My own fairy book : namely certain Chronicles of Pantouflia, as notably the adventures of Prigio, prince of that country, and of his son Ricardo, with an excerpt from the Annals of Scotland, as touching Ker of Fairnilee, his sojourn with the Queen of Faery (1903)
Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, Browne, Gordon, 1858-1932, ill, Scott, T., ill, Lemann, E. A., ill · New York : Longmans, Green · leaf 159
t time. Everymorning he would climb the turretand sweep the horizon,and even much beyondthe horizon, with theivory spy-glass. But look ashe would, he saw no monsterspreying on human - kind anywhere, nor princesses in dis-tress. To be sure he sawplenty of poor people in distress, and, beinga… … PRINCE RICARDO. 143 ture which he enjoyed. Dragons for hismoney ! One day the Princess Jaqueline took a curiousplan of showing Ricardo how little interest,after all, there is in performing the most won-derful exploits without any real difficulty ordanger. They were drifting before a lightbreeze on…
Fairy tales
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