PRINCE PRIGIO. 43

CHAPTER VIII.
The Prince is Puzzled.

RINCE PRIGIO did not go to’ bed. It
was bright daylight, and he had promised
to bring the horns and tail of a Fire-
drake as a present to a pretty lady.
He had said it was easy to do this;
but now, as he sat and thought over it,

the did not feel so victorious.

‘* First,”’ he said, ‘“‘ where is the Firedrake?”

He reflected for a little, and then ran upstairs
‘to the garret.

_ “It should be here!” he cried, tossing the
fairies’ gifts about; ‘‘and, by George, here
it is!”

Indeed, he had found the spyglass of carved
ivory which Prince Ali, in the Arabian Nights,
bought in the bazaar in Schiraz. Now, this
glass was made so that, by looking through it,
you could see anybody or anything you wished,
however far away. Prigio’s first idea was to
look at his lady. ‘‘ But she does not expect to
be looked at,” he thought; “and I won’t!”
‘On the other hand, he determined to look at
the Firedrake ; for, of course, he had no delicacy
about spying on him, the brute.