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    The Amazing Adventures of Princess Peridot
    The Amazing Adventures of Princess Peridot
    The Amazing Adventures of Princess Peridot
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    The Amazing Adventures of Princess Peridot

    By Lynne Roberts

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    When Princess Peridot complained that she was bored, she was overheard by one of the king’s advisers. What happened after that was a series of adventures involving a Wizard, an enchanted pig and even one of the royal gardeners.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLynne Roberts
    Release dateFeb 23, 2014
    ISBN9781927241097
    The Amazing Adventures of Princess Peridot
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    Lynne Roberts

    Lynne is a writer, musician, dance teacher and porcelain painter, among other things. She lives on an orchard in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand where she breeds donkeys and collects grandchildren. Lynne has written copious numbers of educational teaching resources from pre-school through to tertiary level. She writes story books and fantasy fiction for children and poetry for children and adults, always with a strong vein of humour. Lynne also writes musicals for which she composes the original music.

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      The Amazing Adventures of Princess Peridot - Lynne Roberts

      The Amazing Adventures of Princess Peridot

      By Lynne Roberts

      Published by Liberty Publications at Smashwords

      Copyright 2014 Lynne Roberts

      ISBN 978-1-927241-09-7

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author

      Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 1.

      Once upon a time, in the far off kingdom of Sarscabel, there lived the Princess Peridot. Actually, there lived a lot of other princesses as well, seventeen of them in total. They all had the same father, King Balthazar, but all had different mothers.

      When King Balthazar married his first wife, Queen Vashti, everyone in the kingdom rejoiced. She was a young and beautiful princess from a neighbouring kingdom, and in their first year together she and Balthazar ruled wisely and well. They were a very happy couple and the king was delighted when his wife gave him the glad tidings that they were about to have a child. No expense was spared in decorating and preparing the royal nurseries and every effort was made to ensure that the baby would be showered with gifts and good fortune when it finally arrived. King Balthazar had his advisors draw up forecasts predicting the fortune his son would have, for he was certain the baby would be a boy. Everyone in the kingdom looked forward to the day of the baby’s birth, as the king had promised to provide extensive feasts and gifts of gold coins to all his subjects. But no man, even a king, can control Fate. And Fate decided that the baby was not in fact a boy, but a girl.

      ‘You have a beautiful daughter, Sire,’ the court physician informed the king nervously, as he entered the anteroom where the king had been awaiting news of the birth.

      ‘What?’ bellowed the king in amazement.

      ‘A daughter. She is very beautiful. Fair of skin and dark of eye,’ stammered the physician. In fact the princess, like all babies, was red faced with crying and looked beautiful only to her doting mother, but the physician decided it would hardly be tactful to point this out.

      ‘A daughter!’

      King Balthazar was taken aback. He could not believe that that this had happened to him. Never before, in the course of his pampered life had something gone so expressly against his wishes.

      ‘A daughter!’ he said again in disgust. He duly inspected his child and was even less impressed. He recoiled in horror at the suggestion he should hold her and stood looking down at his wife with barely concealed annoyance.

      ‘Itzy, bitzy baby, then. She is so sweet,’ cooed his wife, as she stroked the fine downy hair on her daughter’s head. ‘What shall we call her?’

      ‘Call her what you like,’ snarled the king, losing his temper completely. He had a list of boys’ names already chosen but had given no thought to any girls’ names.

      ‘I’ll call her Ruby,’ murmured Queen Vashti. ‘She is a precious jewel to be treasured.’

      If she hoped to convince the king of this she had badly misjudged her husband. He was furious. He snarled at his advisors, threw a boot at his valet and stormed off to his hunting lodge in a right royal sulk. In an effort to drown his sorrows he broached a cask of wine he had been keeping for a suitable occasion and spent the next three days getting disgustingly drunk.

      At the peak of this drunken spree, while he was still able to stand and before he became so fuddled he couldn’t see straight, he convinced himself that it was all his wife’s fault.

      ‘She must have secretly wanted a girl and that’s what did it,’ he mumbled to himself, with a fine disregard for the principles of reproduction. ‘She knew I wanted a son and heir. It’s not fair. It’s all her fault.’

      He glared at the unfortunate serving man who refilled his wine cup with a trembling hand. The king drained the cup in one swallow.

      ‘What’s more,’ he went on moodily, ‘She’ll probably do it again if I give her the chance. What I need is another wife, one who wants a boy as much as I do. Isn’t that right?’

      He turned to the serving man, who backed away hastily and nodded in agreement.

      ‘That’s what I thought.’ The king hiccuped gently. ‘Another wife. That’s what I need. My own father had seven of them and my Uncle Aleric had fourteen. The more I think about it, the more certain I am that I need another wife. Well?’ He frowned at the serving man who quickly changed his snort of surprise to a cough.

      ‘You are right of course, your majesty,’ he murmured.

      ‘Of course I’m right. I’m the king.’

      King Balthazar sipped his wine slowly then thumped the cup down on the table with a crash.

      ‘I’ll do it,’ he decided. ‘I’ll take another wife.’

      ‘What, now?’ The serving man was ill advised enough to remark.

      ‘Yes, now. What’s wrong with now? Now is a good time.’ King Balthazar was pleased. Things were moving at the right speed for him. ‘Bring me a wife,’ he commanded.

      The serving man looked the king in amazement. ‘Er…’ he began nervously.

      ‘Now, I said,’ thundered the king. ‘And bring me something to eat while you are at it.’

      The serving man bowed and backed his way out of the room.

      ‘What do I do?’ he wailed, as he explained his predicament to the kitchen staff.

      A couple of the young serving girls began to giggle, but the cook was made of sterner stuff.

      ‘Tell him he is being totally unreasonable,’ she said firmly, as she deftly chopped an onion and tossed it into a simmering pan of stew.

      The serving man gulped. ‘I know he’s being unreasonable,’ he said gloomily, but it’s hopeless trying to tell him

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