all judge the people
till the King comes."

This is what the boys would call "rather cool;"
but I only said, "Yes, your Majesty, you shall
judge every one there is to judge,"--which was
me and Bluff, and Crummy the cow, and ten
fowls, and the pig. She was just as pleasant
and condescendin' as could be all the evenin',
and when I put her to bed in the fourposter in
the spare room, she praised me again, and said
that when the King came she would give me a
carcanet of rubies, whatever that is.

Just as soon as she was asleep, the first thing
that I did was to open the stove and put her
rags in, piece by piece, till they was all
burnt up. The moose-skin, which was a good one,
I hung out on the line to air. Then I brought
out some clothes of Mother's that I'd kep' laid
away,--a good calico dress and some
underclothing, all nice and fresh,--and laid
them over the back of a cheer by her bed. It
seemed kind o' strange to go to bed with a
ravin' lunatic, as you may say, in the next
room; but I knew I was doin' right, and that
was all there was to it. The Lord would see to
the rest, I thought.

Next mornin' I was up bright and early, and
soon as I'd made the fire and tidied up and got
breakfast under way, I went in to see how her
Majesty was. She was wide awake, sittin' up in
bed, and lookin' round her as wild as a hawk.
Seemed as if she was just goin' to spring out
o' bed; but when she saw me, she quieted down,
and when I spoke easy and soothin' like, and
asked her how she'd slept, she answered
pleasant enough.

"But where are my robes?" said she, pointin' to
the clothes I'd laid out. "Those are not my
robes."

"They's new robes," I said, quite bold. "The
old ones had to be taken away, your Majesty.
They weren't fit for you to wear, really,--all
but the coronation robe; and that's hangin' on
the line, to--to take the wrinkles out."

Well, I had a hard fight over the clothes; she
couldn't make up her mind nohow to put 'em on.
But at last I had an idee. "Don't you know," I
said, "the Bible says 'The King's Daughter is
all radiant within,