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other names in the kingdom. When
the Little Man came the next day,
the Queen began with Melchior,
Caspar, Balthazar, and said all the
names she wrote on her list, but the
Little Man said, “None of them are
my name,” and left the room. On the
second day, she asked the people in
the neighborhood about their names room.
and when the Little Man entered the On the third day, the messenger
room that afternoon, she asked, “Is came back to the palace, and said, “I
your name Sheepshanks, Laceleg, or haven’t been able to find new names,
Shortribs?” “They are not my name,” but when I walked by the mountain
replied the Little Man as he left the at the end of the forest, I saw a