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"Dear me," said Pepitia, "I quite forgot my crown!"
"Why, I've lost mine too!" cried the king, clapping his hand to his head
to feel for the crown, which ought to have been there but was not.
"I've got the king's crown! I've got the king's crown!" cried another
little fellow, running up from the other side of the dell.
"What a bother the crowns are," said Philip.
"Well, suppose we don't wear them any more to-day," suggested the queen.
"No more we will," replied he; "and we had better take off our trains,
for there is no running or doing anything in them, and then you won't go
tumbling over yours, Pepitia; we will lay them down here, and we can put
them on again when we are going home."
So the trains, crowns, ball, and sceptre were put together in the corner
of the dell, and then the king and the queen were ready for a good game
of play with the rest of the troop.
"Well, now, what shall we play at next? I'm tired of hunting
butterflies," said Alphonse.
A little voice suggested "Hunt the slipper."
"Oh, yes! that's right; let's play at hunt the slipper," cried all the
youngest, clapping their hands and jumping up and down.
"I don't care for hunt the slipper," objected Amanda.
"Besides, we have not got a slipper," said the queen, "and I'm sure none
of you shall take your shoes off, or you will catch cold.
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