24 THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE HEMPSEED.

his mother, pressing him
tenderly in her arms.

“But what is it? what
is it?” said his father. “ Are
you taking leave of your
senses ?”

“Do you not see them?”
at lengthcried Prince Hemp-
seed, pointing upwards, and
directing attention to a
small object which grew
larger and larger as it came
down from the sky. =

His heart had told him, ==
before his eyes, what that
object was.

All the persons who were upon the terrace had cast
their eyes upwards; but they were some minutes before
they could discover the reason of Prince Hempseed’s strange
grief and trouble.

At length they understood it all,

 

 

 

 

 

 

The castle magpie
was bearing the great
red parrot along with
.. it through the azure
heavens; and the red
parrot dragged at its
feet thetwo canaries,
Emerald and Topaz.
: =’ Thus fastened together
with a string, the ends
i . ‘of which were plainly
Zk iis = seen flying about, the
or. 4, fourbirdsrolled, strug-

eer aad gled, fluttered, and

turned round and:round above the heads of the persons on