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 61
e other hand, he determined to look atthe Firedrake ; for, of course, he had no delicacyabout spying on him, the brute. •44 PRIG 10. The prince clapped the glass to his eye,stared out of window, and there, sure enough,he saw the Firedrake. He was floating aboutin a sea of molten lava, on the top of… … With all my cap of darkness, and my shoesof swiftness, and my sword of sharpness, Inever could get near that beast, he said ; andif I did stalk him, I could not hurt him. Poorlittle Alphonso! poor Enrico! what pluckyfellows they were! I fancied that there wasno such thing as a Firedrake: hes not in…
Fairy tales
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