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Rh So when the king came and set eyes on the ugly swarthy kitchen-maid, he turned white and red; but when he heard how they said she was the loveliest in twelve kingdoms, he thought he could not help believing there must be something in it; and besides, he felt for poor Taper Tom, who had taken so much pains to get her for him.



"She'll get better, perhaps, as time goes on," he thought, "when she is dressed smartly and wears fine clothes;" and so he took her home with him.

Then they sent for all the wig-makers and