12 PRINCE PRIGIO.

 

‘ He found out all his tutors and masters in the’
same horrid way; correcting the accent of his
French teacher, and trying to get his German
tutor not to eat peas with his knife. He also
endeavoured to teach the queen-dowager, his
grandmother, an art with which she had long
been perfectly familiar! In fact, he knew
everything better than anybody else; and the

 

worst of it was that he did: and he never was
‘in the wrong, and he always said, ‘‘ Didn’t I
tell you so?” And, what was more, he had!
As time went on, Prince’ Prigio had two
younger brothers, whom everybody liked.
They were not a bit ¢lever, but jolly. Prince
Alphonso, the third son, was round, fat, good-