PRINCE PRIGIO. Iol

 

about your having been killed by a fabulous
monster. Bah! don’t tell me. I always said
you would come back after a little trip—didn’t
I, Prigio?”

“Certainly, madam,” said Prigio; ‘‘and I
said so, too. Didn’t I say so?” And all the

courtiers cried: ‘‘ Yes, you did;” but some
added, to themselves, ‘‘ He always says, ‘Didn’t
I say so?’”’

Then the queen was introduced to Lady
Rosalind, and she said it was “rather a short
engagement, but she supposed young people
understood their own affairs best.”” And they
do! So the three pairs were married, with the
utmost rejoicings; and her majesty never, her
whole life long, could be got to believe that
anything unusual had occurred.

The honeymoon of Prince Prigio and the
‘Crown Princess Rosalind was passed at the
castle, where the prince had been deserted by
the Court. But now it was delightfully fitted
up; and Master Frank marched about the house
with his tail in the air, as if the place belonged
to him.

Now, on the second day of their honeymoon,
the prince and princess were sitting in the
garden together, and the prince said, ‘‘ Are you
quite happy, my dear?” and Rosalind said,
“Yes; quite.”

But the prince did not like the tone of her
voice, and he said: