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Her voice was like a grumpy lion, and everyone, including someone’s
parent who was just passing the door, felt a quaking in his or her legs.
One of the girls was showing her friend her belly button but she
stopped instantly and looked in fear at Mrs. MacCreadle. Another boy
was making a dart, but he folded it the wrong way.
In the silence, Mrs. MacCreadle picked up a book from her cluttered
desk and opened it at a page she had already marked.
“The Princess and the Pea,” she announced, and the class settled down.
“Long ago, there was a land where the mountains were capped with
snow, and the pastures were rich and green, and the people were happy.
In this land lived a prince who was so handsome, so friendly and so kind
that every girl in the land fell in love with him. But the prince was so
fussy, he only wanted to marry a princess, a real princess..."
Jeremiah tried to stop himself from drifting away, but the thought of
snow-capped mountains, and green pastures was too much for him, His
imagination dropped him down, down, until PLOP! His feet landed in
soft green grass. He ran across the green pastures and stopped to gaze at
the castle where the fussy prince lived. A few minutes later he was
running across the drawbridge, past the guards, and into the main
courtyard. There was the prince, leaning on a railing one story up. He
was dressed in bright silks, red, blue, green, and he had a hat with a long
yellow feather.
