her knee alternately. "I consider it very unpleasant. I feel as if
I should be crushed to pieces."

"Hurrah!" cried the prince from the bed. "If you've come round,
princess, so have I. How's the lake?"

"Brimful," answered the nurse.

"Then we're all happy."

"That we are indeed!" answered the princess, sobbing.

And there was rejoicing all over the country that rainy day. Even
the babies forgot their past troubles, and danced and crowed
amazingly. And the king told stories, and the queen listened to
them. And he divided the money in his box, and she the honey in her
pot, among all the children. And there was such jubilation as was
never heard of before.

Of course the prince and princess were betrothed at once. But the
princess had to learn to walk, before they could be married with
any propriety. And this was not so easy at her time of life, for
she could walk no more than a baby. She was always falling down and
hurting herself.

"Is this the gravity you used to make so much of?" said she one day
to the prince, as he raised her from the floor. "For my part, I was
a great deal more comfortable without it."

"No, no, that's not it. This is it," replied the prince, as he took