[asterism] The Princess Pourquoi, The Princess and the Microbe, and The Seven Studious Sisters appeared first in _Scribner's Magazine_, The Clever Necromancer in the _Atlantic Monthly_, and The Gentle Robber in _McClure's Magazine_. They are here reprinted by the courteous permission of the publishers of those magazines. Once upon a time, in a country very far away, a new princess was born. As is usual in such cases, the King, her father, and the Queen, her mother, held a great christening feast, to which were invited all the crowned heads for miles around, all the nobility of their own kingdom, and the fairies whose good wishes were considered desirable. In the middle of the ceremony, as i…
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