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So you will understand how anxious they were when Fairy Mumruffin looked down at the sleeping Princess in her cradle and waved her wand.
"They have called you Daffodil," she said, and then she waved her wand again:
"Let Daffodil
The gardens fill.
Wherever you go
Flowers shall grow."
There was a moment's silence while the King tried to think this out.
"What was that?" he whispered to the Queen. "I didn't quite get that."
"Wherever she walks flowers are going to grow," said the Queen. "I think it's sweet."
"Oh," said the King. "Was that all? She didn't say anything about—"
"No."
"Oh, well."
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