“Very good,” said the King. “Let us now hear the lost story.” And all the Story People sat down to form a double circle.
With that the Story Lady, dressed like a butterfly, came dancing in. The King opened the green bottle, took out the roll of paper and handed it to her. She took her place at the end just where the circle closed, and began to read aloud the lost story, which is entitled “The Bubble Story.”
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THE BUBBLE STORY
LILLA walked through the garden, saying—
“I should like to be a princess,” for she had been reading a story about a princess who had only to say “Come,” and anything she wished for came at once.
It was a hot summer day, and she sat down on a mossy bank under an elm tree thinking what she should wish for if she had the power of the princess. All at once the garden seemed strange to her, and she heard a voice saying:
“If you take a rose from me
You will then a princess be.”