“I will try,” said Linda.
And she did try, and whenever she was inclined to do any selfish act she thought of her wonderful dream, and said to herself, “I should not wish all the world to be like the cats and the carrots.”
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“That’s a good story,” said Mary Frances to the Queen. “I shall try to remember it.”
“It is a good story,” replied the Queen, smiling; “but we have still better, as you shall hear.”
Here a page boy who sat on a stool at the foot of the Story Lady began to fidget, as if to ask a question.
“Well, what is it, Roland?” asked the Story Lady.
“If you please, can’t we have a story about a boy?” answered Roland.
“Yes,” said the Story Lady; “you shall have two stories—one about a tiger, and the other about a page boy who killed a dragon.”