The rose and the ring; or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo; a fireside pantomime for great and small children . POOR BULBO IS ORDERKn FOR EXECrTTON PRELUDE. It happened that the undersigned spent the last Christmasseason in a foreign city, where there were many English children. In that city, if you wanted to give a childs party, you couldn^t even get a magic lantern or buy Twelfth-Night characters—those funny painted pictures of the King, the Queen, the Lover,the Lady, the Dandy, the Captain, and so on—with which ouryoung ones are wont to recreate themselves at this festive time
The rose and the ring; or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo; a fireside pantomime for great and small children . POOR BULBO IS ORDERKn FOR EXECrTTON PRELUDE. It happened that the undersigned spent the last Christmasseason in a foreign city, where there were many English children. In that city, if you wanted to give a childs party, you couldn^t even get a magic lantern or buy Twelfth-Night characters—those funny painted pictures of the King, the Queen, the Lover,the Lady, the Dandy, the Captain, and so on—with which ouryoung ones are wont to recreate themselves at this festive time. My friend Miss Bunch, who was governess of a large familythat lived in the Piano Nobile of the house inhabited by myselfand my young charges (it was the Palazzo Poniatowski at Rome,and Messrs. Spillmann, two of the best pastry-cooks in Christendom,have their shop on the ground floor)—Miss Bunch, I say, beggedme to draw a set of Twelfth-Night characters for the amusementof our young people. She is a lady of great fancy and droll imagination, and havinglooked at the characters, she and I composed a history about t
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