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The little girl Princess was simply filled with joy. She picked up Meg and Peg and Kilmanskeg and Gustibus and Peter Piper as if they had been really a Queen's dolls. "Oh! the darling dears," she said. "Look at their nice, queer faces and their funny clothes. Just just like Grandmamma's dollies' clothes. Only these poor things do so want new ones.

"I wouldn't move if I was made King of England," he said. "Buckingham Palace wouldn't be half as nice." "We've had such fun here," said Peg. And Kilmanskeg shook her head from side to side and wiped her eyes on her ragged pocket-handkerchief. There is no knowing what would have happened to them if Peter Piper hadn't cheered up as he always did. "I say," he said, "do you hear that noise?"

Our house is going to be burned!" cried Meg and Peg clutching their brothers. "Let us go and throw ourselves out of the window!" cried Kilmanskeg. "I don't see how they can have the heart to burn a person's home!" said Ridiklis, wiping her eyes with her kitchen duster. Peter Piper was rather pale, but he was extremely brave and remembered that he was the head of the family.

"Oh! do take me," said Lady Patsy. So he helped her down the ladder and took her under the armchair and into Racketty-Packetty House and Meg and Peg and Kilmanskeg and Ridiklis and Gustibus all crowded round her and gave little screams of joy at the sight of her. They were afraid to kiss her at first, even though she was engaged to Peter Piper.

It is not exactly the way such things are done at Court, but Peter Piper thought it would do and at any rate it was great fun. So he made them all kneel down in a row and he touched each on the shoulder with the poker and said: "Rise up, Lady Meg and Lady Peg and Lady Kilmanskeg and Lady Ridiklis of Racketty-Packetty House-and also the Right Honorable Lord Gustibus Rags!"

"When Cynthia asked what she should do with this old Racketty-Packetty House, she said, 'Oh! I'll put it behind the door for the present and then it shall be carried down-stairs and burned. It's too disgraceful to be kept in any decent nursery." "Oh!" cried out Peter Piper. "Oh!" said Gustibus. "Oh! Oh! Oh!" said Meg and Peg and Kilmanskeg. "Will they burn our dear old shabby house?

She watches us as much as we watch her, and I have seen her giggling and giggling when we were having fun. Yesterday when I chased Lady Meg and Lady Peg and Lady Kilmanskeg round and round the front of the house and turned summersaults every five steps, she laughed until she had to stuff her handkerchief into her mouth.

"Let's go and call Kilmanskeg and Ridiklis and Gustibus and Peter Piper," they said, and they rushed to the staircase and met Kilmanskeg and Ridiklis and Gustibus and Peter Piper coming scrambling up panting because the noise had wakened them as well. They were all over at Tidy Castle in a minute. They just tumbled over each other to get there the kind-hearted things.

But Meg and Peg were like Ridiklis and could not bear to leave their families besides not wanting to live in nests, and hatch eggs and Kilmanskeg said she would die of a broken heart if she could not be with Ridiklis, and Ridiklis did not like cheese and crumbs and mousy things, so they could never live together in a mouse hole.

Meg and Peg and Kilmanskeg clutched at their hearts and gasped and Gustibus groaned and Lady Patsy caught Peter Piper by the arm to keep from falling. Peter Piper gulped and then he had a sudden cheerful thought. "Perhaps she was raving in delirium," he said.