Otherwise,
none of us can ever be the Queen."
This being evident, they proceeded to unbind the long legs of
Ghip-Ghisizzle, leaving his body and arms, however, tied fast
together. Then between them they got him upon his feet and led him
away, paying no attention to poor Tiggle, who whined to be released
so he could fight in the war. After a hurried consultation, the Six
Snubnosed Princesses decided to hide the Majordomo in one of their
boudoirs, so they dragged him up the stairs to their reception room
and fell to quarreling as to whose boudoir should be occupied by
their captive. Not being able to settle the question, they finally
locked him up in a vacant room across the hall and told him he must
stay there until he had decided to marry one of the Princesses and
could make a choice among them.
THE CAPTURE OF CAP'N BILL
CHAPTER 21
While this was transpiring in the palace, Cap'n Bill and the Pinkies
had encamped before the principal gate of the City and a tent had
been pitched for Trot and Button-Bright and Rosalie. The army had
been very fearful and weak-kneed when it first entered the Blue
Country, but perceiving that the Boolooroo and his people were
afraid of them and had locked themselves up in the City, the Pinkies
grew bolder and longed to make an attack.
One of them, in his curiosity to examine the Blue City, got a little
too near the wall, and a blue soldier threw his cord-and-weight at
him.
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