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Updated: May 27, 2025
It was clear that there could not be a marriage if nobody was there to be married, and no tidings had been received of King Grumbelo since he rode away to fetch his bride. There is no doubt that the discontent of the people would have ended in a revolution if the Professor of Practical Jokes had not hit upon a happy idea.
"Where does the Wise Woman of the Wood live?" he asked. But the dragon had curled himself up in the sun and was already half asleep. "Don't ask so many questions," he mumbled sleepily; and King Grumbelo strode angrily out of the garden. He mounted his horse and allowed it to take him wherever it would, for he had no idea where the Wise Woman of the Wood lived, and one way was as good as another.
It seemed incredible that the country should want anything more than the excellent government of King Grumbelo; but he was fond of his people at heart, in spite of the dulness to which he had brought them, and so he consented in the end to give them a Queen. "Go and find me the most beautiful, the most silent, and the most foolish Princess in the world," he said to them.
"Ah," said King Grumbelo, nodding his royal head approvingly; "and is she very foolish as well?" "That she must be, your Majesty," said the Comptroller of Whole Holidays, looking nervously towards the Professor of Practical Jokes, "because, your Majesty, well, because " "Because she has refused to have anything to do with your Majesty," boldly interrupted the Professor.
You have driven her away now by your endless questions; she has gone into her house of rose leaves, and the Wise Woman of the Wood alone knows what will bring her out again." King Grumbelo looked up at the dainty little house of rose leaves, and thought he heard the sound of muffled laughter floating through the open windows. He turned once more to the dragon.
The dragon consented unwillingly to take this message, and ambled clumsily away among the flower-beds. When he came back, he found the King pacing restlessly up and down. "Can't you keep still?" growled the dragon. "Your ridiculous name is enough to make any one giddy without " "What did the Lady Whimsical say?" interrupted King Grumbelo, impatiently.
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