CHAPTER 29

"Hey you're ugly too! It's just the same bleeee!"

"Oh, that's right, stop fighting there." I'm sorry for her.

"Alright, I won't continue your story." They stopped.

"What's the title of the next story??"

"The golden branch."

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once upon a time there was a King who was so morose and disagreeable that he was feared by all his subjects, and with good reason, as for the most trifling offenses he would have them punished, This King Grumpy, as he was called, had one son, who was as different from his father as he could bepossibly be.no prince equaled him in cleverness and kindness of heart, but unfortunately he was most terribly ugly.

he had crooked legs and squinting eyes, a large mouth all on one side, and a hunchback, Never was there a beautiful soul in such a fearful little body, but in spite of his appearance everybody loved him. the Queen, his mother, called him Curlicue, because it was a name she rather liked, and it seemed to suit him,

king Grumpy, who cared a great deal more for his