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WHY THE TARTS WERE S7OLEX.
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you do it! How's that, Mrs. Horner
what does he mean! "
" Your majesty may well say mean, for mean as dirt
it is to have a man tucking off the blame on to a woman
that way ; though
it is no more than Adam did before
him, to be sure."
u Well, but why does he say it was you made him
steal the tarts i"
*-Well, Til tell your majesty the whole truth.
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Horner there, has always been telling me about the
queen's tarts, and how nice they were, and how nobody
but your majesty could ever taste a bit, and all that,
until he made me almost crazy for ; yon must know, your
majesty, that I make very nice pastry myself some folks
say better than even Bedreddin Hassan wno lives round
the corner here."
~Bedreddin Hassan, son-in-law of the Sultan of
Egypt, husband of the Lady of Beauty, and father of
little
Agib ! Does he live round the corner ? Dear me,
how " very singular
! said the King of Hearts, laying
aside his sword and darts, and seating
himself upon a
corner of the table. u How came he here I I wish I
could eat one of his cream-tarts."
"Your majesty shall have one in two minutes,"
exclaimed the knave, rushing out of the house with all