"Once upon a time there was a king who had no children."
"Your Majesty choose a successor from among the young and the highly-born of the country..."
"There must not be on test, but many tests. Let all, who will, offer themselves, provided only that they are under the age of twenty and are well-born. See to it."
"So the race was started. And the young Lord Calomel was much cheered on coming in second: not only by Their Majesties, but also by Rabbit, who had finished the course some time before…"
"Can you turn a rabbit into a man?"