r annoyed any person in my life,
unless it might be for their own good. But it
fails some to recognise their best friend. Just
teaching him I was to pickle onion thinnings as it
was done at the King of Alban's Court.

_Princess:_ Didn't he know that before?

_Queen:_ Whether or no, he gave me very little
thanks, but turned around and asked his wages.
Hurrying him and harrying him he said I was,
and away with him, himself and his four-and-twenty
apprentices.

_King:_ That is bad news, and pitiful news.

_Queen:_ Do not be troubling yourself at all. It
will be easy find another.

_King:_ It might not be easy to find so good a
one. A great pity! A dinner or a supper not
to be rightly dressed is apt to give no pleasure in
the eating or in the bye-and-bye.

_Queen:_ I have taken it in hand. I have a good
headpiece. I put out a call with running lads
and with the army captains through the whole
of the five provinces; and along with that, I have
it put up on tablets at the post office.

_Princess:_ I am sorry the old one to be gone.
To remember him is nearly the farthest spot in
my memory.

_Queen: (Sharply.)_ If you want the house to
be under your hand only, it is best for you to settle
into one of your own.

_Princess:_ Give me the little rush cabin by the
stream and I'll be content.

_Queen:_ If you mind yourself and profit by
my instruction it is maybe not a cabin you will
be moving to but a palace.

_Princess:_ I'm tired of palaces. There are too
many people in them.

_Queen:_ That is talking folly. When you settle
yourself it must be in the station where you were
born.

_Princess:_ I have no mind to settle myself yet
awhile.

_Nurse:_ Ah, you will not be saying that the
time Mr. Right will come down the chimney,
and will give you the marks and tokens of a king.

_Queen:_ There might have some come looking
for her before this, if it was not for you petting
and pampering her the way you do, and encouraging
her flightiness and follies. It is likely she will get
no offers till such time as I will have taught her
the manners and the right customs of courts.

_Nurse:_ Sure I am acquainted with courts myself.
Wasn't it I fostered comely Manus that is presently
King of Sorcha, since his father went out of the
world? And as to lovers coming to look for her!
They do be coming up to this as plenty as the eye
could hold them, and she refusing them, and they
laying the blame upon the King!

_King: