70 THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE HEMPSEED.

service. The low fellow also took it into his head to make
up for his horrible birth and former condition, by imitating
his late master, Prince Orfano-Orfana; and in his turn, he
had, like them, noted people in his service.

And what a service his was too! what a good master he
made !

Certainly, the governess, dressed his dinner for him:
she was his cook. Doubtless, the
aa tutor, brushed his clothes, and
| = blacked his shoes.

He used to say to the tutor,
“Come, bustle about! Comb
out your lord’s hair! Do not
keep a prince like me waiting
for his slippers !”
And to the governess he would
say, “It is my princely will that
you make me a nice soup of
= sweet almonds, which I will take
—. -_. when I come home from the
ae = theatre.”

Doubtless would reply, “‘ Doubtless, my lord ;”—and
Certainly would answer, “Certainly, my lord.”

Certain persons, of good hearts and high rank, took
compassion upon the poor little prince and princess, and
used their interest so well that Olympia was set at liberty.
But they could not move the chief officer of the police in
favour of Prince Hempseed. He must await his trial; and
the sentence of the judges was expected to be very severe!

The man was in danger of his life, and was at all events
sure to be blind for the rest of hisdays. How, then, could
the author of such a sad accident go unpunished ?

It was necessary to afford an example to conjurors.
Poor Prince Hempseed—to be treated as a conjuror, a
clown, or a gipsy!

It was therefore clear that he would be sentenced to a