20 THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE HEMPSEED.

The tutor of Prince Hempseed and the governess of the
youthful Olympia were naturally invited to be present on
those occasions. The tutor :
always agreed with Prince
Orfano-Orfana in everything
that this nobleman said; and
the worthy man signified his
assent by the constant use of
the word “Doubtless,” from
which cause the young prince’s
tutor had received the name
of Doubtless.

He was a thin, sharp, tall,
straight man; so thin and
sharp, indeed, that you could = —
almost see throughhim. His _3_
long grey hair, his long ou- ==
rang-outang arms, his long ==s‘
legs, his long neck, and his ===:
long hands, made him look
like one of those insects which
children call “Daddy Long-
legs.” His dress was all black,
and made that likeness the
more striking. He was neither
silly nor ignorant; but he was
incapable of exertion. He
knew quite enough to make him a clever tutor; but no one
ever asked him to teach what he did know. In those times
it was not necessary for gentlemen to display much learn-
ing. Custom enabled them to get on in the world without
the knowledge of any of those sciences which gentlemen
now-a-days find it necessary to study, and in which many
persons become so famous.

Olympias governess was not much shorter nor much
thinner than the good tutor Doubtless. They seened