may not be so fortunate as we have been in escaping from them.” “Did you have to feed them all?” asked a squirrel. “Yes,” answered Lucy, “or at least I tried to, but they quarreled so that I had to go without.” “I will never go near Old Three Heads,”[Pg 72] said the squirrel. “I have all I can do to take care of one head.” [Pg 72] “I have had my lesson,” said Lucy. “I shall never look into rooms again when the door is closed, for one head is all I care to have.” [Pg 73] [Pg 73] THE ENCHANTED BOAT Once there was a King who had a very beautiful daughter, and when the Queen died the King married a woman who had a son named Tito because he thought this new Queen would be kind and good to the Princess. O But in this the King was greatly mistaken, for the Queen thought only of her son and wished to make him King. She told the King that if he would make the Princess marry Tito that he need have no fear about the future of his kingdom, for he could be sure her son would make a good king. “And a woman should not be Queen and rule alone such a big kingdom as you possess,” said the scheming Queen. [Pg 74] [Pg 74] The King, who thought more of his daughter’s happiness than anything in the world, called the Princess and told her of his plan. “Marry your stepmother’s son and all will be well with you and I can die happy,” he told the Princess. But the Princess did not want to marry Tito, for she did not love him, and when she found that her father would not listen to her pleadings, but told her that very
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