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THE GIRL WITH A

party like never before. Notify the court and give the necessary orders, but firstly, send for the royal coach. The captain saluted militarily and left accompanied by his guards.

It wasn't long before a carriage pulled up at the door, drawn by three pairs of wrasses.

The coachman was a handsome red-footed shrimp, who was very sore at the top of his tail. As soon as the prince and the girl got into the carriage, Master Shrimp cracked his whip and the wrasses took off like lightning.


THE INFIRMARY

AS the carriage sped along the bottom of the stream, Narizinho admired the beautiful panoramas through the windows, the avenues of white sand, the round stones and the fish that stopped respectfully to watch them pass. At a certain point, the carriage changed direction, took a turn and stopped at the hospital gates. It was a large room, full of beds and tables with medicine bottles. Doctor Snail, the kingdom's famous expert, was there, along with some cockroaches nurses dressed as sisters of charity. The prince called the doctor and asked for news