The King and Queen used to visit Drusilla often; they gave her back
her rick-rack dress, and grew very fond of her, though she would not
be a Princess. Finally, however, they prevailed upon her to be made
a countess. So she was called "Lady Drusilla," and she had a coat of
arms, with the gold-horned cow rampant on it, put up over the great
gate of the castle.
PRINCESS ROSETTA AND THE POP-CORN MAN.
I.
THE PRINCESS ROSETTA.
The Bee Festival was held on the sixteenth day of May; all the court
went. The court-ladies wore green silk scarfs, long green floating
plumes in their bonnets, and green satin petticoats embroidered with
apple-blossoms. The court-gentlemen wore green velvet tunics with
nose-gays in their buttonholes, and green silk hose. Their little
pointed shoes were adorned with knots of flowers instead of buckles.
As for the King himself, he wore a thick wreath of cherry and
peach-blossoms instead of his crown, and carried a white thorn-branch
instead of his scepter. His green velvet robe was trimmed with a
border of blue and white violets instead of ermine. The Queen wore a
garland of violets around her golden head, and the hem of her gown was
thickly sown with primroses.
But the little Princess Rosetta surpassed all the rest. Her little
gown was completely woven of violets and other fine flowers.
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