Page 29 - Ridiculous Wishes

sausage fastened itself on her nose. Fanchon had once
been pretty, and, -- to tell the truth -- this ornament
did not have a very pleasing effect. Since it hung
down over her face, however, it interfered with her
talking, and this was such an advantage to her
husband that he did not think he had wished too
badly.

"With my remaining wish I could very well still
make myself a king," he said to himself. "But we
must think of the queen, too, and her unhappiness if
she were to sit on the throne with her new yard-long

nose. She must decide which she wants, to be a
queen with that nose or a woodcutter's wife and an
ordinary person."

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