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in your hands, was made up altogether out of
his own head by the Author, of course with
the help of the Historical Papers in the
kingdom of Pantouflia. About that ancient
kingdom very little is known. The natives
speak German; but the Royal Family, as
usual, was of foreign origin. Just as England
has had Norman, Scottish, and, at present, a
line of German monarchs, so the kings of
Pantouflia are descended from an old Greek
family, the Hypnotidz, who came to Pantou-
fla during the Crusades. They wanted,
they explained, not to be troubled with the
Crusades, which they thought very injudicious
and tiresome. The Crest of the regal house
is a Dormouse, dormant, proper, on a field
vert, and the Motto, when translated out of
the original Greek, means, Anything for a
Quiet Life.

It may surprise the young reader that

princes like Prigio and Ricardo, whose feet -