![]() In the palace there were great festivities, and the children played at receiving company but instead of having, as usual, all the cakes and apples that were left, she gave them some sand in a tea-cup, and told them to pretend it was cake. ![]() They knew this from the very first day after the wedding. ![]() Their father, who was king of the country, married a very wicked queen, who did not love the poor children at all. Oh, these children were indeed happy, but it was not to remain so always. Their sister Eliza sat on a little stool of plate-glass, and had a book full of pictures, which had cost as much as half a kingdom. They wrote with diamond pencils on gold slates, and learnt their lessons so quickly and read so easily that every one might know they were princes. The eleven brothers were princes, and each went to school with a star on his breast, and a sword by his side. Far away in the land to which the swallows fly when it is winter, dwelt a king who had eleven sons, and on daughter, named Eliza. ![]()
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