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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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ies about that. 234 PRINCE PRIGIO. But (lifficulties only sharpened the ingenuityof this admirable king. The other fellow had a flying horse, saidhe. By the other fellow King Prigio meantan Italian knight, Astolfo, who, in old times,visited the moon, and there found and l)roughtback the common sense of his friend Orlando,as you may read in the poem of Ariosto. Now, reasoned King Prigio, if there is aflying horse at all, he is in the stables of theKino; of Delhi. 1 must look into this. Taking the magic spyglass, the king surveye.1the world from Chini to Peru, and sure enough,there was the famous flying horse in thekings stable at Delhi. Hastily the king thrusthis feet into the shoes of swiftness—so hastily,indeed, that, as the poet says, he ^ madlycrammed a left-hand foot into a ris^ht-hnndshoe. But this, many people tliink, is a signof good luck; so he put the shoes on the properfeet, and in a few minutes was in the presenceof the Great Mogul. The monarch received him with some sur-
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Ki^G PiiiGio ON THE Flying Horse.—Page 235, PRINCE RICARDO. 235 prise, but with stately kindness, and listened toPrigio while he explained what he wanted. * I am only too happy to assist so adventurousa prince, remarked the Great Mogul. This islike old times! Every horse in my stable is atyour service, but, as you say, only the flyinghorse is of any use to you in this expedition. He clapped his hands, the grand vizier ap-peared, and the king gave orders to have theflying horse saddled at once. He then pre-sented King Prigio with a large diamond, andcame down into the courtyard to see him mount. Hes very fresh, said the groom who heldthe bridle; ^ has not been out of the stable forthree hundred years! Prigio sprang into the saddle, among thesalaams of the dusky multitude, and all theladies of the serag^lio waved their scented hand-kerchiefs out of the windows. The king, as he had been instructed, turneda knob of gold in the saddle of the flyinghorse, then kissed his hand to the ladie

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