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The Banished King. –––––––– * * * * There was once a kingdom in which every thing seemed to go wrong. Everybody knew this, and everybody talked about it, especially the King. The bad state of affairs troubled him more than it did any one else, but he could think of no way to make them better. "I cannot bear to see things going on so badly," he said to the Queen and his chief councillors. "I wish I knew how other kingdoms were governed." One of his councillors offered to go to some other countries, and see how they were governed, and come back and tell him all about it, but this did not suit his majesty. "You would simply return," he said, "and give me your ideas about things. I want my own ideas." The Queen then suggested that he should take a vacation, and visit other kingdoms, and