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only a spaniel and part-time furniture salesman!

But he means more to me than all my riches

put together! Please, please! I will give you all

the land of the town – from the Lamonic River

to Boaster’s Hill! From the Stone Table to the

Forest of Runtus! From the meanest hovel to

the Winter Palace itself – it will all be yours,

if you will only return Gooseberry to me, you

unbearable devil!’

But the Gypsy King merely laughed and

put Gooseberry’s face to his lips. Then he kissed

Gooseberry’s little face, once, twice, three times!

And all at once Gooseberry was gone. But around

the Gypsy King’s neck hung a chain that hadn’t

been there a moment before. From the chain

dangled a single glass bead, and inside the glass

bead, tiny as a fingernail, was poor Gooseberry.

‘That was a bit uncalled-for,’ said Princess

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