherwin Bailey General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1918 Original Publisher: Milton Bradley company Subjects: Children's stories Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial acce... more »ss to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: "And I should like her to have blue eyes and yellow hair and curls," said the Queen. "And if I may be so bold as to make a suggestion," said the Court Wise-Man, "she should be rich, for she and the Prince will need a great many new toys." They never thought to ask the Prince what his choice of a little Princess would be. But the Prince did not wait to be asked. "I want only a little Princess who can make molasses pop-corn balls," he said. The King and the Queen and the Court Wise-Man were aghast at this. They knew that the Prince was very fond of molasses pop-corn balls, but the palace Cook always made him some every Saturday morning, enough to last a whole week. But the Prince went on, and explained. "The Princess who comes to play with me must be able to do what I want her to, and I want her to make my pop-corn balls fresh every day. Don't bring any Princess who can't," he said. So they all knew that the matter was decided, for the Prince had a very, strong mind of his own. The Court Messenger started out to find a little Princess who was sweet tempered, and had blue eyes, and yellow hair that curled, and was rich, and knew how to make molasses pop-corn balls. He thought that he would find the right Princessovernight, but it came to be weeks and weeks and she was still as far away as ever. The Princesses who were sweet tempered were apt to have brown hair and hazel eyes, and if there was a sweet tempered one with blue eyes and yellow hair that curled she belonged in a Kingdom where there was very little money. And none of ...« less