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[Editorial] nicknack -> knickknack
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acabal committed May 31, 2024
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<p>“He ate seventeen bowls of porridge, a platter full of fried sausages, eleven loaves of bread and twenty-one mince pies,” said the Steward.</p>
<p>“What more do you want?” demanded the King.</p>
<p>“A fat baby. I want a fat baby,” said the Hungry Tiger. “A nice, plump, juicy, tender, fat baby. But, of course, if I had one, my conscience would not allow me to eat it. So I’ll have to be an ornament and forget my hunger.”</p>
<p>“Impossible!” exclaimed the King. “I’ll have no clumsy beasts enter my palace, to overturn and break all my pretty nicknacks. When the rest of your friends are transformed you can return to the upper world, and go about your business.”</p>
<p>“Impossible!” exclaimed the King. “I’ll have no clumsy beasts enter my palace, to overturn and break all my pretty knicknacks. When the rest of your friends are transformed you can return to the upper world, and go about your business.”</p>
<p>“As for that we have no business, when our friends are gone,” said the Lion. “So we do not care much what becomes of us.”</p>
<p>Dorothy begged to be allowed to go first into the palace, but Tiktok firmly maintained that the slave should face danger before the mistress. The Scarecrow agreed with him in that, so the Nome King opened the door for the machine man, who tramped into the palace to meet his fate. Then his Majesty returned to his throne and puffed his pipe so contentedly that a small cloud of smoke formed above his head.</p>
<p>Bye and bye he said:</p>
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