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Title: The adventures of Prince Prigio and of his son, Prince Ricardo
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
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Publisher: New York : A. L. Burt
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ousand wounds grew fiercer; and he gentlybreathed his last just as the Firedrake, too, fellover and lay exhausted. With one final roar,like the breath of a thousand furnaces, the Fire-drake exj)ired. The prince, Avatching from the hill-top, couldscarcely believe that these two awful scourgesof nature, ^vhich had so long devastated hiscountry, were actually dead. But ^vhen hehad looked on for half an hour, and only a riverran Avhere the liemora had been, while thebody of the Firedrake lay stark and cold, hehurried to the spot. Drawing the sword of sharpness, he hackedoff, at two blows, the iron head and the tail ofthe Firedrake. They were a ^veary weight tocarry ; but in a few strides of the shoes ofswiftness he was at his castle, where he threwdown his buinlen and nearly fainted with ex-citement and faticrue. But the castle clock struck half-()ast seven;dinner was at eight, and the poor prince crawledon hands and knees to the garret. Here he puton the washing cap; wished for a pint of
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PRINCE PRIGIO. 61 cliampagne, a hot bath, and his best blackvelvet and diamond suit. In a moment thesewere provided; he bathed, dressed, drank aglass of wiiie, packed up the head and tail ofthe Firedrake, sat down on the flying carpet,and knocked at the door of the English ambas-sador as the clocks were striking eight in(xluckstein. Punctuality is the politeness of princes; anda prince is polite when he is in love ! The prince was received at the door by astout porter and led into the hall, ^vhere severalbutlers met him, and he laid the mortal remainsof the Firedrake under the cover of the flyingcarpet. Then he was led upstairs, and he made hisbow to the pretty lady, who, of course, madehim a magnificent courtesy. She seemed pret-tier and kinder than ever. The prince was sohappy that he never noticed how somethingwent wrong about the dinner. The ambas-sador looked about, and seemed to miss some-one, and spoke in a low voice to one of theservants, who answered also in a low voice, and

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