What a Baby: how absurd
To be bullied by a Bird!
“Tell the King he is wanted,” said the Dwarf.
The Porter carried this rude message, and the King went trembling to the door.
“I have come to claim your promise; you give me NIENTE,” said the Dwarf, in his froggy voice.
Now the King had spoken long ago about his foolish promise, to the Queen of the Water Fairies, a very powerful person, and Godmother of his child.
“The Dwarf must be one of my people, if he rides a Frog,” the Queen of the Water Fairies had said. “Just send him to me, if he is troublesome.”
The King remembered this when he saw the Dwarf, so he put a bold face on it.
“That’s you, is it?” said the King to the Dwarf. “Just you go to the Queen of the Water Fairies; she will have a word to say to you.”