ANDERSEN'S TALES. 
The emperor then went forth, in grand procession, 
under the splendid canopy, while the people In the 
street, and others at their windows, all exclaimed : 
“ Dear me! how incomparably beautiful are the em- 
eror's new clothes! What a fine train he has, and 
how well it is cut!” No one, in short, would let his 
neighbour think that he saw nothing, for it would 
have been like declaring himself unfit for his office, 
whatever that might be, or, at best, extremely stupid. 
None of the emperor’s clothes had ever met with such 
universal approbation as these. 
“ But he has got nothing on!” cried at length one 
iittle child. 
“Only listen to that innocent creature,” said the 
father; and the child’s remark was whispered from one 
to the other as a piece of laughable simplicity. 
“ But he has got nothing on!” cried at length the 
whole crowd. 
This startled the emperor, for he had an inkling 
that they were in the right, after all; but he thought : 
“I must, nevertheless, hice it out till the end, and go 
on with the procession.” 
And the lords in waiting went on marching as stiffly 
as ever, and carrying the train that did not exist. 
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and put him to bed, “and had the tea-things brought 
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