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"IF I WERE ONLY A KING."
ONE fine, warm, summer day, four children were playing together in the
garden.
"Oh!" said one of them, "if I were only a king, I would live in a
beautiful castle that should reach up to the clouds."
"And I," said another, "would wear nothing but gold and silver clothes."
"If I were one," cried a little boy, "I would do nothing but eat cake
and pudding all day long."
"And I," said a little girl, blushing, "would give money to all the poor
children I saw, so that they might buy food and clothes."
Which of these children do you think would have made the best ruler?
LEONORA, from the German.