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Updated: May 10, 2025
They filled their pockets and tried to eat pop-corn as they fought, but they could not manage that very well. On the third day the city surrendered with very little loss of life on either side, and the little Princess Rosetta was restored to her parents. There was great rejoicing all through Romalia; in the evening there was an illumination and a torch-light procession.
He paid tribute to the King of Romalia as long as he lived; but after his death, when his son, the young prince, came to reign, affairs were on a very pleasant footing between the two kingdoms. The new King was very different from his father, being generous and amiable, and beloved by every one.
So the King gave him a great piece of honey-comb in a silver dish, and the Pop-corn man departed. He never came to Romalia again, but the Poet Laureate celebrated him in an epic poem, describing the loss of the Princess and the war for her rescue.
All the difference in the honey was this: in Romalia the bees fed more on clover, and the honey tasted of clover: and in the country across the river on peppermint, and that honey tasted of peppermint. They always had both kinds at their Bee Festivals. All children have wondered unceasingly from their very first Christmas up to their very last Christmas, where the Christmas presents come from.
He ordered the swords to be cleaned with sand-paper until they shone, and new bullets to be cast. The Bee Guards were drilled every day, and the people could not sleep for the drums and the fifes. When everything was ready the King of Romalia and his army crossed the river and laid siege to the city.
In addition to them were the "Bee Guards." They were the King's own body-guards. Their uniform was white with green cuffs and collar and facings. On the green were swarms of embroidered bees. They carried a banner of green silk worked with bees and roses. So the bee might fairly have been considered the national emblem of Romalia, for that was the name of the country.
When the people across the river had been popping corn for about a month, the Pop-corn man went to the King of Romalia's palace, and sought an audience. He told him how he had discovered his daughter in the palace of the King across the river. The King of Romalia clasped his hands in despair. "I must make war," said he, "but my army is nothing to his." However, he at once went about making war.
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