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Updated: May 5, 2025
You see how hot it is, and how coolly he takes it, and the country suffering; and all on account of a Firedrake, you know, which has apparently built his nest not far off. Well, I have asked that lout of a brother of yours to kill it, and he says " "That he does not believe in Firedrakes," interrupted Prigio. "The weather's warm enough without going out hunting!"
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.
"Why, by winning these ten thousand purses. I can tell you 1,000,000 pounds is worth having," said the prince. "I'll deliver up the said prince, alive, at Falkenstein this very night; also the horns and tail of the said Firedrake. But I don't want to marry my Cousin Molly." "May I remind your royal highness that Falkenstein is three hundred miles away?
"Enrico, my boy," said his majesty, "the task awaits you, and the honour. When you come back with the horns and tail of the Firedrake, you shall be crown prince; and Prigio shall be made an usher at the Grammar School it is all he is fit for." Enrico was not quite so confident as Alphonso had been.
Then up the Firedrake leaped, and hovering on his fiery wings, he lighted in the midst of the Remora's back, and dashed into it with his horns. But the flat, cruel head writhed backwards, and, slowly bending over on itself, the wounded Remora slid greedily to fasten again on the limbs of the Firedrake.
A pair were thrown up by a volcano, in my great- grandfather's time, Giglio I. Excellent coffee this, of yours!" The ambassador bowed. "Well, we asked him where he killed the Firedrake, and he said in a garden near Gluckstein. Then he began to speak about the reward, and the 'perkisits, as he called them, which it seems he had read about in my proclamation.
The king at once held a Court; the horns and tail of the monster were exhibited amidst general interest, and Benson and the prince were invited to state their claims. Benson's evidence was taken first. He declined to say exactly where or how he killed the Firedrake. There might be more of them left, he remarked, young ones, that would take a lot of killing, and he refused to part with his secret.
At this very moment there was a whizz in the air: something shot past them, and, through the open window, the king, the queen, Benson, and the mortal remains of the Firedrake were shot into the ambassador's drawing- room! The King Explains. The first who recovered his voice and presence of mind was Benson.
A more terrible and cruel beast cannot be imagined; for, if you go near it, you are at once broiled by the Firedrake. But the king was not ill-pleased: "for," thought he, "of course my three sons must go after the brute, the eldest first; and, as usual, it will kill the first two, and be beaten by the youngest. It is a little hard on Enrico, poor boy; but anything to get rid of that Prigio!"
Just the tip of his nose, as white as snow and as smooth as ice, was sticking out of a chink in a frozen mountain, not far from the burning mountain of the Firedrake.
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