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 ASHIEFATTLB AND THE KING'S HARES. 176 princess, and she was rather shy about giving him the kisses, but since they were out in the wood, where no one could see or hear it, she would not mmd giving him the kisses ; for the whistle she must and would have, she said. When Ashiepattle had got what he was to have, she got the whistle, and so she went holding it tight and fingering it all the way, but when she came to the palace and was about to show it to the king, it disappeared between her fingers. The next day the queen would go herself and try to get the whistle from him ; she thought she would be sure to bring it back with her. She was rather close-fisted in money matters and offered him only fifty dollars, but she had to raise her price till it rose to three hundred. Ashiepattle said it was something like a whistle, and it was really no bid at all for it, but for her sake he wouldn't