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Updated: June 22, 2025
Prince Prigio thought he would go down and dine at a tavern in the town, for no servants had been left with him. But what was his annoyance when he found that his boots, his sword, his cap, his cloak all his clothes, in fact, except those he wore, had been taken away by the courtiers, merely to spite him!
Then the king shook hands with Prigio in public, and thanked him, and said he was proud of him. As to Lady Rosalind, the old gentleman quite fell in love with her, and he sent at once to the Chaplain Royal to get into his surplice, and marry all the young people off at once, without waiting for wedding-cakes, and milliners, and all the rest of it.
"Indeed, your majesty," said Prigio, "you must permit me to correct your policy. Your only reason for dispatching your sons in pursuit of this dangerous but I believe fabulous animal, was to ascertain which of us would most worthily succeed to your throne, at the date long may it be deferred! of your lamented decease. Now, there can be no further question about the matter.
"There is some dreadful mistake, sir," said Prigio to the king. "You know as well as I do that the youngest son has always succeeded, up to now. But I entertain great hopes of Enrico!" And he grinned; for he fancied it was all nonsense, and that there were no Firedrakes. Enrico was present when Prigio was consoling the king in this unfeeling way.
"There!" said his majesty, crossing his cheque and throwing sand over it, for blotting-paper had not yet been invented; "there, take that, and be off with you!" Prince Prigio was respectfully but rapidly obeying his royal command, for he thought he had better cash the royal cheque as soon as possible, when his majesty yelled: "Hi! here! come back! I forgot something; you've got to marry Molinda!"
"Often and often they have been godmothers to us. One, in particular, was most kind and most serviceable to Cinderella I., my own grandmother." "Your grandmother!" interrupted her majesty. "Fiddle-de-dee! If anyone puts such nonsense into the head of my little Prigio " But here the baby was brought in by the nurse, and the queen almost devoured it with kisses. And so the fairies were not invited!
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!"
What Happened to Prince Prigio in Town. By this time the prince was very hungry. The town was just three miles off; but he had such a royal appetite, that he did not like to waste it on bad cookery, and the people of the royal town were bad cooks. "I wish I were in 'The Bear, at Gluckstein," said he to himself; for he remembered that there was a very good cook there.
Then Prigio gave each of his brothers some of the water in their caps, and told them to go round pouring a drop or two on each frozen knight. And as they did it, lo and behold! each knight came alive, with his horse, and lifted his sword and shouted: "Long live Prince Prigio!"
In fact, he knew everything better than anybody else; and the worst of it was that he did: and he was never in the wrong, and he always said, "Didn't I tell you so?" And, what was more, he had! As time went on, Prince Prigio had two younger brothers, whom everybody liked. They were not a bit clever, but jolly. Prince Alphonso, the third son, was round, fat, good-humoured, and as brave as a lion.
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