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The Tinder Box (14) [The Tinder Box]

The Tinder Box (14)

Outside the town a great scaffold had been erected, and all round were standing the soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of people.

The King and Queen were sitting on a magnificent throne opposite the judges and the whole council.

The Soldier was already standing on the top of the ladder; but when they wanted to put the rope round his neck, he said that fulfillment of one innocent request was always granted to a poor criminal before he underwent his punishment.

He told them, he would so much like to smoke a small pipe of tabacco ; it would be his last pipe in this world.

The King could not refuse him this, and so he took out his tinder box, and rubbed it once, twice, three times.

And lo, and behold ! there stood all three dogs ー the one with eyes as large as saucers, the second with eyes as large as mill wheels, and the third with eyes as large as the Round Tower at Copenhagen.

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