The rose and the ring; or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo; a fireside pantomime for great and small children . offj and put him to the mostexcruciating agony with a turnscrew. And then the queen had a fancyto have the color of the door altered ; and the painters dabbed himover the mouth and eyes, and nearly choked him, as they painted himpea-green. I warrant he had leisure to repent of having been rude tothe Fairy Blackstick! As for his wife, she did not miss him ; and as he was always guz-zling beer at the public house, and notoriously quarreling with hiswife, and in debt to th


The rose and the ring; or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo; a fireside pantomime for great and small children . offj and put him to the mostexcruciating agony with a turnscrew. And then the queen had a fancyto have the color of the door altered ; and the painters dabbed himover the mouth and eyes, and nearly choked him, as they painted himpea-green. I warrant he had leisure to repent of having been rude tothe Fairy Blackstick! As for his wife, she did not miss him ; and as he was always guz-zling beer at the public house, and notoriously quarreling with hiswife, and in debt to the tradesmen, it was supposed he had run awayfrom all these evils, and emigrated to Australia or America, Andwhen the prince and princess chose to become king and queen, theyleft their old house, and nobody thought of the porter any more. 26 iJOW THE PRINCESS, AS SHE PLAYED, V. HOW PRINCESS ANGELICA TOOK A LITTLE MAID. One day, when the Princess Angelica was quite a little girl, she waswalking in the garden of the palace, with Mrs. Gruffanuff, the govern-ess, holding a parasol over her head, to keep her sweet complexion. *iii!!iifcrj MET A LITTLE BEGGAR-MAID. 27 from the freckles, and Angelica was carrying a bun, to feed the swansand ducks in the royal pond. They had not reached the duck-pond, when there came toddling upto them such a funny little girl! She had a great quantity of hairblowing about her chubby little cheeks, and looked as if she had notbeen washed or combed for ever so long. She wore a ragged bit of acloak, and had only one shoe on. You little wretch, who let you in here ? asked GruffanufT. Dive me dat bun, said the little girl; me vely hungy. Hungry! what is that? asked Princess Angelica, and gave thechild the bun. Oh, princess ! says Gruffanuff, how good, how kind, how trulyangelical you are! See, your majesties, she said to the king andqueen, who now came up, along with their nephew. Prince Giglio, how kind the princess is ! She met this little dirty wretch in


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