THE HAPPY PRINCE
Then they melted the statue in a furnace, and the Mayor held a meeting of the Corpora- tion to decide what was to be done with the metal. " We must have another statue, of course," he said, u and it shall be a statue of myself."
u Of myself," said each of the Town Councillors, and they quarrelled. When I last heard of them they were quarrelling still.
" What a strange thing ! ' said the overseer of the workmen at the foundry. " This broken lead heart will not melt in the furnace. We must throw it away." So they threw it on a dust-heap where the dead Swallow was also lying.
" Bring me the two most precious things in the city," said God to one of His Angels ; and the Angel brought Him the leaden heart and the dead bird.
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