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<P>When the King clapped his hands twice, in rushed twenty-four armed guards. <P>"Bind me this dog!" quoth the King, pointing to the Prince. <P>"Is this the way you treat a stranger?" cried the Prince. <P>"Aye," said the King, merrily. "We will treat you royally! You are tired. So tonight and tomorrow you shall be lodged and feasted daintily. The day after, we will have a celebration -- when you shall be beaten with sticks, and shall fight a tiger, and be tossed by a bull, and be bowstrung, and beheaded, and drawn and quartered . . . and we will have the nicest time!" <P>American humorist novelist Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) wrote novels including the popular <I>Rudder Grange</I> -- yet it may have been in his delightful works for children that he struck his happiest literary notes.