Chapter Two
we cannot let the old Kingdom disappear, you know!"
"Fiddlesticks!" choked Kabumpo. “She'll make a door mat of you, Pompa—Prince Pompadormat—that's what you'll be! Let's run away!" he proposed, his little eyes twinkling anxiously.
"I couldn't do that and let the Kingdom disappear, it wouldn't be right," sighed the Prince, and sadly he followed his parents into the royal gardens.
"The King's a Gooch!" gulped the Elegant Elephant unhappily. Then, all at once he flung up his trunk. "Somebody's going to disappear around here," he wheezed darkly, "that's certain!" With a mighty rustling of his silk robe, Kabumpo hurried off to his own royal quarters in the palace.
Left alone, Prince Pompa threw himself down at the foot of the throne, and gazed sadly into space.
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