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 201
place, theking put on his Wishing Cap, sat down before themagic crystal ball, and kept his eye on the pro-ceedings, being ready to wish the right thing tohelp Ricardo at the right moment. He leftthe window wide open, smoked his cigar, andseemed the pattern of a good and wise fatherwatching the… … PRINCE RICARDO. 185 Yellow. He knew that this showed the neigh-bourhood of Jaunia, or Daunia, the countryof the Yellow Dwarf. He therefore drew bridle,placed his rose-coloured spectacles on hisnose, and put spurs to his horse, for the yellowlight of Jaunia makes people melancholy andcowardly. As he…
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