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OVER THE HILLS AMD FAR AWAY. 117
fetadeep, and promised them a nap uf a hundred jean
at lost. Then I flew oft; and never hare been near
them since.
ISTow the hundred years are out; moreover,
I have undertaken to find a wife for Prince Charming
a dear young friend of mine, and I think I shall bestow
Donna upon him. A giri brought up as quietly as she
has been, cannot fail to make a good wife. Here we
are. 11 And the ury godmother cheeked the griffins with a
motion of her hand, causing the arm-chair to remain
pnndod above a thick and tangled wood, from the
midst of which rose the tafl
chimneys and turrets of a
Advancing toward this wood Ehoda perceived a
young man, brown, dusty, handsome, and eager, who
pressed forward toward the tangled forest so fist that
his retiniK found it veiy hard to keep up with him. This
retinue, bj the way, consisted of one man dressed in the
Highland tmnhnnr, md lioMmg a bagpipe under hi& arm;
pan which he played a single tune without oaring.
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Amd aU the tne ikmt he arid ph?
WM 'Oir tfce hob ad w*f/
the firiry godmother, lookmgdown and laughing.
Well, my dear Charming^ yon wfll not complain,
when you see what I have brought you over the hills