7/12 "That's easy, with a bird; but a girl is harder to manage." "Still," persisted Googly-Goo, "we must overcome difficulties. The chief trouble is that Gloria fancies she loves that miserable gardener's boy, Pon. Suppose we throw Pon into the Great Gulf, your Majesty ?" "It would do you no good," returned the King. "She would still love him." "Too bad, too bad!" sighed Googly-Goo. "I have laid aside more than a bushel of precious gems--each worth a king's ransom--to present to your Majesty on the day I wed Gloria." The King's eyes sparkled, for he loved wealth above everything; but the next moment he frowned deeply again. |