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"He can't stay here for ever; and without his carpet he can't get away, for the soldiers have orders to seize him as soon as he appears in the street. And in the meantime Benson will be pretending that he killed the Firedrake for he must have got to Falkenstein by now, and they will be for marrying him to the king's niece, and making my butler crown prince to the kingdom of Pantouflia!

Prince Enrico, the second, was tall, thin, and a little sad, but never too clever. But Prigio nearly got the country into several wars by being too clever for the foreign ambassadors. Now, as Pantouflia was a rich, lazy country, which hated fighting, this was very unpleasant, and did not make people love Prince Prigio any better. About the Firedrake.

Was there yes, there was another cap! There it lay, a handsome green one with a red feather. The prince pulled off the cap of darkness, put on the other, and said: "I wish I were dressed in my best suit of white and gold, with the royal Pantouflia diamonds!" In one moment there he was in white and gold, the greatest and most magnificent dandy in the whole world, and the handsomest man!

I, unworthy as I am, represent the sole hope of the royal family. Therefore to send me after the Firedrake were both dangerous and unnecessary. Dangerous, because, if he treats me as you say he did my brothers my unhappy brothers, the throne of Pantouflia will want an heir.

This ball lasted till the light came in, and the birds were singing out of doors, and all the mothers present were sound asleep. Then nothing would satisfy the prince, but that they all should go home singing through the streets; in fact, there never had been so merry a dance in all Pantouflia.

The barometers stood at SET FAIR. The people were much distressed, and came and broke the palace windows as they usually do when things go wrong in Pantouflia. The king consulted the learned men about the Court, who told him that probably a was in the neighbourhood. Now, the Firedrake is a beast, or bird, about the bigness of an elephant. Its body is made of iron, and it is always red-hot.

She had never seen the prince, for she was but newly come to Pantouflia; but she declared that it was his misfortune, not his fault, to be so clever. "And, then, think how hard they made him work at school!

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.

Here, under my roof, you are safe for the moment; but a prolonged stay excuse my inhospitality could not but strain the harmonious relations which prevail between the Government of Pantouflia and that which I have the honour to represent." "We don't want to fight; and no more, I think, do you," said the prince, smiling. "Then how does your royal highness mean to treat the proclamations?"

And yet his face was as well known as that of any man in Pantouflia, for everybody had seen it, at least in pictures. He was so puzzled by not being attended to as usual, that he quite forgot to take off his cap. He sat down at the table, however, and shouted "Kellner!" at which all the waiters jumped, and looked round in every direction, but nobody came to him.