The Paper Princess
“said Dolph, as he and Lord Arthur bowled along the Brighton Road, “I met an old tutor of mine from Oxford. Asked him about Brasnia and he said he had never heard of it.”
“Odd, the ignorance of some of those Oxford dons,” said Lord Arthur. “Come to think of it, it's quite disgraceful.”
“But he's a clever chap. Everybody says so. Now, you tell me. Where's Brasnia?”
“It is up near the Arctic Circle,” said Lord Arthur. “Quite a small country, very savage, full of polar bears and...”
“What kind of b...ears?”
“White. All over. So that they can hide themselves in the snow. As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, the inhabitants live in mansions carved out of ice in the winter, and, in the summer, they live in tents made out of reindeer skin.”
“But don't they have cities ... towns? I mean doesn't the princess have a castle?”
“Of course she does. A white castle with long, glittering icicles hanging from the towers. It was built in the thirteenth century by Georgi the Horrible.MoreLess
“Odd, the ignorance of some of those Oxford dons,” said Lord Arthur. “Come to think of it, it's quite disgraceful.”
“But he's a clever chap. Everybody says so. Now, you tell me. Where's Brasnia?”
“It is up near the Arctic Circle,” said Lord Arthur. “Quite a small country, very savage, full of polar bears and...”
“What kind of b...ears?”
“White. All over. So that they can hide themselves in the snow. As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, the inhabitants live in mansions carved out of ice in the winter, and, in the summer, they live in tents made out of reindeer skin.”
“But don't they have cities ... towns? I mean doesn't the princess have a castle?”
“Of course she does. A white castle with long, glittering icicles hanging from the towers. It was built in the thirteenth century by Georgi the Horrible.MoreLess
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