It is a stupid life we lead, doing the same things over and over every day, but perhaps it is better than being dead.

I'm not sure.

The only pleasure I get in life is in creating pretty things out of gold." "Could you forge me a golden sword ?" asked the Queen, smiling sweetly upon the goldsmith.
"I could, madam, but I won't unless Zog orders me to do it." "Do you like Zog better than you do me ?" inquired Aquareine.
"No," was the answer.

"I hate Zog." "Then won't you make the sword to please me and to show your skill ?" pleaded the pretty mermaid.
"I'm afraid of my master.

He might not like it," the man replied.
"But he will never know," said Princess Clia.
"You cannot say what Zog knows or what he doesn't know," growled the man.