"Quite safe."

"I have six little brothers who would go," said the Head-nurse.

So it was arranged that the six little brothers should go across the
river with the Pop-corn man; and the next morning they set out. They
were all decorated with strings of Pop-corn, they carried baskets of
pop-corn, and bore corn-poppers over their shoulders, and they crossed
the river in a row boat.

Once over the river they went about peddling pop-corn. The man sent
the boys all over the city, but he himself went straight to the
palace.

He knocked at the palace-door, and the maid-servant came. "Is the King
at home?" asked the Pop-corn man.

The maid said he was, and the Pop-corn man asked to see him. Just then
a baby cried.

"What baby is that crying?" asked he.

"A baby that was brought here at sunset, several months ago," replied
the maid; and he knew at once that he had found the Princess.

"Will you find out if I can see the King?" he said.

"I'll see," answered the maid. And she went in to find the King.
Pretty soon she returned and asked the Pop-corn man to step into the