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THE YELLOW DWARF
too much frightened to run a single step, she began to cry, and leant against the tree under which she had been asleep. Just then she heard some one say: ‘H’m, h’m!’
She looked all round her, and then up at the tree, and there she saw a little tiny man, who was eating oranges.
‘Oh! Queen,’ said he, ‘I know you very well, and I know how much afraid you are of the lions; and you are quite right too, for
