And then began a great dispute between Patypata , Grabugeon , and Tintin , and they came to high words , until at last Grabugeon , who was quicker than the others , ran up to the very top of the nearest tree , and let herself fall , head first , to the ground , and there she lay -- quite dead ! The Princess was very sorry , but as Grabugeon was really dead , she allowed the Captain of the Guard to take her tongue ; but , alas ! it was such a little one -- not bigger than the Princess 's thumb -- that they decided sorrowfully that it was of no use at all : the King would not have been taken in by it for a moment ! `` Alas ! my little monkey , '' cried the Princess , `` I have lost you , and yet I am no better off than I was before . '' `` The honor of saving your life is to be mine , '' interrupted Patypata , and , before they could prevent her , she had picked up a knife and cut her head off in an instant . But when the Captain of the Guard would have taken her tongue it turned out to be quite black , so that would not have deceived the King either . `` Am I not unlucky ? '' cried the poor Princess ; `` I lose everything I love , and am none the better for it . '' `` If you had accepted my offer , '' said Tintin , `` you would only have had me to regret , and I should have had all your gratitude . '' Miranda kissed her little dog , crying so bitterly , that at last she could bear it no longer , and turned away into the forest . When she looked back the Captain of the Guard was gone , and she was alone , except for Patypata , Grabugeon , and Tintin , who lay upon the ground . She could not leave the place until she had buried them in a pretty little mossy grave at the foot of a tree , and she wrote their names upon the bark of the tree , and how they had all died to save her life . And then she began to think where she could go for safety -- for this forest was so close to her father 's castle that she might be seen and recognized by the first passer-by , and , besides that , it was full of lions and wolves , who would have snapped up a princess just as soon as a stray chicken . So she began to walk as fast as she could , but the forest was so large and the sun was so hot that she nearly died of heat and terror and fatigue ; look which way she would there seemed to be no end to the forest , and she was so frightened that she fancied every minute that she heard the King running after her to kill her . You may imagine how miserable she was , and how she cried as she went on , not knowing which path to follow , and with the thorny bushes scratching her dreadfully and tearing her pretty frock to pieces . At last she heard the bleating of a sheep , and said to herself : `` No doubt there are shepherds here with their flocks ; they will show me the way to some village where I can live disguised as a peasant girl . Alas ! it is not always kings and princes who are the happiest people in the world . Who could have believed that I should ever be obliged to run away and hide because the King , for no reason at all , wishes to kill me ? ''
So saying she advanced toward the place where she heard the bleating , but what was her surprise when , XXXXX a lovely little glade quite surrounded by trees , she saw a large sheep ; its wool was as white as snow , and its horns shone like gold ; it had a garland of flowers round its neck , and strings of great pearls about its legs , and a collar of diamonds ; it lay upon a bank of orange-flowers , under a canopy of cloth of gold which protected it from the heat of the sun .
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