Now while we flatter ourselves that our Anti-spindle campaign has been an unqualified success, yet there is this day with its fatal possibilities to be safely passed through! The question before us is, how best to guard the Princess from the one chance in a million-billion that a spindle yet exists!
The Frog.
Let her spend it with me at the bottom of the pond! [All murmur appreciatively.]
The Queen.
How dear of you! But she isn’t used to the damp!
The King.
Besides, someone might have thrown a spinning-wheel, or just the spindle, into it, you know!
All.
[Considering.] That’s true!