"An impossible _if_," said his Majesty with dignity.
"Quite," returned Curdie, and began singing again--
"Go to bed,
Goblin, do.
Help the queen
Take off her shoe.
"If you do,
It will disclose
A horrid set
Of sprouting toes."
"What a lie!" roared the queen in a rage.
"By the way, that reminds me," said the king, "that, for as long as we
have been married, I have never seen your feet, queen. I think you
might
take off your shoes when you go to bed! They positively hurt me
sometimes."
Madhuri Noah
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