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ONCE upon a time, so the story goes (you may read it for yourself in the / dear old tales of Hans Christian Andersen), there was a prince who / disguised himself as a swineherd. It was to gain admittance to a / beautiful princess that he thus came in disguise to her father's palace, / and to attract her attention he made a magic caldron, hung around with / strings of silver bells. Whenever the water in the caldron boiled and / bubbled, the bells rang a little tune to remind her of him.
"Oh, thou dear Augustine, / / All is lost and gone,"