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Tonight I will be reading

more Sandman stories

from Abbey Phillips Walker.

So lie down,

close your eyes,

and let me read you a story.

Princess Cantilla

Princess Cantilla lived in a castle like most princesses, but she was not a rich

princess, for her father had lost all his lands and money by quarreling with other kings about the

length and breadth of his kingdom and theirs. So poor little Cantilla had to work just like any

common peasant girl and cook the meals for herself and her father. The old castle where Cantilla and her father lived had fallen into decay,

and only a few rooms at one end were now used,

so that the bats and owls had taken possession of the towers

and once gorgeous halls on the opposite side of the castle,

where beautiful ladies and courtly gentlemen

...