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THE FLOATING PRINCE AND OTHER FAIRY TALES.
the part of the world where ordinary people live, and have her immediately educated.
"Am I to go?" asked his wife.
"No," said the Gudra. "I do not wish any one to suppose that she has so small a mother. I will take Krignock, half a dozen servants, and the Curious One. That will be enough. We shall soon be back."
THE GUDRA AND HIS DAUGHTER START ON THEIR JOURNEY.
"But will it not be dangerous," asked his wife, "to travel with the child and so few attendants?"
"Dangerous!" roared the Gudra, indignantly, "am I not going?"
The next day they started. They went on foot, for the dwarfs have no horses. The Gudra and his daughter marched
