THE PRINCESS AND THE HEDGE-PIG'BUT I don't see what we're to do,' said the Queen for the twentieth time.
'Whatever we do will end in misfortune,' said the King gloomily; you'll see it will.'
They were sitting in the honeysuckle arbour talking things over, while the nurse walked up and down the terrace with the new baby in her arms.
'Yes, dear,' said the poor Queen; 'I've not the slightest doubt I shall.'
Misfortune comes in many ways, and you can't always know beforehand that a certain way is the way misfortune will come by: but there are things misfortune comes after as surely as night comes after day. For instance, if you let all the water boil away, the kettle will have a hole burnt in it. If you leave the bath taps running and the waste- pipe closed, the stairs of your house will,
