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Title: Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia
being the adventures of Prince Prigio's son

Author: Andrew Lang

Release Date: July 4, 2007 [eBook #21994]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PRINCE RICARDO OF PANTOUFLIA***

Transcribed from the 1893 J. W. Arrowsmith edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

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PRINCE RICARDO OF PANTOUFLIA

BEING THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE
PRIGIO'S SON, BY ANDREW LANG
AUTHOR OF PRINCE PRIGIO

ILLUSTRATED BY
GORDON BROWNE

PUBLISHED AT BRISTOL BY J. W. ARROWSMITH,
QUAY STREET, AND AT LONDON BY SIMPKIN,
MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & COMPANY LIMITED

DEDICATION.
To Guy Campbell.

_My dear Guy_,

_You wanted to know more about Prince Prigio_, _who won the Lady
Rosalind_, _and killed the Firedrake and the Remora by aid of his Fairy
gifts_. _Here you have some of his later adventures_, _and you will
learn from this story the advantages of minding your book_.

_Yours always_,
_A. Lang_.

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Introductory.
Explaining Matters.

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There may be children whose education has been so neglected that they
have not read _Prince Prigio_. As this new story is about Prince
Prigio's son, Ricardo, you are to learn that Prigio was the child and
heir of Grognio, King of Pantouflia. The fairies gave the little Prince
cleverness, beauty, courage; but one wicked fairy added, "You shall be
_too_ clever." His mother, the queen, hid away in a cupboard all the
fairy presents,--the Sword of Sharpness, the Seven-League Boots, the
Wishing Cap, and many other useful and delightful gifts, in which her
Majesty did not believe! But after Prince Prigio had become universally
disliked and deserted, because he was so very clever and conceited, he
happened to find all the fairy presents in the old turret chamber where
they had been thrown. By means of these he delivered his country from a
dreadful Red-Hot Beast, called the Firedrake, and, in ad