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ELIZA, the sweet daughter of the Wicked Queen, who was condemned by her mother to perform a supposed impossible task, was helped by the little mice who brought her thistles to make the eleven cloaks for the eleven white swans—her enchanted brothers—but it is doubtful if she would have completed the cloaks which transformed her brothers back into human shape had she not been invigorated and sustained by a wonderful beverage. Never until now has it been known what that beverage was, but can you doubt that it was identical with

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