The silver trumpet
Owen Barfield
Hardcover
(W. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co, March 15, 1968)
Here is Mountainy Castle, where once there lived the beautiful Princesses named Violetta and Gambetta, who looked so much like each other that the King appointed the Lord High Teller of the Other from Which just to tell them apart. And here is The Little Fat Podger who also lived, and cured the King's megrims with his jokes, japes, jests, gives, and pranks, and his noodledum, nincompoopery, somersaults, and capers. Here, one fine day, riding a white horse, and wearing glittering silver armor, and carrying a beautiful Silver Trumpet, came the handsome Prince Courtesy, who feel in love with Princess Violetta, and became King. BUT they did NOT live happily ever after, and this is the story of what happened.