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would be able for a few hours to forget
that she was a farm girl, and be a princess
once more.
So, at break of day, she stamped on the
ground, as the fairy had told her, and
instantly the dress like the sky lay across
her tiny bed. Her room was so small that
there was no place for the train of her

dress to spread itself out, but she pinned
it up carefully when she combed her
beautiful hair and piled it up on the top
of her head, as she had always worn it.
When she had done, she was so pleased
with herself that she determined never to
let a chance pass of putting on her

splendid clothes, even if she had to wear
them in the fields, with no one to admire
her but the sheep and turkeys.

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