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Title: Prince Prigio

Author: Andrew Lang

Release Date: March 19, 2007 [eBook #20850]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PRINCE PRIGIO***

Transcribed from the 1889 J. W. Arrowsmith edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

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PRINCE PRIGIO

BY
ANDREW LANG
AUTHOR OF
"THE MARK OF CAIN, "THE GOLD OF FAIRNILEE"
ETC.

Twenty-seven Illustrations by Gordon Browne

1889
BRISTOL
J. W. ARROWSMITH, QUAY STREET
LONDON
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & CO., 4 STATIONERS' HALL COURT
_All rights reserved_

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PRINCE PRIGIO
IS
Dedicated
TO
ALMA
THYRA
EDITH
ROSALIND
NORNA
CECILY
AND VIOLET

PREFACE.

In compiling the following History from the Archives of Pantouflia, the
Editor has incurred several obligations to the Learned. The Return of
Benson (chapter xii.) is the fruit of the research of the late Mr. ALLEN
QUATERMAIN, while the final _wish_ of Prince Prigio was suggested by the
invention or erudition of a Lady.

A study of the _Firedrake_ in South Africa--where he is called the
_Nanaboulele_, a difficult word--has been published in French (translated
from the Basuto language) by M. PAUL SEBILLOT, in the _Revue des
Traditione Populaires_. For the _Remora_, the Editor is indebted to the
_Voyage a la Lune_ of M. CYRANO DE BERGERAC.

CHAPTER I.

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_How the Fairies were not Invited to Court_.

Once upon a time there reigned in Pantouflia a king and a queen. With
almost everything else to make them happy, they wanted one thing: they
had no children. This vexed the king even more than the queen, who was
very clever and learned, and who had hated dolls when she was a child.
However, she, too in spite of all the books she read and all the pictures
she painted, would have been glad enough to be the mother of a little
prince. The king was anxious to consult the fairies, but the queen would
not hear of