This sudden arrival was a strange looking man, dressed all in garments so shaggy that Betsy at first thought he must be some animal. But the stranger ended his fall in a sitting position and then the girl saw it was really a man. He held an apple in his hand, which he had evidently been eating when he fell, and so little was he jarred or flustered by the accident that he continued to munch this apple as he calmly looked around him.
The Royal Gardener had been frightened nearly into fits by the crash of glass and the fall of the shaggy stranger into the bower of Roses, but now he peeped out from behind a bush and cried in his squeaky voice:
While examining these curious growing people, Betsy passed behind a big central bush and at once uttered an exclamation of surprise and pleasure. For there, blooming in perfect color and shape, stood a Royal Princess, whose beauty was amazing.
But at the sound of these words the Gardener and the Roses turned and discovered that the Princess had been picked, and was now alive. Over every face flashed an expression of resentment and anger, and one of the Roses cried aloud.
With this he seized a garden fork and began jabbing it at the strangers, in order to force them to leave. Hank the mule was not afraid of the fork and when he got his heels near to the Gardener the man fell back to avoid a kick.
The boundary of the Rose Kingdom was a deep gulf, but there was a drawbridge in one place and this the Royal Gardener let down until the outcasts had passed over it. Then he drew it up again and returned with his Roses to the greenhouse, leaving the four strangely assorted comrades to wander into the bleak and country that lay beyond.
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DETROW: But Mr. Boombastic apparently caught some of his fans by surprise recently when he posted an interview to his TikTok where he revealed that the accent in his singing voice is not his actual accent. It's just a voice he developed, Shaggy said, mimicking drill instructors during his time in the Marines.
DETROW: Shaggy served four years in the military, including a deployment to the Middle East during the first Gulf War, before he began pursuing his music career. And that drill instructor voice - it was there on Shaggy's first big hit, "Oh Carolina."
SHAGGY: I just sang that song in that voice because it sounded cool. And all of a sudden, "Oh Carolina" blew up, and now I'm faced with a situation that I'm going to have to sing every song like that.
DETROW: And he has, winning two Grammys and selling millions of albums along the way. Now, none of this stuff about his accent is necessarily new. Shaggy has been giving interviews with his regular speaking voice for years. But for whatever reason, this took the internet by storm in recent days, and a whole lot of fans have been going online to say, you guessed it, that voice - it wasn't him. Or as this TikTok user put it...
SHAGGY: (Singing) Carolina is a girl. She deh pon top of di world (ph). Well now she rock her body and a move just like a squirrel. I say, young baby girl. I said, I love how you move. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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