When first they entered the throne room,
they tried to be as haughty and scornful as ever, but the Blues who
were assembled there all laughed at them and jeered them, for there
was not a single person in all the Blue Country who loved the
Princesses the least little bit.
Trot told the girls that they must go with their father to live in
Ghip-Ghisizzle's little old cabin, and when they heard this dreadful
decree, the six snubnosed ones began to scream and have hysterics,
and between them they managed to make so much noise that no one
could hear anything else. So Ghip-Ghisizzle ordered the Captain to
take a file of soldiers and escort the raving beauties to their new
home.
This was done, the once-royal family departing from the palace with
shamed and downcast looks. Then the Room of the Great Knife was
cleared of its awful furniture. The frames were split into small
pieces of bluewood and the benches chopped into kindling and the
immense sharp knife broken into bits. All the rubbish was piled into
the square before the palace and a bonfire made of it, while the
Blue people clustered around and danced and sang with joy as the
blue flames devoured the dreadful instrument that had once caused
them so much unhappiness.
That evening Trot gave a grand ball in her palace, to which the most
important of the Pinkies and the Blueskins were invited.
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