PRINCE RICARDO. 231

 

marriage presents came in afterwards, of course,
- and among them, what do you think? Why,
the Seven-League Boots and the Sword. of
Sharpness, with a very polite note of extra-
ordinary size:

“The Giant who does not Know when
he has had Enough presents his hearty
congratulations to the royal pair, and
begs to lay at their feet the Seven-league
Boots (they not fitting me) and the Sword
which Prince Ricardo left in the Giant’s
keeping recently. The Giant hopes no bad
blood; and I am,

“ Yours very faithfully,
“THE G., &c.

“P.S.—His little woman sends her con-
gratulations.”’

So you see the Giant was not such a bad
sort of fellow after all, and Prince Ricardo
always admitted that he never met a foe more
gallant and good-humoured.

With such a clever wife, Ricardo easily
passed all his examinations; and his little son,
Prince Prigio (named after his august grand-
father), never had to cry, ‘‘ Mamma, mamma,
father’s plucked again.”

So they lived happily in a happy country,
occasionally visiting Manoa; and as they pos-