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Once upon a time lived a King whose wife was dead and who had one little daughter who was named Fernanda. She was very good and pretty, but when she was a child she vexed all her ladies by asking them questions about everything she saw.
"Your Highness should not wish to know too much," they told her, whereat Princess Fernanda threw up her little head, and said, "I want to know everything."