THE STRANGE AND INTERESTING ADVENTURES

OF

PRINCE HEMPSEED,

AND HIS LITTLE SISTER.

Tuar beautiful marble castle, which rises in the midst of
a placid lake, and spreads itself out beneath the sunny sky,
is the abode of Prince Orfano-Orfana. The twelve ter-
races leading to it are covered with evergreen plane-trees,
firs, and poplars, and citron and orange shrubs covered
with fruit the colour of gold. The last of those terraces
is planted with rose-trees of Messina, which, when ruffled
by the evening breeze, diffuse around a sweet and refresh-
ing perfume. This castle was built on one of the Borro-
mean Isles by Prince Orfano-Orfana’s ancestors, who were
formerly the most powerful lords of Piedmont; and, in
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