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　　"We shall have a war, Sire, depend on it," says the Minister. "His father, King Padella. . ."

　　"His father, King WHO?" says the King. "King Padella is not Giglio's father. My brother, King Savio, was Giglio's father."

　　"It's Prince Bulbo they are hanging, Sire, not Prince Giglio," says the Prime Minister.

　　"You told me to hang the Prince, and I took the ugly one," says Hedzoff. "I didn't, of course, think Your Majesty intended to murder your own flesh and blood! "

　　The King for all reply flung the plate of sausages at Hedzoff's head. The Princess cried out "Hee-kareekaree!" and fell down in a fainting fit.

　　"Turn the cock of the urn upon Her Royal Highness," said the King, and the boiling water gradually revived her. His Majesty looked at his watch, compared it by the clock in the parlour, and by that of the church in the square opposite; then he wound it up; then he looked at it again. "The great question is," says he, "am I fast or am I slow? If I'm slow, we may as well go on with breakfast. If I'm fast, why, there is just the possibility of saving Prince Bulbo. It's a doosid awkward mistake, and upon my word, Hedzoff, I have the greatest mind to have you hanged too."

　　"Sire, I did but my duty; a soldier has but his orders. I didn't expect after forty-seven years of faithful service that my sovereign would think of putting me to a felon's death!"

　　"A hundred thousand plagues upon you! Can't you see that while you are talking my Bulbo is being hung?" screamed the Princess.

　　"By Jove! she's always right, that girl, and I'm so absent," says the King, looking at his watch again. "Ha! there go the drums! What a doosid awkward thing though!"

　　"Oh, papa, you goose! Write the reprieve, and let me run with it," cries the Princess——and she got a sheet of paper, and pen and ink, and laid them before the King.

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