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Little Princess Dido ran away from her attendants1 every time she could, and one day when she was walking in the forest with her servants she hid behind a tree while they were talking, and before they had missed her she ran down another path and was out of their sight.   When Princess Dido found herself alone she began to look about to see if she could find any flowers, for she was very fond of flowers and was never allowed to pick them herself; her servants did that for her.   “I can pick them myself now,” she said, laughing to herself to think she had escaped[Pg 145] from the servants, and she began picking all the wild flowers she could find, walking along all the time and going farther into the forest.   When it was sunset the Princess Dido found herself in the thick of the trees and bushes, and she began to wonder why her attendants did not find her and take her home; but the sun set and the stars came out and still no one came, and Princess Dido felt tired and lay d...