`` For what reason did you leave the room without my permission ? '' They all knelt down , humbly imploring his compassion . `` Get up , you donkeys ! '' said the king , forgetting his politeness . `` Get up , and tell me where you have been hiding yourselves . '' The hatter came forward , and said : `` Sire , you will not believe me ; indeed , I can scarcely believe it myself ! '' `` Nor none of us ca n't , '' said the swordmaker . `` We have been home , and brought the articles . All orders executed with punctuality and dispatch , '' he added , quoting his own advertisement without thinking of it . On this the swordmaker took out and exhibited the Andrea Ferrara blade , which was exactly like the Sword of Sharpness . The upholsterer undid his parcel , and there was a Persian rug , which no one could tell from the magical carpet . The hatter was fumbling with the string of his parcel , when he suddenly remembered , what the king in his astonishment had not noticed , that he had a cap on himself . He pulled it off in a hurry , and the king at once saw that it was his Wishing Cap , and understood all about the affair . The hatter , in his absence , had tried on the Wishing Cap , and had wished that he himself and his friends were all at home and back again with their wares at the palace . And what he wished happened , of course , as was natural . In a moment the king saw how much talk this business would produce in the country , and he decided on the best way to stop it . Seizing the Wishing Cap , he put it on , wished all the tradesmen , including the shoemaker , back in the town at their shops , and also wished that none of them should remember anything about the whole affair . In a moment he was alone in the turret-room . As for the shopkeepers , they had a kind of idea that they had dreamed something odd ; but , as it went no further , of course they did not talk about it , and nobody was any the wiser . `` Owl that I am ! ''
said King Prigio XXXXX himself .
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