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Author: Jacob Blanck Copyright Date: 1950 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Pagination: 48 p. |
![]() ![]() The truth is that simple arithmetic puzzled the eight-year-old King. Sometimes when he tried to add two and two, it would come out one, or nine, or three and sometimes eightbut seldom four! So the King always had by him a man who could add like an adding machine. ![]() “Ask my Counsellor of Arithmetic. He takes care of such things.” The King had Counsellors for everything. He had a Cousellor of the Weather whose duty it was to tell the King ![]() He had a Counsellor of the Table who told the King when to eat, and how muchespecially when there was lemon meringue pie for dinner! He had a Counsellor of the Bed-Chamber who told the King when to go to bed at night and when to get up in the morning! And he had all sorts of other ![]() King Horatio was very happy, except when his Counsellors told him that he couldn’t sing (when he felt like singing). Or when he wasn’t allowed to feed the ducks in the Royal Duck Pond because the Counsellor of the King’s Bath thought the King would get muddy. The Counsellor of Geography would never let him spin the globe in the Royal Library; and when the Counsellors weren’t busy telling King Horatio what to do, they were busy thinking things he ought to do. It was all very tiring. ![]()
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