To Children. Xill

 

Though wedded to a bachelor life, the
prince was much too well-bred to make any
remonstrance.

The Lady Dragonissa, a female of ex-
traordinary spirit, energy, and ambition,
took command of him and of his followers,
conducted them up the Danube, seized a
principality whose lord had gone crusading,
set her husband on the throne, and became in
course of time the mother of a little prince,
who, again, was great, great, great, great-
grandfather of our Prince Prigio.

From this adventurous Lady Dragonissa,
Prince Prigio derived his character for gal-
lantry. But her husband, it is said, was often
heard to remark, by a slight change of his
family motto:

‘“ Anything for a Quiet Wife!”

You now know as much as the Author
does of the early history of Pantouflia.

As to the story called The Gold of Fairnilee,