The Cunning of Queen Cor You may be sure the Queen of Coregos was not well pleased to have King Gos and all his warriors living in her city after they had fled from their own.

They were savage natured and quarrelsome men at all times, and their tempers had not improved since their conquest by the Prince of Pingaree.

Moreover, they were eating up Queen Cor's provisions and crowding the houses of her own people, who grumbled and complained until their Queen was heartily tired.
"Shame on you!" she said to her husband, King Gos, "to be driven out of your city by a boy, a roly-poly King and a billy goat! Why do you not go back and fight them ?" "No human can fight against the powers of magic," returned the King in a surly voice.

"That boy is either a fairy or under the protection of fairies.

We escaped with our lives only because we were quick to run away; but, should we return to Regos, the same terrible power that burst open the city gates would crush us all to atoms." "Bah! you are a coward," cried the Queen, tauntingly.
"I am not a coward," said the big King.