180 PRINCE RICARDO.

 

CHAPTER VII.

Prince Ricardo and an Old Enemp.

  
  
 
 
 
 
  
  
 

HERE is
one brute
I wish I could get
upsides with,” said
Ricardo, at break-
fast one morning,
his mouth full of
sardine.

“Really,
Ricardo, your
language is
most un-
princely,”
said his august
( father; “I am
ae ‘always noticing it.
You mean, I suppose, that there is one enemy
of the human race whom you wish to abolish.
What is the name of the doomed foe ?”’

‘‘ Well, he is the greatest villain in history,”
said Ricardo. ‘‘ You must have read about
him, sir, the Yellow Dwarf.”

“Yes, I have certainly studied what is told