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Sample ## Take a look inside Transcribed from the 1889 J. W. Arrowsmith edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org PRINCE PRIGIO by ANDREW LANG author of “the mark of cain, “the gold of fairnilee” etc. Twenty-seven Illustrations by Gordon Browne 1889 BRISTOL J. W. Arrowsmith, Quay Street london Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 4 Stationers’ Hall Court All rights reserved PRINCE PRIGIO is Dedicated to ALMA THYRA EDITH ROSALIND NORNA CECILY AND VIOLET PREFACE. In compiling the following History from the Archives of Pantouflia, the Editor has incurred several obligations to the Learned. The Return of Benson (chapter xii.) is the fruit of the research of the late Mr. Allen Quatermain, while the final wish of Prince Prigio was suggested by the invention or erudition of a Lady. A study of the Firedrake in South Africa—where he is called the Nanaboulélé, a difficult word—has been published in French (translated from the Basuto language) by M. Paul Sébillot, in the Revue des Traditione Populaires. For the Remora, the Editor is indebted to the Voyage à la Lune of M. Cyrano de Bergérac. CHAPTER I. How the Fairies were not Invited to Court. Once upon a time there reigned in Pantouflia a king and a queen. With almost everything else to make them happy, they wanted one thing: they had no children. This vexed the king even more than the queen, who was very clever and learned, and who had hated dolls when she was a child. However, she, too in spite of all the books she read and all the pictures she painted, would have been glad enough to be the mother of a little prince. The king was anxious to consult the fairies, but the queen would not hear of such a thing. She did not believe in fairies: she said that they had never existed; and… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fprince-prigio) The sample continues in the full work. 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