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THE PRINCE WHO WENT SEEKING HIS
SISTEES
ONCE upon a time there lived a king who
was so very rich that he built a house to
keep his gold in. There was nothing else kept
there, but pieces of gold. Soldiers guarded it
night and day. Whenever the king needed
money, he would go to the money house and get
it from the soldiers.
It happened that the king became very fond
of wine. He drank all of his own wine, and
then he began to buy more. Of course he used
a great deal of gold to pay for the wine and he
;
took so much of it that the queen
at last went to
the soldiers and said,
"The
gold you are guarding really does not
belong to the king. He holds it in trust. It is
the people s money. In time of famine it should
be used to buy grain and corn to keep our
people from starving. The king is using it for
himself ;
he must not. So when he comes again
and asks you for more gold, you must tell him
that it is all gone/
The next time the king asked the soldiers for
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