Publisher's Synopsis
Once upon a time, so long ago that I have quite forgot-ten the date, there lived a king and queen who had no children.And the king said to himself, "All the queens of my acquaintance have children, some three, some seven, and some as many as twelve; and my queen has not one. I feel ill-used." So he made up his mind to be cross with his wi-fe about it. But she bore it all like a good patient queen as she was. Then the king grew very cross indeed. But the queen pretended to take it all as a joke, and a very good one too."Why don't you have any daughters, at least?" said he. "I don't say sons; that might be too much to expect."
