The Travelling Companion (7)

The Travelling Companion (7)

  There was a king puppet and a queen and all their court, and the play was just beginning when a dog sprang up and took the queen  pepper in his mouth so roughly that he bit her almost in two.

  The puppet master was so sad that he was nearly in tears, but John'sCompanion said that he could mend her better than new with his ointments

  And so he did, and now she could dance and walk all by herself.

  In the night there was a strange sound.

  It was the other puppets weeping and sighing because they could only move when someone else pulled their strings.

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