142 PRINCE RICARDO.

 

CHAPTER IVs
Iwo Lectures.

"QR several days Prince

Ricardo minded his books,
and, according to his tutors, made
considerable progress in polite learning.
Perhaps he ought not to be praised too
Fl . highly for this, because, in fact, he saw
no means of distinguishing himself by
adventures just at that time. Every
_ morning he would climb the turret
Y and sweep the horizon,
“and even much beyond
the horizon, with the
ivory spy-glass. But look as
he would, he saw no monsters
preying on human-kind any
where, nor princesses in dis-
tress. To be sure he saw
plenty of poor people in distress, and, being
a good-hearted, though careless, lad, Dick
would occasionally fly off with the Purse of
Fortunatus in his pocket, and give them as
much money as they needed—it cost him
nothing. But this was not the kind of adven-