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 89
l, youhave a right to it, and I shall tell you. Wewere just sitting down to dinner at Falkenstein,rather late,—hours get later every year, I think—when I heard a row in the premises, and thecaptain of the guard, Colonel McDougal, cameand told us that a man had arrived with thehorns and tail of the… … PRINCE PRIGIO. 73 whom I recognised as your butler. He in-formed us that he had just killed the beast,and showed us the horns and tail, sureenough; there they are! The tail is like theiron handle of a pump, but the horns aregenuine. A pair were thrown up by a volcano,in my great-grandfathers time,…
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