30 PRINCE PRIGIO.

 

CHAPTER VI.

What Happened to Prince Prigio in Town.

The town was just.three miles off;
but he had such a royal appetite, that
he did not like to waste it on bad
cookery, and the people of the royal
town were bad cooks.

“J wish I were in ‘The Bear,’ at Gluck-
stein,” said he to himself; for he remembered
that there was a very good cook there. But,.
then, the town was twenty-one leagues away—
sixty-three long miles!

No sooner had the prince said this, and
taken just three steps, than he found himself at
the door of the ‘‘ Bear Inn” at Gluckstein !

“This is the most extraordinary dream,”
said he to himself; for he was far too clever, of
course, to believe in seven-league boots. Yet
he had a pair on at that very moment, and it
was they which had carried him in three strides.
from the palace to Gluckstein!

The truth is, that the prince, in looking about
the palace for clothes, had found his way into.
that very old lumber-room where the magical
gifts of the fairies had been thrown by his.

B this time the prince was very hungry.

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