I was more frightened still when it brought me out on the mountain,
for
I thought it was going to take me into it again, and I like the outside
of it best. I supposed you were in trouble again, and I had to get you
out, but it brought me here instead; and, oh, Curdie! your mother has
been so kind to me--just like my own grandmother!"
Here Curdie's mother gave the princess a hug, and the princess turned
and gave her a sweet smile, and held up her mouth to kiss her.
"Then you didn't see the cobs?" asked Curdie.
"No; I haven't been into the mountain, I told you, Curdie."
"But the cobs have been into your house--all over it--and into your
bedroom making such a row!"
"What did they want there? It was very rude of them."
"They wanted you--to carry you off into the mountain with them, for a
wife to their Prince Harelip."
"Oh, how dreadful!" cried the princess, shuddering.
Madhuri Noah
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