'I didn't want it,' said Angelical

'But you are a darling little angel all the same,' says the governess.

'Yes; I know I am,' said Angelical 'Dirty little girl, don't you think
I am very pretty?' Indeed, she had on the finest of little dresses and
hats; and, as her hair was carefully curled, she really looked very
well.

'Oh, pooty, pooty!' says the little girl, capering about, laughing, and
dancing, and munching her bun; and as she ate it she began to sing, 'Oh,
what fun to have a plum bun! how I wis it never was done!' At which,
and her funny accent, Angelica, Giglio, and the King and Queen began to
laugh very merrily.

'I can dance as well as sing,' says the little girl. 'I can dance, and I
can sing, and I can do all sorts of ting.' And she ran to a flower-bed,
and pulling a few polyanthuses, rhododendrons, and other flowers, made
herself a little wreath, and danced before the King and Queen so drolly
and prettily, that everybody was delighted.

'Who was your mother--who were your relations, little girl?' said the
Queen.

The little girl said, 'Little lion was my brudder; great big lioness my
mudder; neber heard of any udder.' And she capered away on her one shoe,
and everybody was exceedingly diverted.

So Angelica said to the Queen, 'Mamma, my parrot flew away yesterday out