grandmother laid her! She hardly could have told she was lying upon
anything: she felt nothing but the softness. The old lady having
undressed herself, lay down beside her.
"Why don't you put out your moon?" asked the princess.
"That never goes out, night or day," she answered. "In the darkest
night, if any of my pigeons are out on a message, they always see my
moon, and know where to fly to."
"But if somebody besides the pigeons were to see it--somebody about
the
house, I mean--they would come to look what it was, and find you."
"The better for them then," said the old lady. "But it does not happen
above five times in a hundred years that any one does see it. The
greater part of those who do, take it for a meteor, wink their eyes, and
forget it again. Besides, nobody could find the room except I pleased.
Besides again--I will tell you a secret--if that light were to go out,
you would fancy yourself lying in a bare garret, on a heap of old straw,
and would not see one of the pleasant things round about you all the
time."
Madhuri Noah
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