42 THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE HEMPSEED.

small port of Arona, where they landed with all their
animals, somewhat fatigued by the voyage. So soon as
Prince Hempseed had convinced himself that none of his
passengers were missing, he lost no time in going to a
fisherman, and proposing to him to sell the boat which had
brought his interesting colony into harbour. The fisher-
man of Arona saw that a good fish had fallen into his net:
he therefore offered ten crowns, and the bargain was con-
cluded—but on a condition required by Prince. Hempseed,
and which was, that the fisherman should give him the
coarse clothes of his son and daughter in exchange for those
of the young prince and his sister. The condition was too
good in the eyes of the fisherman of Arona not to be accepted;
and while he counted down the ten crowns, Prince Hemp-
seed and his sister went into the man’s hut, where they
took off their own clothes and put on those of the fisher-
man’s children. These clothes were of a coarse brown
cloth, just like the clothes worn by the little sweeps, and
the hurdy-gurdy players. Olympia sighed and shed tears
during a change of costume so hurtful to her vanity.

She blushed to see
herself dressed in that
fashion !

Thus clothed, and
quite altered in appear-
ance, the two unfortu-
nate children of Prince
Orfano-Orfana _pro-
ceeded towards the
Alps; for they thought -
of passing into France,
where, thanks to their
Giegeiee, they were sure neither to be remarked nor pur-
sued. :
As the donkey was young and strong, he easily carried
the weight of the two children and the three cages—namely,