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HERE may be children whose
education has been so neg-
Jected that they have not
dread Prince Prigio. As
Se this new story is about
Prince Prigio’s son,
Ricardo, you are to learn that Prigio was
the child and heir of Grognio, King of
Pantouflia. The fairies gave the little Prince
cleverness, beauty, courage; but one wicked
fairy added, ‘‘You shall be too clever.” His
mother, the queen, hid away in a cupboard
all the fairy presents,—the Sword of Sharp-
ness, the Seven-League Boots, the Wishing
Cap, and many other useful and delightful
gifts, in which her Majesty did not believe!
But after Prince Prigio had become universally
disliked and deserted, because he was so
very clever and conceited, he happened to
find all the fairy presents in the old turret
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