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THE PRINCESS POURQUOI
A little prince standing near, in a red velvet suit, looked at her very hard.
As time went on, the Princess Pourquoi was not quite content. She was too eager for that.
"I shall be happy when I find out," she said sadly one day.
"Find out what, your Highness?" asked the chief philosopher.
"It," answered the girl, and she pointed toward the horizon. "What it means, where we came from, what you are for and I am for."
The chief philosopher took a golden goblet of wine that a page had brought him and drank it to its dregs. Perhaps he meant this for an answer. Then he winked at his fellow-philosopher, and the two went arm
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