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Rh the smallest giant, and that neither of them is larger than an ordinary man. And, at the school, I learned that it takes years and years to study properly all that I should know. And I have found put how the little prince studies, and how he recites, and I have a list of the books and parchments and other things that I need for my education. And now, dear mother, we will get these things, and we will study them together here at home."

This they did, and gradually, little Volma became very well educated. Every year, the young prince came to see her, and, when she was about twenty years old, he married her, and took her away to the great city, of which he was now ruler. Volma's mother used to make her long visits, but her father seldom came to see her. He liked to stay where he was bigger than anybody else.

The Dwarf Giant went home in very good spirits. He had found out that a very small giant is as large as an ordinary man, and that satisfied him.

As for the Curious One, as soon as he reached home, he gathered together a lot of small looking-glasses, and so arranged them that, by having one reflect into another, and that into another, and so on, he at last saw the reflection of the top of his head, with the letters thereon, right side up, and in their proper order, and he read these words:

"There is nothing here?" "Now, what does that mean?" he cried "Did that Motto-Professor mean hair or brains?" He never found out.