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Title: Ting-a-ling

Author: Frank Richard Stockton

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TING-A-LING

by

FRANK R. STOCKTON.

Illustrated by E. B. Bensell

[Illustration]

New York.
Charles Scribner's Sons.
1921

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869,
by Frank R. Stockton,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania.

Copyright, 1882,
by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Copyright, 1910,
by William S. Stockton.

TO THE
MEMORY OF ALL
GOOD GIANTS, DWARFS, AND FAIRIES
This Book
_IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED_.

TING-A-LING.

In a far country of the East, in a palace surrounded by orange groves,
where the nightingales sang, and by silvery lakes, where the soft
fountains plashed, there lived a fine old king. For many years he had
governed with great comfort to himself, and to the tolerable
satisfaction of his subjects. His queen being dead, his whole affection
was given to his only child, the Princess Aufalia; and, whenever he
happened to think of it, he paid great attention to her education. She
had the best masters of embroidery and in the language of flowers, and
she took lessons on the zithar three times a week.

A suitable husband, the son of a neighboring monarch, had been selected
for her when she was about two hours old, thus making it unnecessary for
her to go into society, and she consequently passed her youthful days in
almost entire seclusion. She was now, when our story begins,