Doctor Dolittle's Post Office by Hugh Lofting

Author:Hugh Lofting
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
Published: 2020-04-03T00:00:00+00:00

“She made a regular pet of him”

“Well, the fourth week after the enemy came the food in the castle was all gone and the king gave orders that the pigs must be eaten. The queen raised a great outcry and begged that her pet should be spared. But the king was very firm.

“‘My soldiers are starving,’ said he. ‘Your pet, Madam, must be turned into sausages.’

“Then the baby pig saw that the time to use the goblins’ magic gift had come. And, rushing out into the castle garden, he dug a hole and planted his piece of cucumber right in the middle of the king’s best rosebed.

“‘Parsnips!’ he grunted, as he filled in the hole. ‘May they blossom acres wide!’

“And, sure enough, he had hardly said the words before all over the king’s garden parsnips began springing up thick and fast. Even the gravel walks were covered with them.

“Then the king and his army had plenty of food and, growing strong on the nutritious parsnips, they sallied forth from the castle, smote the enemy, hip and thigh, and put them to flight.

“And the queen was allowed to keep her pet pig, which rejoiced her kind heart greatly—she being of Irish blood royal. And he became a great hero at the court and was given a sty studded with jewels in the centre of the castle garden—on the very spot where he had planted the Magic Cucumber. And they all lived happily ever after. And that is the end of the Piggish Fairy Tale.”

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