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                          By Margaret Sherwood


    =THE PRINCESS POURQUOI.= Illustrated. $1.50.

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                        HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
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                                  THE

                           PRINCESS POURQUOI

                             [Illustration]




           [Illustration: EVERY DAY HER BIG EYES GREW WISER]




                              THE PRINCESS
                                POURQUOI

                                   BY

                           MARGARET SHERWOOD

                              ILLUSTRATED

                             [Illustration]


                          BOSTON AND NEW YORK
                      HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY
                               MDCCCCVII




           COPYRIGHT 1902 AND 1903 BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

                COPYRIGHT 1907 BY THE S. S. McCLURE CO.

           COPYRIGHT 1906 AND 1907 BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

                  COPYRIGHT 1907 BY MARGARET SHERWOOD


                          ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

                        _Published October 1907_




                                CONTENTS


    THE PRINCESS POURQUOI                                          1

    THE CLEVER NECROMANCER                                        43

    THE PRINCESS AND THE MICROBE                                  81

    THE SEVEN STUDIOUS SISTERS                                   131

    THE GENTLE ROBBER                                            175


    [asterism] The Princess Pourquoi, The Princess and