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 Yet none of these things contented them, because they wanted a little child of their own to love and to care for, and though they had been married several years, no child had come to them,

Every day the King would look at the Queen and say: “Ah, if we only had a little child,” and the Queen would look at the King and sigh, and they were both very miserable about it. Then they would put on their golden crowns